Motion Path Animation - Rotate

You can use a quarter spin entrance animation.

Thank you Michael. What about if the object is already on screen?

How is the animation supposed to be triggered when the object is already on screen? Is it triggered by a button click? You can always add triggers to hide and immediatly show the object again, that would trigger the entrance animation again. 

Here is one example of spin entrance animations that are continuously triggered. 

I was hoping to be able to set a trigger to animated when the timeline reached a cue point. Is this not possible?

Sure, you can. See attached a quick example that uses a state for the rotation, which is triggered when a cue point is reached. Options, options,....

Hi Karoline!

Looks like Michael is providing great assistance here :)

Hi Michael,

Thank you for your example! That helped trigger some additional ideas however not exactly what I was hoping for. What I have is an office scene. A document is out of an folder at an angle (at about a 45 degree angle). When someone clicks on the document/folder, the course zooms in at which I was hoping the document could straighten itself out so it appeared to the end user that they are reading right off the document. And I figured it would be easier to read that way rather than with text at an angle. Hopefully that provides better context of what my goal is.

Thank you,

Karoline

Hi Michael,

How did you manage to slow down the change of state to give the rotation effect?

Thank you

Fred

Hi Fred!

This thread is a bit dated. Check out the state tab and the animation on the Rotate:

You're right, it's a bit dated indeed. But we sometimes we find some awesome stuff in the older threads.

Rhanks for you help!

I totally agree - still relevant too! I just meant the original users may longer be subscribed, but see I failed to mention that :) Good luck in your project.

I'm missing something.  When I create a new state, animation options are grayed out.

You need to edit the object with an animation BEFORE you copy it into a state.

Hopefully i'm not too late to get some advise on this, but all the above is great, but im looking to add only 4-5 degrees rotation, not the full quarter rotation.

Is there anyway of achieving this?

Hello Zeb and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)

Thank for reaching out and sharing what you would like to do as well.

You should be able to set your rotation via the Size and Position options on the state of the rotated object.

Hi Leslie,

Thanks for getting back to me.

Not sure why, but when I attempt to do as you have advised, the 'Rotation' option is unavailable.

Am I doing something wrong? Are you able to give me any further pointers.

Thanks,

Hi Zeb!

I hear what you're saying! Unfortunately, I'm seeing the same behavior when I try to change the rotation of a shape in the "Rotate" state. 

Do you feel comfortable sharing your file with us? You can do that by using the "Add Attachment" in this discussion, or you can share it privately with our Support Engineers. Either way, we'll delete the file after testing.

I was experiencing this behaviour in my own project this morning. I had to cut and paste the shape/image back into the state that I was editing first in order for the Rotation field to be editable.

Chris

I would make the shape a dial and rotate it that way, if you need fine control.

Thanks Phil - that was just the solution I was looking for (a dial to show the result of an equation which could go from -30 to +100)