Rotate an Object FOREVER in Blender 3D (Micro Tip)

[@schonkigplavuis8850]

It's crazy how something so simple doesn't even work for me. This pretty much summarise my entire blender experience.

[@Liminally_ill]

Exactly what I needed thank you 😭😭😭

[@Brandon-3D]

Awesome, thank you!!!

[@rouvey]

0:52 I think it's just using radians as angles internally, so it's increasing the angle by 1 radian per frame. Thus if you want 1 full rotation to take n frames, you can just set the driver to #frame*2*pi/n

[@Brandon-3D]

Yeah I think you’re right. I think every three months I end up googling “Radians” lol. It’s over my head.

[@jakereosti]

2*pi can also be written as tau - from wikipedia: In 2010, Michael Hartl proposed to use the Greek letter tau to represent the circle constant: τ = 2π. He offered two reasons. First, τ is the number of radians in one turn, which allows fractions of a turn to be expressed more directly: for instance, a 3/4 turn would be represented as 3τ/4 rad instead of 3π/2 rad.

[@rouvey]

@@jakereosti yeah in other contexts I might use Tau as well, but outside of circles that are at least somewhat involved with mathematics it kind of just leads to more confusion in my experience. but yeah #frame *tau/n is even more intuitive

[@ifthis_]

Just learned this the other day, but was instructed to use #frame*(pi/180). I like the formula you posted better @rouvey, for when I know the number of frames and knowing I only want a full 360º. Am I getting this right?

[@ChristinaTapia-b6w]

You made this so simple. You’re an absolute hero.

[@Brandon-3D]

You are too kind. Thank you!! 🙏

[@emmanuelladejobi6014]

Exactly what I was looking for, thank you so much!

[@humbleraider6343]

Thank you for the tip!

[@Brandon-3D]

You’re very welcome!

[@Arny529]

Thanks a tonne this really helped, you're a life saver

[@Brandon-3D]

Appreciate the comment! Thanks for watching!!

[@ifthis_]

Great quick tip Brandon!

[@Brandon-3D]

Thank you!!!🙏

[@rhylschermatz5809]

gasp you are a great teacher man. Thank's!

[@Brandon-3D]

Thank you! 🙏

[@nickfai9301]

Thanks

[@ziotheholy]

this was super helpful! I just started out with blender a little while ago, and its been tough to find tutorials that are for newbies. BTW, is there any way i can easily be sure the animation loops nicely? im using this to make something sort of like a mini sun and the way the animation snaps back to the initial frame is.... annoying

[@supersquare]

thanks so much!

[@PortfolioYanuardi]

Very helpful! Thank Youu

[@Brandon-3D]

Glad it was helpful!

[@aliensoup2420]

Or use key frame extrapolation to extend the motion indefinitely.

[@yasinvfx]

Hi. Will there be many subtitles, just like in their old videos? (Even English is enough)

[@Brandon-3D]

Yeah I’m sorry. I guess I haven’t been putting them on the last few. I’ll get them uploaded soon.

[@Svanevej7]

You can turn on auto-generated subtitles (with or without translation) in Settings. I usually find that works pretty well.

[@yasinvfx]

No, the texts are not easy to read. The words come in fragments. I'm already watching with translations into another language from English. When there is non-automatic English subtitles, the sentence comes as a whole and is easy to read.@@Svanevej7

[@izabelea7733]

How can i export this as an animation? Sorry if stupid question, i'm a total beginner

[@Paige-km4wt]

Now can you export the rotation of the object as gif or Json file?

[@BadLadDraws]

mine wont spin or will only spin part of my objects

[@AnimAHipHopTV]

How do I change the direction? lol

[@brevnodub]

#frame / -10

[@lonesomealeks4206]

Cool. But please no cringe stock video/photo or begging for subscription - those a good reasons for me to do the opposite.

[@Brandon-3D]

Thanks.