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Participant
August 13, 2025
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Inverted rotation when parenting layers with inverted scale

I'm having this issue on every post 2020 versions of After Effects: When I flip horizontally or vertically a layer the rotation of all the layers linked to it get inverted. It's really hard to animate layers like that because the rigs start to behave way less intuitive.
I would like to know if there's any way to solve this problem and make that the parented layers behave like they used to on older versions.

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Participant
August 14, 2025

I'm making a rig for a character, so for example:
1) I had the - right hand layer- linked to the -right arm layer-
2) Instead of making the left arm+hand I can simply duplicate and flip horizontally the right ones.
3) But when I flip the arm layer, the linked hand layer gets an inverted rotation (if I rotate the hand in one direction it moves to the opposite one)

Same things happen when parenting to a null objet, if you flip the null objet the layers linked to it will get an inverted rotation too.

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Community Expert
August 14, 2025

Could you please describe your workflow a little more. Are you parenting to a null object? If not would that be helpful?

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