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Inspiring
July 2, 2026
Question

2 layers on one of my scenes have their symbols stuck on "skew" until i unparent them?

  • July 2, 2026
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Hey, I have a bit of an odd issue, and I’m not sure what I’ve done. On the second scene of my project I noticed that half way through one of my symbols I usually drag from my library onto the stage  was coming out with an odd size. When I opened the transform box i saw the width and length were offset, and so i tried to set them back to 100% and 100%. but this made the object skewed. I noticed in the transform box that the skew box was selected instead of the rotate. So i tried setting it back to “rotate” but it doesn’t stick? This is only happening on 2 of my layers, and the problem disappears as soon as I remove the parent layer, but then the animation doesn’t work the way I intended to with the parenting layer tool. I

 

Anyone have any idea what’s happening here?

 

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    kglad
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    July 2, 2026

    parent properties are inherited.

    RomanpenAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 3, 2026

    I tried that but the parent layers are not set to skew, they’re set to rotate