Simple beginners question.... I hope

[EthanPomps]

I'm a very new person learning Adobe Animate. I've gone through a lot of tutorials all over and have not found a soultion to what I think should be an easy answer.

I'm trying to make a tire rotate across my screen. I have an upright one on the left and right and an upside down one in the middle. When I animate this, the rotation starts out great until if it gets halfway. In the second half the tire does rotate to the one off the page on the right but it's rotating the opposite direction. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to make this rotate correctly? Thanks!

[n. tilcheff · Accepted solution]

Click in the middle of your problematic Classic Tween, then from Properties specify direction:

You can also type a number higher than 1 in the field next to the drop-down.

In fact, you don't need the middle keyframe. You can do one or more full turns with just two keys.

[EthanPomps]

n. tilcheff,

Thanks for that quick answer and your solution worked perfectly. My next step is to make the tire role into a word for the letter O. When I selct the Rotate Clockwise the entire tire relvolves around itslef like rotating around a planet but it does take the correct spot. Is there a place I can tell it to spin and not roatate? Thanks again!

[EthanPomps]

Perfect! I also made the tire stop for a few seconds and then start spinning again and moving everything off to the right. I've got one more question for you.... what is the best way to distort items? Like when the tire stops make it bend to the right a little before it comes to a complete hault. Should I just animate that or is there a tool to distort it with? Do you give lessons? 8^)

[Randal_Dodge]

Man, I’m still kinda new to Animate too, but I think I ran into somethin' like that when I was messing with a snow scene was trying to animate a set of winter tires rolling across a road. Mine flipped direction halfway through just like yours. Turns out, I didn’t tween the rotation proper it was doing a 180 the wrong way instead of full 360. Try setting the rotation direction manually to ‘CW’ or 'CCW', whichever matches the movement. Fixed it for me. Hope it helps!