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I want to animate this propeller spinning in Blender 2.8. I have oriented the local axis of rotation as described here.
Here are the reference images at a larger size
It appears to rotate correctly here
Then I keyframe the rotation
The resulting playback is a very chaotic rotation on a different axis
Any clarity on what I am not understanding about this process is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Rotation at odd angle -
Whilst I concur with the comments above, I remember doing this at some previous time.
The cube, shaft and 'propeller' here were added at the default location 0,0,0 and at the default straight x,y,z angle. I'm not sure this matters.
The shaft and 'prop' were parented to the cube.
To experiment, the cube was then rotated at around 45 degrees in all 3 axis'.
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WARNING - Do not use CTL-A (apply) on any of the 3 components.
And for info - Keyframing as mentioned below was always done by hovering the mouse in the locatio/rotation slots at right and pressing "i" .
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The "Orientation" menu at bottom of window was then switched to "Normal".
Fearing a manual entry in the prop's X axis would be applied globally, after keyframing a zero in it's X rotation slot at frame 1, I advanced the timeline cursor to frame 80 and rotated the prop several times with the keys RXX. This was the (normals) axis that aligned with the shaft. The mouse was used to drag the actual rotate. That was then keyframed and it worked fine.
I'm not sure if this rotation experiment was necessary but it did provide reassurance.
A more adventurous rotation was then manually entered into the prop's X rotation slot at right: -36000 at frame 80. (100 rotations over 80 frames)
When run the animation rotated correctly.
The cube's location and attitude were then changed and keyframed and everything still remained stable. An animation speed of 120 fps was used to check this.
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To conclude and whilst not recommended, when necessary however it appears you can get away with perpendicular rotation at odd angles, in Vers 2.77a at least.
The Blend file is available on request but the key to it's success is probably due more to the order and manner components are added, rotated, and keyframed.
There were no active modifiers or constraints used apart from parenting.
It shouldn't make any difference but the above was rendered with OpenGL. Further, when CTL-A was used, everything went haywire.
Okay, I got it figured out with help here and the help of several other sources as noted. I had to make a new local origin as described here using the answer at the bottom to make a helper object and basically borrow its origin (the propeller's original local origin got messed up somehow). Then I used an object constraint method to animate it as illustrated here. I then used the answer here to animate it rotating indefinitely. Whew! Thank you all again! I am so stoked!
Your problem is that the animation is using the global coordinates, and so it rotates automatically keyframes on all axes, and messes up the animation. Check out this post, Why are keyframes in global coords, instead of local coords? (Blender 2.70a) it seems to ask the same question, and the solution of changing the type of rotation mode seemed to work on your file.
P.S. great model
