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Prioritizing rotation axes

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Prioritizing rotation axes

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- [Instructor] In the chapter, why should you use the Gimbal coordinate system and how to set up the axis order for rational priority. And we need to revisit that. Anytime we build a hierarchy, we need to make sure that we set up the axis order in order to get predictable rotations and that we always animate in Gimbal coordinates. So let's review that. If I select one of these objects, like the shoulder, go over to the rotate tool, I've previously rotated its pivot point so that we can see in local coordinate mode, it is oriented with the object itself. So I rotated the pivot to match the object. Well let's go deeper. I'll right click on the rotate tool and we get the rotate transform type in dialog. And if I just select the object and rotate, we see that the rotation values always readout as zero in the absolute mode. I'll undo that. That's very strange. Well that's kind of a dead give away that local mode isn't really the true rotations of the object. You're offsetting the true…

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