wheel rotation doesn't appear in driver tab

posted to: Single Axis Driver
I insert animation key so that the x rotation appear in driver tab but it doesn't respond
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  • samy rezk(kadory87) replied


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  • Martin Bergwerf replied

    Hi Samy kkadory87 ,

    There are Keyframes on the Wheel, but no Driver (it's not being Driven). You can Select the one being Driven, or disable the blue 'arrow' Icon, to show all Drivers (not only Selected ones):

    Drivers.png

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  • Wayne Dixon replied

    Hi Samy,
    If you are following along with the exercise about adding the driver, then you don't want to add an animation key frame.  You want to add a driver, (which will then show up in the window on the right hand side)

    However, If you are undertaking the other exercises that use animation (and not a driver) then you want to change the window on the right hand side to show the animation data and not the driver data.


    Those windows look very similar but they show different data.

    Hope that makes sense.

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  • samy rezk(kadory87) replied

    It seems that I am doing something wrong because I opened the same window u opened in the vireo but yet no axes show there 1.png2.png

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  • Wayne Dixon replied

    Hi Sammy,


    In the lesson I add a driver and then it shows in the drivers window.

    In your screenshot you have added ANIMATION, so it won't show in the drivers window.



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  • samy rezk(kadory87) replied

    I got it 3.png

    forgive me for my ignorance 

    now when I type the driver formula in the x rotation it doesn't accept it and give me that message in the photo


    a simple question if I may 

    is it mandatory to do this equation in order to get the animation? 

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  • Wayne Dixon replied

    Hi Samy,
    Make sure you follow along with the same steps you see in the video lesson.
    You can only type some things directly on the driver in the way you are attempting. 

    You will need to define what the variables are in the drivers editor.  This is shown in the video.

    Blender doesn't know what "loc" is until you tell it.  You do that in the other window.

    To answer your question about whether this is mandatory to get the animation.
    It is if you are going to drive the rotation on a single axis.  This means you can set it up and then you can just translate the 'car' forward and backwards and it will calculate the rotation automatically.

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  • samy rezk(kadory87) replied
    hi wayne 

    I followed along and it worked perfectly 

    thank u very much 
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