Open a door at an angle

[petes80]

Hi

I want to animate a door opening but the scene has a view of the door at an angle rather than head on. I have tried setting the origin at the hinge side and rotating the layer but due to the angle, it doesn't open properly. Is there a way to adjust the origin point so it matches the angle of the door? I also tried the Perspective Points tool which seems to do almost the right thing, but the hinge edge doesn't remain in place, it shrinks and moves. Is there a way to have the Perspective Points tool adjust on an edge rather than the centre of the layer?

Thanks in advance for your help

Pete

[slowtiger]

I'd either rotate the layer, for which I first set the origin to the hinges (tool 0), or do point animation if the door is just 1 shape. It helps to have a sketch wih two ellipses for the latter, to show the path.

[neeters_guy]

Animating doors seems to be a common topic this days. You might want to check these recent threads for further study:
2d door like 3d
how do I open a door?
Is there any way to make something move faster?

[petes80]

Hi Guys

Thanks for your help, my problem is my scene view of the door is at an angle and not head on. I have looked at the other threads on here already but they all seem to be in relation to doors head on. If I just do the origin point for the hinges in my scene I get this:

https://www.jabbalab.com/temp/door-open.mp4

However I have played about with a combination of the origin point, rotate layer, shear layer, scale layer and point translation and have got to this:

https://www.jabbalab.com/temp/door-open2.mp4

As you can see it still needs tweaking but it is closer to what I want. I just wondered if there was a technique/tool/tutorial that would make this action easier? I could of course simply cut the scene at the right point to a head on door view, but that would mean re-drawing scenes which I was trying to avoid if possible.

Cheers
Pete

[sbtamu]

I would just use point translations for this.

[Lumpy]

If it's only 3 seconds, could you do keyframes every 6 frames or so? Might be a quick way to pull it together.

[petes80]

Yes I think that is probably the best way. As you say, it's only 6 seconds so it won't take too long. Thanks for your advice