Hello,
A bit new to After Effects here. I'm currently taking a class at university for it and I'm working on my final project. I'm reconstructing the solar system from Sun-->Neptune and slowly pulling out my single camera from the middle of the sun to all the way outside the system, showing all of the planets. I have constructed my planets by orbiting them around the central object (the sun) and telling after effects how many times to have them rotate by the end of my composition.
I want the planets to always face the camera as they are 2 dimensional so I'd like to hide that.
I tried applying the expression: (always face camera)
delta = toWorld(anchorPoint) - thisComp.activeCamera.toWorld(
[0,0,0]);
radiansToDegrees(Math.atan2(delta[0],delta[2]))
to the Y rotation of each of the planets, but this removes all of the orbits and leaves the planets all in a straight line for the whole duration. I've also tried using the Auto Orient --> Face camera command and this does not work either. I'm wondering how to solve this.
I'm on a mac, and I've attached a screen of my project.
EDIT: in the image I do not have the "face camera" expression applied because it didn't work
Thanks! 