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[coarse geyser]

Hey @fluid canopy you can try skewing or isometric plugins (assuming thats what you are trying to do)

[fluid canopy]

i'm trying to do this in particular to be honest. Xd is fine but it really lacks the customization of it's animation duration/curves.

I tried using the tool i forgot the name of, that let's you freely dislocate the edges of the shape. But it doesn't smart animate.

[coarse geyser]

okay, for that you do need to just use smart animte i think, you can try doing this for example

https://www.figma.com/community/file/995703534418543976

I think I followed their thing when I made this: https://www.figma.com/community/file/1344603493295006794/wordle-in-figma-fully-interactive-with-variables-notes

[fluid canopy]

I mentioned that the smart animate does not work. The file you linked leads me to a youtube playlist that does not include the video mentioned in the project.

[coarse geyser]

yeah it is a very specific setup to make the smart animate work. It needs masking and stuff

for me the link from the file goes here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2dRvmVifXs

but i mean you can also just look at the file itself and see how their setup is. Didn't mean that you ave to watch the video

• what i meant is that you can check the prototype view of either this or my file to see if this is what you wanna do in the first place

[fluid canopy]

Yeah I did watch that but that's not what I meant. To be specific, I'm trying to make a metroUI project similar to windows 8

[coarse geyser]

But what you showed here is just a card basically flipping - no?

not sure what you mean exactly by "similar to windows 8"

[fluid canopy]

I'm talking about making an object spin around as if it's 3d. The edit object feature lets me change the positions of the edges of the selected shape. But it doesn't smart animate it.

That card animation is not flipping in a 3D way.

[coarse geyser]

That card animation is not flipping in a 3D way. - you mean in the files i shared?

[fluid canopy]

Yes.

There is no perspective in the duration of flipping.

[coarse geyser]

ah okay by 3d way, do you mean like in your video for example, it seems to come closer / bigger?

[fluid canopy]

https://youtu.be/b1dqFe_i6vw?si=N3hlxfRn1vibZev3&t=316

I'm trying to do something similar to this.

[fluid canopy]

Yes.

I assume there isn't any way to do so.

[coarse geyser]

this is kinda where i could geeet it to

though i think the 3d-ness (making it seem like it is coming closer) is partly just tweaking the size of the thing and perhaps the duration of things

and this is basically the same as the card flip from the tutorials, but making the second state enlarged

or this is if it is bigger

[coarse geyser]

but yeah essentially i think it is justa flip where the thing is getting enlarged that creates the illusion of it coming closer

[coarse geyser]

yeah figma doesnt have rotation like that exactly. you could try to understand the logic behind the card flip and see if it could be applied here in any way, Basically seeing how you could use maskign to make it work

In the card one they only use 2 states which might be your problem, and you might want multiple ones

but the masking might be the secret to make smart animate work

[fluid canopy]

How would masking work?

[coarse geyser]

(if it is possible with figma at all)

[fluid canopy]

I don't want to get my hopes up, but thank you for trying to help.

[coarse geyser]

if you check on the ones I made, the secret to them is the masking to make it flip with smart animate

I get that it doesnt look exactly how you want it to look yet, but from what you have, the missing part is to animate the flipping part