Newb Needs Help - Components + Preview

[Kaskata_Key]

Hi,

I am trying to teach myself how to use this platform. I do not have coding experience but this seemed like it should be easy to figure out and didn’t require that kind of knowledge. However, so far, I am unable to:

1. Get the components I create to move. There is no “auto play” or “trigger” buttons to choose from. I have tried simple components like “rotate” as per the instructional video. I do it as they say but nothing rotates. I wanted the wings I am building to “breath” so I followed a ChatGPT instruction on how to make that work and still no movement on my AR 3D Image.

2. I thought maybe these animations/components might only activate when you click preview. So I pressed the “play” button and a scene comes up but doesn’t have my image there either. I saw on Youtube that clicking that screen would bring it up, but it didn’t.

I’ve been at this for a week and am starting to get frustrated. I don’t want to give up.

I am working in the Hello-world-1 Studio on my desktop. It does say BETA at the bottom so I’m not sure if it may just be the version. I can provide screenshots of what I’m seeing.

Please help.

[GeorgeButler]

Hi, welcome to the forums! I’d be happy to help you.

First I would reccomend giving this page a look over: Quick Start | 8th Wall

Let’s say you want to take this 3D model and make it spin in AR.

First thing I would do is raise the model above the ground. In AR, the grid in the viewport is where the real-life ground will be.

Now we just need to add a RotateAnimation component to the entity.

Now if we take a look at our component we need to adjust some settings so it starts spinning when the experience loads, and keeps spinning.

Now we just need to turn it from a 3D project to a World Effects project (AR). We can do this by changing the mode from 3D to World on the Camera

How do we preview it? We can use the built-in Simulator! Here’s how:

First make sure you build your project. This is how we save our changes to preview them.

Now we can press the Play button to open the Simulator.

Tada!

Let me know if any of this is confusing, I’d be happy to explain more!