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Blender Newbie here.

I looked for a way to model an aperture lens and found this question: How do I rig each blade to fan out like an aperture lens?

The questions has been answered very well (Thanks Carlo) but when I try to redo this in Blender 2.8 I'm stuck at the following point (yes, right in the beginning).

I have created a triangle and a circle. The triangle is child of the circle. I activated Instancing on Verts because this is from what I understood the new "duplivert". But, there is not "rotation" setting in Instancing and I have no idea how to rotate the instanced triangles so that they are pointing to the center.

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Or is there a better way to achieve this?

I tried the array modifier but this need the Pivot Point to be in the center (and I need it elsewhere for the copy rotation constraint afterwards)

I tried spinning but this does not work at all for flat objects like a plane.

I really tried to find a solution for a few hours now and you are my last hope. :)

Thanks in advance for any hint.

EDIT:

Once I try to use Align to Vertex Normal it's getting out of hands. :)

Is there a way to adjust the vertex normal or what am I doing wrong?

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It's still there, just the name is changed :).
Now it's called Align to Vertex Normal ✓

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When setting up the constraint, change Mix to Add.
Otherwise the triangles won't line up later.

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You can add the constraint to other objects using Object > Constraint > Copy Constraints. Just make sure, the constraint isn't on the circle itself :).

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  • Thank you so much. This has a strange effect for me that you can see in the edited post. Unfortunately I have no clue how to adjust the Vertex normals. I already tried this but gave up when it ended like that... – DerFerox Mar 25 '20 at 20:43
  • Hello :). You can solve this by applying transforms on your triangle (Object > Apply > All transforms) and also moving the origin point to the shortest side (Object > Set Origin > Origin to 3D cursor). – jachym michal Mar 25 '20 at 21:19
  • Hi there, thanks again. That really worked. I had some problems shifting the Origin around and now it looks pretty good. But there is one more thing: When I Apply > Make Instances Real the Object Constraint (Copy Rotation) is lost. and only the original Triangle can be rotated. I also cannot see the original triangle in your screencapture, did you just hide it? How do I keep the constraints? – DerFerox Mar 26 '20 at 10:07
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    Thanks to you everything is working fine now! How can I buy you a beer here? ;) – DerFerox Mar 26 '20 at 11:39