Missing Variants option in right sidebar

Same issue here.

Thanks a lot!

I’m so glad I found this. I thought I was going crazy, but it is really not there! I’ve been messing around with it, and when I go to prototype mode, it gives me an error and said it needs at least one frame, but it has multiple frames and they’re turned into components, just like every single tutorial says to do. I can’t get it to work for the life of me.

Again, I’m glad to find this post because I know it’s not my fault. It’s VERY frustrating to not be able to do basic looking things.
I swear it’s missing, something’s wrong, I say out loud now I know it really is.

Moreover, I want to be able to animate in FIGMA and I can hardly get things to work.
My background is in motion graphics, and animating in Figma sucks so far. I want to love FIGMA more, and I fell in love fast. Now I feel like it’s fighting me.
I’m sure there’s more that can be done, but I can’t get anything to work as tutorials all show.

How can you make something rotate a full revolution? Or follow a path. “Frames” “Components” make me think of the stage and symbols in flash or animate, but they’ve not worked yet.

I’m sick of wasting time.

Where’s a real tutorial?

Thanks

Maybe it’s an issue because you are selecting for example 3 main components and 1 instance. If you have only main components the variants option for combine is shown in the right panel or top.

Right click > main component > add Variant

You must click on the component button to show (+icon) on side bar and add variant property.

This was my Problem:

Make Sure the variant name is correct. When editing the name, make sure it’s in the format:

property:name

Compare the variant name of the variant that is not showing up with one that is showing up. You’ll see the difference.

Hope this helps.