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Re: Found the solution - now theres no shadows! :(
by Darby Edelen on Jan 17, 2008 at 5:11:48 am

[Karim Daire] "SIncle Illustrator layers throw shadows in 3D Space. Compositions with precomposed vector footage don't. I cando complex nested 3D Animations with vectors but only with collapse transformations in my source composition turned on. No Shadows there... as soon as I turn it off I get a flat layer in 3D space again... and a shadow. Is that right?"

When you have Collapse Transformations enabled on a composition, the material settings on that composition no longer apply, the material options are inherited from the layers inside the composition.

You need to set your vector graphics to continuously rasterize in the pre-comp, then make them 3D layers, enable motion blur on them (if you want it) and change their material options to 'Cast Shadows' on... all inside the pre-comp.

Darby Edelen
Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA

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Illustrator Vectorfiles in AE 3D Space - Blurry?? by Karim Daire on Jan 16, 2008 at 11:35:01 pm
- Found the solution - now theres no shadows! :( by Karim Daire on Jan 17, 2008 at 12:11:13 am
  - Re: Found the solution - now theres no shadows! :( by Darby Edelen on Jan 17, 2008 at 5:11:48 am
  - Re: Found the solution - now theres no shadows! :( by Jeff Topping on Jan 29, 2008 at 9:53:07 pm

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