Re: 3d+shadows+motion blur = moire pattern

Those samples are at full resolution, at 50% its even worse!

yep i tried nudging the z's and it did work, the only trouble is due to the angle that they are in and the angle of the light shadow, they then looked out of line with each other (4 outer slices in that image)

i'm going to try with nested comps with the shape layers in - i did one as a test and it worked out fine, though was impossible to precomp them all properly. it only allowed me to put everthing in the child comp, (because the layer "has no source"?) not the parent, which broke all the parenting and would require the whole thing being redone.