CE Shape Extruder - Z distance issue
by Scott Geersen
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Feb 7, 2008 at 4:45:47 am
Hi,
I haven't watched 100% of both tutes yes, as I'm pressed for time and it's an hour or so of video - can someone briefly tell me what the go is with the depth of the extruded layer being the same or similar no matter how close/far away the camera is?
I've got the project file downloaded with the tutorial and opened the "Text Simple" comp. I animated the camera over 5s to fly from extremely close to quite far away...
Far away, the text looks quite fat. The close you go, the thinner the extrusion is.
Is this normal, and if so, how does one counter it so that the text stays the same thickness? Do you have to animate depth and density?
Could you hook up a depth/density expression to the distance of the layer from the camera or is it not so proportional?
Just wondering, because if i want to fly through the text (a letter O for example) this could cause problems.
Re: CE Shape Extruder - Z distance issue by Jerzy Drozda Jr on Feb 7, 2008 at 2:38:33 pm
Hey!
That's an excellent question. I was surprised no one asked it before.in fact that is a bit of an issue, and the only solution for now is to do as you say... animate the depth/density, unless you're moving the camera very fast and you're using motion blur... than I think you could live without it.
I am working to solve this issue and a few minor adjustments. Update coming soon.
Re: CE Shape Extruder - Z distance issue by Scott Geersen on Feb 7, 2008 at 11:44:50 pm
hey jerzy,
thanks for the speedy reply. i making do without it so far as my camera isn't moving a lot, but i was curious as to why the effect behaves that way - whether it's something in the expression code (which i haven't looked at, probably couldn't understand it if i did) or something inherent in after effects itself. it'll be interesting to see if there is a better fix than animating to depth to match the moves of the camera!
thanks,
scott.
