Gremlin in the Works?
by Martin Banks
on
Oct 1, 2008 at 5:49:43 pm
Hi,
I have been working on a project for a while. Deadline's coming up and I'm almost done....however....something odd seems to have happened.
I had complete a compostion of a chroma keyed dancer moving around, and I had been positioning a 2d circle in 3D space under her feet at times, using the 3d space to position the circle so that it looks real as though it is on the floor, and behind her legs when it needs to be.
Once I had completed this composition I locked the dancer layer and the circle layer so that I wouldn't accidently mess it up and have to do it again.
However now for no reason that I can see the circle no longer wants to sit behind the dancer anymore. It is still in the 3d space, I have not touched the layers since I locked it.
What has happened?
I do not want to have to re animate and position this circle again, or have to mask around the dancer so that it'll cut out the bits of the circle that are now overlapping her.
I am using 6.5
ANY help would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
Martin
Either one of two things -
1) You've switched your comp settings to use the Basic 3D render plugin instead of the Advanced 3D renderer. Change this in the Comp's advanced tab.
2) You've inserted additional layer(s) into the comp that disrupted the rendering order of the 3D layers.
HTH
RoRK
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Re: Gremlin in the Works? by Martin Banks on Oct 1, 2008 at 6:24:20 pm
I checked the Advanced 3D settings and mine has been set to Advanced 3D render.
I then checked my layers and I have found one layer that I have added since (the layer is an image of a light). I have found that if I use the eye switch to turn it off that it corrects the problem. It is a 2D layer above both of the previous layers (the dancer and the circle).
How might I correct this problem assuming the image of a light layer is the trouble. What should I do if I need to add more 2d layers to the composition, will the same thing happen again?
Thank you so much for your help, I was going out of my mind with that. I thought I would have huge task of masking round the dancer!
Martin
er one of two things -
1) You've switched your comp settings to use the Basic 3D render plugin instead of the Advanced 3D render. Change this in the Comp's advanced tab.
2) You've inserted additional layer(s) into the comp that disrupted the rendering order of the 3D layers.
[Martin Banks]"How might I correct this problem assuming the image of a light layer is the trouble."
Make it a 3D layer (and leave it in its current Timeline hierarchy) or move it (as a 2D layer) below your 3D layers - again with respect to your Timeline layer hierarchy.
When you added this 2D layer, it disrupted AE's 3D rendering engine. Best to read up on mixing 2D and 3D layers when you have the time. Untile you get a better grasp on mixing 2D and 3D layers, it's best to stick all 2D layers below 3D layers so as not to have any surprises such as this one that you're having.
Same procedure will end in identical results. So, use the same solution outlined as per above when adding more layers into this comp.
HTH
RoRK
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