multiple effects on a layer
by Reynand Mojica
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May 8, 2008 at 4:46:28 am
hey guys, i'm kind of new to AE and i hope someone can help me.
i'm using AE CS3, i 'm trying to add effects to a dark gray solid. so i add a glow effect to the layer but when i add the cc particle systems II to the same layer, it kind of covers the glow effect. if i drag cc particle systems II to go over glow effects, it just basically gives me a glowing particles effect.
what i want to create is a layer with multiple glows and particles independent of each other not for the effects to be applied on each other.
Re: multiple effects on a layer by Reynand Mojica on May 8, 2008 at 8:37:43 am
nevermind i think i figured it out. i meant lens flare instead of glow by the way. i found out that the particle effect should just be applied on a separate solid layer and the solid takes on a transparent background
Re: multiple effects on a layer by Simon Bonner on May 8, 2008 at 9:10:53 am
Hi Reynand,
The order of the FX is important because the FX at the top of the stack are applied to the solid first (it may look like the effects are being applied to each other, but this is not the case).
If you want FX to be independent, you'll have to apply them to independent layers. It might be a pain to have lots of grey solids, but that's the only way to separate out the FX.
Depending on what you want to achieve, you could have several solid layers for particle FX and then add an adjustment layer on top of the layer stack and add to this your glow effect (assuming you don't want different settings of glow for each particle layer - if you do, it's back to adding a new glow effect to each solid).
Re: multiple effects on a layer by Darby Edelen on May 8, 2008 at 10:20:35 am
[Reynand Mojica]"what i want to create is a layer with multiple glows and particles independent of each other not for the effects to be applied on each other."
Create more than one layer for that. All the effects one a layer will be processed in the order they are applied. There's no way to selectively apply effects to a layer outside of an adjustment layer, but that has its own limitations. Your cleanest solution is also the simplest: use more than one layer.
Darby Edelen Lead Designer Left Coast Digital Santa Cruz, CA
