• Adobe After Effects

  Lights in pre-comp affecting main composition

  Posted by Daniel Christie on April 14, 2009 at 4:53 pm

  Hi guys,

  Just installed CS4 qnd everything is going great, but I just tried to render a comp at best quality settings and suddenly the 3D layers in the main comp are lit by the lights in a nested precomp (which, by the way, is the bottom layer in the main comp. This was not apparent in the previews. Have I missed something?

  Many thanks,

  Daniel

  Daniel Christie replied 17 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Jeff Dobrow

  April 14, 2009 at 5:09 pm

  If you have continiously rasterize turned on, then the lights will pass through into the current comp from the pre-comp.
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  Darby Edelen

  April 14, 2009 at 8:58 pm

  [jeff dobrow] “If you have continiously rasterize turned on, then the lights will pass through into the current comp from the pre-comp.”

  Actually, when you collapse transformations/continuously rasterize, the lights in the pre-comp will be ignored in the main comp. However, if you have the collapse transformations layer switch off the lights should not affect the layers in the main comp either.

  I have no idea how this is happening. Can you post a picture of your timeline?

  Darby Edelen
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  Daniel Christie

  April 15, 2009 at 1:45 am

  Thanks for the replies. It turns out the error was completely human. I was not previewing a light which was hidden in another one of the precomps because I was in draft 3D mode.

  Thanks anyway.

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