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  Form problems

  Posted by Malcolm Desoto on August 9, 2011 at 11:10 pm

  So, this is the first time experimenting with Form. It’s possible I’m just making newbie mistakes.

  I’ve set up a kind of particle sphere with Form. I created a camera which moves from the outside of the sphere to the center of the sphere.

  This all looks fine until I ad other 3D elements. I have a .png fiile that and switched 3D on. the camera seems to interact differently with the sphere than it does with the .png layer.

  The camera moves a great deal to get to the center but the .png file barely moves in 3D space.

  Also, no matter where I move the layer in Z space, the .png file will be either on top or behind the Form layer, depending on layer order.

  Any pointers?

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  Roland R. kahlenberg replied 15 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Malcolm Desoto

  August 10, 2011 at 2:11 am

  For the time being, I’m solving the problem by duplicating my Form sphere, placing it above the .png layer and fading out the opacity as the camera approaches. Is it similar to CC Cylinder in that it’s just not real 3D?

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  Roland R. kahlenberg

  August 10, 2011 at 3:01 am

  It’s partially real 3D :-D. It works a lot like other 3D effects in AE. Particular helps with the Obsfucation property. Unfortunately Form doesn’t have that. You may try with the Visibility properties to see if that provides a solution. Otherwise, use an additional instance of Form with the other 3D layer used as a track matte.

  HTH
  RoRK

  Intensive AE & Mocha Training in Asia.

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