• Adobe After Effects

  stroke>generate : disappears with collapse transform?

  Posted by Mac Lanphere on June 21, 2012 at 3:02 am

  hi everybody

  I have a stroke>generate effect applied to a 3D layer (solid) that works fine (albeit fuzzy) until I hit collapse transform–and then it disappears from view?

  any ideas?

  many thanks

  ML

  Mac Lanphere replied 13 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Walter Soyka

  June 21, 2012 at 8:17 pm

  The default rendering order in After Effects is masks, effects, transformations, layer styles.

  When you engage continuous rasterization/collapse transformations, you change that layer to masks, then transformations, then effects.

  If you need to avoid continuous rasterization/collapse transformations but don’t want that nasty blur, resize the solid itself and adjust the effect.

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  Mac Lanphere

  June 22, 2012 at 2:48 pm

  thanks very much for that– but I was mistaken, the layer I’ve applied the stroke effect to is a path (form illustrator) and not a solid layer.

  would it still make sense to increase the size, and reapply the stroke? even though it’s a vector asset to begin with? or, is there another way to work with vector paths…

  ML

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