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  Why is my text gritty in ray traced comp?

  Posted by Mike Mackenzie on March 14, 2013 at 5:36 pm

  https://www.flickr.com/photos/88770607@N06/8557980196/

  See link above for the problem I’m having. I’ve noticed this before but it’s never really been a problem until now. City names are AE-generated text, everything else is imported paths from AI.

  Any help greatly appreciated!

  Motion Graphics Designer / Art Director
  Boston, MA

  System:
  Mountain Lion on SSD
  2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
  NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
  18 GB RAM

  Roland R. kahlenberg replied 13 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  John Cuevas

  March 14, 2013 at 5:56 pm

  At what level have you set the ray-tracing quality? To check that, click the box under the comp window with a lighting bolt and select renderer options

  Johnny Cuevas, Editor
  Thinkck.com

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  Darby Edelen

  March 14, 2013 at 6:08 pm

  Your text is coplanar with the wall. You need to separate them some.

  I’d recommend parenting the text elements to the wall layer and then entering something like 1 or -1 (depending on which way your wall is facing) in the z position values of the text layers. You could decrease this value quite a bit if you want the text to look like it’s on the wall, or increase it if you want it to float off the wall.

  The old “Classic 3D” renderer would use simple depth sorting in addition to layer order to determine which layer resides “on top” of another, but with the new Raytraced Renderer coplanar layers will always intersect in this strange grainy way regardless of layer order.

  Darby Edelen
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  Mike Mackenzie

  March 14, 2013 at 6:10 pm

  Thanks, that works!

  Motion Graphics Designer / Art Director
  Boston, MA

  System:
  Mountain Lion on SSD
  2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
  NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
  18 GB RAM
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  Roland R. kahlenberg

  March 15, 2013 at 6:43 am

  Hi John, CTRL+click on the said button saves a couple of mouse clicks as the key-mouse combo directly accesses the Ray-tracd 3D Renderer Options dialog.

  HTH
  RoRK

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