• Adobe After Effects

  Reflection Issues – raytrace

  Posted by Olly Lawer on April 18, 2013 at 12:04 pm

  Hi,

  I’m following this tutorial: https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/3d_reflections/

  For some reason the linear wipe will only work when the layer is not 3D. This obviously causes a huge issue…

  Olly Lawer

  Walter Soyka replied 13 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Olly Lawer

  April 18, 2013 at 12:06 pm

  Hmm, think I have solved by adding an adjustment layer between the text layers and applying the linear wipe to that…

  Olly Lawer
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  Tudor “ted” jelescu

  April 18, 2013 at 12:31 pm

  For further work with reflections and shadows using Element or the Mettle plugins, check this out:

  https://aescripts.com/elementary/

  Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
  Senior VFX Artist
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  Walter Soyka

  April 18, 2013 at 1:29 pm

  [Olly Lawer] “For some reason the linear wipe will only work when the layer is not 3D. This obviously causes a huge issue…”

  3D layers in ray-traced comps cannot accept effects. Traditional Ae effects work on pixels, but the ray tracer thinks in terms of light, geometry, and materials.

  Walter Soyka
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