• Adobe After Effects

  When pre-composing a 3d object, can you retain the z-axis values? Mine gets flattened.

  Posted by Robert Maric on May 10, 2013 at 8:50 am

  Hey there,

  I am using AE CS6

  I have a few layers that are spread out over the z-axis. When I pre-comp them they flatten out to have the same z-axis. Is that normal? I have collapse transformations and 3d enabled for the layer.

  Cheers

  Robert Maric replied 13 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Roland R. kahlenberg

  May 10, 2013 at 9:58 pm

  [Robert Maric] “I have collapse transformations and 3d enabled for the layer.”

  You should have Collapse Transformations switched on for the nested comp – this is absolutely necessary to each embedded layer’s 3D-ness into the ‘final comp’.

  BTW, it may not be necessary to switch on Collapse Transformation for the layers in the precomps.

  HTH
  RoRK

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  Robert Maric

  May 11, 2013 at 1:51 am

  Thanks for taking the time to reply. I really appreciate it.

  I was making a mistake – I was turning motion blur on instead of enabling collapse transformations 😉

  Works now!

  Thanks again
  Rob

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