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  Light casting after use of 3D tracker

  Posted by Carly Crawford on February 20, 2014 at 3:17 pm

  CS6 version.
  Essentially what I want is to have a character walking through a hallway with light casting through the stain glass over her. So far what I was able to do was create a 3D tracker that tracked the whole straight path of the cathedral, set up lights and duplicates of the windows for the lights to shine through. I got the windows to do a colored casting on the floor, but it looks like a multiplied color overlay. I tried to put a light over the cast shadows but the scene doesn’t light up.
  Accept lights is on the floor layer, light source is a point intensity 100% white color 1892 radius 3615 fall off.

  Is it something that the 3D tracker allows you to place a shadow floor? wonder if I should just fake it with low opacity solids…

  Roland R. kahlenberg replied 12 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Roland R. kahlenberg

  February 21, 2014 at 11:13 am

  The 3D Cam Tracker doesn’t do anything to lights or shadows. These properties work as they should in AE, after a 3D Cam Tracking task. You may want to post a JPG of your issue to allow others more insight. Please include a screen cap of your layer’s Material section and your Light Options.

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