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  3D camera: z-axis clashes with layer order (images added)

  Posted by Roger Maus on May 5, 2014 at 9:10 am

  Hi there,

  can you please tell me what is going on here?

  

  So I have several layers arranged on the z-axis. in this case, even though the ship (schiff) is closer to the camera, it is shown under a object (the town, stade_ctrl with all its stade children) that is further away from the camera.

  Changing the layer order in the timeline actually helps in this case, but that’s not the point: actually, I want the ship to sink into the map, as the waves (wellen_ctrls, welle6) do. (Right now the ship always stays in front.) But if I place the ship under the map in layer order, both the ship and the waves disappear!

  

  Is this a flaw of “fake” AE-2.5D that I have to cope with?

  Roger Maus replied 12 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Walter Soyka

  May 5, 2014 at 11:23 am

  There are a few things that prevent 3D layers from being processed together, breaking 3D intersections:

  https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/3d-layers.html#3d_layer_interactions_render_order_and_collapsed_transformations

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  Roger Maus

  May 5, 2014 at 11:27 am

  oh dear…

  that’s it! thanks! annoying still…

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