• Adobe After Effects

  track mattes and shadows

  Posted by Michael Johnson on October 26, 2005 at 5:03 pm

  I apologize for the very elementary question and what I’m sure will be a very basic answer that I am missing, but…

  I have two layers at the same position in 3-d space. I set one as the trrack matte. But the shadow that is coming off the pair is the shape of the un-matted image. How do I get the shadow to take the shape of the matted image?

  mike

  John Dickinson replied 20 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  John Dickinson

  October 26, 2005 at 8:04 pm

  One thing to try is precomposing the layers that make up the track matte before activating their 3D switches, then in the main comp make this precomp a 3D layer. Now you only have a single layer which should cast the shadow you require.

  JD

  John Dickinson
  Motionworks
  https://www.motionworks.com.au

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