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Adobe after effects Lights
Hi all,
I am working with aftereffcts cc and Element 3d, Creating some lighting setups with after effects and while adding rthe lights its working awesome, But the problem is that once add 8 lights (any lights) into the comp=, 9th light is turning off the first light. That means i can use only 8 lights in a comp. Do anyone faced same issues and do have any solutions for this? -
8 Replies
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I cannot reproduce your issue in either AE CC2017 or CS6 on a Mac. I have added 50 spot lights to a scene (both with and without an Element 3D layer) and they all remain illuminated.
Good luck.
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Dear Dave LaRonde,
Really appreciating your efforts to replay to this thread. I thought 8 lights is nothing in a 3D scene, I have multiple light sources that illuminates different parts of a party stage. So i have to use add as many as lights of the same to get the good render. i didn’t faced any issues with rendering. 10 second scene is rendered in 15 minutes time that is much lesser when compared to other 3D platforms.
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Dear Jim Scott,
Thats something really new for me. Is it possible to share a scene where you used more than 8 lights.
Thanx
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[Jineesh kottiyoor] “Thats something really new for me. Is it possible to share a scene where you used more than 8 lights.”
I have never created a project where I used that many lights on purpose. I was simply testing to see if I could reproduce your issue, and even after adding 50 lights they were all working fine.
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Hi Jim Scott,
I tested out with default 3D layer within after effects and the 9th light is working fine with after effects rendering. But the problem is with element 3D layer. Only 8 lights are working with element 3D.
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Do you really need the specularity of all those lights? Cause if you don’t, and it’s just for illumination, you could paint a hdri map that simulates your light’s positions.
But if 8 lights are not an E3D limitation (you should search for that info on VCP’s site). It may be a limitation of your GPU or driver?
Cassius Marques
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Yes, I am just getting the information from VCP forum
Thanx
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Here’s a screen shot of a scene with 12 spot lights, plus an ambient light for fill, illuminating a blue solid with an E3D layer (skull) in front of it.
I don’t use E3D much, but if your research shows that the graphics card makes a difference in the number of lights which can be used I’m using a GTX 980Ti 6GB.
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