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  • making a PSD file into a 3d plane with bumps

    Posted by Howie Chin on July 15, 2006 at 6:46 am

    Hi,

    Im trying to make a video of this flying on a road in AE..i have a piece of road done in Photoshop. I intend to bring it into AE to make it as if the road leads up to a cliff. So it makes a slope. What im havin now is just a flat plane of road. i need to make it look uneven. A little wavy when u look at it…

    Is there any plug in’s i need to use?

    thnks

    [howie]

    Jon Okerstrom replied 19 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Michael Szalapski

    July 15, 2006 at 4:22 pm

    You can make it a 3d plane, but you won’t get bumpiness. You could possibly get waves in the road with a plug-in from Digital Anarchy called3d Layer, so purchase and have fun.

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  • Mike Clasby

    July 15, 2006 at 5:02 pm

    Re:Shade/Shape will do what you want:

    https://www.revisionfx.com/rsshade.htm

    Check out the demo.

    Use another layer as the “Shape Alt Source”, most examples in the gallery use Alpha, not what you want.

    I put Ramp on a new layer precomped it as use it as above for a eerily symmetrical dome mountain.

    The Plugin also does bump mapping using a source of you choice. It can give some pretty amazing results, I got a fur-like effect from a course sand bump map and the right tweaking.

    The only tricky part is learning what maps give what results.

  • Jon Okerstrom

    July 16, 2006 at 1:30 am

    An oldie but a goodie in this case would be Forge Freeform.

    Jon

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