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Many objects in 3D space
Hey folks — this one seems as though it would be really popular, but I don’t even know what search terms to use to find a tutorial.
Basically, I want to be in 3D space and create many instances of an object, all in a row. Then I will make the camera fly by them all. I COULD just copy each layer, move it the correct distance away from the previous layer, and repeat a million times, but I figure there HAS to be a better/faster/less messy way.
Anyone have any ideas? Or know of any tutorials that explain how to do this? Let me know if my description wasn’t clear enough. Thanks!
Dave
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Trapcodes echospace is the baby for you. It is (like all the other trapcode plugins) absolutely awesome. Check out the website at
its also darn good value! $49 and you get a whole lot less brain drain.
Sam
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If you have access to Cinema 4D and some time to become familiar with it, the MoGraph module is a powerful tool for instancing objects in 3D space. Plus, Cinema 4D nicely exports to an AE comp!
You don’t need to learn the application in-depth to get some use out of MoGraph. The Cow has a few tutorials too, I believe.
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Or you can just add this expression to your layer on the position value. Then just duplicate it “a million” times 🙂 Then camera away…..
Just change 100 to however many pixels you wish to displace the layer in z spaceposition+[0,0,(index-1)*100]
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3d assistants from https://www.digitalanarchy.com allow you to create any number of objects in a variety of arrangements and then fly the camera all around them. Totally cool. Also can do the same with lighting, which opens up a million possibilities.
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Excellent. You can also apply an expression control (effect) slider, highlight the 100 text, then pickwhip to the slider for more flexibility.
Before duplicating, that is. 🙂
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Awesome — these are good — I will probably go with the expression for this one (ya know, cuz its free), but if I need to do something crazier in the future, the software mentioned looks really cool. Thanks everyone.
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as mentioned above, the 3D assistants – the “Lite” version probably came with your version of AE, and the cubic distribution can be used to do what you want, to an extent. I’d used the expression with a slider myself, then hit {ctrl} or {cmd} + “D” as many times as you need. Should take a few seconds. Depending on the look you want, you might try playing with “auto-orient towards camera” as well… you can fly past the art and it will automatically rotate around the camera and get out of the way.
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Unfortunately, 3D assistants lite doesn’t come with AE7, nor will the 3D assistants lite from 6.5 work with AE7.
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wow – I didn’t know that. I’d downloaded the trial and played with it, but didn’t see a reason to upgrade (since I don’t earn a living with it!). I have missed out on being able to download current projects, but usually the tutorials are done in such a way that I can follow along. That’s good info to know!
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… of course, the full version of 3D assistants works with AE 7. 🙂
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