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Something I’d Love to see in the future
3D comps inside Comps….
What I mean by this, is let’s say I make a huge comp that has 100 images, that are in the shape of a sphere, cylinder or whatever This sphere isn’t going to be doing much but rotating, and sort of like the example I have created here.
In simple terms, if I have an object that I’ve made in 3D space that I’d like to pre-compose, I’d like it stay a 3D object when I rotate it or move by it. I think that would be a nice feature to add. It would simplify the workspace, I believe. Wanted to know if anyone else felt that way about working in 3D?
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Dave,
The sphere should follow the camera if you tell it’s layer to auto-orient to the camera….I haven’t tried this, but I am assuming…maybe I am wrong….
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Dave,
That honestly is the greatest news of my After Effects career, spanning almost 2 1/2 years now. Now does this affect render times positively or negatively? And what was it that Mark was talking about with the auto orient? Does that have to do with the putting a sphere on an object and how After Effects would analyze and render that object? This is still great news to the organization of my projects. Thanks a bunch.
Dan
Daniel Elder
Associate Producer
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Add the sphere effect to a layer, then right click and select transform-auto orient to camera….the front face of the layer will automatically spin so that as a camera moves the front face is always looking at the camera.
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