• Adobe After Effects

  AFter effects light?

  Posted by Marcin620 on August 17, 2007 at 8:12 pm

  Hi everybody! So i have this problem with lights. When i have made something i like in after effects nd want to ad a nice light, nothing happens! The layer is created and i see te spot where the light is supossed to be but the light is missing! I have tried everything i culd imagine but no luck. Please can some one help me? =)

  Darby Edelen replied 19 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Aharon Rabinowitz

  August 17, 2007 at 10:23 pm

  If your layer is not a 3D layer, the light won’t do anything. Turn on the layer’s 3D switch.

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  Darby Edelen

  August 18, 2007 at 7:09 pm

  You also want to make sure that the 3D layer has its Accepts Lights property turned to ‘On.’ You can access this by selecting the layer and pressing ‘aa’ once it’s a 3D layer.

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