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lighting text
How can I light text from behind the text?
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6 Replies
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Use Trapcode’s Lux.
https://www.trapcode.com/products_lux.html
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Make the text layer 3D (click the little cube box).
Make any layers (solids, etc) that you use for a floor, 3D, and under materials (twirl down the layer) enable accepts shadows, etc.
Add a light (Layer>New>Light).
Then its a good idea to change from “Active Camera” to “custom view 1” (or other view, check it out), in the window that shows the comp.
Then its a matter of changing the position and rotation of the camera to get it where you want (positive z values I believe). There probably is a way with more control by creating a null and parenting, but you’ll need to search posts for that.
The best tutorial I know of on lights is here:
https://www.creativecow.net/show.php?forumid=2&page=/articles/gerard_rick/Projection_tut/index.html
Hey, I need to take the time to do this one, I need to know how to do gobos. I like that word.
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Or, possibly, you may be referring to the Shine effect with the beams of light coming through the text.
If that’s what you’re after you want Trapcode’s Shine; you can find it at https://www.trapcode.com
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Trapcode is a great plugin, but it’s so expensive, is there any other plugins that do the same effects that are cheaper.
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What? Trapcode’s plug-ins are quite cheap when compared to many other ones you can buy. And considering how good they are, how powerful, how versatile, how useful, how absolutely incredible, it’s amazing that they can sell them so cheaply.
AE 6.5 comes with some CC plugins that do something similar.
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Like Shazam said, CC Light rays and CC Light Burst, and even CC Radial Fast blur (quite nice really).
If you pre6.5, the old Radial Blur on Zoom (like Photoshop) will work (weaker than the rest).
Dup the layer, scale it up a bit, then Radial Blur it, Amount up to even 300 or so. High Antialiasing.
Sometimes a little Scatter, before blurring helps.
Then dup this blurred layer a few more times and move the “Center” to a new letter.You’re talking a slow render though.
If you are less than 6.5, I think I’d double the price of Shine ($100 alone, cheap for what it does) and just upgrade to AE6.5, for all the CC filters and the other 6.5 improvements.
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