• Adobe After Effects

  Light layer question

  Posted by Adam Taylor on June 30, 2008 at 9:11 am

  Is there a way to make a light affect all layers except for one?

  I know i can do this with the material properties of the layer i need not to be affected, but this controls the effect with regard to all lights in a scene…..

  I have three lights, two of which i want to affect the entire composition, but one of them i want to affect everything except for a single layer.

  I can’t see how to apply a mask to light, so not sure what to try next.

  adam

  Adam Taylor
  Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
  Character Options Ltd
  Oldham, UK

  Aharon Rabinowitz replied 18 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Chris Wright

  June 30, 2008 at 9:15 am

  precomp everything but one layer and put precomp and layer in new comp
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  Adam Taylor

  June 30, 2008 at 9:31 am

  Ahh – of course. I had tried that but just hadn’t gone far enough.
  To achieve the effect required multiple layers of nested pre-comps!

  thanks Chris

  adam

  Adam Taylor
  Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
  Character Options Ltd
  Oldham, UK
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  Aharon Rabinowitz

  June 30, 2008 at 12:33 pm

  you can make a light an adjustment light. Check out this post:

  https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/937549

  Maybe I should make this a tutorial quick tip?

  Best,

  Aharon

  Aharon Rabinowitz
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