• Maxon Cinema 4D

  External composition tag’s layer is inverted in After Effects

  Posted by Jeremy Paul on August 7, 2017 at 5:15 pm

  I am using External compositing tag to transfer Position, rotation properties of a layer into AE. When I apply a texture to this object in Cinema, it is correctly orientated.

  If I use External compositing tag layer in AE (I actually copy keyframes from the imported layer and paste it to the image I want), the image is inverted so I need to adjust y-scale. Why is that and how can I fix it?

  The position and rotation is correct, only the y scale needs to be multiplied by -1. Can this step be eliminated in Cinema or is this an after effects issue. I’ve got a feeling that this has something to do with how axis are orientated in Cinema and AE.

  Jeremy Paul replied 9 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Steve Bentley

  August 7, 2017 at 9:55 pm

  I’m not sure who the culprit is but there is no “United Nations of Y is up” kind of thing. Plexus is like this too, one of the first things you do is invert the Y.
  At least its as easy as a negative sign, packages like formZ consider Z up.
  It also has to do with the fact that AE has it’s origin at top left so when you increase the y value you travel down the composition window not up as positive values do in cinema.
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  Jeremy Paul

  August 9, 2017 at 8:05 am

  Thanks for help! For those who will face similar issues. Go to Tools->Modes->Enable Axis and hit R to rotate it.

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