3d AI Layer won’t continuously rasterize properly

[Jeff Dobrow]

Good question.

I have AE 6.5 Pro,…and it works fine as wine. AI file in timeline, with collapse and 3D on.
NO softening at all.

[John Flynn]

That’s weird cause it’s always been happening to me. It’s not completely blurry, but not as sharp as it should be. Are there any settings I need to change?

[Steve Roberts]

Is it soft because it’s moving with motion blur enabled?

Steve

[Jeff Dobrow]

Man,….I cannot get it to look soft. Seems razor sharp.

I have zoomed waaaay in to the edge of a complex curvy spiral .ai type shape…….

very weird.

Maybe someone else has some ideas?

btw – I have not adjusted any settings at all,…looks same in Standard 3D as well as Advanced 3D (ofcourse OGL hardware looks bad…….)

[John Flynn]

No motion blur applied. It happens when I import an AI File click continuously rasterize and then check 3d layer, before anything else is even applied.

[John Flynn]

I actually notice it a lot more when the object is small and not scaled up.

[John Dickinson]

You’re right. There is a slight softening, which seems to be some sort of interpolation issue.

John Dickinson
Motionworks
https://www.motionworks.com.au

[John Flynn]

So you actually see it too? Finally someone knows what I’m talking about? I can’t seem to do anything about it. I thought it might be a setting with rendering or something but I really don’t know. It looks bad if you have a small text on screen especially. I would think this would bother more people, but apparently other people aren’t seeing it. It’s so weird.

[Jeff Dobrow]

When you say ‘quite small’…

1) How does it look when you first import it? At whatever size it comes into from AI?
2) Does scaling it smaller produce this result? OR does zooming out (effectively making it smaller too) produce this result? or do BOTH operations produce this result?

Might be a place to start looking?

[John Flynn]

The AI object looks slightly unsharp until I click continuously raterize, then it is good to go to scale anyway I want. But it get blurry again if I click the 3D Layer option.

P.S. I tried looking into the type of preview and switching to openGL but it’s not looking right, but that’s a totally different thing and probably needs to be set up properly.