3D layer order problem

[Gabriel Souza]

Hi,

Well, I was having the same problem here and tried different things to fix. In my case, I imported layers from photoshop and everything was fixed when I turned layer styles off.

So, if you have any layer style applied to those layers, switch it off. Find another way of applying the same effect. Even pre composing didn’t help for me.

If it’s not your case, try switching other stuff off to see what happens.

Hope it helps,

Cheers

[Denis Dvorin]

Use “Merge Layer Styles into Footage” option while importing PSD file with effects to AE project.
I think that editable layer styles are working like an adjustment layers in 3D comps.
Another AE CS3 “bug”.

[Monica Peña]

I had the same problem and it was because i had two layers in the same z position, and one popped over the other, try to move one forward or backward

[Jesper Pedersen]

I have found a workaround that works for me! Perhaps it also works for you(?)
The workaround is extremely simple but also difficult:
All elements in the composition have to be unique.
So
-You CANT copy a composition or graphic andd paste it. Eg. if you have a chair and wants have 2 chairs
-You must not use an instance in the project menu more than once.
-You CANT import the same AEP file more than once.
-If say, you have a file with a chair and wants to import it into another AE project, you can only do this one time. If you want more chairs and dont want to design it again from scrach, you have to take the original AE project and copy it and give it new names such as Chair2.aep chair3.aep.

fulfilling these rules, have made me overcome the problem of z depth. Great!!!I hope it will also help you!
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[Vlad Cohen]

Hi, I’m having this same problem in CS5 and I don’t know how to fix it. I have three sets of images rotating around a null object like a carousel, but they overlap each other based on layer order, not z-space.

I don’t have any layer effects and I don’t think I have any duplicated elements. Does anyone have any other suggestions to fix the z-order problem? Even with splitting layers, I’m not sure how I can fix it as I have objects rotating on an angle and the overlaps don’t have clear frames between them.

Thanks so much in advance — and let me know if I can offer more information to diagnose the problem.

[Jeremy Lyons]

tried turning off collapse transformations on any subcomps?

[Jared Isham]

I’m having the same issue. I had this problem back in October and thought it was specific to that project. Had roughly 200 layers and the layer order was causing elements to peak through.

Now I have a simple set up: 4 layers creating a box (front, back, left side, right side) when I rotate the object to the back side using 3d null layer the front layer pops through, as well as the sides get messed up based on the camera position (I also tried using a camera to see if that changed things but had the same result).

I don’t remember having this problem when I was doing work in CS3 and CS4 and strangely enough didn’t have this problem back in October when I was dealing with the same kind of stuff.

Suggestions?

I’m running a fully up to date version of AE CS5.

Jared Isham
Stage Ham
https://www.stgham.com
film. video. web media

[Jared Isham]

Here is a picture of the issue I’m having. I want the Back layer to be on top, but because I’m rotating the object around a lot and have a bunch of them to do I don’t want to have to adjust the layer order every time the object is moved.

Jared Isham
Stage Ham
https://www.stgham.com
film. video. web media

[Jared Isham]

Tried that and it had the same effect. What I ended up doing was just rebuilding the box and it worked fine. I had some Comps in the project that worked and others that didn’t so I am just redoing the ones that weren’t working and hoping the fix sticks (that rhymed).

Jared Isham
Stage Ham
https://www.stgham.com
film. video. web media

[Mark Pyper]

Not sure if this is a solution but I just had this same problem, after effects not displaying layers correctly in 3d space but displaying them in their layer stacking order.

I fixed it by turning off the visibility of all layer styles, not just ones you have activated but the actual eyeball next to the Layer Styles dropdown, even if you have no layer styles activated. I had to do this for each 3d layer and they displayed in their correct order.