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3D view manipulation
Is there any tools out there or plugins that make the 3d viewing more extensive than what it seems to be to me. When ever I try to move around in the 3D world to edit a layer etc, it seems very primative and barebones, in addition to “weak”. Any tips or shortcuts?
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You can select view>new view, and switch that camera to a custom view. You can do this a number of times, creating other custom views, a side view, a top view and so on.
Steve
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How can one make a ground plane and move objects around in the scene in a less primative fashion of just moving them around with the mouse on different camera views, it feels so babyish compared to a native 3d application
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You can also scrub the layer’s position values in the timeline.
Or are you thinking about value graphs? You can drag those in AE in the timeline, but for position, you need to tie each position axis to a null, then move each null’s value graph.
Sorry, AE isn’t a real 3D app. It’s a compositing app that has grown, bit by bit, into a motion graphics app. Now it is a compositing and motion graphics app, but the flat layers now reside in 3D space. There are many limitations to AE’s 3D-ness.
Steve
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