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AE 5.5 3D camera issue
I’m obviously not very skilled at 3D camera. That said, I’m just trying to put together a long shopping cart washing machine as a simple 3D view of the exterior while the cart is animated going through the machine.
Components: Front, back, side, and top.
I’ve got all four comps in a master comp set to 3D with a new camera 50mm. I scaled the layers down and thought I positioned them correctly (x,y,z), but as I move the camera from one end to the other they layers don’t match up properly. If I make adjustments from one end, it messes up the other end.
Question: How do I position – lay out the layers so the are in their proper place for camera perspective? (Side, front, back, and top)
The Visual Rabbi
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I’ll give you a simple example for a cube:
The best way to make a cube in my experience is by creating one layer (let’s say 50 x 50 square pixels) and putting the anchor point at one corner of the layer [0,0,0]. Then duplicate that layer five times (for all 6 sides of a cube), orient 2 of the layers 90
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Here’s a script for making a cube easily (choose a size you want, comes with Null):
https://wemads.com/stuff/3d_cube.zip
You need to keep everything square pixels, otherwise things get wonky.
You could then sub in your own images for the cube layers by Alt Dragging them from the Project Window onto selected cube layers.
If your shopping cart isn’t a perfect cube, you can sub in your picks, then move the position of that layer to make them matchup.
Good luck.
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