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  • AE Bounding Boxes Invisible on some Layers

    Posted by Brett Underhill on October 8, 2012 at 10:53 pm

    All of a sudden some of the bounding boxes on about 1/3 of my Null layers are invisible. I tried changes the ‘handles’ in view options, but it doesn’t make much sense since most of the bounding boxes are visible. Any ideas?

    Brett Underhill replied 13 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Brett Underhill

    October 8, 2012 at 11:07 pm

    I think it has something to do with changing the color of the nulls in the layer settings window, but I cannot retrieve the bounding boxes for some reason.

  • Walter Soyka

    October 9, 2012 at 2:25 am

    Null objects, though invisible, have a size which is adjustable in their settings dialog and which defaults to [100,100]. If you shrink this down too far, you won’t see the bounding box, only the anchor point.

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  • Brett Underhill

    October 9, 2012 at 1:54 pm

    Hi Walter, thanks for your response, but that’s not the issue. I can see the shape of the Null’s bounding box when I select the layer – the 8 points along the cube are visible, but the box is not visible, just like that of a shape layer. I think the null changed to a shape layer when I changed the color of the object in the Solid Settings panel, and now I can’t get the bounding box back.

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