cc sphere

[Don Sciore]

Reduce the radius to the size of sphere you want.
Good Luck.

[Filip Vandueren]

What kind of image are you starting out with ?
Is the layer you’re applying it to large enought to contain the cricle ?

[Rdub]

2048×1024. I imported a map/texture from the NASA site. Applied cc sphere. Reduced the radius. Still looks like a flat circle. Can’t rotate a flat circle and have it look like a world.

[Filip Vandueren]

I’m presuming you’re having the layer as a 3D layer.

The CC Sphere effect renders a 3d layer on a flat layer, so don’t rotate the layer, rotate the effect.

A first step would be to auto-orient the layer to always point to the camera.

I did some work on some expressions that totally emulate the look of a ‘true’ 3d sphere by measuring the distance to the 3D camera and a light source, but it’s not quite done yet:

check out this thread:

https://www.creativecow.net/forum/view_thread.php?threadid=828066&forumid=2&postid=111605765777943

[Steve Roberts]

Filip’s right on.

There are quite a few mock 3D effects in AE. They basically make a “movie” of a 3D object, using AE’s layer as a sort of projection screen. If you were to make the layer “3D” then rotate it or whatever, you’d be rotating the projection screen, and that’s what you saw.

That’s why a lot of those effects give the little warning that they are to be applied to 2D layers.

(Unless you want to see a rotated flat projection screen for some reason.)

Steve