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Cone? Tapered cylinder? Why isn’t there a freaking CC Cone?
I’m trying to bend a line of footage into a cylindrical shape. The trouble is, I want the cylinder to be tapered outward. There’s no “taper” setting on CC Cylinder… and there’s no CC Cone. I’m running AE 7 Pro. Does anyone have any ideas of how I could taper a cylinder in 3D? Without using a seperate program?
Thanks…
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The CC effects were originally part of a third-party plugin set called “final effects complete”, owned by various parties over time. Then the developers (cycore) got hold of them again, and Adobe bought/licensed the plugs to include with AE. There was never a cone plugin, for whatever reason. And I believe cylinder doesn’t offer taper, since a taper function probably needs to start with a cone shape, not a cylinder shape.
Anyway, you need to buy a plugin to do it. https://www.conoa.com/index.html .
Yep, it can be frustrating when something seems to be “almost there” and isn’t, but since AE wasn’t built as a 3D app, its 3D capability has, bit by bit, been created and extended through third-party and acquired plugins as far as I know. If they acquire the Conoa plugs, you’re in. Until then … 🙁
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Could you just use a LOT of 1 pixel high cylinders stacked on top of each other with gradually decreasing diameters? I’ve never used CC cylinder, so don’t know how workable that is. I’m sure it would make one HUGE stack of comps, though.
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Steve, that is most unwelcome news. I just don’t have the money to buy stuff right now (Film School). Thanks though!
And Toby, that might be a potential work around. I’ll have to look into it. Trouble is, the ‘line of footage’ I’m bending into a cylinder is a line of fire. So if it’s off even a bit it’ll look messed up. It might work though. Thanks!
“Of course, I could be wrong. In fact, I’m probably wrong.”
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I realize this is an old post, but I have been pulling solutions from these forums for a while now and thought this might be a solution other people would wanna know about.
In order to taper or shape a CC Cylinder into a cone without a pluggin (and additional cost), you can Precomp the contents of the cylinder and add a warp effect. Depending on how detailed you need the taper you might have to keyframe the mesh or warp effect to get the desired result.
I didn’t see this solution anywhere else online, so hopefully that helps, it seems to work great for bottle labels and also textured sports balls from flat labels (with CC Sphere).
Again I hope this helps, Thanks for everything else!
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