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  • Cool effect

    Posted by David Gilhooly on August 29, 2007 at 6:51 pm

    Hi folks

    i am using AE pro CS3 on XP. Is it possible to hvee an object or text with a 3D light ray that i could move a camera through. If this is possible, who do i do it.

    thanks in hope

    Mike Clasby replied 18 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Mike Clasby

    August 29, 2007 at 7:07 pm

    Not really sure of the look you want, but maybe these will help (or not).

    Trapcode’s Lux even though it looks like a 3D light is a flat 2D layer in AE’s 3D space. So I don’t know how you’d fly through the light… and what that would look like. Do you want brighter in the middle, or are you thinking Volumetric light like maltaannon does, here?:

    https://library.creativecow.net/articles/drozda_jerzy/VolumeLight.php

    That might be what you want, maybe after you approached a Luxlight, then switch to the tut above after you’ve entered.

    Lux is the slick way to go, but if you

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