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Duplicating a mirro layer in 3D?
This has got to be way simple, but I’d rather learn how then go through trial and error. I’ve created a set of layers of leaves that “fall” into the frame and come to rest on the same plane, or the “ground”. All I want to do is to take these layers and “flip” them to double the amount of leaves in the frame and yet make it appear to be a whole new set of leaves.
What’s the best way to do this? I was hoping to precompose all the original layers and then duplicate that sequence. Then I’d just flip that sequence. But my first attempt “flattened” the nested layers to where they were no longer in 3D. Did I miss something?
Thanks
The Visual Rabbi
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[Brian Tetamore] “But my first attempt “flattened” the nested layers to where they were no longer in 3D. Did I miss something?”
Enable ‘collapse transformations/continuously rasterize’ on the pre-comp. It looks like a little sun and resides between the shy and quality switches on the timeline.
https://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/8.0/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7e60.html
Darby Edelen
NVIDIA
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Thank you so much. I knew I was totally missing something very simple.
The Visual Rabbi
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You could also make a dupe of all of the layers, then parent these layers to a Null object (make sure 3d is turned on), then adjust rotation according to taste.
Regards
Mark
Mark Harvey
Senior Editor
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[mark harvey] “You could also make a dupe of all of the layers, then parent these layers to a Null object (make sure 3d is turned on), then adjust rotation according to taste.”
Two quick things:
1) You’d probably end up with more layers than you want to deal with using this technique. Instead of doubling the number of layers, pre-composing would reduce the number of layers in your final comp to two (or three if you wanted to triple the effect!).
2) Rotating isn’t technically mirroring although it does give the layers a different orientation. To mirror you have to actually flip the layers on an axis using scale. Rotation is still valuable though.
My thoughts 🙂
Darby Edelen
NVIDIA
Santa Clara, CA
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