effects on 3D layers

[Darby Edelen]

[Mike Winkelmann] “I am running into a problem when applying an effect to a 3D layer. This seems to screw up the layering and where it is positioned in 3D space.

I’m guessing there is some relatively easy fix for this… “

There might be, but you really haven’t given enough information for anyone to suggest one. What effect are you applying? Anything else we should know about this 3D layer (is it a nested comp with collapse transformations enabled, etc.)?

Darby Edelen
Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA

[Justin Vaillancourt]

You have to be a little more specific about exactly what you are doing and what’s happening. The immediate answer is all 3D layers in your comp need to be stacked together for them to interact in relation to each other. If you have a 2D layer between 3D layers, the top 3D layer will always ‘sit on top’ of lower 3D layers.

[Mike Winkelmann]

Sorry for not being more clear. Yes, the 3D layer i’m tring to add an effect (any effect) to is a 3D composition that also contains nested compositions. It appears that this makes the layer into a 2D layer when I do this…

Let me know is this is still unclear…thanks for all of them help!

[Darby Edelen]

[Mike Winkelmann] “Yes, the 3D layer i’m tring to add an effect (any effect) to is a 3D composition that also contains nested compositions”

When you have a nested composition with its transformations collapsed, applying an effect (any effect) can cause strange things to happen. There really isn’t a way around this. You will probably need to apply the effect inside your nested composition if this is possible.

Or I’m not understanding the problem… again =)

Darby Edelen
Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA

[Mike Winkelmann]

Nope, I think you got it. Sorry I was not more clear but it was hard to describe what was actually happening… I think “strange things” is about as close as you can get…

But anways, yes, after fiddling around more i realized that applying the effects inside the comp is a *fairly* painless workaround.

Thanks again for all the help!