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How to pre-compose lights
I am creating a 3D art gallery in AE 6.5. Each picture is lit by a separate (spot)light layer and the whole scene is lit by further lights.
Because I want to replicate the pictures in multiple “rooms” I planned to pre-compose the pictures and their “lights”. But when I use the pre-compose in another composition, the pictures are OK but it looks like “accept lights” is switched off (it isn’t) and the spotlights do’nt show up. If I copy in the original light layers it works, but I am going to end up with about 50 light layers on the final composition – a bit messy as Aaron would say.
Checking back on the pre-compose composition, the light layers are there and working. I have also tried nesting in the original composition in with no luck.
Anyone suggest what I am doing wrong or is it just a problem with precomping?
Thanks
Scott
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4 Replies
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did you try to enable the collapse transformations button on the precomp layer?
who is that masked man…
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Yes. I tried it collapsed and non collapsed – same result.
Thanks for the response.
Scott
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Not looking over you shoulder, hard to tell if this will help at all.
I’d figure out how one wall was supposed to work and then duplicate the comp. The wall and the lights will be there. Just replace the items on the wall.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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Thanks for your reply boogiesan.
Duplicating the composition within another is what I want to do, but the lights just don’t work when I do this. I will investigate further.
Scott
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