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I WANT the 3d objects to composite based on layer order
I have a comp with many many layers. They are all 3d. I am animating them undulating (rotation and z position). I want them to composite like 2d layers, meaning visibility is determined by layer order. I know I could precomp each one. But it’s a lot of layers and I would like to maintain some control without digging down into each precomp. Is there a way to do this? or is this a dumb question?
I’ve seen some posts on this as a problem or bug, but I haven’t been able to recreate it
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it’s a lot of work, but if you put a 2D layer between each 3D layer, it will work the way you want. A blank adjustment layer works best.
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1- in 3d space you need to make sure that the layers are in the same order in z space as they are as layers in the comp
2- if you have done that, and you still experience problems, make sure you do not have layer styles on your layers ( if you imported them from a photoshop file with styles). One other thing that causes AE to mess up you 3d layers is if you have a 2d layer in between.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.ennstudio.ro -
I have put adjustment layers between each of the layers. It is still not working. Not sure what I’m doing wrong,
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Ahha it worked. Have to be looking through camera not front view.
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Glad it worked- just be careful, adjustment layers are 2d layers, and mixing up 2d and 3d layers does not make AE very happy.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.ennstudio.ro -
Here’s a page that explains all of the relevant details:
“3D layer interactions, render order, and collapsed transformations”———————————————————————————————————
Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
putting the ‘T’ back in ‘RTFM’ : After Effects Help on the Web
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