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layer positioning
heres my problem:
I have a block of text consisting of 12 lines.
When I apply Invig to the text block using a comp camera everythings great and all the planes are flush.then I duplicate the Invig layer 12 times
delete one line of text at a time so I end up with 12 separate invig layers making up the text block.now the 12 separate layers arent flush anymore. They look like they all have diff Z positions?
does deleting a line at a time change some kind of hierarchy in positioning?
hopefully this makes sense
thanks in advance
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5 Replies
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Hi Mike,
Deleting lines of text would cause the positioning to shift from layer to layer. One solution: replicate the text blocks exactly and make the lines you don’t want to see in each layer invisible – without deleting the objects. I’m thinking this would keep all of your text in proper registration.
Jon
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Hi Jon–
I tried duplicating all the layers and then making all lines except the one I need invisible. The layers still stack up incorrectly.
any other thoughts?
thanks again
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Are they in exactly the same position in Z space?
Jon
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yes. When the “text wall” is one unit of 12 lines, all lines are in the same Z space.
Studying the problem further, it seems that when I break up the wall into separate lines Invig treats each line as its own object. For instance layer 1 doesnt know there is a layer 2, so the bottom extrusion of layer 1 draws on top of layer 2.
If I didnt have 12 lines of text I could make each layer of the single text wall into a set and animate the set, but Invig only has 8 sets…
make sense?
thanks again
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What if you didn’t delete the lines, but replaced them with a carriage return?
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