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Layering of 3D Groups
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Yep! Motion’s built in flare was also pretty horrible 🙂
Thanks!~AJ
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It’s not the text, its the image mask and the rectangle in its source well that is flashing the background to full screen. I see you’re using the image mask to provide the gradient wipe to the text which seems to be the hard way to do it. Uncheck the visibility of he Image Mask and select the text and apply Behaviors > Text Basic > Fade Characters Left In. In the inspector, manipulate the Spread to get the same effect you had with the Image Mask.
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Sorry, I meant moving the text layer as in moving the group it was in. Since it’s being masked by that rectangle, moving just the text layer wouldn’t make a difference, beyond losing the mask. (And wouldn’t get you what you wanted anyway.) The blend mode would also have to be set to normal for both the object and its group, since you have a floor.
Sorry for my lack of clarity.
I’m glad, however, that the opacity trick worked.
Another (probably easier) way would be to move that rectangle into the final_logo group and extend the rectangle all the way to the beginning.
The easiest way, which I played around with a little more to find out, is to use the Add blending to your advantage by having the checkerboard group set to Add, rather than the just object itself.
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I would use a text behavior, but in the final version we have a PSD logo file that’ll be replacing the actual text, as well as a replicator and some other effects. I’d be interested if there’s a way to do a gradient wipe some other way that’s compatible with full groups, but this works pretty well.
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Just use a plain old rectangle mask, very feathered (it’ll go more than 100) and animate the mask across the image. I just tested it.
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Here’s my test…
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As mentioned in this thread, I managed to solve this for good; you can set a 3D Group to use Layer Order. That ensures the overlay appears properly and doesn’t get cut off by the floor. 🙂
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