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    light layers won’t work

    Posted by Michelle De long on February 23, 2009 at 8:38 pm

    Hi All,

    Taken over a pretty complex project and having trouble with a few composition.

    For some reason the light layers do not work.

    This project has previous drafts in previous compositions.

    So the comps I am working with now were copies of former comps and just had more things added at the tails. Nothing changed on the light layers.

    I take a look at two comps one with light layers working and one without and everything looks exactly the same. Same switches-positions-timing everything is exact.

    Cast shadows is on the light layers. Accept Light and Shadow are on the layers that get the lighting effect.

    I also tried to copy a light layer from a comp where it was working and paste into a comp where it was not working and no light effect come through the comp that light don’t work on.

    Is there something in the composition settings that I am missing?

    This is weird

    Thanks!

    Michelle De long replied 17 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Roland R. kahlenberg

    February 24, 2009 at 5:46 am

    Weird! Could be something as silly as Draft 3D being switched on. Or check for 2D layers that may be interferring with the Light and 3D layers.

    Good Luck
    RoRK

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  • Michelle De long

    February 24, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    Thanks so much-it was as stupid as being in draft 3d.

    Thanks again!

    Michelle
    Mimi Productions

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