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Light Streaks Tutorial
Hi there,
I’m trying to use the technique that Andrew Kramer describes in his ‘Light Streaks’ tutorial, but have come up against an issue when trying to integrate the streaks with other layers in 3D space. It appears that despite the light emitter being a 3D object it is the placement of the ‘Particles Layer’ (solid with particular applied to it) that dictates whether the streaks appear in front of or behind other layers, regardless of their Z position.
Can anyone think of a way round this? I’ve experienced similar goings on with other plugins in the past, but am hoping that there’s a way of using a layer as an emitter instead of a light and animating that in 3D space, but tests so far have failed! Maybe is there’s another plugin/technique that I could use, or am I missing something obvious?
Thanks in advance
Simon
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4 Replies
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Choose your other layer as an obscuration layer in Particular. The only limitation is that you can’t have more than exactly one obscuration layer.
Mylenium
[Pour Myl
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Hi
[Mylenium] “The only limitation is that you can’t have more than exactly one obscuration layer.”
that’s a very annoying limitation!
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It is, but we all better be happy that it’s there at all… AE’s 3D environment is very limited and I wouldn’t even dream of what hoops Peder had to jump to get that little functionality in.
Mylenium
[Pour Myl
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doing 3D in a 3D application is always recommended over doing 3D in a 2D application.
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