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  • Lights and Gobos

    Posted by Ben The camera guy on January 31, 2007 at 4:28 pm

    Hey Guys,
    Quick question…I got an AE7 3D comp with some lights, some gobo layers in front of the lights, and a camera…the 3 gobo-ed lights are around the camera in a ring, but when I pan the camera around I can see the gobos…is there any way I can make the gobo’s transparent, but still have them effect the light flowing through them…I tried to turn the eyeball off and set the transparency to the gobo layer to 0, but then the light was unaffected by the gobo…any ideas? thanks in advance…

    Ben The camera guy replied 19 years, 3 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Nate Vander plas

    January 31, 2007 at 5:16 pm

    Is there any way you can just move your lights further away so the camera won’t see them? Otherwise, if you can’t see the effect of the goboed light when you tilt up or whatever you could just animate the opacity of the gobo to disappear when the camera looks in its direction. Here is my goboed lights attempt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tBUy-3MLck

  • Sam Moulton

    January 31, 2007 at 5:27 pm

    set your shadow options for the gobos to only

  • Iancorey

    January 31, 2007 at 5:28 pm

    Select the gobo layer and press AA. Set the Shadow to “Shadow Only.”

  • Ben The camera guy

    February 1, 2007 at 3:03 am

    awesome thanks guys!!!

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