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  • Posted by Jack Hilkewich on August 13, 2006 at 9:21 pm

    I had a comp that was about 29 layers all 3d. I had a camera move through all the layers and I wanted to get a nice move. The ram preview was taking too long. Is there a way to convert the layer to a wireframe type thing just so that I could see the four edges of the layer rather than the actual image?

    Since I had placed all of the layers into their proper position I didn’t want to then create nulls and then move them into place plus that would increase my layers to 58 and I hate a large timeline.

    There has to be a way to turn off the layer’s visibility and yet still be able to see some sort of representation of it just so one can see the camera move.

    Thanks

    Mylenium replied 19 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Mylenium

    August 14, 2006 at 6:03 am

    Umm, you can view your layers as wireframes by choosing wireframe layer quality, can’t you? ;o)

    Mylenium

    [Pour Myl

  • Jack Hilkewich

    August 14, 2006 at 8:47 am

    “Umm, you can view your layers as wireframes by choosing wireframe layer quality, can’t you? ;o)”

    You know that’s the first thing I tried but it didn’t seem to make a difference the images were still visible. Maybe mine wasn’t working? I had never used wireframe before so I just figured that it meant something else when it didn’t change anything.

    I set the setting down to the lowest resolution that I could go as well but it still took forever for the ram preview.

  • Mylenium

    August 14, 2006 at 10:04 am

    That sounds odd. I barely use wireframes anymore, but when I do, it works just fine. Some strange OpenGL problem perhaps?

    Mylenium

    [Pour Myl

  • Jack Hilkewich

    August 14, 2006 at 4:17 pm

    Well I seem to have found out something. This was what I did originally,I had pre comped all of the 3d layers and then added them into a new comp. I then added a couple of more layers and then tried the wireframe option. No go.

    I went to my pre-comped layers composition and tried the wireframe there and it worked. So maybe it doesn’t work with pre-comped layers?

  • Mylenium

    August 14, 2006 at 5:56 pm

    Yeah, that’s quite possible. This option may be on a per-composition basis, but as I said – I wouldn’t know since I so rarely use it.

    Mylenium

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