Making camera not see 3D layers

[Kevin Camp]

could you just hide the layers (click the eyeball)…? or set the opacities to zero?

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
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[Robyn Rhodes]

I didn’t explain well. I have some layers moving in 3D space which I don’t want the camera to see. And other I do want the camera to see. The ones I don’t want the camera to see still need to be visible.

I’m only half the thing I say I am, the other half are me.

[Robyn Rhodes]

I need all the 3D layers to be visible. I just need certain 3D layers to not been seen by the comp camera.

I’m only half the thing I say I am, the other half are me.

[Kevin Camp]

when you are saying ‘seen by the comp camera’ do you mean they don’t react to the comp camera?

if so, then precomping may be the way to go (or make them 2d, but i’d imagine that’s not an option).

if those layers are needed in the main comp due ot the expressions, just duplicate those layers and move them to a new precomp, then hide the original layers.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

lol! This is like playing Pictionary but without the drawings.

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

I hear you Dave. I wasn’t intending anything negative – I was just humored by the situation.

I think Robyn needs to calm down and explain what he/she in the comp has and exactly what is meant by “The ones I don’t want the camera to see still need to be visible.”

Robyn, the camera cannot see something that is invisible. If the camera sees something then it is visible. A layer is only visible if the camera sees it, ie it is in the view of the camera.

What are you trying to do to the layers that you don’t want to be seen. Also let us know why you don’t want these layers to be seen by the camera.

HTH
RoRK

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[Michael Szalapski]

Do you mean besides changing the opacity to 0?

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[Robyn Rhodes]

I’m am a fortress of calmness, for anyone who wonders.

Let me take another stab at it.

say you have two 3D layers and a camera…

is there a way to have one layer change perspective when moving the camera, and have the other layer not change perspective when moving the camera. In other words the comp camera only sees the first layer.

Hopefully this gets us a little closer.

I’m only half the thing I say I am, the other half are me.

[Michael Szalapski]

You can precompose the layer you don’t want to respond to the camera move or you can use the the obsolete Basic 3d effect on a 2d layer, to give it the appearance of 3d.

Out of curiousity, why would you want to do this?

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[Robyn Rhodes]

The 3D layers that I “don’t want seen by the camera” are linked via expresssions and when I pre-comped them all the expressions got all janky. I think it would super useful if Adobe added this functionality somehow, i.e. put a adjustment layer in between the camera and layers you don’t want to change perspective when moving the camera, but you still want to be able to animate using the 3D layers parameters.

thank you,

r

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