Making camera not see 3D layers

[Michael Szalapski]

I’m not sure that sort of feature would be possible. How would the program know what sort of perspective to put on the picture if it weren’t responding to the camera?
But, because some people want that sort of functionality, AE kept the obsolete 3d effect I linked to earlier. It provides that sort of functionality.

You’ll either have to use that effect or fix your expressions. Expressions in a precomp can reference other compositions including the one the precomp is sitting in, so you shouldn’t have too much trouble redoing them.

I still don’t understand why you’d want some layers to look 3d, but sit still when the camera moves.

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[Robyn Rhodes]

thanks Michael.

Well the reason is that I have a whole bunch of 3D layers characters shuffle into frame from behind the camera. I have titles above the crowd which I am transitioning to using Sure Target 2.0 from VCP. So during those Sure Target moves, I want the characters to stay in place. And animating the characters on screen would be a lot more work using Basic 3D than using 3D layers.

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

[Michael Szalapski]

You could try to precompose the titles, camera, and any nulls that are involved. That way your characters with the expressions don’t break.

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