Problem with building a 3d TV

[Simon Bonner]

You’re rotating the camera, right? Perhaps the camera’s pivot point to far in front of the tv, so when ou rotate the camera, it ends up “inside” the tv (i.e. between the layers that make it up). The back of a layer looks the same as the front, so you may be looking at the back of one of the layers.

Simon Bonner

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[Amit Zinman]

This also happens when I rotate the entire thing rather than the camera. I know I am looking at the back of the front layer, where are all the rest. I’ve tried playing around with it and it seems that for some reason AE picks up the top show first rule rather than using the 3Do front shows first rule.
Still can’t solve it.

[Amit Zinman]

It appears that layer styles doesn’t work well in 3D space. Go figure.

[Amit Zinman]

I would also beware of shape layers anything which is new to AE CS3. Perhaps all this will work in CS4 (on Vista 64 bit!)

[Mike Clasby]

You could build a quick cube with the Script described in this thread, then Alt-Drag assets from the project window onto the cube faces to swap in your PhotoShop Stuff. Might work, if your sides and back are all the same size.

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/227/10249

There is also a Script for createBox.

[Amit Zinman]

People never trusted Windows XP when it came out. Why have a slower Windows 2000 with nothing but security issues?
That’s the way it is with Vista today IMHO. But things move on, everybody with AE will want to utilize at least 4GB and sooner than later, 8GB of RAM. Vista will improve and get more support and apps to work on it and will be the tool for everyone, from high end animation artists such as ourselves to kids playing their latest High def 3D game.
And then I guess everyone will ridicule the next MS OS. And Adobe, as always, will keep on making wonderfull tools and taking their sweet time to fix the bugs. I still have a first red frame when importing HDV on all Adobe apps.

[Amit Zinman]

I actually started with that and soon realize a box will just not work with a slick slim brand new LCD TV. So I used a bunch of layers for depth and now it’s working okay with just regular layers and effects, none of that new high techy CS3 stuff.

[Frank Thomas]

[Amit Zinman] “And then I guess everyone will ridicule the next MS OS.”

From what I hear, the next MS OS will be a modular system. You buy a basic OS, with no bells and whistles. All the resource-hogging extras will be available as individual add-on modules.

If that’s true, it might just be the best MS OS to use for this sort of work.