Pseudo 3D in AFX.

[Michael Szalapski]

Yes. So long as your footage (or precomp) is set as a layer map in Invigorator it can be used in the materials for it.

– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)

No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.

[Darby Edelen]

I think this has all been pretty well covered, but AE is excellent at compositing and improving your 3D assets, although not necessarily creating them.

I understand your frustrations, but knowing the limitations of the program is an essential step toward exploring potential ways to sidestep those limitations, or at least know when a different tool is better suited 🙂

Here’s an example of cheap-o parallax mapping using the displacement map effect and some expressions in AE:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/948449

It is, of course, very limited and you can get better results with a plug-in, but this is just an example of bending the ‘rules.’

Darby Edelen