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Shadow problem in simple setup
Hey again…
Not sure why this is happening, afaIk everything is set up properly. Here’s the deal:
I have a very basic setup consisting of a couple of simple figures drawn in AI, imported as comp/layer size.
The background is a large solid, rotated 90° along x to form the ground. There is a spotlight and an ambient light. The solid is set to accept lights & shadows; light is set to cast shadows; characters are set to cast shadows.For some reason, the figures, when imported as comps (necessary for some puppet tool work yet to be done), do not cast shadows. If I import the exact same AI files as footage instead of comp and drop them into my main comp, they do cast shadows, so I know my main comp is set up correctly.
I have played around with every permutation I can think of re: collapse transformations and making layers 3d in the precomp and/or main comp. I have viewed at different scales and resolutions, including 100%/full. Nothing works.
Comps like this are nothing new to me, I have been using AE for many years and like to think I usually know what I’m doing. For whatever reasons, probably my own stupidity, I cannot solve this simple issue. Any help is greatly appreciated!
PS: CS6/Mac, classic 3d environment
Motion Graphics Designer / Art Director
Boston, MASystem:
Mountain Lion on SSD
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
18 GB RAM -
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Layer styles applied? =P
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Nope.
Motion Graphics Designer / Art Director
Boston, MASystem:
Mountain Lion on SSD
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
18 GB RAM -
There’s a list of things that break 3D intersection and shadow casting here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/3d-layers.html#3d_layer_interactions_render_order_and_collapsed_transformations———————————————————————————————————
Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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