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  • Shatter Effect: Specular setting affects alpha?

    Posted by Shawn Romano on August 29, 2008 at 1:23 am

    I am using the shatter effect to blast apart a shape from Illustrator. The only thing I am having a problem with is this: when I increase the Specular Reflection setting in the Material section of the effect, the entire layer’s alpha seems to be affected. So instead of specular just on the object, I get it over the entire layer, most of which is transparent. Is there some sort of workaround for this? I’ve done a couple of tests by replacing the shape with a .psd and even using natively generated text from within After Effects, and I saw no change in the effect. I’m using AE CS3. Thanks.

    Shawn Romano replied 17 years, 8 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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