Snap to guides not working in AE CS6

[John Cuevas]

I just got mask and motion path points to snap the guides I created. Exactly what and how are you trying to accomplish this, also a screen shot of your comp window might be helpful.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Have you enabled Snap to Guides? You do this via the View Menu or the CTRL+Shift+; keys.

HTH
RoRK

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[John Cuevas]

Now I feel stupid, I had no idea you could actually turn that off. Good to know, thanks Roland.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

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—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[Paul Roper]

Right – I’ve discovered it only under fairly specific circumstances – looks like a bug to me; I’d be interested to have other people try it out:

1. Create a new comp.

2. Using any of the shape tools (polystar is a good one – plenty of points to move around) hold down option/alt BEFORE and while dragging to create an editable path shape, not a parametric one.

3. Drag a guide onto the comp and ensure ‘snap to guides’ is on.

4. Drag one of the points around, all over the guides, with no snapping. You might have to open up the shape layer and click on the word ‘Path 1’ to get to the points without moving the whole thing.

5. Just to make sure that some snapping is on, drag the whole layer, and see it snap to the guide.

If anyone else can recreate this, I’ll send a bug report to Adobe. In fact we should all let them know about this.

– Paul

[Ridley Walker]

[Paul Roper] “If anyone else can recreate this, I’ll send a bug report to Adobe. In fact we should all let them know about this.
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Same result here with a polystar shape.

[Paul Roper]

Bug report submitted.

[Todd Kopriva]

I think that vertices of shape layer paths don’t snap. It’s not exactly a bug; it’s just a limitation in the feature. I’ll go down the hall and check with the engineer responsible for this part of the code and check—and lodge an enhancement request if I’m right.

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

[Todd Kopriva] “I think that vertices of shape layer paths don’t snap”

But mask vertices do snap to guides. Further, for a Shape Layer, its boundaries do not snap when they are initially created and still selected. The user has to deselect and then reselect the Shape Layer before its layer boundaries snap to the guides.

HTH
RoRK

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[Todd Kopriva]

> But mask vertices do snap to guides.

Yep. These are actually implemented in different parts of the code, so it’s not a given that something that works for one works for the other. But the request has been made.

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After Effects quality engineering
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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

[Todd Kopriva] “These are actually implemented in different parts of the code, so it’s not a given that something that works for one works for the other.”

Agreed Todd. However, I believe that the similarity between paths for Shape Layers and Masks; that they are used to define an area, would make most users believe that it’s a bug rather than an intended feature. 😀

Cheers
RoRK

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