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strange layer behavior?
First off, here’s the spot I’m working on (minus the audio, sorry).
It was lookin pretty good until I noticed that one of my layers appeared to be out of order.
My “floor” layer looks as if it’s above the “wall” layer, only it’s not.
Theye are both 3d layers. When I move the floor around, it cuts into my wall layer.
I just want to the walls to conceal the floor.What a m I missing?
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4 Replies
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3D layers don’t respect the layer order. They rely on Z depth. Try moving your floor back further in the Z then size it up as needed to match what you want.
Brad
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That’s what I thought……..arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggg
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okay, I was going to mess with the 3d floor layer’s Z space, but that would have been a pain in the underparts being that it was already timed to music and such.
I just ended up turning off the 3d layer mode on the walls layer and had them slide in from the side. much easier. They concealed the floor as they should.
Thanks for your help!
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Another option you can use is placing a 2D layer (a null works well) in between the 3D layers. This will effectively put the 3D layers in separate (but simultaneously visible!) universes =)
This can have strange results if you’re using lights.
In the future you should just line up your layers by the numbers in 3D space, the floor should be at the bottom of the wall.
A good way to line 3D layers up is by changing their anchor points to something like [0,0,0], then you know that the lower edge is thisLayer.height units away on the Y-axis in layer space.
So, for example create 3 800×600 solids, make their anchor points [0,0,0]. Parent two of these solids to the other solid. Notice that the positions of these children solids will be [0,0,0], if you change the position of one of them to [800,0,0] it will move to the very right edge of the parent solid. Change the other’s position to [0,600,0] and it will move to the bottom edge of the parent solid.
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA
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