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Trapcode 3D stroke
Im trying to use Trapcode 3d stroke to wrap around a cell phone, i am starting a path on the bottom and want it to circle around the cell phone to the top but am having trouble doing this I can make the path but i need it in the z space to move behind the cell phone when it wraps around, it just looks like im drawing on top of the phone
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Do you have the phone as a 3D layer? If it’s just 2D that’s your problem. If you do have it as a 3D layer, try moving it forward in Z space.
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yes, i do have the cell phone as a 3d layer
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this is my comp if it helps, im am spiralling the text up around the cell phone to reveal it flipped open and would like a 3d stroke to follow my text around the phone
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https://www.screencast.com/users/denied55/folders/Jing/media/99a0bffd-f4a0-40e8-95e6-a8442d164ba7
sorry there is the link for my screen cap
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Okay, I saw your screencap. What you need to to is make the path in 3D space. Delete whatever path you have now. Select your 3D Stroke layer in the timeline. Turn it into a 3D layer. Select the pen tool. Change the view to Top View. Make the path go around and behind and then in front of your phone.
Your screencap looks like it’s CS3 you’re running. Here’s a CS3 project file with what I’m describing.
https://rendertainment.com/3D Stroke around object.zip
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Highlight the whole URL and paste in it your browser. Clicking the link doesn’t work because I didn’t put underscores in the file name instead of spaces.
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What you should do is duplicate your 3d stroke layer (make sure its not in 3d mode)
Put one layer in front of your phone, and one behind.Play with the 3d stroke camera Z clipping settings (ie. leave Z clip front at zero and set the Z clip back to a smaller number than the default (try 400 for example))
Note what it does to your stroke…
Once your find a setting that clips your stroke to look like only the parts that would be in front of your phone, take that value and put it into the Z clip front setting of your back layer.
The key is to understand how the Z clip settings effect 3d stroke.
Hopefully that makes sense…
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