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Turn on 3d layer, turn everything off
I’ve looked all over and I can’t find anything like this.
I spent all day creating and fine tuning this glorious comp with text flying in and off the screen. I was putting on the finishing touches this morning when I had to leave the room. When I came back in, my 3 year old was pushing buttons on my computer. It didn’t look like anything had happened until I went back to watch the whole thing from the beginning. I have 30 or so layers, and in the areas where I have a 3d layer turned on nothing appears but the background color of my comp. In the areas where it’s all 2d, everything works fine.
This is for a demo that I want to start sending out tomorrow so please tell me that this is an easy fix.Thank you,
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11 Replies
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A screenshot with the AE interface would be helpful, if you could post one. I’m guessing you didn’t have Autosave enabled.
Joey Foreman
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IS draft 3D checked?
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Nope, no autosave. Hadn’t saved since last night, but all of my finishing touches were minor relative to what I did yesterday. So I just re-did all of todays work. I’m still really curious as to what happened, but I can’t get a screenshot anymore at this point. Sorry to take your time, but I do thank you for it.
Wodecki
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Any chance he turned your camera in the wrong direction or changed to a custom view?
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Like I replied up above^, I just restarted from last nights save. But to answer your question, I tried toggling 3D draft on and off with no results. Thank you for your reply.
Wodecki
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Hmm… maybe. I didn’t think of that one. It would be pretty random, but that could have been it…
Wodecki
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sorry if this is already answered below – I haven’t looked through all of the posts yet.
I have freaked myself out because of this too – luckily it takes 2 seconds to fix. All you do is switch you AE viewer to “Active Camera” and presto! (if you hit escape it should toggle between that and whatever view you are looking through).
– Spencer
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To elaborate further, you are probably just looking through a custom view and so don’t see all of the 2D layers – just the 3D ones.
– Spencer
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To elaborate even further…
It happens when you accidentaly press the escape key… that got to be the most stupid keyboard shortcut EVER.
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I will have to disagree with you. I use the escape key to switch between camera views all the time while I’m setting up and animating 3d scenes in AE. For me it’s very handy.
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