Unable to invert matrix

[Nico Jones]

HI there,

I’ve seen this error posted about a couple of times, but none of the solutions are working for me…

I’m working in AE with some shape layers parented to nulls, parented to other nulls etc etc. I keep getting the following errors, not only when rendering, but also when working…

Cannot normalise zero-vector (17::52)
Unable to invert matrix (17::45)

It seems to happen when I switch to full quality preview, and then obviously when I render. Happening on a mac pro and macbook pro, latest CC and CS6.

I can only pin it down to parenting to shape layers. If I precomp the layer and don’t collapse the transformations, it’s ok, but that’s not really a solution as I need to use shape layers, and already built a load of stuff at quarter quality that would be a real pain to go back and convert to non-rastered shapes.

Any ideas??

Thanks,

nj

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[Nico Jones]

And now it’s happening at quarter res, and it’s deadline day, and this is grim, grim, grim.

Oh, and tried turning off new snapping feature. No dice.

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[Nico Jones]

Ok, turning all scale attributes from 0 to 0.1 seems to have solved it, as per this post I eventually found…

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1307280#5727334

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[Nico Jones]

OK, now it’s happening when I try to rotate a null that stuff’s parented to. I’ll just resign myself to never parenting anything to anything until the next update. *update* – think I just hadn’t scaled some bits to 0.1…ignore my ramblings.

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[Todd Kopriva]

For others reading this:

This is a bug in the new snapping feature that causes a problem when any layer in the composition is scaled to 0%.

This is fixed in the After Effects CC (12.1) update, due out this month.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Todd Kopriva]

This is fixed. Try in the updated version that we just released:
https://adobe.ly/AE_CC_12dot1_details

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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[Nicholas Toth]

I’m getting this error still. 3d shape layers parented to 3d nulls that are scaling and rotating are fine — the shadow casting from a spotlight is triggering the error. Running Ae 12.2.

Nicholas Toth
Freelance Animator
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