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Activity Forums Adobe After Effects water droplet/lens with shade/shape

  • Peter Litwinowicz

    September 9, 2005 at 5:00 pm

    Apply Shade/Shape to the image that has the shape of the matte in the alpha (or other channel).
    Set the Shape:Channel to the channel that has the shape of the lens in it’s alpha channel

    The trick is to change the default parameters this way:
    Inflation to 1.0
    Flatness to 0.8
    Ambient intensity to 0.6
    Diffuse intensity to 0.0
    Set the Reflection source to the image that needs to be reflected
    set the REFL:Type to projective
    (otherwise leave everything else at the default)

    Then add the original image as a layer in the same comp, so the reflected image shape is then comp-ed over the original image.

    I can send you an AE 6.5 project which demonstrates how to do this. Simply send us mail at techsuport@revisionfx.com

    Pete Litwinowicz
    https://www.revisionfx.com

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