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  • weird vector paint behavior.

    Posted by Malcolm Desoto on February 3, 2010 at 12:19 am

    Using vector paint in a 3D comp on a few .png layers. It’s doing this weird thing where the effect will be visible at the beginning of the timeline, but will then disappear if I advance a few frames. It just vanishes. There are no key frames or anything like that.

    I’ve tried using different render modes (adaptive resolution and Open GL) and just purging all frames.

    Nothing seems to work. I’ve never had this effect behave in this way.

    Any ideas?

    Malcolm Desoto replied 16 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Todd Kopriva

    February 3, 2010 at 4:57 am

    The strokes for the Vector Paint effect can be set to be of various durations, depending on playback mode. For example Current Frame just shows strokes on the frames on which they’re drawn. See the information here about playback mode.

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  • Malcolm Desoto

    February 3, 2010 at 8:16 am

    ohhhhhhhh! I had no idea! That’s incredibly helpful.

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