what ae renderer will produce the highest quality results?

[Steve Roberts]

Many questions like this can be answered by doing your own test. 🙂

However, I’ll go out on a limb and say that I always have “advanced 3D” checked. But … that renderer affects the way AE’s layers interact in 3D space, say, if two or more layers intersect. Shatter has to be applied to a 2D layer, so the renderer probably doesn’t come into play there.

But I’d leave it on “advanced” anyway. I think that the basic/advanced choice is a remnant from the days when you needed a plugin to do advanced.

Steve

[Queenkellee]

fyi FOR A TRUE 3D SCENE i believe if you have a basic 3D scene and no layer interaction crossing that requires the advanced 3D, using basic 3D might save you render time.

BUT shatter is NOT 3D it’s 2D (as meantioned above) and I agree with that poster, that there isn’t any difference as it’s not using the 3D engine in the first place — unless your shatter layer you’ve made into a 3D layer with other 3D layers in the scene–but then the shatter pieces wouldn’t be moving in tru z axis-3D space anyhow…(*makes me curious to try it out just to see what it would do*)

and yes, doing your own tests will often answer your questions very quickly. experiment!

[Steve Roberts]

[queenkellee] “unless your shatter layer you’ve made into a 3D layer with other 3D layers in the scene–but then the shatter pieces wouldn’t be moving in tru z axis-3D space anyhow”

The shatter layer would look like a “shatter” movie on a flat movie screen that floats in 3D space.

Steve