Whats the best way to create large floor for a 3d move

[David Bogie]

I just finished a project that had two 5kx5k layers, a floor and a wall.

This is something we’ve been asking about since AE was blessed with 3D: the infinite plane. Ubiquitous in any modeler of 3D animation system, there must be a good reason it hasn’t found its way into AE.

bogiesan

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

[yamir bhatt] “1) should i create just one comp of the floor 5000px x 2000px ( but this seem to screwup my render time.
2) should i create 500 x 500 floor comps and array them together to create the large floor. (is this going to be aby better then a single 5000px 2000px comp?)
3) any other ideas?”

Optiob 2 should be less memory intensive. Another option is to use Motion Tile although this too has memory limitations and you need a seamles image to make this work.

HTH
RoRK

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[First Last]

Pre-comp your animation, and throw a small solid under it.

Parent a small floor layer under your camera, assuming you hav a camera that’s flying around. This might look screwy with lights.

Make your background color the same as your floor.

It really depends on what you’re doing and how you have it setup.

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[David Bogie]

Dan, what a cool idea. I once did that with a stop motion rig. The background for the whole project never changed so we just attached it to the camera rig with three 90 degree conduit sections and put the rest of the props and jigs between the background and the camera. Lights were bolted to the pipes, too. Revolutionized the setup at the beginning of each day’s shooting.

Thanks for the contribution and the trip down memory lane.

bogiesan

[Eliezer Cisner]

the trip down memory lane

Well said, David. Trying to fly a camera through an infinite 3D space, sure is a trip down memory lane. In fact, intensive memory lane, to be precise 🙂