Why is my text gritty in ray traced comp?

[John Cuevas]

At what level have you set the ray-tracing quality? To check that, click the box under the comp window with a lighting bolt and select renderer options

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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[Darby Edelen]

Your text is coplanar with the wall. You need to separate them some.

I’d recommend parenting the text elements to the wall layer and then entering something like 1 or -1 (depending on which way your wall is facing) in the z position values of the text layers. You could decrease this value quite a bit if you want the text to look like it’s on the wall, or increase it if you want it to float off the wall.

The old “Classic 3D” renderer would use simple depth sorting in addition to layer order to determine which layer resides “on top” of another, but with the new Raytraced Renderer coplanar layers will always intersect in this strange grainy way regardless of layer order.

Darby Edelen

[Mike Mackenzie]

Thanks, that works!

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Hi John, CTRL+click on the said button saves a couple of mouse clicks as the key-mouse combo directly accesses the Ray-tracd 3D Renderer Options dialog.

HTH
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