Brett Underhill
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After Effects Coins
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COW Coins
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Hi Walter, thanks for your response, but that’s not the issue. I can see the shape of the Null’s bounding box when I select the layer – the 8 points along the cube are visible, but the box is not visible, just like that of a shape layer. I think the null changed to a shape layer when I changed the color of the object in the Solid Settings panel, and now I can’t get the bounding box back.
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I think it has something to do with changing the color of the nulls in the layer settings window, but I cannot retrieve the bounding boxes for some reason.
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yeah, puppet tool, duh.
Thanks man, that helps.
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The only commonality is the Z depth and motion blur is active and they become about 75% transparent during a camera move. They aren’t even moving, meanwhile, there are other layers that also have z depth active and they don’t lose opacity. I copied the layers and made the copied layers active only during the camera move, without motion blur, and that seems to work. Doesn’t make any sense for them to lose become transparent.
Thanks Kevin,
-Brett
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Thanks Kevin,
It’s not in the RAM preview at all, the transparency only appears once the movie is made. I should mention that motion blur is also on.
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Hmm..I had it on Straight Alpha to start with, so I’m not sure why I’m still getting the dark matte-like halo. I’ll give the png sequence a shot.
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Thanks again for your help, Jeff. The animated swf character is being composited over a background in AE so the swf’s alpha is desired. That’s why I’m surprised there is a black halo around the swf character, it looks as if there is a matte that needs to be smoothed out but I can’t figure out how to do that. I would animate it all in AE, but it is so much easier and quicker to import vector elements from AI to Flash rather than AI to AE. AE requires more set up time as it flattens out everything on each layer, while Flash retains all of the layer paths. It just requires more setup, but it looks as though that is what I will need to do if I cannot get rid of the dark halo.
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There is no background, the white is the artboard. It is a character with an alpha around him. I am creating everything so I have the fla file as well.