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In case anyone comes looking, I fixed this issue in Element 3d. In ‘Render Settings>environment’, there’s an ‘Override Layer’ selector. Change that to ‘None’ and voila!

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Thanks for the suggestions, I’ll take a look.

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That worked beautifully,
thank you for your help Cassius.

Moog

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Ah, that makes sense. I’ll give it a go tomorrow.

thanks for the reply,

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Ahhh, yes – I was thinking about a gradient approach, but I couldn’t remember where I’d see something like that before.

I was in a bit of a hurry, I ended up hand animating a few squares with a magnify filter on them, then heavily distorting and pixelating the rest of the background.

Appreciate the help though 🙂
Thanks,

Moog

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There’s a ton of decent tutorials around, the two sites you need are The one right here and the aforementioned Video Co-Pilot. Both are just amazing.

When I learnt, I preferred to buy a book and just wade through it. Mainly because they’re designed to give a nice learning curve through features and found it easier to resist the urge to run before I could walk 🙂

one like https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adobe-After-Effects-Classroom-Book/dp/0321704495/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323861912&sr=8-1 this perhaps?

good luck !

moog

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Thanks Darby,

I’ll give the heat haze a go 🙂

I think I need a rethink about how I’m going to do the depth. I don’t really need a major camera move so I’ll look into ways of faking it.

I think my biggest problem was the ground plane. Everything else I can easily CC and manually blur.
My ground is currently a pretty large texture with a repeat on it to fill in the edges.

If you (or anyone) has any ideas of ways I can create a better and more controllable ground plane, I’d love to hear them.

Cheers

Moog

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ah – well, I thought that far ahead and have opted for a nice easy baked, cracked earth floor. 🙂 A few particle dust around footfalls and i’m there 😉

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Hi, thanks for the reply.

I’ve been through a number of his excellent tutorials, but can’t find the specifics I’m looking for. I don’t suppose you’d know of a couple of specifics to look at?

thanks

Moog