Nick Matthews
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Awesome job. This works perfectly, thanks!
If you don’t mind explaining things further to someone with a rudimentary understanding of coding, how are the bottom lines calculating? It looks like ‘dy’ is dividing ‘wy’ with gridSize and then multiplying the same value (gridSize) again.
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Oh excellent, I should’ve thought to tweak the setting a little more when I wasn’t getting the proper result.
Works great, thanks!
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Walter, your process absolutely works with single objects like shape layers, but when I tried applying it to a composition it did not avoid the transparency like it did with the one layer.
Thanks for sharing that though, I will definitely remember how to do that for other projects.
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Thank you both for your efforts, but unless I am misinterpreting the suggestions I think I will have to get a bit more specific. See image.
I only mentioned the shape layer to keep my explanation simple, but the reality is a bit more complex. I am looking to get shadows on the edges of a comp with ~30 layers with animation, without the shadows showing through the transparent parts.
My attached example uses 3 copies of that comp to get the alpha shadow, then the normal comp over top again. Which is more taxing than it needs to be when previewing and I’d rather not go through the steps for each separate future animation. I’ll do it if that’s the only way, but I feel there’s something I’m missing to make it simpler.
There is no 3D being used, I’m simply using renders from C4D and some creations within AE.
Thanks for your time.
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Excellent, thank you, this is just what I was looking for. I hadn’t known to look into the Mograph menus yet.
Edit: I had asked another question but I solved it.