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Peter Burr
February 6, 2008 at 8:03 am in reply to: 3D layer order problem

Steve,

Yes, I did update to AE VERSION 8.0.2.27 since I started having these problems. Nothing has seemed to help.
As I am working more with vector files (.ai and .swf files) I am noticing that there are many other bugs in After Effects CS3….. On top of all these 3D woes it seems that AE CS3 hasn’t quite figured out how to work with vector movie files yet. My program is crashing many times a day simply from importing swf files. I don’t know if this is related to the 3D popping/shifting, but it seems like there might be some correlation. One problem unearths another and another…..
Peter Burr
February 4, 2008 at 9:49 pm in reply to: 3D layer order problem

Hello Steve,
Under the advanced settings tab (within composition settings) I only have one render plug-in to choose from: Advanced 3D. Is this what you mean by “advanced render’?

Coincidentally, Since I updated to CS3 last week and started troubleshooting these 3D layer order issues I have run across an entirely new problem where After Effects goes into a frozen death pose citing ‘Advanced 3D’ as the culprit. Here’s what happened in one example:

I had a stack of 20 .ai files (set to continuously rasterize AND to act as a 3D layer) seperated by 10 pixels each along the z axis. Each file is identical and has an identical mask that cuts a hole in the layer. As the camera passed through this hole an error message appeared that read:

After Effects error: crash occured while invoking plug-in “advanced 3D”.

Perhaps this is an entirely different issue, but it does touch upon your thought that my render settings are off. I just don’t know how to change them. From all the research I have done I can’t find an alternative to this ‘advanced 3D’ render with CS3. Any suggestions?
Peter Burr
February 2, 2008 at 10:56 pm in reply to: 3D layer order problem

Hi Brian,
There are no 2D layers in this problematic comp. Additionally, there have been no effects added. It is simply 75 layers of .ai and .swf files with a single camera on the top layer. all files have the ‘3D layers’ box and the ‘continuously rasterize’ box checked.

Do you have any other ideas? It seems to me that Adobe simply hasn’t figured out their 3D render engine completely, but I don’t want to give up hope yet.