Tim Fast
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Thank you Kevin that you follow up the thread. It’s really helping me a lot. I’ve tried your both suggestions – with a Trapcode plugin (not Lux however but Shine) and a Glow effect.
The result from the Shine plugin is pretty much what I’m looking for:
But it costs money. :-/ The other problem is that when I move the camera, the appearance of the rays changes too. Here is the same effect parameters but with a little higher camera.
And even if the rays are nice I don’t really need them. For me it would be enough if the light just wrapped around the objects. However, I can’t make the Glow effect work. I’ve tried to play with the parameters but nothing works so well. As a result I just increased the radius, all other parameters are untouched. You can see the result here:
As you see the light doesn’t evenly wrap the whole opening. It rather looks coming from a point. Are there any parameters I can change to fix it?
Thanks again for your help!
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Thank you Ted and Kevin for your replies!
2 Ted
32 bits is a good tip! However, I have problems to follow the rest of your answer. Why should I render each element separately? With what effects applied? If I render camera movement first I don’t know how to sync everything else afterwards. I thought that the whole idea to build everything in 3D was to be able to move camera freely inside the composition.
2 Kevin
Thank you for the detailed description! I’d already managed to build the room but your description still have some touches that I didn’t think about.
I have created a mask and a light as you describe but unfortunately it doesn’t really work. I get nice shadows on the floor from both from the ball and from the door opening but the latter is black and thus there is no silhouette in it. All I see is the shadows on the floor.
There is no light spill over the edges of door and the ball. But this can be handled later. First I want to see the the silhouette itself.
Any ideas how I can do it?
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Thank you Darby for your answer. By “correct” parameters I meant the ones that correspond to this particular tutorial. Of course, I will use different settings in my project.
Yes, the tutorial helped me to realize that CC Sphere has just one source of light and that I need several layers to have the object lit nicer. With this knowledge my project got better look but I’m still not really satisfied with the result. However, I like the result in the tutorial and I want to figure out how my parameters differ from the ones in the tutorial.
I find it rather confusing that there is a layer in the tutorial named “Diffuse Light” but it’s Diffuse parameter is exactly the same as the others three. In fact, the parameters for this layer are very similar to Specular Light layer, even if Diffuse and Specular lights are completely different things. Thus, I don’t understand the logic in this tutorial and if I had the exact parameters I believe I would understand it better.
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Thank you Todd for the reply! Yes, I’ve figured out that the colors are messy in the tutorial. However, as you say there are other things that had to be tweaked to make the sphere look like it does.
As I wrote in the first message I’m very new to AE and my goal with the tutorial was to learn how to create a nice lit sphere. My own attempts failed – my spheres looked unnatural. That’s why I think that’s a pity that the tutorial fails in this very first step because I cannot recreate the sphere and see the connection between the different parameters of the CC Sphere effect and the layers applied.
But thank you anyway for the reply. At least I know that it is not me now. 🙂
P.S. If you have a spared minute, could you please post the correct parameters?
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Has anybody actually tried the tutorial? At least the first step? It would take a couple of minutes but it would give the answer whether it is my fault that the pictures mismatch or the tutorial misses some lines.
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Thank you for the answer Michael. However, I did change the blending mode to Add but still got the image above.
