Tom Gomez
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Alas… there are all kinds of crazy dependencies with expressions and so forth. Very difficult to move the effects…
I really think Adobe needs to fix this…
But thanks Roland!
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So it can’t render proper 3d if any of your layers are precomps with effects…
I think that might be the culprit here.
I have to say… that is EXTREMELY LAME of After Effects.
Thanks Dave and Walter!
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Same problems here. Ridiculous really.
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Nada. Driving me crazy! I tried open GL rendering on and off. No change…
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Nada. Check out this image. Ca and Mg are on top in stacking order, but all are closer to camera… Thanks Dave!
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Here’s an image. The Ca and Mg is the top layer. The others are below in the layer stacking order, but obviously they’re closer to the camera… HELP!
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100% 3d! Still bizarre stacking…
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Awesome tools. Thanks Dan!
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One thing that works for me… if the illustrator file is too small and throw it on to your Premiere timeline and it looks cruddy, just go up to clip/video options and select “scale to frame size.” Then Premiere will rasterize it huge, and you can just scale down to what you want and it will look dynamite.
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Greetings Joao,
Sorry it took so long to get back to you. Hopefully this is still helpful. I’ve just revamped these expressions for a 3d line and maybe it will help.
First, create a shape rectangle layer, make it 3d, give it a fill, place it between any two 3d layers (so for example layer 1 is a 3d layer, layer would be this layer, and layer 3 would be another 3d layer).
Next, give it two expression sliders. Call the first one LINE LENGTH MODIFIER, the second LINE WIDTH. For now, give those the values 1 and 4 respectively.
Nexy, add these expressions:
To the rectangle’s size property:
x = (effect(“LINE LENGTH MODIFIER”)(“Slider”));
point1 = ((thisComp.layer(this_layer,-1).position)*x);
point2 = ((thisComp.layer(this_layer,1).position)*x);
y = (length(point1, point2))*(x);
w = effect(“LINE WIDTH”)(“Slider”);[y, w]
To the position property of the layer:
a = thisComp.layer(this_layer,-1).transform.position[0];
b = thisComp.layer(this_layer,1).transform.position[0];
c = (a+b)/2;
d = thisComp.layer(this_layer,-1).transform.position[1];
e = thisComp.layer(this_layer,1).transform.position[1];
f = (a+b)/2;
g = thisComp.layer(this_layer,-1).transform.position[2];
h = thisComp.layer(this_layer,1).transform.position[2];
i = (a+b)/2;[c, f, i]
On the layer’s orientation property:
lookAt (thisComp.layer(this_layer,-1).transform.position, thisComp.layer(this_layer,1).transform.position)
FINALLY, set the layer’s rotation to 90.
You can copy and paste the whole line layer between any two 3d layers and it will automatically adjust to the new layers.
Viola.
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