Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #41276
From: Darby Edelen <dedelen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] expression control effects are ruining my compositing/stacking order
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:46:10 -0800
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
If the pre-comps have collapse transformations enabled then any effects applied to them will eliminate 3D intersections.  Is the problematic layer a continuously rasterized vector file?

I think your best bet is to circumvent applying the Expression Controls to the pre-comps and instead apply them to a Null.

-D

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:10 PM, scott.aelist <scott.aelist@gmail.com> wrote:
I have a couple planes that are intersecting/interpenetrating in 3d space. I noticed that when i use a tint effect on one of the layers, it wrecks the 3d compositing and the layers nolonger interpenetrate, rather they just overlap eachother like layers in Illustrator. So i decided to precompose my 3d layers and then control the tint with an Expression Control that's linked to the precomp. Unfortuantely even these 'non-effect' expression control effects wreck the 3d compositing. Why? Also, why doesn't AE revert to normal 3d compositing behavior when i turn an effect off? I am required to completely delete the filter from the layer before it will obey normal 3d behavior.

 
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