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Alejandro5CEF
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December 19, 2024
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Add ability to link multiple pre-comps to a single Camera layer

  • December 19, 2024
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PROBLEM: If you have multiple pre-comps with 3D layers that need to be resolved within their individual pre-comps and then continuosly rasterized within your main comp, the only way to have them all share the same 3D space is to copy the 3D camera into each pre-comp, or link each camera to a single null in the main comp.

 

SOLUTION: Allow users to define a single 3D camera layer from any comp and have it dynamically link so that all pre-comps referencing that camera will move within a shared 3D space

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Rick GerardCommunity Expert
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December 20, 2024

If you pre-compose a set of 3D layers turn on Collapse Trasformations, the Lights and the Active Camera in the Main comp will affect all of the 3D assets in the nested comps (the pre-comps). Any cameras or lights in the nested pre-comps will be ignored. 

 

This can make animting 3D transforms difficult in the nested comps if you don't plan ahead. The feature request you have made already exists and has as long as AE has had 3D layers.

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