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KimKvist
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November 13, 2019
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AE 17.0 no 3d ray-traced option

  • November 13, 2019
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After updating premiere to version 14.0 and after effects to 17.0, i was prompted to fix my graphics drivers for both my Nvidia quadro m2200 and intel 630.

I updated both, and Premiere is running fine now, but After Effects doesn't offer 3D ray-traced anymore.

How do i get that feature back?

My old projects doesn't work without 3D ray-traced.

    Correct answer Roland Kahlenberg

    The Ray-trace Engine was removed in AE 2020. You can use the Cinema 4D Renderer to extrude AE Text and Shape Layers. Unfortunately, not all features available in the raytracing engine is available in the C4D Renderer - but it's pretty close.

     

    You can also look into installing BOTH AE 2019 and AE 2020 on the same system. This way, you get the benefits of both world and a BIG PLUS is that AEPs are interoperable across both versions as long as the features you use are available in both versions.

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    Roland Kahlenberg
    Roland KahlenbergCorrect answer
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    November 13, 2019

    The Ray-trace Engine was removed in AE 2020. You can use the Cinema 4D Renderer to extrude AE Text and Shape Layers. Unfortunately, not all features available in the raytracing engine is available in the C4D Renderer - but it's pretty close.

     

    You can also look into installing BOTH AE 2019 and AE 2020 on the same system. This way, you get the benefits of both world and a BIG PLUS is that AEPs are interoperable across both versions as long as the features you use are available in both versions.

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      Anonymous
      November 13, 2019

      You said everything in this sentence :
      "Unfortunately, not all features available in the raytracing engine is available in the C4D Renderer"

      When you need simple but very useful functions like motion blur and depth of field, it's impossible without having to go through the extraction of 3D layers (EXR?) And go through a fake MB (CC ForceMB...)
      To this it is no longer possible to open old projects to modify them. We have to keep a verisn 2019 "just in case" ... It's a very heavy management you will agree.

        Roland Kahlenberg
        Roland Kahlenberg
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        November 13, 2019

        Lots of AE users have multiple versions of AE installed. It's a case of setting up our systems to cater to issues beyond our control. You also have the prerogative to send in a request to bring back the raytracer or update the C4D render such that it has identical or better features than the raytracer.

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        Anonymous
        November 13, 2019

        Hello.
        Fixing yout grahics driver is useless : Adobe simply decided to remove the 3D Ray Trace rendering engine.
        personally I consider it a gigantic step back, because being forced to go through C4D for a simple deformatin layer with motion blur and a little depth of field is a monumental idiocy. Why make easy when we can do very complicated ??

        If it hurts you, adobe, let people choose to use 3D rendering by raytracing but do not remove it like that without saying anything ... I'm not about to update my 2019 version and I know a lot of graphic designers in france who are in this case ...

          Sterphy
          Sterphy
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          May 13, 2020

          All of 2020 is a step back. 

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