Problems with Fixed Transparency on Vector Shapes

I've been having the same issue, and I've figured it out.

Open up the shape, and open CONTENTS. You'll see all the different GROUPS there. These are each of your elements.

Zoom into them in the comp and look at each one of the pieces. You're looking for parts that look like they might be disconnected on the elements that are not filled in.

Reconnect them with the pen tool by clicking one side of the opening and then the other. Repeat for all the pieces that are not filling in and that should fix your problem.

samuelm,

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Thanks,
Kevin

It's quite common that AE incorporates AI's Artboard which becomes merged with the vector segments. This results in AE inadvertently applying a Shape Layer Merge Operator when it isn't needed. So ... as suggested, dig into the various Shape Layer Groups - solo each group by switching off the eyeball for the other Groups. Then disable the Merge Operator while you begin to identify which Path (within the Group) should be disabled, permanently.

First question: Why are you converting to shape layers? There are only three reasons to do so.

• you want to extrude the layer using the Ray-traced or C4D rendering engine
• you intend to use the shape layer animators available under the add button
• you intend to edit the actual vector paths

If you are not going to do any of those things converting vector layers to a shape layer is a waste of time. You also lose things like gradients, gradients on strokes, and a bunch of other very useful features available in AI.

Second question: How did you prepare the illustrator files? Complicated objects that are intended to be converted to shape layers should be simplified before importing into AE. Depending on the artwork you can use tools like Expand Appearance to do this. Any stroke that has had a brush applied will be converted to a filled shape. If you really need to convert the artwork to shape layers then you'll have to go back into illustrator and simplify the appearance until they work in AE.

You may need to dig into the shape layer a bit and rearrange some things.
Cntl/Cmd+click the main layer twirly, and it will reveal EVERYTHING.

You might try just grabbing the paths within the other shape groups, and putting them all into one. For your shape, I suspect that's all it'll take. This'll also mean you've only got one fill effect to worry about changing now, instead of multiple.