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LARV
LARV
Inspiring
January 31, 2018
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All shadows in 3d project suddenly disappears when a text layer starts

  • January 31, 2018
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Hello,

I´ve searched and not managed to find any thread on this problem.

I have a scene in 3d with a camera and light. There´re shadows that work correct and logically. The camera is moving around. No problem with anything really apart from one major thing that seems to happen for no reason - on a specific frame ALL shadows disappears. This happens on the first frame when a textlayer starts. If I remove the text layer all the shadows return.

I need to know what´s going on, can someone help me?

Thank you.

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    Correct answer LARV

    There are shadows under the photos and under the book, but it might be hard to see in the screenshots. But they are there.


    Jesus Christ... I tried moving the layers higher upp in the hierarchy and the shadows came back.

    Fixed it. Thanks anyway!

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    Mylenium
    Mylenium
    Legend
    January 31, 2018

    Well, is the text layer actually 3D? Does it have a layer style or effect applied? A lot of these things can simply break 3D rendering order. In such a case you may need to pre-compose and use the resulting comp as a 3D layer (without continuous rasterization) to obtain a correct result.

    Mylenium

      LARV
      LARVAuthor
      Inspiring
      January 31, 2018

      Thank you Mylenium, I removed the outer glow effect and the typewriter effect, precomposed it and clicked the 3d box. All the shadows now returned.

      But I tried applying the outer glow to the precomp instead, but then the shadows disappeared again. Does this mean I can´t have my 3d text with outer glow and typewriter effect?

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