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AdamS0913
AdamS0913
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January 8, 2019
Question

After Effects 3D positioning not working

  • January 8, 2019
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I am having an issue with a little after effects video I am working on. In my After Effects file I have two Illustrator files that change positions by way of the Z axis, and it worked at first. I had 3D layers selected on both objects and everything. In the video I have one object remain stationary, while the other object moves from behind to the front. Then I open the illustration of the layer that is moving, and remove the stroke I had around the illustration. When I return the the After Effects file, the 3D positioning stops working. The layer that had previously gone from the back to the front, now just stays in the background. I check the layers panel, and 3D layers is still selected on both Illustrator files. I then check their positions and the object in the background should be moving to the foreground, but it doesn't.

I did some research on my own, and the only thing I could find was that layer styles could be affecting the 3D positioning. That couldn't be it because I'm not using Photoshop files, and I don't have any layer styles on my Illustrator files. I then check my After Effects version to see if there were any updates, and I am on the lates one. Could this be a bug? I'm not sure why removing a stroke from my Illustrator document would keep 3D positioning from working in After Effects.

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Mylenium
Mylenium
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January 9, 2019

Impossible to say. You've written a lot, but not really given us anything to work with like exact version and system info, screenshots, details about settings and so on. That aside, start by flushing your AE caches and see if it forces the program to update correctly.

Mylenium

AdamS0913
AdamS0913Author
Participant
January 9, 2019

I am running After Effects CC version 16.0.1 (Build 48) on macOS High Sierra version 10.13.5. I tried flushing my AE caches, and that did not resolve the problem.

I did find a work around that produced the same result I am looking for. I simply duplicated the layer in question, placing it first in the layers panel, and then switching opacity from 0% to 100% when I want the layer to switch to the foreground.

That being said, After Effects is a rather large and complicated program compared to other Adobe software. I could have a setting selected that is causing the issue and not know about it. I just found it odd that 3D positioning worked perfectly fine until I removed the stroke from the Illustrator document I was linking to.

Rameez_Khan
Rameez_Khan
Legend
January 14, 2019

Thanks for sharing the workaround, AdamS0913!

I'll also check the bug database to find out if this is a bug.

Thanks,

Rameez

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