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You may have noticed the warning when you enabled the C4D rendering engine that told you that blend modes, effects, and a bunch of other things are disabled for 3D layers.
That means you either have to animate the actual shape instead of adding Radial Wipe to the layer or figure out a way to get what you want using the Classic 3D rendering option.
If I wanted to use the C4D rendering option I would just lose the fill, add a stroke big enough to fill the circle, then add Trim Paths. If the s
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You may have noticed the warning when you enabled the C4D rendering engine that told you that blend modes, effects, and a bunch of other things are disabled for 3D layers.
That means you either have to animate the actual shape instead of adding Radial Wipe to the layer or figure out a way to get what you want using the Classic 3D rendering option.
If I wanted to use the C4D rendering option I would just lose the fill, add a stroke big enough to fill the circle, then add Trim Paths. If the stroke matches the size of the ellipse you can easily get an expanding pie shape.
Another option is to animate the shape, set up your camera and lights, then export the Classic 3D comp as a C4D file, Import the C4D file into AE, add it to the timeline, and use the Cinema 4D Lite to adjust your extrusion, texture it, and add it to your comp. That would be my workflow if I wanted more control over the animated shape layer. You can do a lot more with textures and everything else if you go that way.
A third option is to just stack up layers offsetting each copy in Z space, then parenting them all to the top layer and keep everything Classic 3D.
One last option, use Element 3D to create the animation. It is a very powerful 3rd party plug-in that is almost as powerful as a dedicated 3D app, interacts with AE's lights and cameras, and offers you a great deal of creative control.
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