Element 3d and saber on object.

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January 22, 2022
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Hello all,

Is there a way to apply the saber effect to an object extruded in element 3d.

I tried doing this with a texture layed out over the object but it doesnt seem to work.

What is the best way to achieve this?

Thanks

How to

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Mylenium

Legend

Entirely depends on what specific look you want, but of course working with 3D objects and textures is its own exercise since you may need to genuinely model stuff to get consistent UV coordinates. If you merely want the text's outermost contours, it would be best to work with duplicate pre-compositions that provide these contours as plain black & white mattes or transparency and then can be treated further with applying the effects in the parent comp or in a worst case scenario doing an auto-trace to provide mask paths for plug-ins such as Saber...

Mylenium

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SupRichie227695353ostAuthor

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i want the saber effect shown here

on the card shown here, but when i do get it using a seperate mask it shows trough the whole card.

would this work with the 3d camera tracker ?

thanks

ShiveringCactus

Community Expert

I think you will have to use a separate layer for the Saber effect, set in 3D space. The clever thing about Element though is you can generate a 3D Null object and use that as a parent for your Saber 3D layer. In terms of it appearing in front and behind the "tablet", you just need to place one Saber layer above the Element layer in the Timeline and another below - but trim the top layer when the object rotates.

But there is a second approach, if you find this easier to follow:

Add your 2D saber layer to the Custom Texture Maps (in Custom Layers). Make sure to set Effects & Masks too
Then in Element's Scene Set up add create a Material which uses this custom texture. You can then add this to your object both front and back.

The benefit of this approach is it is easier to spin your object about, the downside of this approach is you lose a bit of control over the final object as the saber effect is sort-of baked into the 3D object.