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Divine_fan5E78
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September 26, 2021
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Precome collapse trasformation with 3D object and adjustment layers that contains effects

  • September 26, 2021
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Hey, I made a 3D cube today with solids and grids. After I finished building the cube, I pre-composed it and made two adjusments layers on it to make a chrome effect to the grid. Then, I pre-composed the cube with the adjusments layers and took it to the main composition where I have a pre-comp background that it made of two Ps files. I want the background and the cube to interact in a 3D environment, so I pressed the collapse transformation button on the 3D layer, but the problem is that when I do that is that the whole composition takes the effects of the adjustment layers, including the background. Is there a way I can use the effects applying only on the cube and not on the whole main composition with the collapse transfomation on? 

 

Hope you can help and thank you in advance

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Rick GerardCommunity Expert
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September 26, 2021

An embedded flowchart of your project would help diagnose the problem. I suspect that you have adjustment layers in the wrong place and collapsing transformations is fouling up the rendering order. Generally, I try to avoid adjustment layers in nested 3D comps. 

 

If you put a 2D layer on top of a bunch of 3D layers in any comp the 2D layer will hide the 3D layers because it is on top. If your adjustment layer in the nested comp is above all layer then when you collapse transformations in the Main comp the adjustment layer is now on top of all layers in the Main comp below the nested comp (pre-comp). This makes perfect sense. The logical thing to do would be to copy all effects on the Adjustment layer, remove the adjustment layer, move to the Nested comp (pre-comp) in your main comp, and paste the effects there. You have eliminated the problem adjustment layer but still applied all of the same effects.

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