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June 15, 2021
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Black dots after 3d render

  • June 15, 2021
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I'm having trouble figuring out how to fix this issue I have. Everytime I use stroke or drop shadow and begin rendering the 3D layer, I get these black dots that appear. How can I get rid of them and fix the issue? Thanks.

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    Correct answer davescm

    if i turn off the effects the dots do go away. any way to keep them on without the dots appearing?


    Try turning off groundplane shadows in Environment Properties (it looks like you are not making use of them anyway).

    If that does not help, can you post a link to the file and I'll take a look at it

     

    Dave

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    davescm
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    davescmCommunity Expert
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    June 15, 2021

    From your screenshot without seeing the layers panel, no-one is going to be able to tell you much.

    Dave

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      jstuAuthor
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      davescm
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      davescmCommunity Expert
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      June 15, 2021

      that did the trick! thanks. why would that be the issue? for the future what would i do to prevent that?


      Shadows are a soft, graduated effect that may hardly be visible. They appear against the transparency so that the shadow would appear on a background image helping the 3D object to "sit" in that image.

      However by adding those layer effects which included a stroke, then any pixel that was not fully transparent will have been given a stroke. So instead of looking soft, they appear as hard edged objects. By turning the shadows off, then you just have the 3D text ensuring that the layer effects are only applied to the text.

      In future, just turn of the ground plane shadows unless you intend to actually use them in your composite (in which case you would need to avoid the layer effects) or you could  duplicate the 3D layer - one for the groundplane shadows and the other without groundplane  shadows for the layer effects.

       

      Dave

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