Friday, 2 December 2011

3D TEXT IN AFTER EFFECTS


If you are wondering why AE is suddenly brighter, it's because I got bored of the grey to boosted the brightness. Anyway, I discovered after watching a Video Copilot tutorial how to make 3D text on AE! To do it, you need to make the text layer, then make it a 3D layer. Add a null object, call it 'Control' and put on an effect called 'Slider Control' from the 'Expression controls' tab. Next, make a top layer - duplicate it, and bring up the position for the lower layer.

Alt click on the position, and type in the following expression; 'value+[0,0,index*thisComp.layer("Control").effect("Slider Control")("Slider")]'. or you can type 'value+[0,0', then pigwip the position to the slider control effect on the null. This will do the expression for you... then make sure you close the expression with another ']'. Dulicate these layers however many times you wish - the more layers, the moer depth.

Finally click on the null, look at the slider number and type in '1' or higher, this will send the layers back in Z space and make the text 3D. And if all that sounds a bit jargony, Video Copilot's explanation here makes it much more easy to understand... I think


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