ORMOUSLY... (specially when camera is near of the afected layer). Is this normal? I'm using this effect to get animable line width effects, but with a lot of layers and camera/layers movement near & rear the render becomes impossible... can I do something to avoid this? Will this feature improve in the future? I'd like to know because I must take decissions about how can I do my work, THANK YOU in advance!A Question about Shadow/Shading Layer effect and Render...
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A Question about Shadow/Shading Layer effect and Render...
HI! When I use Expansion (in Shadow Effect) or Contraction (in Shading), even with low values like 4 or 6, the time render increaaase ENO ORMOUSLY... (specially when camera is near of the afected layer). Is this normal? I'm using this effect to get animable line width effects, but with a lot of layers and camera/layers movement near & rear the render becomes impossible... can I do something to avoid this? Will this feature improve in the future? I'd like to know because I must take decissions about how can I do my work, THANK YOU in advance!
ORMOUSLY... (specially when camera is near of the afected layer). Is this normal? I'm using this effect to get animable line width effects, but with a lot of layers and camera/layers movement near & rear the render becomes impossible... can I do something to avoid this? Will this feature improve in the future? I'd like to know because I must take decissions about how can I do my work, THANK YOU in advance!Short answer; yes, this is normal.
Longer answer; I figure it's because shadow and shading have to render alpha information for calculating accurate transparency, that means analyzing the frame and that takes time.
I don't know how you want to animate your line effects but one thing I can think of instead of using the outline function use solid fills for outlines. So if you have a pink circle for a face add a slightly bigger black circle behind it as an outline. You can resize that over time. This applies to any shape. A solid filled shape with a bigger black copy behind it for an outline. That could work, depending on your character design.
Good luck,
Reindert.
www.nobudgetvideo.com
Longer answer; I figure it's because shadow and shading have to render alpha information for calculating accurate transparency, that means analyzing the frame and that takes time.
I don't know how you want to animate your line effects but one thing I can think of instead of using the outline function use solid fills for outlines. So if you have a pink circle for a face add a slightly bigger black circle behind it as an outline. You can resize that over time. This applies to any shape. A solid filled shape with a bigger black copy behind it for an outline. That could work, depending on your character design.
Good luck,
Reindert.
www.nobudgetvideo.com
THANK YOU! Your advices are welcome nobudget, but there was another important reasons (apart of animate line width) for that I must use Layer Shadow with Expansion, but I don't know how explain... Double shapes is a possiblity that I considered in the past, yes, but I don't like works in that way because the animation is complicated after (believe me) and working with Switch Layers Interpolation all the time (or almost), like I do, I must work only with the ESSENTIAL points (only). Maybe, if LM can't do something with this effects, the solution would be update my PC... Thankx again and *CIAO*