I have screen shots of an effects problem I’m having. I can’t seem to shadow anything nor make it transparent.
I have a walking character and was trying to set a drop shadow effect to walk with the character but that is not happening. The shadow layer is still full colour with a shadow effect around it. It seems none of my effects work as advertised.
To illustrate, look at the screen shots. I have a red square set to 75 transparency. It is not transparent at all. I have a shadow effect on my yellow circle but the entire circle is supposed to be shadow. This circle has a shadow around it.
What’s wrong here? Can anyone advise me?
Thank you.
P.S. I duplicated the circle, added a Quadmap and parented them to a shadow effect. Why is the Quadmapped drop shadow circle still yellow? Where is the shadow? (see EffectsNotWorking3 attachment)
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Okay I managed to fix the problem.
Here is a snapshot of how I got it to work. look at EffectWorking.png
Tweaky, tweaky, tweaky.
As you can see both the transparency and the shadow effects work just fine.
What did I do wrong? Have to look at the before and afters to figure it out.
Image or drawing outputs into the effect and the effect in turn must output into the composite. DRAWING>EFFECT>COMPOSITE
If it’s a shadow effect moving in conjunction with a drawing then add a quadmap layer in the following order: QUADMAP>DRAWING DUPLICATE>SHADOW>COMPOSITE.
sigh Live and learn.