You should see in the Anime Studio file that I shared, that everything was created within the program, i.e. no imported objects. I'm afraid that I lack the Anime Studio experience to distinguish native from imported 3D objects :) I see that the cars are indeed assembled from quite a number of 2D- e...

(...) it would be best to try another option: http://www.animestudiotutor.com/link/272/ Feel free to download and adapt to your needs. When opening the file in AS11 it generated an error message: Could not open file. Error details: Bad file header: PK The downloaded file is named shared_file_233_1....

Another option would be to create the cars a little differently. The extrude option doesn't always produce the results you expect. I tried to fix your file but decided it would be best to try another option: http://www.animestudiotutor.com/link/272/ Feel free to download and adapt to your needs. Th...

Yeah, I saw that your image with the tram had that as the top layer, so I tried that with a car and that is the only one to render in color. As a kludge, you might try rendering a separate pass for each car, and comping them together. Just checked, and as long as they are at the top, not in a group...

I remember, years ago I had a problem with images rendered only in black and white instead of colour. That was caused by nested masking. But I think there's no masking involved in this scene? Hi Slowtiger, no, I haven't used any masking. I remember I had similar problems many years ago, when workin...

Alas, none of the render formats made a difference. I also tried with the GPU Acceleration option in the "Display Quality" workspace pop-up checked and unchecked, though I think it's not supposed to influence the rendering anyhow. I sent a mail to technical support about the missing "...

If you could provide an example file that shows the problem, we'd have much better luck figuring it out. It's just much easier to figure out what not to do rather than guessing at what you did do to achieve that result. Hi Synthsin, thanks! I'm now looking into the suggestion made by jezjones29. If...

Here's a short rendering of the animation, at half frame rate / size, but it's clear enough:



I still haven't found any clue what causes those cars to show up like that. It's definitely annoying my socks off that I can't figure this out.
Any clues, anyone?

hi, I'm having another puzzling issue in relation with 3D extruded layers (the first one had to do with a bug in multithreaded rendering of 3D extruded layers here ). It's in a scene of someone riding through a street on a scooter, seen from the perspective of that person. I had experimented a littl...

Have you tried to rotate the chimneys 90°? It's just a guess, but maybe the direction of extrusion matters. I wouldn't know how to do that because the chimneys are on the same layer as the rest of the house ... I think I can only the layer as a whole in 3D. Anyhow, it seems to be the multithreading...

I can`t try it out now, but I`ll check how are the windows placed on Z, in comparison with other extruded elements/objects. Hi Meastral, I think they are placed on the same Z depth: the whole house block is originally a 2D layer which is 3D-extruded as a whole. The 2D-version that I placed in front...

Did you test with one core? Hi Jezjones, I just did, and indeed! Rendering with one core solves the problem. It seems the problem only affects the 3D extruded layer, not the 2D one. I also noticed that only one every four frames looks right - multithreaded rendering seems to deploy four threads on ...

I copied one of the 3D extruded blocks to a new file to see if the problem would show up more clearly. It does; it shows up only in the final render - not in a frame preview nor an animation preview. The rendered animation shows (besides the z-fighting, but that's not what puzzles me ...) how some o...

Thanks everyone! I'll follow your suggestions and report back.

hi, I'm trying to create a background for a traffic street scene, as seen from the pov of someone riding a motorbike. To accomplish the visual perspective of moving through the street I thought it might work to draw blocks of houses, extrude them to 3D layers and rotating them 90 degrees so they wou...