From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 14 Shape Layers
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Material options (new in CS6) - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 14 Shape Layers
Material options (new in CS6)
In the previous movie we extruded and beveled our shape layer. In this movie we're going to make it far more interesting by playing around with its transparency and reflectivity. Transparency is how you make an object appear to be made out of, say, acrylic or glass. As I increase Transparency, you will see through the faces of the shape layer to the back surfaces, the back bevels, and the environment layer behind everything. When you make something transparent, it can be hard to make out the shape, because the more transparent you go, the less diffuse color you can see. All I have here are the specular highlights to make out the shape of the layer. So I tend to balance these off by having a little bit less transparency, just to have a little bit of body there, but also by increasing Transparency Rolloff. This parameter affects how transparent the object is based on what angle you're viewing that particular surface. As I increase it, you'll see the surfaces that are at angles, like…
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