How To Light Your VFX Elements Using Normal Pass | ActionVFX Quick Tips

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[@beachchickensmedia]

This is absolutely amazing. Ive been using after effects for 10 years and i just learned about this.

[@struwepeter]

Damn, that was a mindblow! Really great tutorial!

[@bestplanetever6048]

Mind-blowing! I usually see these for Nuke so I didn't think of these in AE. Pushes me to use EXR!

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[@jenniferwhite632]

Thanks a lot for your video :)

[@RedFocusEntertainment]

thank you for this! I have been wondering how to work with the exr files!

[@ActionVFXofficial]

Glad we could help!

[@EMNM66]

Is there a possibility to make tutorials for davinci resolve too?

[@梁超-c3h]

Does the 2k file contain normol pass? I only see open EXR in 4k files

[@ActionVFXofficial]

Thanks for the question! Generally, we only include EXR files inside of the "Pro" version of the effect. That being said, there are some collections that include EXR in the 2k version which would be: Ground Bursts, Exploding Debris Vol. 1, Large Scale Smoke Plumes Vol. 1.

[@Utsab_Giri]

Yeah, but how are you creating these Normal maps?

[@AeBlues]

it's rendered from the 3D App. in the render settings you can add a normal map pass

[@convexvfx]

@@AeBlues nope. You needs to build it as a custom shader. As standard, volumes don't have normals. Nor do they have depth information. Both need to be created manually unfortunately.