Creating Cakes/Effects – When to use Combine as Cake vs Create Effect?

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Anyone know the answer to this question?

When I model a cake, I use “Effects>Combine as Cake” to create the cake when I am done.

Let’s now say I want to break it apart (Or any cake that is already modeled) and I am going to use each row (Or Rows) as slices. What’s the difference between selecting  “Effects> Combine as Cake” vs “Effects>Create Effect” ?  Is there really any? And I am specifically talking about doing this with multiple shots. A single shot I would just use “Effects>Create Effect”

 

Thanks…Brett

[DrewFinale]

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Hey Brett,

 

Effects > Create effect… creates a new effect with no regard for the items selected on the timeline. Any VDL you see prepopulated in the create effect dialog is simply whatever was entered last time you created an effect.

 

Effects > Combine as cake effect… specifically combines the items selected on the timeline into a new cake.

 

To make slices from an existing cake, first do Effects > Break apart cake… This opens a temporary show with cake broken into single shots. Then, select the shots in the first row and go to Effects > Combine as cake effect… To keep things organized, give the row a part number that includes the parent cake part number, plus the suffix “Row01”. For example if the parent cake is AB123, use AB123-Row01 as the part number for the cake representing the first row. Repeat the process of selecting shots for each row and combining until you’ve made cakes representing each how. Be sure to save the single-row cakes in your My Effects or somewhere else you can easily find them, then close the temporary show.

[TheFlyingPyro]

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Got it. Now I see the difference. The first time I selected the row and tried using Create Effect, it actually populated the correct VDL. Now I just tried doing the second row and the VDL didn’t change (populated old VDL as you said).

 

Anyway, I did use combine as cake, it was obvious that I should… And for naming them, I used original part # and then added a -1 or -2 etc… To represent the row I was using. Maybe I’ll Use R1 etc going fwd.

 

Thanks

 

brett

[DrewFinale]

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Glad you got it sorted out!

 

You can of course use any part numbering scheme you like as long as each part number is unique. The reason I suggested a suffix including “Row” was just in case you wanted to also break the cake into individual shots. If you broke the same cake into rows and into individual shots, you may find it useful for the part numbers to serve as a differentiator. I used “01” instead of “1” in case your cake has more than 10 rows or more than 10 effects. Since part numbers are sorted alphabetically (not numerically), the leading zero is needed to keep the part numbers in order if you have more than 9 sub-items.

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Okay, I am glad you mentioned the “01”. I knew that position naming. But didn’t realize the part #’s needed the zero too. And great point re: the Row.

Thanks!

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