Element 3D V2 Update 2.0.X
December 6th, 2014

Element 3D V2 just came out this weekand we've already been working with customers to make the plug-in better with this latest patch! Big Shout out to our development teamfor the fast turnaround!

Check out Element 3D V2:
Visit Online Store!

Customers who have purchased V2:
Loginand download V2.0.2 Patch!

PATCH DETAILS:

  • Mac firePro GPU Support
  • Fixed UI preview.
  • Fixed Error on Scene Setup
  • Fixed incorrect texture sizes on retina Macs.
  • Fixed incorrect Aux channel position on sub meshes.
  • Fixed Scene Setup on Windows 7 without SP1.
  • Fixed wrong VRAM display on Mac.
  • Fixed crash on comp with over 8 lights.
  • Fixed texture size warning
  • Fixed Model Search on Mac

In version 2, we've added a ton of new features, like Shadows and dynamic reflection maps and even deform options! I'm working on several tutorials for next week now that I finally got a full night sleep! Until then you can check our E3D V2 help files to guideyou onyour way!

Customer Support:
As always, if you have any support questions please contact us so we can help you! We're dedicated to making the plug-in work for you!
Support Contact

Andrew Kramer
POSTED:
11 years ago
75 Comments
Chris Dixon
6 years ago
I HAVE Intel(R) Graphics 630 and ive ipdated my graphics driver 5 TIMES!!!!! PLZ FIX!
8 years ago
The best plugin that u ever shared.
10 years ago
I love this plugin so much!
Hello, you have a good site is very charming and lovely You Are
PEDRO
10 years ago
WILL WORK Good Geforce Nvidia Gtx980 4gb Ddr 5 with 1.6 & 2.0? someone have the videocard and element, Thanks
PEDRO
10 years ago
Hi, I want to know if I uninstall version 1.6 and install this 2.0, the project will not have problems to recognize
Cliff
10 years ago
Andrew, Where are the rigging controls in E3D V.2 ? Are they even there?
Thanks
Vinusha
10 years ago
Hi I'm working with an on-board VGA of 1GB. Whenever I open the scene setup I can't see the grid preview. It is just grey. i tried creating new objects and all but still it's the same. Help me please.
Sa'id
10 years ago
Does anyone know how to find the rigging controls for Jetstrike Models in Element 3D v2 Must say not impressed that they are not available as they were in version 1 of 3D
Connor
10 years ago
Hi everyone,

I'm bit stumped really. My after effects is crashing every time I attempt to create a custom particle replicator from a 3D object. Any ideas, it's really frustrating me...
Dario
10 years ago
I need urgent answer...
Nvidia GTX760, 2 GB ---> this card is supported to work with Jet Strike pack and Metropolitan pack, or not?

Thanks in advance,
With respect,
Dario Kralik
Josiah
10 years ago
So I imported my own .obj into Element, and tried to apply some of the pro-shaders to the model. The interesting thing is that the color of the pro-shader is applied to the model, but the texture is not. Does anyone have a solution/explanation?
Danilo
10 years ago
Hi, my name is Danilo, I'm brazilian.
Hey man, I would know...
Can I create my own custom material in 3Ds Max or C4D and import it in E3D?
If yes... How I do that???

Sorry if I wrote something wrong.
Danilo
10 years ago
I would like to know*

kkkkkk Sorry!!!
Sean
10 years ago
Made with Element 3D v2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUZs2ebbV2s
; )
Muhsen
10 years ago
Cool!
AncientWeapons&HokeyReligions
10 years ago
Huh, so the ball thingy in the "BackLight" demo with backgrounds that look like a Death Star hallway is called a "trophy"? Interesting.

Kinda looks this thingy: https://www.google.com/search?q=star+wars+lightsaber+practice+droid&source=lnms&tbm=isch

Probably just a coincidence - it's not like you work w/J.J. Abrams or anything! That would be... crazy.

BTW, does the Motion Design 2 pack include R2D2's head on a soccer ball? Seems like a good candidate for multi-object animation

Upgrading soon & looking fwd to it! Great work as always!
Peter
10 years ago
Great now we r just waiting for the car pack wev seen so much of already. I know they're bussy but wev been seeing car models for a while now and more so with this release. It's make a lot of sense to release it before a Christmas I know im getting v2 bundle for Christmas and if the car pack were out I'd be able to get it in stead of backlight or something. They'd make a lot more sales of they released by Christmas
Steffen
10 years ago
New update for Element3D V2, is v2.0.5
and what improvements are in v2.0.5
ShahabG
11 years ago
Mr AK. Do you have any future plans of making available rigid body feature inside of Element 3D?
Dave
11 years ago
HI Andrew, I'm about to upgrade from E3D v1, do I have to buy pro shaders again or will my v1 pro shaders work ok ?
11 years ago
Hey Guys,
when i create a room with 4 plane-primitives for example, the right and the top "walls" dont't render properly. Not in AE self and not in the Element-UI. Maybe a bug or misused?? Thx.

System:
AE CS6
ELEMENT V2.0.2
MAC OSX YOSEMITE
GeForce 675MX

Greetings,
Carsten.
fernando
11 years ago
Hi Andrew

I think if is possible to add a obj group exporter. The element v2 is awesome to build compex scenes in a minute, to visualize the final result and render BUT. My problem is i want to make a smoke simulation in 3dsmax and i can't export my mesh for the colider .Is that possible?

Sorry for my spanish-english. i know, its terrible.
Stephen
11 years ago
Thank you for your amazing quick response on support, you guys really look after the community like no other company. Would be great to be able to select dof to toggle off and on for particular groups as opposed to globally and to also be able to create a positional null for auxiliary channels also. secondary positional control. Amazing work guys!!
6 years ago
I agree, amazing support.
DJ Dixon
11 years ago
Hey guys,

Loving the looks of the update. I had a question to anyone with experience with gfx cards, I'm near a local computer store that has Geo Force GT 610 and 740 cards and a Radeon HD 6450 for reasonable prices, and I was wondering if any of those would be able to suitable handle Element 3D v2? Thanks in advance to any answers.
11 years ago
I felt good because it is a special product. it has sold very well.
BrianP
11 years ago
Is there a way to parent the multiple sections of the hinges together in Motion Design2 so they work together? Right now, when I rotate a lower pivot point, the top of the hinge doesn't follow, it just floats in space. Kind of defeats the purpose of having multiple pivot points and only able to use one per model.
11 years ago
Have extruded a circle from a mask. Extruded it, and there's quote a few straight lines if you know what I mean, can I increase the smoothness?
faraidoon
11 years ago
I usually use 1.6 element but now there is an element 2 and i want to buy it . my problem is that my account is visa cart while your site deals with bybal and i am from Kurdistan - Iraq, so i want you tell me how i can buy element 2 all item . is the one which written the first bank complete ie does it it cosist of all the below parts ?
Ajay
11 years ago
Hi Andrew, What's d CPU u have? could u plz mention ur PC config?
Thanks
11 years ago
So Im Going to buy E3D v2 and i Have v1 and pro shaders But i dont have the motion design pack im looking to buy the upgrade edition of the motion design bundle. Do i have to own E3d V1 and motion design v1 or is the upgrade thing only for Element?
11 years ago
We are offering a discount for Element 3D V1. All the other packs are completely new.
Steffen
11 years ago
if you bought E3D v1 and thus are a buyer then you can buy the Motion Design Bundle v2 as an upgrade
Peter
11 years ago
ok thanks
Zac
11 years ago
Where do they get the 3d models like the space ship (super space ship) in the video when they first showed E3D V2?
CK
11 years ago
Dear Mr. Kramer,
Why not prepared tutorial? I bought but have not yet created a project.
Cory
11 years ago
Looking for some help here. I extruded some geometry from a mask layer, and for some reason it continually renders with black patches randomly appearing on the surface of the mesh. I have tweaked sampling and all kinds of other parameters and I can't seem to get rid of it... Turning up the sampling actually makes the problem worse. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm using two GTX 780TI cards which is on the approved list of GPU support.
Matte
11 years ago
Does it Work with Hitfilm 3? and I can also use Microsoft Kinect in Element 3D V2? Or it comes in Version 2.1
Michael
11 years ago
WOW !!! It feels good, I've been drooling over these products, and to finally be part of this family... Merry Christmas to myself!!, and to you Andrew and the team.
11 years ago
Great stuff with Element 2! Thx a lot AK for all your work !
Test of the week: https://vimeo.com/113908463
Rendered in 2h.
MDMotion
11 years ago
Am I right in assuming that SSS requires shadow-casting lights, AND that they have to be shadow-maps? (Getting no results using RT), Thanks...
11 years ago
That is correct!
cfs
11 years ago
thanks VC

i'm having too much fun with E3DV2.

i think backlight is having some problem with SSS materials, not sure what causing it, suspecting the SSS. Environment light keeps going off in final render / when exit the E3D2 window.
( windows 8 + AECC + nvidia gtx970 )
11 years ago
Be sure to send support an email so we can look into it!
David Jolosky
11 years ago
Patch didn't take. Got a crash on the plug after the patch applied. Downloaded the full install again and all is well.

MAC Mavericks AECC2014

Just FYI for anyone who had an issue with the patch.

Great product just keeps getting greater!
11 years ago
Great Plug-In so Far. Working through a couple bugs which I submitted already to support. Cant wait for Future updates to see where we can take this Plug-In. My wishlist would be able to create a mask of the element without having to precompose the whole scene so I can use optical flares a little easier with it. Also include Metalness maps in the PBR, but I can live without that for a while.

Keep up the Great Work, here's my results playing with it this weekend. http://youtu.be/a-xcJEpCgGU
11 years ago
For the Physical Shaders, the reflection map can be used like the metalness. You can have colored maps here as well.
11 years ago
Thanks Andrew, I'll try that. Still little new to PBR workflow. Seems every software calls these maps something a little different. I.E. Albedo/Diffuse Roughness/Glossiness Metalness/Reflectivity and so on.

Thanks for You and Your Teams Hard Work.
chris
11 years ago
are you going to make this available for hitfilm 3
Sal C
11 years ago
Working with Element V2 with a Metropolitan 3D scene which crashes every time during rendering at 16bit, but seems to be currently rendering fine at 8. I'm working with a Macbook Pro 2.6Ghz Intel Core i7 NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M. Am I doomed to live with this limitation?
Steve J
11 years ago
Is there a way of viewing all groups at once in the 3D viewer? When I switch from one object to another it deselects and hides them, unless they're in the same group. Shift or cmd-clicking Groups for visibility would be really useful.
11 years ago
Think of it as having different 3D scenes open. They all use their own 3D world if they are inside the same group folder. If you want to see multiple objects at the same time, drag them inside of a group folder.
Nashus
10 years ago
I would like this too, as I may want to move something separately to something else, therefore having it as a different group number, but i'd like to see everything, still
10 years ago
@Nashus: I agree... It would be helpful if there was a virtual projection of a other folders in your seen, but the only way to move them is through selecting that folder. But in @Andrew Kramer's defense, I can only image the amount of RAM that could take, especially if the consumer based falls beneath the allowable feature spec. @Andrew, keep up the good work! Look forward to seeing what you come up with!
Holt
11 years ago
Will Element 3D V2 be run well on a early 2009 iMac with a NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256 MB graphics card?
Lasse Bauer
11 years ago
Holt, check out the recommended/min. requirement GPU list at the bottom of the Element 3d V2 product page.
256MB is very little if you want to run E3D smoothly, and I?m not even sure it will be easy to work with at 256MB.
Especially the textures can take quite a bit of memory, and if you want to do heavier lifting (e.g. raytracing or just adding several heavy elements), you'll be underpowered quickly.
I strongly recommend getting a decent GPU - it?s a small investment that will yield a lot of creative fun and minimize your frustrations. Plus it takes a nice GPU to unleash E3D?s full potential (even if E3D is relatively kind on your GPU).
Hope this helps
brian
11 years ago
Dude i have GTX 680 and memory bandwidth is 10 times faster than your's and i am thinking to upgrade to GTX 780 or 980.If you wanna run E3D make sure you have atleast 2 GB Nvidia or AMD and GTX is best
Holt
11 years ago
Thanks for letting me know!
Jonathan Dowler
11 years ago
I love this plugin so much! Thanks so much VC team!
11 years ago
Notes for a future version of Element 3D V2:
More Deform options like Warp, Wave, Shear, et al
Separate X,Y,Z scaling in Aux animation

That is, if these are feasible additions
francis
11 years ago
hey andrew, Was better before releasing the product you've fixed the problems !?, after 4 days ... !!? but your work is good.
11 years ago
Most of these updates are to improve compatibility for more Graphics Cards that do not have access to the latest drivers like on OSX. And some minor UI tweaks.

For instance, the exact same GPU on Windows works fine but on Mac it has out of date drivers released by Apple so our code has to be adjusted to fix something that is not necessarily broken.

Most companies like to wait to fix bugs after a month or two but we don't want our customers to wait for better software.

In the end, we just want our software to work great and we will do whatever we have to keep updating it!
11 years ago
Is there no Replicator Array option in the new Element? In version 1, there are those 2 icons on the layer where you could set the object to "Atom Particle" and "Replicator Array." I'm not seeing an option for that in V2
Pacaworks
11 years ago
Hey Logan!

The Group Number drop-down selection has an icon at the right that toggles between this two states.
Logan
11 years ago
perfect! thank you for your help!
kim
11 years ago
Element v2 ... i want mask animation !!
But custom mask object(element) is not realtime render
I rememver it was possible element mask animation v1.6 ele
Lord Edington
11 years ago
I've always had rough balls when using Element 3D V1. Even when using the HD Sphere model in the primitives, you can see it's not a perfect sphere when you get really close.

Will Element 3D V2 ensure I have smooth balls every time?
11 years ago
While I sense that this is a sarcastic post (I've seen your other posts). There is a serious answer to that question.

V2 allows you to create your own primitives, complete with segment amounts and subdivision... So yes, you can be sure that your balls with always be smooth with E3DV2
Christoffer
11 years ago
Is there a way to convert old model packs to physical shaders? I have the metropolitan pack, but it's really tedious to convert them all one after another and I'm not really sure the result is any better without tremendous tweaking.
hussain
11 years ago
hey,
how to enable the mesh visibly for the JetStrike in EL3D V2.0.2 ?
I cant find the rig control either in the Element interface !!
but rigs are available in the effects under the groups.
so Im doing some thing wrong or you just not supporting them in the V2 ?
Lars
11 years ago
I really wonder if anyone gets the ERROR CODE 7 with raytraced shadows... I have one Object with little less than 1 mio polys and raytraced shadows on. full RAM preview is no problem to render but when I add it to the render queue it gives me almost instantly a timeout limit error which says that the workload is just too much for my card to process in the 2 seconds of the timeout limit... come on I have a Quadro K4000. How can this be the case? I can render ridiculously complex scenes with my shitty CPU (takes days) and there is no error but my high end card is too bad to do this medium job?
Increasing the timeout limit to 8 seconds doesn't help... anyone else with this problem??
Lars
11 years ago
so I somehow imported the wrong .obj and my card had to deal with about 2.4 mio polys

I know the development of GPU rendering is not on the same level as CPU rendering and maybe I am just angry that I couldn't educate myself a little more before buying the card.

oh well... I will deal with it and stop blaming Element! Thank you for the software VC. Without it I wouldn't be able to render anything with my card.
Torsten
11 years ago
I don't get any shadows in shadow mapping mode. Switching to Ray-Traced all is perfect, but in shadow mapping mode there are no shadows at all. Am I missing any settings I have to switch on?
Stephen
11 years ago
Shadow mapping only works with Parallell and spotlights. Raytraced shadows works with all lights including point lights.
Torsten
11 years ago
Well, kinda "works" With exchanged lights to Parallel and Spotlights the graphiccard driver crashes and AE with it.

Setup:
AE CS6
AMD 6100 SixCore with Win7
nVidia GeForce GTX 750Ti 2GB (DriverVersion 344.75)
Samuli
10 years ago
Shadow mapping doesn't work at all for me either.. Not with spot lights or parallel lights! Ray Traced works fine but when i switch to shadow mapping, the shadows disappear..

iMac AE CC2014
AMD Radeon HD 6970M, 2048 Mt
OS X Yosemite 10.10.1
VICTOR PETROV
11 years ago
READ THIS, I ENCOUNTERED A PROBLEM THAT NEEDS TO BE LOOKED AT.
For matte shadows i needed my flat-plane to be able to not cast a shadow but still block another shadow from going through it. For example, u have a light on top and then under it you have a cube, and then under that u have one flat plane(top plane) and then under that u have another flat plane(bottom plane). I have that top plane set to Cast Shadow OFF and Receive Shadow ON. The problem is that the shadow that is being cast from the cube is going through the top flat plane and being projected on the bottom flat plane. I don't want the top plane to cast a shadow but i also don't want any shadows to go thru it.
11 years ago
Could you please email a project and explanation to support? Hard to diagnose on the blog but we'll check it out!
VICTOR PETROV
11 years ago
what email should i send it to?
11 years ago
Support@videocopilot.net

Christian Michael
https://vimeo.com/105871
Stephen
11 years ago
Amazing features, thank you for an amazing product. I've noticed a bug when using a obj from 3ds max and textured with vray. I've seperately given each its own map. When importing to E3D, the model is oddly grouped by materials. Workaround is to change the material types to standard in 3ds max, but thought to let you know.

Brilliant plugin.
11 years ago
Converting them is a good idea. In some cases, Vray materials don't export properly from max. Not sure we can do anything about that one.
11 years ago
Hey Mac Pro Folks!

Don't know if you've tried this...

Just did a simple, quick rendering test comparing Shadow Mapping-SSAO vs. Ray-Tracing on my Mac Pro 12 core - 64G - D700x2 rig and found that the RT takes about twice as long as SM-SSAO, which, I believe, is a testament to E3D V2's great design and one of the first times outside of Apple apps that the power of our Dual GPUs is being leveraged.

Very cool....(btw..Raytraced Shadows and AA look incredible!)
Amir
11 years ago
Was wondering if element v2 and v1 can coexist. IE, when I open after effects, it would be nice when I go to the effects tab that I can see element.v1 and element.v2 and I can apply them separately. So possibly one project can have multiple layers of v1 and v2 intermingled. Is that a possibility? Or is it a feasible feature request?
Koz
11 years ago
I've noticed that in some cases (like on rocks), the shadow-mapping actually looks better than the raytraced shadows. On uneven, organic type surfaces from certain camera angles RT shadows will give you odd artifacts, while shadow- mapping won't. Interesting...and nice to have the 2 to choose from.
11 years ago
YOU RULE! YOU RULE! YOU RULE! this patch fixed all of my problems. thank you so much
Koz
11 years ago
Amazed at how well this product is performing. So far no problems whatsoever. I am now getting true photorealism inside of AE(shadows & object self shadowing make such a huge difference). Unfortunately I'm addicted to the raytraced shadows and AO, so the render times (though not terrible) will probably shave a few weeks off my life. But, it's worth it..cuz DAMN it looks goood...!!!!(The only time it crashes is if I try to work beyond 2k, but my card is only a 2GB gtx 760, so I guess it's to be expected)

Again, great work VCP team!
Koz
11 years ago
-Side note, the above 2k crashes are caused by my GPU running out of memory...nothing to do with the brilliant VCP coding!
11 years ago
There are ways to lower memory useage like turning multi-sampling down and turning up super sampling. It all depends on your scene. Best!
Koz
11 years ago
Will give it a try..Cheers!
BJ Smith
11 years ago
First off, the products are amazing. You are really making the way we do things much better and more fun!

Thereat being said, Just installed the 2.0.2 patch and now environments are not showing up in AE CC or AE CC2014 on mac.

Any suggestions?
BJ Smith
11 years ago
What I mean to say is, they are there in the browser but don't show up in the preview window in scene stop, don't affect materials ad are not there in the comp. Help please.
11 years ago
Try clearing your image cache inside of the plug-in and see if that helps, if not emails us right away please! We'll figure it out fast.
Lasse Bauer
11 years ago
"We don't recommend opening old projects inside of Element 3D V2.
We'd recommend finishing them with V1 or making your changes in V1 as well."

Is this something that will be fixed in an upcoming update/patch?
Or will we have to keep a separate version of V1 to work with older projects?
Johan
11 years ago
So far all of my previous E3Dv1 projects have opened just fine in E3Dv2, even the complex ones.

A little texture tweaking might be necessary, but otherwise it's good to go. Rev those tasty shadows up and go nuts!

Andrew and the team have surpassed themselves once again!
Magnus
11 years ago
Wooooow!
Just want to say:
This website had a great facelift, and I love to watch what you can create.
Thank you Andrew, and Happy New Year

/Magnus
reza irani
11 years ago
hey ANDREW! whats up??
Thanks for your hard working on the product's! great job!

is there anything new that you can do with the JetStrike by using element V2?
have you try anything with that?

and have you ever try to create a Scene by mixing metropolitan, JetStrike, projectile weapons, motion design pack and the other stuff, together? is that possible?

thanks Again.
11 years ago
Of course it's possible, there are endless possibilities with Element 3D, especially V2.


However creating a scene with all those packs together will probably be a complex scene, it'll get slow if your computer isn't good enough for it.
Steffen
11 years ago
Element3D v2.0.2 in Sky360°C 4K textures now comes this error
true in v2.01 not this error

preview

http://www.imgbox.de/show/img/fJW2RkG19w.jpg
Mohala
11 years ago
Just change the map size in Element Scene setup:

File > Preferences > Map size > 4096

I think the default setting in v2.0.2 is set to 2048 and v2.0.1 was 4096.

Happy Elementing!
11 years ago
This is a texture warning, you can increase the texture resolution size in the preferences from the File menu in Element 3D.
Harlem
11 years ago
Thank you Andrew.

A great product it's also proposing a nice customer service !
CK
11 years ago
I bought it. But I can not use. Could you please urgently prepare tutorials.
Thank you.
dHoward
11 years ago
In the patch details above, what's this referring to?

» Fixed texture too warning

Typo?

(I hate feeling clueless...)

11 years ago
Hey Andrew What A great job you are Doing really you have provided almost full solution of 3d in After Effects . I am your Daily Follower and waiting for the time When I'll Buy your Product But For know Please ADD WISH LIST in your add to cart List .
I am USING GTX660TI, Is it Compatible because I've couldn't find it on your Card list.
Søren
11 years ago
I am use the gtx 660Ti on mac and it works great
11 years ago
Awesome!!! It really helps a lot!
Al Vandiver
11 years ago
Superb as we have all become accustom to expect from you.
Bunny Zr
11 years ago
Great Product Thnx Andrew..!!
Brian Lee Johnson
11 years ago
Thanks for making such amazing products.
Charlie Essers
11 years ago
Awesome! Still a 1.6 user, but saving for the full upgrade. Cheers!