- [Voiceover] Alright now I just know there's some highly
observant person out there that's looking at this,
and going wait a second, why are these cubes casting shadows
based on their color groups?
In other words, if this blue cube right here
is casting shadows onto the purple cubes to the right of it
shouldn't it also be casting a shadow
onto the blue cube below it,
which would end up looking something like this.
And so the difference here ultimately boils down to groups
and their contents.
So in other words, in the case of the artwork
we created in the previous movie,
we're assigning dynamic effects to groups
whereas in this case here,
we're assigning dynamic effects to not only groups
in the case of the big glow,
but also the contents of those groups
in the case of the shadows.
And so let's see what that looks like.
I'll go ahead and switch my artwork so far,
and I'll click not on the red cube,
which is just fine as you can see,
because it's not a group that contains other groups
it's just one group that contains three path outlines.
So instead you want to click on one of the green cubes
and then shift click on one of the blue cubes
in order to select those two groups there.
We'll select the purple ones in a moment
but they're a special case as you'll see.
And then lets press control h, or command h on a mac,
to hide those anchor points,
and I'll go up to the window menu
and choose the appearance command
in order to switch over to the appearance panel
and I'll grab that outer glow
that's assigned to each one of those groups
and I'll drop down to the trashcan icon
in the bottom right corner of the appearance panel
and I'll click on it to get rid of those shadows.
Then notice the hierarchy right here.
We're seeing the word group, followed by contents.
And so what the appearance panel is trying to tell us
is that currently the groups are targeted,
but those groups also have contents
and if we want to target the contents instead
then you need to double click on the word contents.
Now this gets a little bit confusing,
but here's how it works.
At the very top of the stack are the big groups.
Inside of those are the selected groups
and we can tell that we have groups selected
because we're seeing the word group
on the far left side of the control panel
and those groups happen to contain contents of their own.
Now we know the internal groups are active
because we're seeing the word group in bold.
And those groups by the way indicate
each of the individual cubes.
And to prove that's the case,
I'll go up to the effect menu
and I'll choose outer glow ... up here at the top
in order to confirm my settings
and as you can see my color is still dark brown,
the blend mode is set to multiply,
I've got an opacity of 100% and a blur of 10 points,
at which point I'll turn on the preview check box
and sure enough I'm assigning outer glow style shadows
to each of the cubes independently
at which point I'll click OK in order to accept that change.
Alright now if you didn't quite follow that,
the good news is we're going to repeat this action
because we still need to assign shadows to the purple cubes
and so Ill press control h, or command h on the mac,
to bring back my anchor points.
Then I'll click on one of the purple cubes to select them
and because I can see the anchor points
I know I've selected the right thing,
but don't want them to get in the way
so I'll press control h, or command h again.
This time we don't want to get rid of the big outer glow
because after all if I turn it off
and then turn it back on you can see
that it represents the big glow
around the entire cube of cubes.
So we're going to leave that one intact
but we are going to delve into the contents.
So right now we're looking at the top level group,
which is bold, if you want to dig into that group,
just double click on the words contents
and now we can see that the top level group,
which by the way has a dynamic effect assigned to it,
as indicated by this little fx icon
on the far right side of the appearance panel
is no longer active because that group is no longer bold.
Rather the groups inside that group are active,
as indicated by the second bold word, group, right here.
And so now to repeat that last applied effect
just go to the effect menu
and choose the first command: apply outer glow
and you'll end up with this effect right here.
Alright so if you were able to track that
I absolutely congratulate you,
but we still have a problem here.
I'm gonna press control h, or command h on the mac,
in order to bring back my selection edges,
and I'll press control shift a command shift a on the mac
in order to deselect my artwork.
And I want you to see what's happened here.
We have added shadows between the various purple cubes
but we've also added shadows going outside the cubes,
into the background.
And we've also shoved the glow farther out.
And just so you can see the difference this was before,
and so notice the glow is tighter to those cubes
and this is after with the shadows of course going outside
which is wrong, but also moving the glow farther outward.
And that's because this big glow effect
is being assigned to the little shadows.
And that of course is not the effect we're looking for
which is why I'm going to show you had to clip your shadows
inside the cubes, in the very next movie.