<p>I've received an aep file and there's the following thing that drives me nuts:</p>

<p>There are obviously two overlapping shapes that where only the exclusion is filled:
<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/8nVl7.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/8nVl7.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

<p>Nothing special so far, but there are no masks included and also no Merge Paths:
<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/yoWdC.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/yoWdC.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

<p>So there are only two paths included (one for the circle and one for the rotated, overlapping rectangle), so which settings were used here to achieve the exclusion?
I personally would have used Merge Paths to achieve this result, but this is obviously not the case here.</p>

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Intersecting Shapes in After Effects
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# Intersecting Shapes in After Effects

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-11-22)

I've received an aep file and there's the following thing that drives me nuts:

There are obviously two overlapping shapes that where only the exclusion is filled:
[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/8nVl7.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/8nVl7.png)

Nothing special so far, but there are no masks included and also no Merge Paths:
[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/yoWdC.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/yoWdC.png)

So there are only two paths included (one for the circle and one for the rotated, overlapping rectangle), so which settings were used here to achieve the exclusion?
I personally would have used Merge Paths to achieve this result, but this is obviously not the case here.

**Tags:** after-effects, shape


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