Intersecting Shapes in After Effects 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:


Nothing special so far, but there are no masks included and also no Merge Paths:


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.
It's likely due to fill-rule being set to "Even-Odd". Try changing it to "Non-Zero winding" instead: