Guggenheim New York (3D PDF)

[soid]

A realtime 3D visualisation using PDF.
Depending on your graphics card memory/speed you can grab the files here:

http://soid.active-servers.com/pdf/gugl90.pdf (5mb filesize/64mb video ram)

http://soid.active-servers.com/pdf/gugh85.pdf (10mb filesize/256mb video ram)

(left mb: rotate, right mb: zoom, left + right mb: pan)

I decided not to include the Javascript that prevents the camera going through the floor at this scene for performance issues (15% framerate drop).
If you like it, you can check out more examples on how vray texture baking can be used for 3D PDF here:
http://soid.active-servers.com/pdf/

Best regards, Chuck

[percydaman]

thats fantastic! got a workflow on how you did that?

[nils_p]

Very nice work

[vlado]

Heh, very nice! I didn't know one can do that with PDF

Best regards,
Vlado

[soid]

Thanks for your nice comments.
I plan to write a detailed tutorial once i have some time.
Till then briefly the steps to take:

-Bake Vray complete in render to texture. To prevent blurring along the pelt seams
save your baked images with alpha channeland and take the following steps in Photoshop to "duplicate" the edge pixels:
-Duplicate you baked image (with applied tranparancy mask)
-Apply gaussian blur (3-5px) to the lower layer
-Clone the lower layer with blur over and over again tomake the blur opaque
-Save as jpg (create a droplet to save time)

-Put the baked Vray complete map into the diffuse map (uv map channel 1, others are not supported).
-Set self illumination to 100%
-Export your scene as .rh.
Export modules are available here:
http://www.righthemisphere.com/support/downloads/
-Import your .rh file in Acrobat 3D

Supported features:
Diffuse map
Emissive (self illumination) map
Opacity map
Reflection map
Bump map (by Javascript, more about here:http://www.graysonlang.com/acrobat3d/attach3dresource/ )
Multi Subobject material and Material ID
Vertex Colors (Darken on Diffuse)
Smoothing Groups

Unfortunatly it seems so that Adobe will not offer more 3D features regarding the needs for 3D visualisations in the near future. The 3D toolkit from Acrobat 8, which basically is a deep exploration "light" by Right Hemisphere, was replaced by the 3D Reviewer in Acrobat 9, which is an Adobe own Development (without texture support and many other features missing). Additionally 3D PDF is limited to the features of the .u3d which is used internally.
So far to the basics.

Best regards, Chuck

[rmejia]

That is awesome, I have to try it out sometime

[duke2]

That's fantastic!

[jonnybefree]

haha thats realy great!

[Dynedain]

nicely done. Thanks for sharing your workflow too!

[soid]

No problem, I´m looking forward to see more people creating realtime 3D objects.

Best regards, Chuck

[RemcoNL]

Hi Chuck, thanks for all the information, this is really interesting to try it ourselves, we wait for a nice tut in the future, but for now: vamonos entendar todos. Gracias!

[soid]

Tutorial

I installed a blog for posting my 3Dpdf tutorials: http://3dpdf.blogspot.com/
The first one is about the Texture Baking procedure and getting it into Acrobat 3D.
I hope it helps.

Best regards, Chuck

[Nek]

that's great. thanks Chuck

[Chris]

That is GREAT! Thank you for sharing this.

[Olli96]

holla soid!
nice to see you back doing some 3d! your 3d pdf's are getting better and better

Olli