Supported 3D Features

Because 3Dpdf's features are mainly directed to the documentation of engineering and scientific researches, its capabilities and performance for realtime 3D visualizations are quite poor in compare to other 3D engines like Quest 3D or high end game engines. However, small file sizes and the wide spread of the Adobe Reader, makes it very attractive to develop realtime 3D graphics for 3Dpdf. Using .rh export module from Right Hemisphere gives you the most compatible exchange format between 3ds max and Acrobat 3D, but in some cases you might prefer to use the .ase format (Acrobat 3D 8.12 and lower).

Features:

Materials, Maps:

-Diffuse Color (Texture Map)
-Emmissive, Self Illumination Color (Texture Map)
-Opacity (Texture Map, .tiff with alpha channel in Diffuse Color and greyscale image)
-BumpMap (Texture Map, by Javascript - for more information visit Grayson's Bump Map Tutorial)
-Reflection Map (Spherical Environment Map)
-Multi Subobject Material and Material ID's (.rh)
-Specular Highlight Level
-Specular Highlight Phong Exponent
-Specular Highlight Color

Geometry, Objects:

-Object Instances
-Smoothing Groups
-Keyframe Animation
-Light Sources
-UV Coordinates (UV Map Channel 1)
-Vertex Colors (Darken on Diffuse Color)
-Object Opacity
-Splines (Colors by using dxf/dwg)

Edit:
-Cameras (Target Camera, animation will not be considered in pdf)

To see examples how these features could be used, visit our web page