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2007-05-03 01:13:34
RayFlynn
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Registered: Jan 24 2007
Posts: 2

I need some help with animations.
 
I have created an keyframe animation of one of our products. Within this animation there is a flashing indicator light which has been created by changing the material emissive properties using keyframe editing. The flashing indicator works nicely when I run the animation in toolkit but doesn't when I open the file in Adobe 3D. Can you help?
 
Also can this animation be imported into a powerpoint presentation?

My Product Information:
Acrobat 3D 7.0.9, Windows
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2007-08-09 11:07:15
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jim_merry
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Registered: Jul 18 2007
Posts: 58
There are some gaps in animation support between the Toolkit and the PDF clients; the toolkit supports a much wider set of capabilities for animation and most of them are currently ignored by the Adobe PDF clients (Acrobat 3D/Pro/Std, and Adobe Reader). The following animation types are the only ones supported in the PDF clients:



1) Geometry position (pan, rotate, scale)
2) Geometry Transparency
3) Camera Position, Target

You can do more by using the 3D Javascript APIs including turning material properties on/off.

You can find information on building 3D Javascripts for Acrobat 3D [url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript3d.php] here[/url].


This tutorial on the 3D Tooklit may also be helpful, [url=http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/acrobat3d/articles/acr3d_optimizeui.php] link [/url]

Jim Merry, VP 3D PDF, Tetra 4D, jim [dot] merry [at] tetra4d [dot] com

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