Edit Textures in Acrobat 9

Hi Julien!

The sad truth is that you can't.

Regards
Emil

You're luckiest than me, I'm waiting for an answer for about 2 month :
http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/aucbb/viewtopic.php?id=19240

:-)


[i]PS : ça fait du bien de savoir que je ne suis pas le seul francophone ici ![/i]

Hi,
thank you for your responses.

I have find a very good solution about this problem, and the response was in this forum,
look at the response N°4 on this link :
http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/aucbb/viewtopic.php?id=18346

In fact the solution is to save your 3D models with the textures at the same level (not in another folder).
For the format, i have test with all the export formats of my 3D software (i work with Maxon Cinema 4D).
And the two formats that work very good is the .3DS and the .wrl.
Now I can import textures and environnement reflexion on my 3D models in Acrobat 9 !
In my tests, the best formats for the textures was the .jpg

I think it's a very good news for the graphists and the designer who was disappoint by the
impossibility to apply textures directly in Acrobat 3D reviewer, and I'm surprised that this information was so difficult to find !

So I hope that this solution work with your 3D softwares to !

Hi again!

It's easy to import a textured object into Acrobat and make it work, but you still can't edit the texture once it has been imported. Anyway, I'm glad that you have found a working solution for your problem.

I'm still at a complete loss when it comes to change the default material, which seems to be some kind of "aluminum". I'm trying to import objects that are supposed to look like ceramics but if I change the material in Reviewer I loose the texture, which is disappointing to say the least.

Best regards
Emil

Emil - realistically the only solution now is to use a third-party application (if you cannot export the materials from the original 3D software) - I would suggest Deep Exploration from righthemisphere.com, as "3D Toolkit" in Acrobat 8.3D was taken from an old version of DE. It's not free, but it's almost essential for people working with 3D files sent to them from other people as it can read pretty much anything.

Load the model, texture it, then save as Universal 3D (U3D) so Acrobat doesn't have to re-convert it on import.


..and the "default default" material in Acrobat is middle gray with a very slight specular highlight, so it's not really anything. Might be vaguely like concrete but without the pattern, but it's not metal. In fact Acrobat can't do "metal" as it doesn't understand falloff and isotropy, but you can fake something by making it super-shiny and dumping in a reflection map.

Thanks for a quick and good answer to my questions!

I'm using Zbrush, and as far as I know I cannot export the material (I export the objects as .obj).

Best regards
Emil