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How to control 3D animation if multiple sequence are created (steps)?

dagarcia4
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Registered: Mar 24 2008
Posts: 2

I am creating sequence or steps with Adobe Toolkit, each step have its own sequence.

I follow up the Adobe tutorial (Controlling Animation) and add the corresponding JS and work fine, but it only play the first sequence.
( http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat3d/pdfs/controlling_animations.pdf )

I really need to find a way to show the steps (multiple sequences) on a list and its coresponding description (using metadata from the toolkit). Something similar to .
(http://www.righthemisphere.com/company/links/solutions/Adobe/Piston_Rod_Assembly_Steps_Metadata_v1.1.pdf)

Does anybody can help me out?

jim_merry
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Registered: Jul 18 2007
Posts: 58
Acrobat 3D version 7 and 8 only seems to read the first sequence when converting U3D files with animations from the toolkit. You can implement what you want to do by creating a single sequence with all of your steps in a single sequence. You then would trigger a specific range in the animation sequence with a method like this:

function Context()
{
return getAnnots3D(0)[0].context3D;
}


function PlayRange (start, stop)
{
Context().MyAnimation.setPlayRange(start, stop);
Context().MyAnimation.reset();
Context().MyAnimation.play();


}


You can add the routine above to the Document level javascripts defined in the AnimationController.pdf document you reference above.

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

jim_merry
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Registered: Jul 18 2007
Posts: 58
Some more investigation of this problem indicates that the use of sequences will actually result in multiple animation sequences in the U3D file that Acrobat 3D embeds in PDF.

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

chenet0005
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Registered: Aug 11 2011
Posts: 4
Please any one help me to create play range for above script

CHENTHIL KUMAR
ADOBE CERTIFIED EXPERT in Indesign CS2, Illustrator CS3, Photoshop CS4, Photoshop CS5