Insert Flash on object (TV display) in 3d PDF

In Acrobat 9 Pro Extended you can assign a flash SWF to a material during the creation of the 3D annotation:

1) Draw your 3D box, pick the mesh and open the 'advanced' settings
2) click the 'resources' tab, click "add" and browse to your SWF.
3) In 'binding', choose 'material' and type in the exact name of the material your TV screen as assigned to it.

The 3D object will then display that SWF as the diffuse map for the material, and will obey any UV mapping the mesh has. Note the default quality of the texture isn't particularly good as it's converted to pixels, so don't expect a vector SWF to display perfectly when you zoom in. Frankly it's not even rendered as well as a bitmap texture is, but hey.. it's there.


Important points:

The SWF 'texture' obeys normal SWF timeline rules, so if you want it to autoplay, make the SWF that way too. If the SWF has buttons and actions, those will also work, so you can indeed make a SWF slideshow that advances when it's clicked, even though it's inside a 3D world!


You can also play with the assignation and quality of SWF textures using runtime Javascript - it's not entirely trivial, but it's possible.

Hi,

i made the block in 3ds max. the block has an uv map with a picture on it.
in pro extended i open the block, add the swf in the ressource tab and choose material with the name of the material..
but nothing happens on the block. it just stays as it is with the texture from 3ds max.

the swf is ok, because i checked it by choosing background instead of material.

any idea why ist not working. should i make the block/tv display in the reviewer or how?

regards, jens!

hello,

it works now! the material has a different name and that name is seen in the toolkit.

regards jens

Good to hear - yes, sometimes Acrobat can get confused over UV-mapped materials with offsets - it understands the idea of "box", "cylinder" mapping etc. and the direction the texture should face, but doesn't like the idea of a texture that's hovering in the middle of UV-space or composited over another layer.