Improved 3D effects and Adobe Substance materials
We have introduced new and improved '3D and Materials' effects in 26.0 this year. These effects have been fully rebuilt using modern rendering technology and apart from being much more stable than classic 3D effects, they also allow you to:
* Apply and edit 3D effects conveniently through a non-blocking panel with real time preview.
* Texture artwork using Adobe Substance 3D materials that are highly adjustable. Choose from built-in materials in the panel or upload your own.
* Light up artwork with environment and directional light along with shadows.
* Create smooth and curvy extrusions using the new Inflate option.
* Rotate artwork more easily using the new on-canvas controls.
* Once you've setup your 3D object, render it using Ray tracing with adjustable quality options.
There are more features we're actively working on bringing to these effects. Please share your feedback and suggestions from your experience of using these new effects.
AdminAkshaya Saxena
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There are now several separate requests made, based on the feedback in this thread:
1. Regarding adjustable color and opacity for 3D shadows:
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/47054086
2. Regarding presets for each tab in 3D and Materials panels: Object, Materials, Lighting:
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/47350001
All those who commented on the topic until October 16, 2023, are already added as voters there. If this is something you want to have for 3D and Materials in Illustrator — please upvote it. If possible — create new requests and bug reports about 3D, rather than commenting here inside. This will help the team to better prioritize efforts on making the feature better. As always — thanks for the feedback! It helps.
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Chitra Gopalakrishnan commented
Love this update!! Would appreciate this feature with an option to remove certain materials from the list via a right-click menu or something similar. Maybe I'm missing that info from the panel, but would greatly help the work flow!
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Nathanael Verrill commented
I used to be able to expand the appearance and change the color of the face of the 3d rendered text. But that is not possible as the colors are now rendered as a JPG mask. This even does not work when I change the rendered engine to vector. The auto setting makes the colors FAR too dark. Changing them is important to match a customer's pantone, etc. If this could be corrected that would be amazing!
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Vydika Rao commented
I wish there was more control over colour adjustment once we turn our vector into a 3D object.
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Anonymous commented
Loving the improvements. So far it is working great. Glad that perspective has been added.
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Phong Nb commented
expand as wireframes so bad, edges don't overlap and it's hard to edit, very different from the intro video, the old one is better
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Akshay Varshney
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@Matthew Siegwald: fix exporting issues. The asset is spread out in stager when imported
Are you still facing this issue with the latest release build? If yes please kindly share the ai file for the same.
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[Deleted User]
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Hey there.
Would love that a symbol could fit on MULTIPLE objects at once, like here the bottom petal to have its symbol continue on the left one.
And I would love if I could, from the decals box, get a ctrl/right click option to duplicate one symbol. So far, I need to add it from the symbol panel again which will reset its position to the center of the object.
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mat taylor
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Before you remove the 3D classic capability from illustrator, can you please create the option to wrap graphics around an object in the new 3D effects dialogue with the option to turn lighting off, so that the graphic is not shaded? (you can do this in the classic version) Thanks!
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Paul commented
Are you kidding me again? I expand a simple turned set of splines, and now they are bitmaps????!?!?!??!?!?! WHAT DO YOU DO TO YOUR OWN SOFTWARE?
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Are you kidding me? Deadline in minutes, an I thought ok will wow them with some simple 3D. YOU CANNOT APPLY THE SAME SETTINGS TO MULTIPLE OBJECTS? I want 3 splines to be THE SAME in every respect. WTF Adobe. You've seriously lost it.
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Trey Simonton commented
This tool is broken. In fact, the entire application is bloated and prone to crashing. After using Adobe products for thirty years, I feel Adobe treats its subscribers as beta testers. I'd trade any of the new features that I never use for some stability. If this is the future then it is probably time for me to find another trade.
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@Armindo, exactly. Fit options, better texture quality, artifacts... I know the team is aware of it, is going to improve it further, but nothing more than that.
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@Dean, yeah, the lighting one the pure white object gets gray... Even if you crank up all the values in the Lighting tab, both Intensities to 200, — it is still stays somewhat like 3% gray. Hope the team will consider tweaking it.
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Armindo Paulo Ferrreira commented
Hi from Portugal!
I'm giving some opportunity to the new 3D and Materials but i'm increasingly frustrated with some new issues with map art options in ways that i was not with the old version.
The new version is a great and wanted evolution but needs more refinements and options when i apply it to some projects with revolve option:
- option to identify what part is wanted to apply map art;
- a scale to fit option (much needed with revolve option to make it match start with end;
- the new tool creates unwanted visually rendered artifacts;
- in the end it produces visually really low quality for pixel mapped art;Can you please improve much more those issues, please?
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Dean
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hi, please I'd like to know why my white texte is turned into light gray every time I use the 3D isometric ? I don't even touch the light and shade section... I want it white, but how to do ? Thanks a lot
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Joe Bird commented
Why does the effect create an image instead of paths in expand appearance? This is Illustrator, and all i get is an image??? I'm probably missing something here...
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Matthew Siegwald commented
fix exporting issues. The asset is spread out in stager when imported
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Trent Siddharta commented
This has been rendered unusable in comparison to the previous versions. A simple option to disable the preview would be excellent when rotating etc. It took an hour to create something we could have done in several minutes, previously. I'm confused as to why this has become so difficult. With 3D being deprecated in PS it's a nightmare.
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theSign Comunicação commented
Efeito com baixa qualidade
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Eric, so far you can save 3D settings with Graphics Styles panel. This is an intended way to save settings like this. Does it work for you?
As for expand to vectors — Ai can now do that, with the 'Expand as wireframes' button in the Quick Actions section, at the bottom of the Object tab of the 3D and Materials panel. It is not perfect yet, but what enhancements do you mean in particular?
