@ignacio :
Can you please share the ai file for the same, we will check this internally and let you know.

For Shadows section under lighting there needs to be a slider for overall 'colour 'Density' of the shadows. The other 2 options can stay and are useful for setting up the shadow. The Density slider would control the darkness of the shadow effect: from very light shadow to very dark almost black shadow. Otherwise the shadow must be rendered out as a separate layer and then you can tweak the opacity of that layer as needed.

more option for the shadow

I cannot use the ilumination set for the 3d material, also the material properties seem unavaliable. I think is an error on the illustration system and this new 3d features,

Hello! when using the Materials option, i want to create a "wallpaper" with an exact size, but after i move my cursor, it shrinks in the same position, showing that the rectangle i made its still the size i made it but the material shrinks? i will leave some pictures so you can understand better.

What happened to the preview checkbox and the 3D box that allowed you to get an estimation of the final look before going through the rendering process? Making changes and having to wait for a re-rendering every time is cumbersome.

where to Map Art?

Hi there,

My illustrator is up to date but I cannot seem to edit in 3D and Materials
There are no properties options in Materials tab
I cannot edit anything in Lighting or Render settings

Could someone please help?

when we expand appearance on a 3D text it become an image??? when create outline I want it to be the 3D text become piece by piece like last time..... pls help to bring back this part

@Mike, a known issue.
It depends on the size of the shape extruded. If you make this path smaller, the 'tessellation' effect goes away.
So no, it’s not about 'simpler shapes' :) Assumptions are dangerous.
But I can be wrong too, actually, so please check this hypothesis and reply back if scaling arrows up lead to same problem, and if scaling the rectangle down eliminates it.

For some reason the exture function doent like squares but will happy more complex shapes?

I need the original function that can easily exchange textures of each side.
It is probably a necessary function for packaging design.

A simple box extrusion looks really bad :/ there´s some glitch impossible to eliminate when the settings are set for a diffuse shadow

Here is my example, requested by Egor Chistyakov | Admin:

-Create a text
-Create Outlines (cmd-shift-o)
-Choose 3D and Materials / Extrude & Bevel, keep the Default setting
-In the 3D and Material Panels, choose ‘Quick and ‘Expand as wireframes’
-Zoom in on curves of the created ‘wireframe’ and see how those of the extrusion don’t match those of the caps.
(pic 1)

Do the same with Classic 3d and Object / Expand appearance, and see how the result perfectly matches. (pic 2)

Add in shadow color options

Please make it as accurate as the legacy effect.

The new 'improved' effects' results have a lot of abberations in the paths.

Please make Expand work for these, just like for any other object in Illustrator.

I would like to expand 3d Extrudes as they look, just like in older versions was possible.
Not 'as wireframes'.

2 major nuances I noted as a first time user of both Illustrator and the potentially powerful 3D and Materials tool.

First: Resource heavy on CPU while GPU is "idle". It consumes 100% CPU on my AMD 5600x for approximately 3-5 seconds (sometimes more). And roughly 3Gbs on a single object with the Ominous Obsidian texture. Most of all only usage on RTX 3090 only reaches 20% at most. When rendering with raytracing to view the lighting tweaks every now and then, heavily slows down productivity.

Second: The lighting is everything when it comes to working with 3d objects. Trying to play around with the sliders is quite cumbersome when trying to figure out where the light is actually coming from. I would like to be able to have a 3D source light feature to be able to rotate it and perhaps add more light sources

3D effects cause severe pixelation on text and vectors, I have searched for hours online to find out why or get a solution, without any luck.