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.
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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TECHER Romain commented
La nouvelle fonction 3D est top ! Mais c'est trop lent !
1 texte basique sans biseau avec une ombre derrière adoucie, rendu raytracin : Temps de rendu plus 1 minutes ! Sans pouvoir rien faire d'autre pendant le rendu... Avec un MacBook Pro M1 Ultra !! On ne peut pas travailler avec des délais pareil. -
Thomas Lateur commented
Bonjour,
Tout d'abord merci pour le nouvel outil 3D > Dilatation ! C'est juste incroyable. La physique est vraiment top. Il y a juste encore quelques bug lorsque l'on veut appliquer l'effet à un trop grand objet. L'ombre porté est top mais malheureusement nous ne pouvons pas régler l'opacité. Ce qui serait incroyable serait de pouvoir Grouper des formes, appliquer l'effet puis en sélectionnant forme par forme à l'aide la souris blanche pouvoir modifier les propriété de chacune (volume, profondeur etc...).
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Bob Tuohy commented
When creating objects that are much wider than tall, the right or left edges of the 3D effect is "cropped". In the attached example, you can see the far left (and right) side of the 3D object is missing, almost as if it's hitting a boundary. The problem goes away if the object width is reduced, but that's not how my artwork needs to be.
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Eddie Deighton commented
It would be beneficial if we could have a 'Remove all settings' button directly within the 3D tab, so that the shape can be reverted back to to a default object. Handy for duplicating the object and expanding stroke that can sit behind the 3D version.
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مجدي صالح المحنئ commented
ميزة الثري دي ناقصه مع في البرنامج الرجاء حل المشكلة
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Jay Free Media commented
Having an error ..... an issue where my rendered 3D object keeps splitting into quads . While its being edited... It looks fine
Windows 10
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @2.20GHz
15.85 GB RAM
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Simon Bernard commented
It could be great if we could interact more in the 3D environment. Like in this case, having the object going foreground and background following the line
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Akshay Varshney commented
@Chitra Gopalakrishnan: There is an option in 3D Panel inside properties dropdown in Materials tab from where you can delete any material on to 3D object. Please check if that doesn't meet your expectation then please let us know.
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Akshay Varshney commented
@Peter Engle: This issue is known to us. We are working on fixing this soon. Kindly please share the ai file for the same, so that we can test at our end once we fixed this
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Peter Engle commented
Uh... Its doing some sort of weird graphical error where its tiling the thing im working on... When i expand it it just turns it into a png that looks like that.. i thought it was just a graphical error, but if i cant rasterize it or expand it to look like it should then thats a problem. also every time i change a setting the preveiw shows what its actually supposed to look like for a few seconds while it loads.
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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 commented
@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] commented
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 commented
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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Paul commented
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.