I no longer have the option to change the material color in Illustrator 3D. The option just no longer exists! This makes the entire effect no longer usable for me.

There is a change in behavior in revolve from "classic" that makes it impossible to do somethnig. Let's say I wanted to make something that looked like an apple with a section cut out (to keep it simple I wish to revolve a half circle with the the edge red and the fill white, about 270 degrees. No matter how I do this, the "open" part is at the back of the object. It's not possible to light an object from the back, so I can't get the shading right on the "white" part of the apple.

In the "classic" version, rotating from the one side (left, maybe) put the open part at the back, and rotating from the other side (the right, maybe) put the open part to the front.

Can someone please help what is going on with my Ai? Everytime I try to render out with ray-tracing ON these white stripes always shows up.

Please someone help!

Neha, you can do it right now.
It the section above the Distance and Bounds you have the Softness slider. To see the effect of it you should enable Real-time preview though, a button in the top right corner.
Does it work for you?

Need an option to soften the shadow in 3D effects. Right now it has options to edit the distance and bounds only.

Bring back the material customization, please!

@SI-BONE GraphX
Rotating by numbers — you can rotate stuff with the direct canvas widget — or by using fields. Both methods have their use, right?
Do you see the widget though?
That’s why same should be done for mapped art as well, I agree with you on this.

Moving a mapped, raster image within a selected object is like trying to boil an egg in cold water: You must add the ability to move the mapped image by numbers, up and down, right and left, otherwise the only guaranteed result after much trying is a massive headache.

Rotating by numbers? What happened to the nice, manual, natural and direct way to rotate things? The UI went backwards in time to the 1990s.... please fix

I can't change the color of any material.

Heather, the Beta version has the 'Expand as wireframes' quick action button in the Object tab of the 3D and Materials panel to achieve this.
The result is still not perfect and has an excessive amount of points generated, and all shading is basically ignored, and z-order is messed up... but the team is going there step by step.

If you want to have the former behaviour you can just stick to Classic 3D for now, until this is refined.

But the fact you came here and asked about it is great, because it demonstrates our need for it to work as we expected — with vectors (as if it’s not obvious!). Thank you so much.

3D rendering features are great, but how does one EXPAND the objects to a complete vector in order to access the extrusion, as in past versions of Illustrator?

I cannot EXPAND the object to change the shadows to the colours they need to be for the client, it becomes NON-Native art. This is extremely frustrating as I need to access the individual extrusions to do this!

Please see attached.

Marketa, what is the material you are trying to change color of?

I can't change the color of the material. I don't have the little color block icon for it. I tried tu reinstall the app but it didn't help. I found that more people have that glitch too. Will there be another version that fix it?

I have 16gb RAM and 4gb RTX 3050 still it gets struck 4 times I had to recover the file and then again it comes to 'No response' windows, I had no background software running it was just illustrator and nothing else. In total my experience with 3D was bad.

Rarely updates on screen as settings are changed. Bevel is hot garbage. Why can't I select colors from Swatches?

shadow are sometimes unstable and missing their some parts.. is that a problem only with my computer?

Want the option to get vectors out of the shape im doing so I can make a vector based version of the 3d object. There's no need at all to use 3d in illustrator if you cant get the vectors, there are a lot of other apps that handle 3d better so the advantage Adobe illustrator would have is of course the vector nodes.

Make a bottle in 3d, now choose how many nodes i want, got em. now ill make a really nice vector bottle. done.

The new 3D is great! I would love to see the ability to lighten and soften the shadows. No matter what I did I got very hard and dark shadows. Also it was a bit unclear how to get an image onto my object but I did figure it out with the symbols method with some online searching.

It looks like this. What is this ****? I even reinstalled Illustrator last week due to an other issue with fonts, and this laptop is brand new and capable. Everything is set on high, and bloody **** it actually somehow looks better if I put it on low. I already wasted 30m trying to troubleshoot this, I'm not spending another second. Bloody **** I hope an alternative to Adobe comes along, I will move instantly. Meanwhile thanks god for software like Blender that are free, ******* if I will ever pay extra for you Substance which is not even included in the so called "full suite" marketing ****.

1/10 time completely wasted.