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Part Number: 90047303 (11/03) ADOBE ATMOSPHERE i User Guide Contents Chapter 1: The Atmosphere Platform Platform Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 The Atmosphere Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Why 3-D?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Chapter 2: Exploring Atmosphere Environments Using the Atmosphere Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Tutorial: Visiting Atmosphere Environments at Adobe.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Tutorial: Viewing Atmosphere Environments in Photoshop Album. . . . . . .9 Tutorial: Viewing Atmosphere Environments in PDF Documents. . . . . . . 10 Navigating Atmosphere Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Tutorial: Practicing Navigation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Using the Toolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Tutorial: Moving to an Overhead View of the Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Working with Bookmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Tutorial: Bookmarking New Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Understanding and Using Avatars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Tutorial: Swapping Your Avatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Setting Player Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Chapter 3: Interacting with Atmosphere Environments Moving Through Portals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Tutorial: Jumping Between Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Understanding Entry Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Communicating and Collaborating with Other Visitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Tutorial: Communicating with Other Users. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Interacting with the Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Using Custom Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Chapter 4: Atmosphere Overview Scene Object Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Chapter 5: Exploring the Interface Using the Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 ii CONTENTS Learning the Toolbars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Working with Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Tutorial: Maximizing Screen Space by Docking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Tutorial: Positioning and Combining Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Using context menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Using Undo and Redo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Customizing Atmosphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Chapter 6: Working with Files Understanding the Atmosphere Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Opening Environment Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Tutorial: Viewing Sample Environments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Saving Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Closing Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Importing Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Tutorial: Importing a Viewpoint Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Importing to Preset Palettes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Tutorial: Importing Wood Textures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Managing Object Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Exporting Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Saving World Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Publishing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Chapter 7: Views Introduction to Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Working with the View Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Working with the Actor Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Using the Reference Point Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Working with Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Controlling the View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Zooming to fit Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Tutorial: Viewing a Character's Good Side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Chapter 8: Using Scene Objects Positioning Models as Scene Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Positioning Solid Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Adding Scripts to the Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Using Viewpoint Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 ADOBE ATMOSPHERE iii User Guide Tutorial: Adding a Viewpoint Object to a Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Tutorial: Adding a Viewpoint Object from the Object Presets palette. . . 88 Tutorial: Scaling a Viewpoint Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Converting 3-D Files for Import into Atmosphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Converting Viewpoint Objects to Surface Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Creating Avatars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Creating a Portal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Positioning an Entry Point. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Using Anchors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Naming Scene Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Locking Scene Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Setting Visibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Chapter 9: Assembling Solid Objects Understanding Solid Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Understanding Boolean Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Connectors, Welding, Constraints and Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Naming Objects . . . . . ...