Swapping 3D Items

[darrentomkins]

Anyone swapped 3D objects yet?

Some buttons to swap to different objects on a breadboard? 3 buttons with cheese, bread, and grapes. Click cheese and it fades onto board, then grapes swap to grapes etc.

[James]

Depending on the exact effect you are after there are a range of ways to do this, but you may need a copy of wf enterprise to be able to access the 3D api. For instance if the breadboard were an image as apposed to a 3D scene, a 3D scene for each of the bread/cheese/grapes could be added to the presentation and using activate/deactivate/opacity they could be controlled as you describe. If you want all objects controlled within the same 3D scene you could create the 3D model with all objects set up on the board, all in the same location (or where ever you wanted them to appear) and control their opacity using the buttons and for the fade effect a progressor.

[darrentomkins]

Again, a big thank you James

The actual project is for a chair company. The chair is made up of back rest, seat, pole, foot rest, base and trims. They are for the casino industry and I want to be able to "make" up a chair choosing different parts then email a screen shot. The screenshot so far will have to be saved on the users machine then attached manually and emailed.

So I should setup a blanck scene with a BG image. Then add all the other parts individually in their own scene. Clicking a button in the main scene will....hmmmm. That's not going to work unless i can load multiple another scenes into the main one & position them. Maybe adding all the elements to the main scene and working with thier opacity would be the best?

Whaddya think?