Get to know AR in this Adobe Aero series led by James Zachary, Director of Animation at Adobe Aero.
Importing your assets into Aero: Building a scene and importing 2D, 3D and animated PNGs.
Download Adobe Aero to get started: https://www.adobe.com/products/aero.html
Download practice files HERE: https://helpx.adobe.com/aero/how-to/asset-import-aero.html?playlistPath=/services/playlist.helpx/products:SG_ADOBEAERO/playlist:topic/learn-path:key-techniques/set-header:guides/en_us.json
What you learned: How to import GLBs, PNG, and animated PNG sequences into an Aero scene.
• Aero is the application to assemble your assets and to add interactivity to you augmented reality scene. Aero is not the place where you create those assets.
• There are three ways to import assets into Aero; File – import, the Import button (+ icon) and drag-and-drop from a desktop window.
• Supported 2D file types:
◦PNG
◦JPG
◦Photoshop files (retains layering information)
◦SVG
◦TIF
◦Animated GIFs
◦Animated PNG sequences – Need to import as a zipped file
• Supported 3D file types:
◦GLB – This is the preferred 3D file type because of its small file size, fast loading time and texture/material support.
◦GLTF – Similar to GLB but has multiple files (model, textures, animation) within one folder.
◦FBX – Need to import as a zipped file along with the textures and materials
◦OBJs – Need to import as a zipped file along with MDL or MTL materials
◦3DS
◦Collada (DAE)
• Learn more about the file types by going to the Supported file format page: https://helpx.adobe.com/aero/using/supported-file-formats.html
• Augmented reality scenes are experienced on the viewers mobile device. Visit our Optimizing assets for Augmented Reality HelpX page for more information creating user-friendly experiences:
https://helpx.adobe.com/aero/using/optimize-assets-for-ar.html
Pro tip:
• Use textures and/or images that are 1080×1080, or smaller, for the best mobile friendly AR experience.
Learn more about Aero: https://bit.ly/aeroaugmentedreality
Visit our Aero Tutorials page: https://helpx.adobe.com/aero/tutorials.html
Get Aero for free:
Download on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/adobe-aero
Download on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adobe.aero.android
Download for desktop: https://helpx.adobe.com/aero/get-started
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