Online 3D Content Delivery Formats
Posted on Tuesday, March 4th, 2003 at 23:00.
Incorporating 3D elements into my next online journal design has been my most important design goal. After hours of modeling and shading in Eovia Carrara, I may abandon my current design concept. The problem is that a file format for delivering 3D content in a small file with high image quality does not exist (to my knowledge). If I export using VectorStyle into Flash, the 3D design element is too large and the image fidelity is horrible. I need a small level of interactivity, so exporting to a raster video or image sequence format is not an option. AXELedge is promising, but would require me to buy more software. Macromedia Shockwave 3D is attractive but requires the most expensive Macromedia Director and there is no Mac OS X browser plug-in for non-Active X browsers.
My hope is that the final release of Anark Studio 2 arrives soon. The beta versions that I am testing offer everything that I demand. People who will visit my site will need to download a browser plug-in to see the content, but I predict that this software will do for 3D what Flash did for 2D online.
