Adding sound clips to 3d model

One of our interactive features for the gear review page is that 3d models will play sound clips when tapped on. This is the outcome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clQKcMsgfCk

Importing 3d objects to indesign (attempt 2)

In our 2nd attempt of adding 3d objects to indesign, we resorted to using the 'image sequence' function on InDesign. To do this, we have to batch render from Autodesk Maya. The downsides of this is that the model can only rotate left and right, not up and down. This is our outcome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjZ-84Ve2L0

Importing 3d objects to indesign (attempt 1)

InDesign cannot directly import a 3d object. Therefore, I attempted several different ways to add it into indesign.

In our 1st attempt, I found this tutorial that says you would need Adobe Acrobat Pro Extended to import 3d files, then convert them to PDF. However, Acrobat Pro does not support Autodesk Maya (.mb) files, which is the software we use for 3d modelling. I found out that the only file types Acrobat supports are .u3d and .prc

So to import our model into Acrobat, we converted the .mb file to a object file (.obj) and imported it into MeshLab in order to convert it to .u3d

I tried this by using Maisarah's model of the Bad Monkey pedal. Our problem was that many of the textures were not visible is MeshLab and ended up looking like this:

So, when we imported the .u3d file into Acrobat, it was also missing textures. Since we were unsure of how to fix this issue, we resorted to using a different method.

3d model classical guitar - complete

This is the final 3d outcome of the classical guitar:

3D model (classical guitar)

Since our design requires 3d models, I searched for a sample classical guitar model online and found this:

But since the classical guitar we will be using in our video recording looks different from this model, I worked on making changes to its shape. The things I need to change is:

- Make the soundhole look circular, since the model makes it look oval-shaped

- Make the sides curvier

- Make the left side and right side look the same, like this: