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.