Introductory Concepts

An experience is a root object composed of scenarios, actors, environments, and collections.

When you enter the app, an experience is automatically created. You can then author your experience. Once done, the experience can be executed in real time.

An actor is an object created in an experience.

Different types of actors can contribute to an experience:

• 3D actors (geometric primitives, trigger zones etc.)
• 2D actors (texts)
• logical actors (camera manager).

Each actor has various properties (color, name etc.) that are customizable. Behaviors can be added to an actor to enhance its functionality when you play an experience.

An actor can reference an existing asset from the 3DEXPERIENCE platform (for example a physical product). You can then use it in the experience.

A behavior is a component that describes how an actor should function in a played experience.

There are two categories of behaviors:

• ready-to-use behaviors that are provided in a library,
• user-defined behaviors that are scripted with JavaScript.

A scenario is an object that structures an experience by managing interactions between actors.

A scenario is divided into one or more sequential parts called acts. Each act can be defined using Natural Language.

Natural Language is a simple language that enables to describe, with natural sentences, actions triggered by events. The actions are known as capacities.

You can use Natural Language to create scenarios.

A capacity shows what a behavior can do in an experience.

Ready-to-use behaviors include predefined capacities. You can expose functions of scripted behaviors as capacities to enhance the Natural Language vocabulary.

A capacity has a name and is represented by an icon.

A script is a user-defined behavior.

You can script a custom behavior with JavaScript then define and configure its properties.

A collection is a user-defined logical group of objects in an experience.

You can easily access objects in a collection whether you author or play an experience. An object can be added to several collections.

An asset is an object that is part of the experience.

You can insert different types of assets in an experience:

• Actors (for example physical products)
• Resources (for example images or VPM documents).