Publishing Concepts

In Play Optimization, there are different ways of publishing content.

You can publish a realtime experience, a web experience or a glTF™ model.

This page discusses:

See Also
Publishing Experiences
Customizing and Publishing Experiences

Publish Realtime Experiences

You can publish a realtime experience that you can then play in Creative Experience.

Publish Web Experiences

You can publish from Creative Experience to 3DSpace and 3DSwym through the Play Optimization wizard. This wizard leads you through a series of steps and helps you decide:

  • what kind of content you can publish
  • where to publish your content
  • how to publish the content.

The target platform relies on the HTML / JS / WebGL technology. As the experience inside Creative Experience is produced with a large scope of assets and technologies, there are some limitations with the Web platform. For more information, see Supported Content for Web Experiences.

The final result on the Web contains two parts: the player and the media played. The player, that enables you to open the media, is based on 3DPlay. It is integrated into 3DSpace and 3DSwym. For now, you can only play your experiences on desktop browsers.

The visualization of your experience in 3DPlay is done with WebGL (Web Graphics Library).

Recommendation: To correctly display your experience, your device and browser must support WebGL. For more information about devices and browsers compatibility, see https://caniuse.com/webgl2.
Important: To ensure visual consistency in your experience, use the 3DS PBR (physically based rendering) material.

Publish glTF™ Models

In Play Optimization, you can publish your experience to a standard 3D file format, glTF™ (Graphics Language Transmission Format).

What Is glTF™?

glTF™ is a 3D format that enables you to display 3D content in a web page.

In Play Optimization, you can export your work into a single glTF™ file. You can choose between two file extensions:

  • .gltf: you can save all the data as a JSON file (with or without embedded resources). You can use this format for debugging purposes.
  • .glb: you save all the data as a binary file. It is a more compact binary format intended for final delivery.

Note: glTF™ is not an authoring format.

For more information about glTF™, see https://www.khronos.org/gltf/.

Benefits

  • glTF™ provides a lightweight format that does not affect the computer's performance.
  • glTF™ is designed to quickly and efficiently load 3D content.

Requirements

  • Important: To ensure the best visual consistency in your experience, all the applied materials must be 3DS PBR materials.

For more information about the supported objects, see Supported Content for glTF Models