User experience: change colors, materials interactively on viewing??

Question

Can an Acrobat 3D give a viewer the options to change an objects color to one of several options, turn on and off options, etc.?
The intended usage is for a product configurator (online or downloadable)
Thanks,
Les

Answer 1

Yes, you can certainly do this. The key is to use the Javascript API. Since I'm not sure exactly how you desire to have the solution work, I'll just post some example code here. If you want to describe further what you have in mind, I can probably provide some more code.
//============================================
//example of using the Keyboard "c" key to change mesh color to red
//get the target mesh
myMesh = scene.meshes.getByName("WHEEL1");
//create a keyboard event handler, and only act upon "c" or "C"
KEH = new KeyEventHandler();
KEH.onEvent = function(event)
switch (event.characterCode)
case 67: //C or c
case 99:
myMesh.renderMode = "illustration";
myMesh.illustrationRenderModeFaceColor.set(1,0,0);
break;
runtime.addEventHandler(KEH);
//inform user
console.println("Press C to change object color to red");
//============================================