Platform Features; The Atmosphere Architecture - Adobe ATMOSPHERE User Manual

ADOBE ATMOSPHERE 1
User Guide
Chapter 1: The Atmosphere Platform
Welcome to the Adobe® Atmosphere™ platform – revolutionary software for creating immersive 3-D multimedia rich
stage sets for delivery on the web and within PDF documents.
What is Atmosphere?
The Adobe® Atmosphere™ platform is a completely integrated end-to-end solution for creating 3-D interactive
environments, delivering them over the web or within PDF documents, and allowing users to collaborate within
them. The Atmosphere embedded multimedia type gives the web or document designer the ability to present a rich
variety of interactive content, including three-dimensional objects, directional sound, streaming audio and video,
SWF animations, and physical behaviors, all within the context of a live theater performance. Viewers of Atmosphere
environments can move and interact freely within these spaces, and collaborate with each other.
Atmosphere is different from other multimedia authoring tools in that it provides all of the tools and capabilities
needed to author and play back realistic, immersive experiences within a 3-D stage set.

Platform Features

The Atmosphere platform integrates many features into a single application:
Create environments with dramatic lighting, animated 3-D objects, real-time behavior, video and audio in
Immersion
small fi les embedded in a PDF or HTML doucment.
Atmosphere users can easily create realisitc enivronments and behavior thanks to the built-in JavaScript
Interactivity
API and integrated physics engine. Users can interact realistically with environments, objects and avatars that can
behave independently or under user control.
Atmosphere supports directional sounds, streaming video and audio, SWF animations and high
Multimedia
defi nition 3-D objects including animations.
Add multi-user interaction with text chat, avatar motion and gestures, shared object synchronization
Collaboration
and message passing, without additional server software or hardware. An HTTP server is all that's required.

The Atmosphere Architecture

The Atmosphere platform consists of 3 parts:
An easy to use, powerful authoring application that can be used to create, import and manipulate
Atmosphere
3-D objects, light, sound, images, textures, video and other multimedia; attach scripted behaviors to objects and
environments; and securely publish these environments to the Web or PDF.