Player

The Aura™ 3D player powers all rendering of 3D models on all platforms and devices.

Supported Platforms

Aura™ clusters devices into generations based on their combined GPU & CPU performance and based on available memory.

Rule of thumb: any device released in the past 2 years, with at least 2 GB RAM.

Any device older than 2 years or with less than 2 GB RAM.

Any device older than 2 years o with less than 1 GB RAM.

The Aura™ player displays models in different display modes, called "contexts".

If the 3D model has a layout called "<context>-default" it will be switched on when the player enters the context.

Single color background

Simple, 2-color gradient

Sphere or Cubemap

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Reflections are generated by reflection maps. In Vuframe® Studio reflection maps are uploaded as cylindrical maps.

There's a default/global reflection, which can be overridden based on the player context and other settings:

In AR it will be overridden by realtime reflections – only on fast devices with ARKit (iOS-only)
Reflection Maps set in materials (manually) will override the default reflection map
Reflection Probes (expert use case) will override the default & global reflection map.

Cubemaps: you can also export cubemaps, e.g. from Unity 3D with the Aura™ Plugin. This has the benefit of including mipmaps, which are essential for smooth materials, as the mipmaps determine the level of smoothness.
Default Reflection: <todo>

Animated models my benefit from dynamically updating reflection maps during animations.

Example: a reflective door which slides open will only look 'correctly' if the reflection is updated while the door is moving.

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