This model was likely made with a technique called “Subdivision surfaces”. This technique means that the user models a low poly model and then applies a modifier that divides each piece of the model into new pieces, and autosmooths between the new divides.

Dimension doesn’t support subdivision surfaces today, so when you import it, we lose that information and can only import the original geometry.

Support for subdivision surfaces is something we’d like to add, though I don’t have a time estimate on it.

You can ‘bake’ the subdivision surfaces into geometry before exporting from the original modeling tool to have it come into Dimension properly.

We’ll be making some enhancements to the cameras and bookmark system in our next release that should make it clearer what view you have active.

Thanks for the suggestion! We do plan to support being able to replace, update, and edit models in the future! I will update here when we start work on this.

Thank you for the feedback! We have some great plans around breaking text objects out into separate lines and glyphs with more control and in a more non-destructive way.

For now you can use the “Convert to Standard Model” action in the action panel to break each glyph into standard mesh objects.

Thanks for the suggestion! We do plan to integrate with Substance Painter, Designer, and Alchemist, and our teams are working closely together to figure out the best approaches for these integrations.

We plan on adding a depth slider for decals to give embossing and debossing effects in the future. I don’t have a specific timeline for that yet, but it’s on our roadmap!

I’ve filed this with the team, we’ll get to it as soon as we can!

Updating existing links is part of the planned behaviour for published 3D scenes. It didn’t make it into the initial beta, but you can expect this in the future! I’ll update when we begin work on this.

We plan on unifying the way transparent images are handled later this year. Right now it can be pretty confusing and we don’t always respect transparency correctly.

Dimension added support for reading custom pivot information when importing models from other sources. We do plan to add the ability to set and edit customized pivots in Dimension in the future.

Hello! The Dimension team is gathering some feedback around various export requests. If you’re interested in providing more detail on your request for exporting workflows, please take a moment to fill out the following brief survey:

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We plan to remember opening, loading, and saving folders in the near future. I’ll update here when we’ve started on this!

Making the “Glow” option for materials actually emit light and bloom is a planned enhancement! Not sure when exactly we’ll get in, but we’ll let you know when we start on that.

Hello all! While it’s a bit too early to give specifics, I wanted to say interop with After Effects is planned.

I’ve seen some users doing it already by exporting the 3D object from Dimension in .obj and other formats, then importing to Ae and plugins like Video CoPilot.

A more direct integration is something we’d love to do!

Hey all, just wanted to give a little update on Animation for Dimension. We believe animation is an important part of working with 3D and do plan to include animation features in the future, however it will not be for 2019. Likely this will start in 2020 but I’ll update as we get closer!

Hi everyone. I wanted to let you know we do plan to add more layers to the .psd output including shadow/light passes, reflection and some other helpful bits. I’ll keep you updated as we get closer on this one.

Thanks for the suggestion! We did in fact, used to have a pause button. But it broke so we had to kill it for a bit. :( It will return when we fix the pause mechanism!

Hello! Definitely a great suggestion and something the team is considering heavily right now. It didn’t make our first few beta releases, but it’s on our roadmap for sure. I’ll let you know when we’re closer. :)

At some point we do plan to have cloth functionality in Dimension. I’m updating the status here because we’ve actually got some progress on our physics engine with our first physics feature (drop to ground) and have some more in the works. So this has matured enough I feel like I can publically say we’ll do cloth at some point! It’s probably still a while out though. I’ll update when we’re closer to starting work on that area particularly.

Thank you for the feedback! We do plan to enhance the way file path memory is shared between some areas.