GLTF 3D Models

GLTF (.gltf) is the text form of glTF, the open 3D format made for the web. The file is readable text that describes the model's parts, materials and layout; the geometry and textures are either embedded inside it or kept as separate .bin and image files beside it. It is the same format as GLB, with the same materials, just stored differently.

GLTF or GLB

The text form is handy while you work: you can open it, inspect it and swap a texture file without re-exporting. For a live scene, one self-contained file is simpler. When you upload a model to 3DRise you send a single file, so use a .gltf with its data embedded, or export GLB, which is always one file. Both describe materials in physical terms, base colour, metalness and roughness, so the model looks the way you set it up.

In the studio

Upload a .gltf of up to 50MB from the objects panel, or paste a link to one. Draco-compressed geometry is supported. In the scene the model is an object like any other: place and scale it, restyle it with library materials as a whole or part by part, hide or move single parts, and give it object effects that run on a click, on hover or as part of an action.

Before exporting, name the parts you plan to change, apply scale and rotation, and keep textures to the size they are seen at.