WPF The Easy 3D Way

Written by Mike James

Wednesday, 10 June 2015

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You can add animations to move the camera’s position, or its zoom say, in exactly the same way and create a “fly past” but to make it look impressive you will need more than a single cube and this is the start of a very big project…

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The complete program is (omitting the usual using statements):

using System.Windows.Media.Media3D; using System.Windows.Media.Animation;namespace Cube1 { /// <summary> /// Interaction logic for MainWindow.xaml /// </summary> public partial class MainWindow : Window { public MainWindow() { InitializeComponent(); } MeshGeometry3D MCube() { MeshGeometry3D cube = new MeshGeometry3D(); Point3DCollection corners = new Point3DCollection(); corners.Add(new Point3D(0.5, 0.5, 0.5)); corners.Add(new Point3D(-0.5, 0.5, 0.5)); corners.Add(new Point3D(-0.5, -0.5, 0.5)); corners.Add(new Point3D(0.5, -0.5, 0.5)); corners.Add(new Point3D(0.5, 0.5, -0.5)); corners.Add(new Point3D(-0.5, 0.5, -0.5)); corners.Add(new Point3D(-0.5, -0.5, -0.5)); corners.Add(new Point3D(0.5, -0.5, -0.5)); cube.Positions = corners; Int32[] indices ={ //front 0,1,2, 0,2,3, //back 4,7,6, 4,6,5, //Right 4,0,3, 4,3,7, //Left 1,5,6, 1,6,2, //Top 1,0,4, 1,4,5, //Bottom 2,6,7, 2,7,3 }; Int32Collection Triangles = new Int32Collection(); foreach (Int32 index in indices) { Triangles.Add(index); } cube.TriangleIndices = Triangles; return cube; } private void Window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { GeometryModel3D Cube1 = new GeometryModel3D(); MeshGeometry3D cubeMesh = MCube(); Cube1.Geometry = cubeMesh; Cube1.Material = new DiffuseMaterial( new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Red)); DirectionalLight DirLight1 = new DirectionalLight(); DirLight1.Color = Colors.White; DirLight1.Direction = new Vector3D(-1, -1, -1); PerspectiveCamera Camera1 = new PerspectiveCamera(); Camera1.FarPlaneDistance = 20; Camera1.NearPlaneDistance = 1; Camera1.FieldOfView = 45; Camera1.Position = new Point3D(2, 2, 3); Camera1.LookDirection = new Vector3D(-2, -2, -3); Camera1.UpDirection = new Vector3D(0, 1, 0); Model3DGroup modelGroup = new Model3DGroup(); modelGroup.Children.Add(Cube1); modelGroup.Children.Add(DirLight1); ModelVisual3D modelsVisual = new ModelVisual3D(); modelsVisual.Content = modelGroup; Viewport3D myViewport = new Viewport3D(); myViewport.Camera = Camera1; myViewport.Children.Add(modelsVisual); this.Canvas1.Children.Add(myViewport); myViewport.Height = 500; myViewport.Width = 500; Canvas.SetTop(myViewport, 0); Canvas.SetLeft(myViewport, 0); this.Width = myViewport.Width; this.Height = myViewport.Height; AxisAngleRotation3D axis = new AxisAngleRotation3D( new Vector3D(0, 1, 0), 0); RotateTransform3D Rotate = new RotateTransform3D(axis); Cube1.Transform = Rotate; DoubleAnimation RotAngle = new DoubleAnimation(); RotAngle.From = 0; RotAngle.To = 360; RotAngle.Duration = new Duration( TimeSpan.FromSeconds(20.0)); RotAngle.RepeatBehavior = RepeatBehavior.Forever; NameScope.SetNameScope(Canvas1, new NameScope()); Canvas1.RegisterName("cubeaxis", axis); Storyboard.SetTargetName(RotAngle, "cubeaxis"); Storyboard.SetTargetProperty(RotAngle, new PropertyPath( AxisAngleRotation3D.AngleProperty)); Storyboard RotCube = new Storyboard(); RotCube.Children.Add(RotAngle); RotCube.Begin(Canvas1); }}

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