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…

If you would like the code for this project then register and click on CodeBin or you can copy and paste the listing below.

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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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