3d

What's new in WPF 3D in .NET 4.0 ?

Did anyone find something? Even a little thing? Does anyone know if anything has been quietly announced in the blogosphere or anywhere else? ...

C# 3D Chess Game

Hey so I want to create a 3D chess game (3D glass pieces), like the Chess game Vista provides, Chess Titans, but I'm not sure how to get started. I know I should probably use Blender for the modeling and Visual Studios for the programming. Can you provide links to comprehensive tutorials that can help me get started? Thank you ...

WPF and 3D question about animations

I have a few 3D meshes in my WPF application, and I need to add some animations to them, not the typical animations, but rather a sequence of PNG images for creating a graphical animation. Think of it like I need to add a cartoon animation to the side of a Cube. I know very well about the Viewport2DVisual3D, but when I replace my norma...

3D Software Renderer with VB6

Hi, I am IT student and I have to make a project in VB6, I was thinking to make a 3D Software Renderer but I don't really know where to start, I found a few tutorials but I want something that goes in depth with the maths and algorithms, I will like something that shows how to make 3D transformations, Camera, lights, shading ... It does...

WPF convert 2d mouse click into 3d space

Hi All, I have several geometry meshes in my Viewport3D, these have bounds of (w:1800, h:500, d:25). When a user clicks in the middle of the mesh, I want the Point3D of (900, 500, 25)... How can I achieve this? Thanks! Mark ...

Using Unreal 3 Engine within a .NET application

Now that the Unreal Development Kit for Unreal 3 engine is free I am thinking about utilizing it for an appication. Do you think it is possible to emebedd a Unreal 3 powered 3D window into a .NET (WPF or Windows Forms) and control parts of the gameobjects therein using c#? Is the engine plain c++? Or COM or is there a .NET wrapper or som...

Java - Zoom / 3D Data Visualization Libraries

What are the best libraries/frameworks for doing 3D and/or Zoom interfaces in Java? I'd like to be able to do some prototyping of creating new types of interfaces for navigating within data and representing object graphs/relationships. Low and no cost options are better. Open Source is also a plus. UPDATE: The higher level the api the ...

Unity3D, Torque3D, Google O3D, WebGl....which to choose?

for development of interactive 3d web applications, which engine is recommended? I am aware that WebGL has been anounced to become standarized for all browsers in the near future (1~2 years). I am afraid that by investing time into a proprietary game engine such as Unity, torque would be not great once plugin-less open source 3d engine...

Finding the spin of a sphere given X, Y, and Z vectors relative to sphere

I'm using Electro in Lua for some 3D simulations, and I'm running in to something of a mathematical/algorithmic/physics snag. I'm trying to figure out how I would find the "spin" of a sphere of a sphere that is spinning on some axis. By "spin" I mean a vector along the axis that the sphere is spinning on with a magnitude relative to the...

C++ Data Structure for storing 3 dimensions of floats.

I've implemented a 3D strange attractor explorer which gives float XYZ outputs in the range 0-100, I now want to implement a colouring function for it based upon the displacement between two successive outputs. I'm not sure of the data structure to use to store the colour values for each point, using a 3D array I'm limited to rounding t...

WPF 3d rotation animations

Hi Everyone, I have a few 3d rectangles on my screen that I want to pivot around the Y axis. I want to press down with the mouse, and rotate the 3d object to a max rotation, but when the user moves their mouse, I want to slightly rotate it so that it looks like a see-saw (rotating from a range of -13 to 13 degrees on the Y-Axis). At ...

WPF 3d ImageBrush material help

Hi all, Im trying to apply a material to my GeometryModel3D at runtime like so: var model3D = ShardModelVisual.Content as GeometryModel3D; var materialGroup = model3D.Material as MaterialGroup; BitmapImage image; ResourceLoader.TryLoadImage("pack://application:,,,/AnzSurface;component/path file/img.png"...

How to rotate 3d object on Z axis only?

We used 3DTools (http://3dtools.codeplex.com) to draw a 3d line, it allows user rotate it by mouse. I have question, how to limit user can rotate it on Z axis only? or on X axis, Y axis only? <tool:TrackballDecorator > <tool:Interactive3DDecorator ContainsInk="True"> <Viewport3D> <Viewport3D.Camera> ...

Java 3D plot library?

Ok so I'm doing a project on visualization of some financial stuff in java, the main objective is to take some input from the stock market, run it through a few equations and then plot the result as a 3D plot. I have almost everything done BUT the visualization (which is the most important I guess). At first I was thinking about using j...

Load 3D object in Silverlight 3/4

Is is possible to load 3D objects in a Silverlight 3 or Silverlight 4 application? (3DS Max objects or other formats). Besides loading the object I also need some basic interaction - simple rotations, zoom in/out. ...

Why and when should you use hoops 3d graphics?

My company needs 3D visualization for our commercial applications (CAD, mesh manipulation, computational geometry). We are tired of true vision 3D (tv3d), which we've been using for years (poor support, compatibility problems). Our manager wants to use hoops 3d from tech soft 3D for software development. While I have no experience of i...

How do I interpolate normals on Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces

I'm using CCSS to generate smooth surfaces. I've been using the regular subdivision rules to interpolate the surface/vertex normal, but I think this may be wrong. Are there different stencils to interpolate normals? ...

How to rotate an object in C# 3D?

I need to rotate an 3D mesh object on an axis in C#. Could you show me how this is done? ...

3D Engine for Driving Simulation

Is there any open-source 3D graphics and physics engine specialized in driving simulation? Something like a configurable game engine targeted at games that involve driving, or something more specialized to urban traffic conditions and that would implement scriptable traffic rules. Also, car motor parts and dashboard presentation would be...

How to determine 3D position of an object from perspective ?

I have a situation as shown in image, where I need to determine x,y of red and blue square in rectangular space but under perspective. Length and width of the rectangle are know. The rectangles are the same just viewed from different locations. Difference is that one is viewed with 90 degrees offset to the right of the rectangle. Tha...