I've modeled using helixtoolkit which is done in a wpf user control library and hosted on ElementHost. I decided to do this because my model is fairly simple (just a stick element with lineVisual3d and bunch of small spheres).
Now I want to animate it and everything I find related to animation seems too complicated for what I'm trying to accomplish. I've seen storyboard being suggested as well as transform methods.
What I have is a 3D line connected by a bunch of points3D and I want to translate them only by a series of values at a fixed time increment.
I did this in a 2D graph using a timer for winform and even a forloop did the trick.
However, I'm not sure how to do the same for a 3D line element. I was thinking that since I have a simple structure simply redrawing it would suffice.
But my problem is I want to add a slider which acts in pretty much the same way as a video player, it will increment itself as the animation runs, I want to also be able to freeze it at any point in time and use the slider to go to any point in time much like how a video player works.
My biggest question here is how do I use a slider to control the animation. Again, this animation will simply be a bunch of values that I want to translate the stick element by(a series of points).
I've already got the values but I want to add an animation for these values at every increment while being able to control it using a slider.
--I will post any code if necessary, not posting any right now because I dont know what would help explain the question better
You can use TranslationTransform3D and apply the transform onto the 3D Model
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I'm trying to create a viewer in react-three-fiber with react-three/drei where I can switch between OrbitControls and TrackballControls.
The problem is that when switching from TrackballControls to OrbitControls, the axis that the camera rotates around changes as of course the TrackballControls change the up-vector when moving around.
I created a couple of minimal examples in codesandbox to explain my approach to solve this and to show where I'm stuck.
Base Case
This shows the initial attempt to switch between the different control types:
https://codesandbox.io/s/r3f-camera-controllers-base-neu07
Attempt #1
Obviously, this does not work as it is, so I tried resetting the up-vector to (0, 1, 0) and calling lookAt(). This seems to work initially as the camera reorients itself correctly (this is how it should look like). However, it does not rotate around the correct axis and instead moves in strange arcs. See here:
https://codesandbox.io/s/r3f-camera-controllers-set-up-vector-yps4k
Attempt #2
For this question it was suggested to create a new camera which I also tried but ultimately it lead to the same result. This here is my attempt at creating a new camera and copying some values to the new camera:
https://codesandbox.io/s/r3f-camera-controllers-reset-camera-3cih0
Any help appreciated. Thanks!
After a couple of days, I finally figured out a way to achieve what I want.
Instead of trying to remove the different controls, I just enable and disable them separately. I can then call the reset() functions on both Controls via a ref if the control prop changes. To retain the camera position, I can just temporarily store it before resetting the controls.
You can find an example here.
I am working on a project that requires a slider control that corresponds to an image and or a multitude of div objects. The spacing of the slider is irregular (the steps could be [1,4,7,13,14,16...]). Also the steps will correspond to specific spots on an image and or to a specific div object. The perfect slider would be dynamic and re-size with the screen but that may be actually impossible.
The hard part is that I am unable to use JQueryUI, instead I am limited to using controls that work with AngularJS.
I have been looking for hours and cannot find anything that would be a good starting point. So my question is whether anyone has found a good slider control to use with AngularJS?
This one fits some of your criteria
angularjs-slider
I'm trying to make an application which allows the user to draw shapes to the canvas. Once drawn, I would like for the user to be able to select, move, resize, basically manipulate the shapes in any which way.
I have done something similar in XNA and that was quite easy due to the fact that there was a draw loop. In Silverlight there is no such thing as far as I understand and I am having trouble figuring out how to manage the objects on the canvas. As in what is the best way to manage the canvas' children collection to ensure appropriate response of the UI to what the user does.
Most examples out there are pretty basic and do not go anywhere near this kind of thing. I would be grateful if somebody who has done this before could tell me how they approached the problem.
Thinking about it for a while I think I figured out how it works.
There is a draw loop for the canvas, which is the draw loop of the top level parent container which it lives on.
The difference with XNA I guess is that the collection of items to draw on the canvas doesn't need to be explicitly drawn, since the canvas takes care of drawing its children automatically.
So, what I need is some way to hold on to any object I add to the canvas' children... I can then update the objects drawing properties and the changes will be reflected in the canvas next time it refreshes.
I guess a dictionary of some sort in which to store the items I put in the list might be best...?
Not a finished answer yet, but I guess I understand half of it now.
I have a WPF application with many tabs..
in one tab.. i make a verycomplex vector drawing consisting of thousands of drawing visuals.. (this represents a machine and all elements need to be interactable..)
It takes 3/4 seconds for drawing this for the first time..After the first draw it should be done..
The problem is if i switch to another tab and comeback, it takes atlease 2,3 seconds to show the tabpage with drawing again.. Since there is no redraw, why should it take so much time..?
If the component is not going to change, you could call Freeze() on it to mark it as done. Without trying it out I don't know if that would help, but you could give it a shot.
Not all objects are Freezable. Check out the MSDN documentation for more info:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms750509.aspx
Another thing you could try would be rendering the vector art to a bitmap, and displaying that. Maybe it makes you feel icky to lose the vector precision, but if you know it's not going to change and it will look the same, what's the harm? (If you support printing or something that will require a hi-res version, you could always switch back for that operation.) For info on how to convert a UIElement to a bitmap, check out:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.media.imaging.rendertargetbitmap.aspx
Another possible solution: You don't really explain what kind of interaction you are doing with the elements, but if all you want to do is zoom and pan, a RenderTransform may be good enough (which is more efficient than a LayoutTransform and/or moving all the elements individually). I haven't played around with combining Freeze() and a RenderTransform, but you may be able to get the desired zooming while reducing the amount of layout WPF has to do.
I am new to WPF in general and want to add some animation to my interface.
I have a label and an image. The label will fly in from the right side of the window, the image from the left. They'll meet in the center. The image will rotate while its flying in, while the text will pretty much just move across the screen.
So my question is. For this kind of animation do you get a path object where you can draw a line at design time and have elements move across this line at a certain speed?
In classic windows forms I would have approached the issue using a timer and then adjust the left property of the label at each tick. Surely WPF is more sophisticated than this though.
So can anyone tell me a good approach?
First: You need ExpressionBlend to create animation in WPF.
WPF is more sophisticated
Of course no, read about animation in WPF, Personally, I prefer video learning for it.
you can find here some clips, I recommend this series from Total training.