Point3DAnimation Class
Assembly: PresentationCore (in presentationcore.dll)
XML Namespace: http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation
An animation updates the value of a property over a period of time. An animation effect can be subtle, such as moving a Shape a few pixels left and right, or dramatic, such as enlarging an object to 200 times its original size while spinning it and changing its color. To create an animation in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), you associate an animation with an object's property value.
Target Values
The Point3DAnimation class creates a transition between two target values. To set its target values, use its From, To, and By properties. The following table summarizes how the From, To, and By properties may be used together or separately to determine an animation's target values.
| Properties specified | Resulting behavior |
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| From | The animation progresses from the value specified by the From property to the base value of the property being animated or to a previous animation's output value, depending on how the previous animation is configured. |
| From and To | The animation progresses from the value specified by the From property to the value specified by the To property. |
| From and By | The animation progresses from the value specified by the From property to the value specified by the sum of the From and By properties. |
| To | The animation progresses from the animated property's base value or a previous animation's output value to the value specified by the To property. |
| By | The animation progresses from the base value of the property being animated or a previous animation's output value to the sum of that value and the value specified by the By property. |
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| If you set both the To and By properties, the To property takes precedence and the By property is ignored. |
To use other interpolation methods or animate between more than two target values, use a Point3DAnimationUsingKeyFrames object.
For information about applying multiple animations to a single property, see KeyFrame Animations.
Freezable Features
Because the Point3DAnimation class inherits from Freezable, Point3DAnimation objects gain several special features, which include the following: they can be declared as resources, shared among multiple objects, made read-only to improve performance, cloned, and made thread-safe. For more information about the different features provided by Freezable objects, see the Freezable Objects Overview.
The following example shows how to animate the position of a camera and animate the direction it is pointing in a 3D scene. This is done by using Point3DAnimation and Vector3DAnimation to animate the Position and LookDirection properties respectively of the PerspectiveCamera. You might use an animation like this to change the onlooker's view of a scene in response to an event.
<Page xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" > <DockPanel> <Viewbox> <Canvas Width="321" Height="201"> <Viewport3D Name="MyAnimatedObject" ClipToBounds="True" Width="150" Height="150" Canvas.Left="0" Canvas.Top="10"> <!-- Defines the camera used to view the 3D object. The position and direction of this camera is animated in the Storyboard below. --> <Viewport3D.Camera> <PerspectiveCamera x:Name="myPerspectiveCamera" Position="0,0,2" LookDirection="0,0,-1" FieldOfView="45" /> </Viewport3D.Camera> <Viewport3D.Children> <ModelVisual3D> <ModelVisual3D.Children> <!-- This resource defines the 3D cube that is used in this example.--> <StaticResource ResourceKey="PictureCubeModelVisual3DResource" /> </ModelVisual3D.Children> </ModelVisual3D> </Viewport3D.Children> <Viewport3D.Triggers> <EventTrigger RoutedEvent="Viewport3D.Loaded"> <BeginStoryboard> <Storyboard> <!-- This animation moves the camera around the object. The object is not changing position or rotating but moving the camera makes it appear that it is.--> <Point3DAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="myPerspectiveCamera" Storyboard.TargetProperty="Position" From="0,0,2" To="1,2,3" Duration="0:0:4" RepeatBehavior="Forever"/> <!-- As the position of the camera changes using the Point3DAnimation above, the direction the camera is pointing swivels to keep the object within the view of the camera. --> <Vector3DAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="myPerspectiveCamera" Storyboard.TargetProperty="LookDirection" From="0,0,-1" To="-1,-2,-3" Duration="0:0:4" RepeatBehavior="Forever"/> </Storyboard> </BeginStoryboard> </EventTrigger> </Viewport3D.Triggers> </Viewport3D> </Canvas> </Viewbox> </DockPanel> </Page>
More Code
| How to: Animate a Property Without Using a Storyboard | This example shows one way to apply an animation to a property without using a Storyboard. |
| How to: Animate a Property by Using a Storyboard | This example shows how to use a Storyboard to animate properties. To animate a property by using a Storyboard, create an animation for each property that you want to animate and also create a Storyboard to contain the animations. |
System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherObject
System.Windows.DependencyObject
System.Windows.Freezable
System.Windows.Media.Animation.Animatable
System.Windows.Media.Animation.Timeline
System.Windows.Media.Animation.AnimationTimeline
System.Windows.Media.Animation.Point3DAnimationBase
System.Windows.Media.Animation.Point3DAnimation
Windows 98, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows CE, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows Mobile for Pocket PC, Windows Mobile for Smartphone, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition
The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 is supported on Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 SP1.
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