Can anyone suggest how to get started with 3d rendering in mono

[alanb]

I am new to mono and working on an linux system, having previously written ms c# on windows. I am writing a small application to generate tool paths for a simple cnc system I have built (its a hobby). I would like to include a 3d display of the path so that I can see what the output would be. I have some knowledge of 3d graphics theory but dont want to start from scratch (cant see the need). So can someone suggest a good package that I can use, I would like a 3d canvas widget that I can program against. I have looked around the net and found it most confusing regarding openGL which I assume is the way to go. I liked the look of the python opengl library it looked easy to work with however I do want to stick with c# as it is my preferred language. So can anyone suggest a c# based opengl framework available on ubuntu 8.04 seemingly as easy to use as the pyopengl one.

thanks

Alan

[Daniel Hofmann-2]

Hi,

as for an alternative to the pyopengl bindings useable from c#, the
taoframework
is probably the way to go. They have several great bindings to different
C-APIs. http://www.taoframework.com/project
There are packages for debian and probably as well for ubuntu. On debian
they
share the prefix libtaoframework-*.

But as the name "bindings" suggests, Tao.OpenGl for example only
provides the functionality of opengl which of its own doesn't have any
easy to use canvas.

There are many Frameworks out there that extend the basic opengl
functionality
(csgl, clutter, sdl, glfw).
Within the tao-project Tao.Sdl and Tao.Glfw provide the functionality of
having a window to draw stuff in, processing user input etc. but still
don't integrate very well with GUI-toolkits. Maybe that's already what
you were looking for .. (There's also Tao.FreeGlut but that's pretty
outdated).

If you really need 3d canvas widget functionality this of course depends
on the GUI-Toolkit you're using.
If you're using gtk# there's http://www.mono-project.com/GtkGLAreaSharp 
though I
don't know much about it, and I'm afraid the installation could be far
from straightforward.

hope this helps a bit,
 Daniel

alanb wrote:

> I am new to mono and working on an linux system, having previously written ms
> c# on windows. I am writing a small application to generate tool paths for a
> simple cnc system I have built (its a hobby). I would like to include a 3d
> display of the path so that I can see what the output would be. I have some
> knowledge of 3d graphics theory but dont want to start from scratch (cant
> see the need). So can someone suggest a good package that I can use, I would
> like a 3d canvas widget that I can program against. I have looked around the
> net and found it most confusing regarding openGL which I assume is the way
> to go. I liked the look of the python opengl library it looked easy to work
> with however I do want to stick with c# as it is my preferred language. So
> can anyone suggest a c# based opengl framework available on ubuntu 8.04
> seemingly as easy to use as the pyopengl one.
>
> thanks
>
> Alan
>  

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