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Expert Delphi

You're reading from   Expert Delphi Robust and fast cross-platform application development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460165
Length 506 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paweł Głowacki Paweł Głowacki
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Preface 1. Fasten Your Seat Belts FREE CHAPTER 2. Mind Your Language 3. Packing Up Your Toolbox 4. Playing with FireMonkey 5. FireMonkey in 3D 6. Building User Interfaces with Style 7. Working with Mobile Operating System 8. Extending to the Internet of Things 9. Embedding Databases 10. Integrating with Web Services 11. Building Mobile Backends 12. App Deployment 13. The Road Ahead

Using 3D models

Until now, we have been using different out-of-the-box 3D objects that come with built-in geometries. The FireMonkey library provides the TModel3D component that makes it possible to use geometries defined outside of Delphi, typically using a 3D modeling software and importing mesh data from one of the supported 3D file formats.

FireMonkey supports importing 3D models from OBJ, DAE, and ASE file formats. These are standard formats supported by many 3D modeling software packages.

If you have 3D modeling artistic skills then you can create your own models. Many programmers don't, so they need already existing models for their 3D apps. There are many websites offering free and commercial 3D models. One of them is www.turbosquid.com where I found a nice royalty-free OBJ model of a medieval helmet (https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/free-3ds-model-medieval-helmet...

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