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3D Solar System with OpenGL and C#

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A demo of a solar system programmed in OpenGL and C#
In this article, you will see a simple 3D solar system implementation with OpenGL and C#. In the demo, you will learn how OpenGL rotation works and how to rotate a mesh around an arbitrary axis. You will also make use of the main OpenGL primitives: Point, Line and Triangles.
/* 
 *This code is property of Vasily Tserekh
 *if you like it you can visit my personal dev blog
 *http://vasilydev.blogspot.com
*/

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using ShadowEngine;
using ShadowEngine.OpenGL; 
using Tao.OpenGl; 

namespace SistemaSolar
{
    public partial class MainForm : Form
    {
        //handle del viewport
        uint hdc;
        SolarSystem sistema = new SolarSystem();
        static bool showOrbit = true;
        static Vector2 formPos;
        int moviendo;

        public static Vector2 FormPos
        {
            get { return MainForm.formPos; }
            set { MainForm.formPos = value; }
        }

        public static bool ShowOrbit
        {
            get { return MainForm.showOrbit; }
            set { MainForm.showOrbit = value; }
        } 

        public MainForm()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            hdc = (uint)pnlViewPort.Handle;
            string error = "";
            //Comando de inicializacion de la ventana grafica
            OpenGLControl.OpenGLInit(ref hdc, pnlViewPort.Width, pnlViewPort.Height, ref error);
            //inicia la posicion de la camara asi como define en angulo de perspectiva,etc etc

            if (error != "")
            {
                MessageBox.Show(error);   
            }
            
            sistema.Camara.InitCamara(); 
            //Habilita las luces


            float[] materialAmbient = { 0.5F, 0.5F, 0.5F, 1.0F };
            float[] materialDiffuse = { 1f, 1f, 1f, 1.0f };
            float[] materialSpecular = { 1.0F, 1.0F, 1.0F, 1.0F };
            float[] materialShininess = { 10.0F }; // brillo 
            float[] ambientLightPosition = { 0F, 0F, 0F, 1.0F }; // posicion
            float[] lightAmbient = { 0.85F, 0.85F, 0.85F, 0.0F }; // intensidad de la luz

            Lighting.MaterialAmbient = materialAmbient;
            Lighting.MaterialDiffuse = materialDiffuse;
            Lighting.MaterialShininess = materialShininess;
            Lighting.AmbientLightPosition = ambientLightPosition;
            Lighting.LightAmbient = lightAmbient;

            Lighting.SetupLighting();  

            //cargar texturas
            ContentManager.SetTextureList("texturas\\");
            ContentManager.LoadTextures(); 
            sistema.CreateScene();
            Camara.CenterMouse(); 
            //Color de fondo
            Gl.glClearColor(0, 0, 0, 1);//red green blue alpha 
        }

        private void tmrPaint_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            
            Gl.glClear(Gl.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | Gl.GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
            
            sistema.Camara.Update(moviendo);
            
            sistema.DrawScene();
            
            Winapi.SwapBuffers(hdc);
         
            Gl.glFlush(); 
        }

        private void MainForm_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            formPos = new Vector2(this.Left, this.Top); 
        }

        private void pnlViewPort_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.Button == MouseButtons.Left)
            {
                moviendo = 1;
            }
            else
            {
                moviendo = -1;
            }
           
        }

        private void pnlViewPort_MouseUp(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
        {
            moviendo = 0;
        }

        private void MainForm_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.KeyCode  == Keys.Escape)
            {
                this.Close(); 
            }
            if (e.KeyCode == Keys.O)
            {
                if (showOrbit == true)
                    showOrbit = false;
                else
                    showOrbit = true; 
            }
        }
    }
}

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Born on 86, had my first computer at the age of 8, wrote my first code at the age of 15(pascal), began to study software engineering at 2005 and graduated in 2010. I have a dev blog www.vasilydev.blogspot.com. My real passion is 3D game programming and playing guitar. I've programmed stuff in C#, python, Delphi, PHP, C++, JS, QT and others...

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