Drawing 3D lines with 2 Vertices

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Created Sep ’24

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Guten Tag, my project is simple, first I want draw wired Hexa,-Tetra- and Octahedrons. I draw a cube with Metal but I didn't found rotation, translation and scale. I have searched help , the examples I found are too complicated for me.

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Answered by DTS Engineer in 807462022

Taking this further w.r.t. SceneKit you would create an SCNGeometry from an SCNGeometrySource and attach that to an SCNNode i.e. "You position and orient a geometry in a scene by attaching it to an SCNNode object."

Similarly, you can animate the geometry with SCNNode's affine transform properties. See Managing the Node's Transform.

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Graphics and Games Engineer OP

Apple

Sep ’24

Metal is an advanced API for low-level 3D graphics programming. You seem to be working at a higher layer of abstraction. I recommend you look into using SceneKit instead of using Metal directly.

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DTS Engineer OP

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Oct ’24

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Taking this further w.r.t. SceneKit you would create an SCNGeometry from an SCNGeometrySource and attach that to an SCNNode i.e. "You position and orient a geometry in a scene by attaching it to an SCNNode object."

Similarly, you can animate the geometry with SCNNode's affine transform properties. See Managing the Node's Transform.

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