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GraphicsProxy RenderState

I've gotten a few questions lately about how to do some alpha effects using models, specifically MeshGraphicsObject. After you create the GraphicsObject, it has a RenderState object available on it. The fields on this object will be familiar to those
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WMS Data

I was having a discussion with Kurt Guenther from Infusion yesterday on the topic of WMS servers and VE3D. There is a large amount of very interesting spatial data out there served by Web Map Services , or WMS servers. VE3D is able to process this data
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New Version Released!

Our new version has gone live. Head on over to maps.live.com and click "3D" to upgrade. This release is billed primarily as a perf and bug release because it doesn't add a lot of new features at the end-user level (though I think you will be pleased with
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Information Pop-ups in WinForms

We've had several questions about how to do a pop-up form in WinForms, similar to the one on the website. The website pop-up is implemented entirely within the browser, using an IFrame. Therefore, the functionality does not exist by default in the managed
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Animated Textures

In addition to using dynamic buffers to animate geometry, you can also animate the textures on geometry. This is accomplished by using BitmapProvider. A BitmapProvider at its simplest is just a wrapper for a Bitmap, which can be used as the icon for a
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Actors and DataSources

In this sample, we create a DataSource, which is a class that can be used for large-scale data sets. It provides hooks into the system's spatial index, memory cache, and background data threads. Data from the DataSource will only be requested when it
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