GlobeView.SurfaceMaterial Property
Gets or sets the material controlling how sunlight affects the visualization of the ground meshes.
Thread safety: This property is not thread-safe and it should only be accessed from the GUI thread. Show
Syntax
public Material SurfaceMaterial { get; set; }Property Value
Type: Material
Default: null
The material controlling how sunlight affects the visualization of the ground meshes.
Default: null
The material controlling how sunlight affects the visualization of the ground meshes.
Remarks
This property controls how the ground visualization is affected by sunlight. Material.Color and Material.AmbientColor basically specifies how bright the front and back sides of the globe relative to the sun position becomes. Material.SpecularColor and Material.Shininess can be used to create a specular highlight where the sunlight is reflected on the surface. Sunlight can also be turned off altogether by setting Material.Lighting to False. Other properties of the material are not used.
If this property is set to null, a default material with reasonable light parameters will be used.
Example
// Set up the surface material. This controls how the ground visualization
// is affected by sunlight.
public static void SetUpSurfaceMaterial(GlobeView globeView)
{
// Set the SunPosition to 01.01.2016 11:00 AM
globeView.SunPosition = new SunPosition(2016, 1, 1, 11, 0, 0);
// Create the surface material
Material surfaceMaterial = new Material();
// Enable lightning
surfaceMaterial.Lighting = true;
// Set the SpecularColor to white, to create a specular highlight where
// the sunlight is reflected on the surface.
surfaceMaterial.SpecularColor = Color.White;
// Color and AmbientColor basically specifies how bright the front and
// back sides of the globe relative to the sun position becomes.
// By default Color is white and AmbientColor is black.
// Set the surface material in the GlobeView
globeView.SurfaceMaterial = surfaceMaterial;
}
Platforms
Windows, Linux, Android