Adding Stride implementation (code only) to existing Maui project?

[jonmdev]

Let's say you have a Maui project created by File > New > MAUI project in Visual Studio 2022. If you want to add Stride 3D scene to this, is it possible?

The steps I would imagine would be:

1) Add Stride Package

Add Stride to existing Maui project by Package Manager. According to this and this Stride can do well with code only in .NET by just adding the Community Toolkit to an existing Visual Studio project. Is this true?

If you don't need the Editor, can the Community Toolkit alone handle basic tasks like camera, simple FBX models, animations?

2) Create & Run Stride Scene

Ideally, perhaps, we can then add FBX's, textures, or other assets to our Resources folder, and then instantiate a 3D scene programmatically somehow from these using the Stride code in the background, with a function run from inside the Maui project to start/stop the Stride scene.

3) Map Stride Camera > Maui View

The output of a camera could then be somehow transferred into a Native view element (TextureView or SurfaceView in Android, SwapChainPanel in WIndows, UIView or NSView in iOS).

This could then be mapped into Maui as a View, for example following this guide.

QUESTION

Is this feasible? Is adding Stride to an existing Maui app (for iOS/Android/Windows support) remotely possible?

Thanks for any help or ideas.

[Doprez]

1

Yes! One of the main reasons I love Stride is that its all Nuget packages! even the game studio editor which for some reason surprised me.

2

This is definitely possible, the only caveat being that the current asset importers from Stride are Windows specific so you may have to use a third party library to import them at runtime on another platform if that is an issue. this is an example of loading GLTF files at runtime so you could use most of the same code but instead use an FBX compatible library.

3

Some examples here may help:
WPF - https://gist.github.com/EricEzaM/5797be1f4b28f15e9be53287a02d3d67
Winforms - https://github.com/windperson/-StrideGameNet5WinFormsDemo

You should be able to use the handle of the GameWindow to render to another UI if you want to see where to look in source you should check this folder out. Since it is not only Directx I dont think it gives you direct access to the swap chain.

[VaclavElias]

@wenleyluk, I have been working on the fix, I hope I should finalise it today https://discord.com/channels/500285081265635328/1179562410655363132

[VaclavElias]

@wenleyluk, please try preview38, just released https://github.com/stride3d/stride-community-toolkit/releases/tag/1.0.0.0-preview.38

[wenleyluk]

@VaclavElias ,Thank you for your hard working.

But the error on building for Android is still exits after updated to both Stride.CommunityToolkit & Stride.CommunityToolkit.Skyboxes with preview 38 !!

Is it caused by the Skyboxes nuget package does NOT support build for Android platform ?

[IXLLEGACYIXL]

@VaclavElias ,Thank you for your hard working.

But the error on building for Android is still exits after updated to both Stride.CommunityToolkit & Stride.CommunityToolkit.Skyboxes with preview 38 !!

Is it caused by the Skyboxes nuget package does NOT support build for Android platform ?

the skybox itself is the Problem

[IXLLEGACYIXL]

there have been multiple reports on #android in disocrd that the skybox is broken for mobile https://discord.com/channels/500285081265635328/1152588396288544819/1200886532375060592

[VaclavElias]

@VaclavElias ,Thank you for your hard working.

But the error on building for Android is still exits after updated to both Stride.CommunityToolkit & Stride.CommunityToolkit.Skyboxes with preview 38 !!

Is it caused by the Skyboxes nuget package does NOT support build for Android platform ?

Well, you don't need to use the Skybox Nuget. It is optional, Stride.CommunityToolkit NuGet is not referencing it.

If you would like, you can fork also Stride.CommunityToolkit and Stride.CommunityToolkit.Skyboxes and see if you can fix it, maybe Stride.CommunityToolkit.Skyboxes needs more set up?

But if you remove Stride.CommunityToolkit.Skyboxes, at least, you will see if your build is still working?