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- Qt Quick 3D - Quick Items Example
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# Qt Quick 3D - Quick Items Example

Demonstrates the use of Qt Quick Items in Quick 3D scene.

This example demonstrates using Qt Quick 2D items in the Quick 3D scene.

#### Quick Items in a Quick 3D Scene

Qt Quick 2D Items, together with all their child items, can be added into Quick 3D scenes. When using Qt Quick types in the 3D scene, there are a few things to note:

- When an Item is inside a Node, its top-left corner is placed to the Node's origin. This means that the item will often want to specify `anchors.centerIn: parent` to ensure the Node's origin serves the center point of the Item.
- 3D transforms are inherited from the parent Node. If more than one `Item` should be affected by the same transform, then these items can be grouped together under a common parent Item under the Node.
- In Qt 6.0, items do not receive touch/mouse events e.g. with `MouseArea`, so they should be non-interactive.
- Quick items are not affected by lights and shadows.
- Clipping should be avoided and not relied on.

Unlike earlier Qt versions, and other 2D-in-3D embedding approaches, parenting a Qt Quick item to a Qt Quick 3D node does not imply creating a texture, rendering the 2D content to it, and then drawing a textured quad. Rather, Qt 6.0 supports rendering the 2D content within the same render pass as the 3D scene. This can present potentially huge performance improvements in practice. This does not apply when the Item were to render using an additional render target by design, for example because it has layer.enabled set to true, or because it is a ShaderEffectSource.

#### The test scene

The important parts of this example are the scene content of the `View3D` element.

We start by adding the layer furthest away from the camera. This layer contains `Rectangle`, `Text` and `Image` elements. To ensure that the elements in the layer are positioned correctly they are grouped together under a common parent `Item`. Note that all content is clipped inside this root item so it needs to be sized appropriately.

     Node {
         position: Qt.vector3d(0, 100, -120)
         Item {
             width: 400
             height: 400
             anchors.centerIn: parent
             Rectangle {
                 anchors.fill: parent
                 opacity: 0.4
                 color: "#202020"
                 radius: 10
                 border.width: 2
                 border.color: "#f0f0f0"
             }
             Text {
                 anchors.top: parent.top
                 anchors.topMargin: 10
                 anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
                 font.pixelSize: 20
                 color: "#e0e0e0"
                 style: Text.Raised
                 text: qsTr("Background Item")
             }
             Image {
                 anchors.centerIn: parent
                 source: "Built_with_Qt_RGB_logo_vertical"
             }
         }
     }

Next `Node` and its items are positioned a bit closer to the camera. It contains three `Rectangle` items which animate both the x position and the rotation. Note that the animations are done on the parent `Node` while the content of the Quick `Item` remains static. From a performance perspective this is a good approach with more complex items.

     Node {
         position: Qt.vector3d(0, 150, 100)
         SequentialAnimation on x {
             loops: Animation.Infinite
             NumberAnimation {
                 to: -200
                 duration: 1500
                 easing.type: Easing.InOutQuad
             }
             NumberAnimation {
                 to: 200
                 duration: 1500
                 easing.type: Easing.InOutQuad
             }
         }
         NumberAnimation on eulerRotation.z {
             loops: Animation.Infinite
             from: 0
             to: 360
             duration: 4000
             easing.type: Easing.InOutBack
         }
         Item {
             width: 400
             height: 400
             anchors.centerIn: parent
             // This allows rendering into offscreen surface and caching it.
             layer.enabled: true
             Rectangle {
                 x: 150
                 y: 100
                 width: 100
                 height: 100
                 radius: 50
                 color: "#80808020"
                 border.color: "black"
                 border.width: 2
             }
             Rectangle {
                 x: 90
                 y: 200
                 width: 100
                 height: 100
                 radius: 50
                 color: "#80808020"
                 border.color: "black"
                 border.width: 2
             }
             Rectangle {
                 x: 210
                 y: 200
                 width: 100
                 height: 100
                 radius: 50
                 color: "#80808020"
                 border.color: "black"
                 border.width: 2
             }
         }
     }

The third item layer of this example contains a single `Text` item with an opacity animation. The Text item is automatically centered into the parent `Node`.

     Node {
         position: Qt.vector3d(0, 80, 250)
         Text {
             anchors.centerIn: parent
             width: 300
             wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
             horizontalAlignment: Text.AlignJustify
             font.pixelSize: 14
             color: "#e0e0e0"
             style: Text.Raised
             text: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod " +
                   "tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim " +
                   "veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea " +
                   "commodo consequat."
             SequentialAnimation on opacity {
                 loops: Animation.Infinite
                 NumberAnimation {
                     to: 0
                     duration: 1500
                     easing.type: Easing.InOutQuad
                 }
                 NumberAnimation {
                     to: 1
                     duration: 1500
                     easing.type: Easing.InOutQuad
                 }
             }
         }
     }

To visualize z-ordering of the above Quick Item layers, we will also setup a model for the 3D wrecking ball. It animates rotation around the top `Node`, which makes the sphere move through the other layers.

     Node {
         position: Qt.vector3d(0, 800, 0)
         SequentialAnimation on eulerRotation.x {
             loops: Animation.Infinite
             NumberAnimation {
                 to: 20
                 duration: 3500
                 easing.type: Easing.InOutQuad
             }
             NumberAnimation {
                 to: -20
                 duration: 3500
                 easing.type: Easing.InOutQuad
             }
         }
         Model {
             source: "#Cylinder"
             y: -300
             scale: Qt.vector3d(0.1, 6.1, 0.1)
             materials: PrincipledMaterial {
                 baseColor: Qt.rgba(0.9, 0.9, 0.9, 1.0)
             }
         }
         Model {
             source: "#Sphere"
             y: -700
             scale: Qt.vector3d(2, 2, 2)
             materials: PrincipledMaterial {
                 baseColor: Qt.rgba(0.4, 0.4, 0.4, 1.0)
             }
         }
     }

Example project @ code.qt.io

See also Qt Quick 3D Scenes with 2D Content.