Perspective scaling in GDI+ .net 2.0

[PhatoseAlpha]

Are there any freely available libraries that will allow me to do perspective scaling (or at the very least, to distort a square image into a trapezoid)? When attempting to do this via microsoft's built in libs, I get 'not implemented' exception, which makes me cuss at the type of people who expose a function then don't implement it.

 

[aCynic2]

Off the top of my head with no code to present, have you considered mapping it as a texture to a square polygon and then moving it in 3-space or moving the camera to a lower part looking up?

 

[PhatoseAlpha]

Unfortunately, GDI+ doesn't do 3d. Unless I'm wildly mistaken, DirectX or XNA won't help me here as a workaround, since this is for a web deployment, and I can't expect the server to have either installed, even if they are usable via asp.net.

 

[aCynic2]

Oh it does support 3D, just not natively.

What language are you using?

here's something in VB:

http://www.codeguru.com/vb/gen...gdi/article.php/c2359/

 

[PhatoseAlpha]

vb.net in .net 2.0.

 

[postmortemIA]

Can't you just make a class that does what you want to do?

 

[PhatoseAlpha]

Theoretically, sure. It's just that the time/benefit ratio changes a great deal if I have to implement it myself, and it's not worth it.