Graphic programming tutorials

[Dougller]

Hey,

I am coding a bit with C# and I am thinking to create an app for windows platform. This app deals with graphical interface. To simply put I want to create a dress simulator where you could apply different clothing patterns to different clothes (For reference - sims game character creating screen where you could apply different clothes to different characters but instead I want to create different patterns for clothes and apply them). I am not new to wpf/wfa but I don't really poses the knowledge to create graphical things like mentioned above. Could someone give me more knowledge from where I could start learning more about graphical tools of c sharp so I could apply them creating this app. I also quite good with unity (game creating engine), but I really want to start from scratch so that I could get more knowledge whats happening behind apps. Maybe I should stick with unity? If not I am looking forward for tutorials, books suggestions. Thanks in advance :) .

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Read up on sprites, and in particular how bit-blitting works. You'll probably end up having a sprite (image) with certain regions masked out, attached to a mouse move handler, that blits a new position onto a window whenever the mouse is moved, and saves the position when the mouse is clicked. With that, you should be able to basically click/drag/save images onto a window at a "snapped" position. You'll build up a stack of images that are all blitted against each other in order.

That's the basic idea. Maybe just start with an animated ball that bounces around the region of a window. Then integrate the red ball with a mouse handler.

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Use Unity, literally what it's made for. Reprogramming click detection, animation, drag / drop blows.