Mixing 3D and 2D

In FireMonkey, you can mix 2D with 3D. In a 3D form, we can use 2D user interface controls, or we can embed the special TViewport3D component in a standard FireMonkey 2D form to do some 3D rendering.

In this example, we are going to add some special visual effects by building a 2D user interface in the 3D space. This will allow the user to interact with the app in a traditional way, but we could do some extra things such as rotating or moving the whole user interface in 3D space for a surprising user experience.

On the Tool palette, we can find the 3D Layers category with different 3D controls for using normal 2D controls. In this demo, we will use the TLayer3D component to pretend that the user interface is 2D, but at any moment in time, we can do something in 3D.

These are the steps for building the app:

1. Create a new multi-device Delphi project and select Blank Application as the application type.
2. Save the main form’s unit as uFormTwistMe...