Custom RenderNode - Animated Windmills

This sample shows how to implement the RenderNode class to extend the WebGL rendering of a SceneView. A RenderNode offers a low-level interface to access the SceneView's WebGL context, and thus enables creating custom visualizations that interact with the scene the same way as built-in layers.

In this sample, wind measurements are queried from a service and used to place animated windmills and determine their orientation and the blade rotation speed. This data was created by modelling a windmill in Blender and then manually extracting the raw geometry data. In a production application the geometry would be loaded from another data source (e.g. glTF); loading geometry files is out of scope of this sample.

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