Palettes

RadChartView3D has a built-in automatic coloring mechanism. There are predefined palettes containing 3D materials used to define the textures of the chart data points.

Here are all of the predefined chart palettes:

Name	Pallete
Arctic
Autumn
Cold
Flower
Forest
Grayscale
Ground
Lilac
Natural
Pastel
Rainbow
Spring
Summer
Warm
Windows8
Office2013
VisualStudio2013
Green
Office2016
Material
Fluent
Crystal
VisualStudio2019

A palette can be set via the Palette property of the chart. The property is of type System.Windows.Media.Media3D.MaterialCollection so you can easily create a custom palette.

Example 1: Setting a palette in XAML

<telerik:RadCartesianChart3D Palette="Windows8" /> 

You can access the predefined palettes in code using the Chart3DPalettes static class.

Example 2: Setting a palette in code

chart.Palette = Chart3DPalettes.Windows8; 

Each series added in the chart will use different entry from the MaterialCollection (the palette). If you have a single series, only the first material from the collection is used.

Figure 2: Chart with 3 BarSeries3D colored using the Windows8 palette

The DefaultVisualMaterial property of the series has a higher precedence than the palette materials.

Create a custom palette

The chart allows you to create a custom palette by defining a MaterialCollection and populating it with System.Windows.Media.Media3D.Material objects. The new collection can be assinged to the Palette property of the chart.

Example 3: Defining a custom palette

<FrameworkElement.Resources>         
    <MaterialCollection x:Key="customPalette">             
        <DiffuseMaterial Brush="#0078D7"/> 
        <DiffuseMaterial Brush="#EE5315"/> 
        <DiffuseMaterial Brush="#FFCE43"/> 
    </MaterialCollection>         
</FrameworkElement.Resources> 

Example 4: Applying the custom palette

 <telerik:RadCartesianChart3D Palette="{StaticResource customPalette}"> 

Example 5: Complete example of setting a custom palette

<Grid> 
    <FrameworkElement.Resources> 
        <MaterialCollection x:Key="customPalette"> 
            <DiffuseMaterial Brush="#0078D7"/> 
            <DiffuseMaterial Brush="#EE5315"/> 
            <DiffuseMaterial Brush="#FFCE43"/> 
        </MaterialCollection> 
    </FrameworkElement.Resources> 
    <telerik:RadCartesianChart3D Palette="{StaticResource customPalette}"> 
        <telerik:RadCartesianChart3D.XAxis> 
            <telerik:CategoricalAxis3D /> 
        </telerik:RadCartesianChart3D.XAxis> 
        <telerik:RadCartesianChart3D.YAxis> 
            <telerik:CategoricalAxis3D /> 
        </telerik:RadCartesianChart3D.YAxis> 
        <telerik:RadCartesianChart3D.ZAxis> 
            <telerik:LinearAxis3D /> 
        </telerik:RadCartesianChart3D.ZAxis> 
        <telerik:RadCartesianChart3D.Series> 
            <telerik:BarSeries3D> 
                <telerik:BarSeries3D.DataPoints> 
                    <telerik:XyzDataPoint3D XValue="R1" YValue="2013" ZValue="40" /> 
                    <telerik:XyzDataPoint3D XValue="R1" YValue="2014" ZValue="50" /> 
                    <telerik:XyzDataPoint3D XValue="R1" YValue="2015" ZValue="60" /> 
                </telerik:BarSeries3D.DataPoints>                   
            </telerik:BarSeries3D> 
            <telerik:BarSeries3D> 
                <telerik:BarSeries3D.DataPoints> 
                    <telerik:XyzDataPoint3D XValue="R2" YValue="2013" ZValue="30" /> 
                    <telerik:XyzDataPoint3D XValue="R2" YValue="2014" ZValue="40" /> 
                    <telerik:XyzDataPoint3D XValue="R2" YValue="2015" ZValue="50" /> 
                </telerik:BarSeries3D.DataPoints> 
            </telerik:BarSeries3D> 
            <telerik:BarSeries3D> 
                <telerik:BarSeries3D.DataPoints> 
                    <telerik:XyzDataPoint3D XValue="R3" YValue="2013" ZValue="20" /> 
                    <telerik:XyzDataPoint3D XValue="R3" YValue="2014" ZValue="30" /> 
                    <telerik:XyzDataPoint3D XValue="R3" YValue="2015" ZValue="40" /> 
                </telerik:BarSeries3D.DataPoints> 
            </telerik:BarSeries3D> 
        </telerik:RadCartesianChart3D.Series> 
        <telerik:RadCartesianChart3D.Grid> 
            <telerik:CartesianChart3DGrid /> 
        </telerik:RadCartesianChart3D.Grid> 
    </telerik:RadCartesianChart3D> 
</Grid> 

Figure 3: Chart with custom palette

See Also

• Getting Started
• Customizing Cartesian Chart 3D Series
• Material
• MaterialCollection