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The simulation of an in-game entity's motion, such as running or sitting or striking.
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How do I get started making Android games?
I am new to game development. I am interested in developing 2D games for the Android platform. What is the best place to start with (i.e) What are the basics and how to proceed? I already have ...
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Are there any open source or free 3D modelling/animation tools that are widely used by indie game developers?
I have tried out Blender and Milkshape 3D, but my question is mainly asking if there is any 3D animation/modelling software that is open source, free, or has an indie license available that is widely ...
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How to learn 2d animation?
Where can I learn how to do simple 2d animation well? Or is it really just literally drawing every single frame of something in photoshop? Is there tips or tricks? Tutorials to help get started?
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What is a good tool for producing animated sprites?
Has anyone come across a software package that allows you to build animations in a similar way to how you can in Flash (i.e. using techniques such as tweens & bones & easings, etc) and then ...
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How to tie a bullet release with a firing animation
Lets say you have an animation that you want to happen when firing a bullet. How would you get the bullet to show up at the end of the animation. The only thing I can figure out is to know the time ...
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Tool for creating Spritesheet? and Tips
I am looking for a tool that I can make Sprite sheet easily, right now I am using Illustrator, but I can never get the center of the character in the exact position, so it looks like it is moving ...
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Sprite Animation Best Practices
I'd like to get a better handle on how people in the real world are handling their animation.
Do you load 1 large image and then draw different rectangles based on the animation frame?
Do you load X ...
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What are the pros and cons of these voxel data file formats?
.VXL
.VOX
.KVX
.KV6
.V3A
.V3B
I am trying to decide whether it's worth going with any of the above, or some other, or if I should roll my own. The deciding factors in order of importance are:
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How to properly handle the landing part in a jump animation
Look at this sprite sheet.
It is clear that frame 1-3 are the "jump up" frames after which the last frame will be fixed until the "peak" of the jump (when gravity starts pulling back). When moving ...
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Dynamic model interactions
I am just curious as to how in many games (namely games like arkham asylum/city, manhunt, hitman) do they make it so that your character can "grab" a character in front of you and do stuff to them. I ...
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Is there a tool to help quickly define animation frames from non-uniform size sprite sheets?
Many of the sprite sheets online have non-uniform sized rectangles as the animation frames and often use a portion of the image for credits, etc., this makes it hard for a game engine to correctly ...
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Ledge grab and climb in Unity3D
I just started on a new project. In this project one of the main gameplay mechanics is that you can grab a ledge on certain points in a level and hang on to it.
Now my question, since I've been ...
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What are some great and useful resources for an Isometric game built on the XNA Framework?
I'm currently working on an isometric game using the Microsoft XNA Framework. I'm looking of resources that would be of use for making this a successful project, such as isometric engines, physics ...
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Moving an Object along a Curve while Rotating it
I woud like to move an object along a curve. At particular points on the curve, I wish the object to change speed and rotate itself along its axis.
Imagine an airplane flying to a destination. It has ...
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Are the Minecraft animations hardcoded into the game?
I would like to know how the animation system works in minecraft. I get a feeling that all the mobs are hardcoded into the game. Did notch really sit there and create the matrices for all the ...
