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How can I implement a “boost pad” with Farseer/Box2D physics?
I'm trying to implement a boost pad in my XNA game using the Farseer Physics Engine. (This question applies to Box2D too, I would be happy to port working Box2D code to C#.)
By "boost pad", I mean an ...
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Box2D/Farseer - Moving fixtures on a Static Body
I am attempting to create a Pool of Fixtures, in order to reduce memory consumption. My problem is that when I attempt to return a Fixture to the Pool and re-assign its position on the Parent Body, ...
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When connecting a physics engine to another engine, should you do all your logic in the units used by the physics side or the rendering side
I'm currently intergrating pygame and pyBox2D, and am wondering which side is best to try to keep to in terms of game units of size.
Box2D is Meters
PyGame is Pixels
At the moment I am thinking I ...
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Connecting 2D skeletal animation to physics engine
I'd like to use skeletal animations in my 2D game, and since I already use Box2D as the physics engine, I'd like to enable (but not enforce) ragdoll animations as well. I need some help in figuring ...
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Box2D high-level c++ wrapper
Is there a high level wrapper around Box2D out there?
I know that the library isn't exactly very low level as-is, but in my opinion some things in the library could be made more intuitive at the cost ...
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How to detect collisions in AS3?
I'm trying to make a simple game, when the ball falls into certain block, you win.
Mechanics: The ball falls through several obstacles, in the end there are two blocks, if the ball touches the left ...
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Box2D physics editor for complex bodies
Is there any editor out there that would allow me to define complex entities, with joins connecting their multiple bodies, instead of regular single body entities? For example, an editor that would ...
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Should I write my own physics engine, because of networking integration?
I'm currently developing a top down, realtime, zombie shooter. I'm coding this in Java, using JBox2D as my physics engine. I have been coding the networking this week, and am now up to the physics ...
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How do you do AI path following within a 2d physics engine like farseer/box2d?
I'm in the process of moving a 2d top down game I've been working on into a proper rigid body physics engine like Farseer. Up until now, I had just hacked together my own physics code where needed.
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AS3 > Mouse Event not happening?
Background: Trying to make a ball appear in the same location the mouse is positioned. Using Box2D Library. Working on a class file (.as)
Issue: The mouse event does not work (I click but nothing ...
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Moving a big set of box2d bodies in an iOS endless side-scroller game (such as Canabalt)
I am working on an iOS endless-running game (Robot Unicorn, Canabalt, etc). I'm using box2d for the Physics and Collision Checking and cocos2d for graphics.
To achieve the notion of an endless level, ...
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Cocos2d Box2d how to shoot an object inside the screen
I have the code below :
- (id) initWithGame:(mainGame*)game {
if ((self = [super init])) {
isTouchEnabled_ = YES;
self.game = game;
CGSize size = [[CCDirector ...
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How can I respond to mouse events in AS3?
Background:
Trying to make a simple "drop the ball" game.
The code is located inside the first frame of the timeline. Nothing more is on the stage.
Issue:
Using QuickBox2D I made a simple If ...
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Handling player/background movements in 2D games
Suppose you have your animated character controlled by the player and a 2D world (like the old 2D side-scrolling games). When the user press right on the keyboard, the background is moved to the ...
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Cocos2d: carom like game
Now I am working on carrom like game using cocos2d+Box2d. I set world gravity(0,0), want gravity in z - axis.
I set following value for coin striker body:
Coin body:
density = 20.0f;
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