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Is showing a collision in slow motion computationally relaxing?
In a lot of racing games (Burnout Paradise, for example) when a collision is about to happen, the game play automatically switches to slow motion and carries on in slow sequence until after the ...
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1answer
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Cross-Sections of 3D Rendered Objects
I am currently trying to look into techniques that allow the calculation of arbitrary cross-sections of a 3D object or rendered volume. However, I have been unable to find much on the topic. I know of ...
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Should I use Game Engines to learn to make 3D games?
HI i am a software engineering student in his second-last year.
I am proficient with C,C++,C# and java programming languages, and being a student of engineering I have studied calculus, vectors etc ...
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A comparison of graphics libraries and their respective programming languages [closed]
A comparison of graphics libraries and their respective programming languages. A.K.A. "Which do I pick? With a twist."
I'm a long time professional programmer who never gave up on programming as a ...
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What is the state of the art at shipping game graphics such as lots of small BMP files?
We have lots of small BMP files which I think would be easier to copy if we had them combined in a big TAR/ZIP/whatever.
What is the state of the art at shipping game graphics?
We are using C# and ...
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1answer
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What exactly makes up a screen in a typical C64 game?
I'm trying to figure out the basics of C64 game development past BASIC, and I could use some advice on something very basic, but important: What is all that stuff on the screen actually, and how to ...
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Quick 2D sight area calculation algorithm?
I have a matrix of tiles, on some of that tiles there are objects. I want to calculate which tiles are visible to player, and which are not, and I need to do it quite efficiently (so it would compute ...
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How to efficiently handle registration/anchor points for graphics?
I am currently working on an iPhone project, but most of my work has been in Flash. Flash has a feature where you can place a bitmap into a MovieClip, set its registration point with the mouse and ...
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1answer
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How do I make light objects in XNA?
Here's my dilemma : I want to have light sources placeable by the player, in terms of lanterns.
I know the best way to do this is to use pixel shaders, which I have done a lot of research and use ...
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1answer
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Question on how a 3d image is drawn
When A computer is to draw a 3d model, does it use maths similar to vector projection? Like when a 3d model is drawn and rotated, does it use vectors/and maybe some other math to know where to draw ...
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What to look for when searching an artist for doing graphics?
I was wondering which skills I should ask for when I need someone to make the graphical part for a 2D game intended for iOS or Android.
Not really looking for someone right now, but working on a ...
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1answer
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Graphics Pipeline, how exactly it works and how graphics card interprets it?
I've looked at this Wikipedia's link, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_pipeline, but the article lacks in-depth explanation.
The only thing, I suppose, I understand and can expand upon, is, ...
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what is the simplest 3d software for unity?
Ive heard a lot about Daz studio, Poser, Maya, K-3d, Anim8or, Blender, and all the rest.
My question is which one is the best choice in terms of simplicity and quality. price is not an issue really. ...
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How to deal with arbitrarily large images in 2D games?
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When you have a 2D game that uses really large images (larger than your hardware can support), what do you do? Maybe there's some interesting solution to this problem that never occured to ...
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1answer
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How do engines like Unreal relate to OpenGL or D3D?
Well I'm completely completely new to computer graphics and even more to game development. I am searching info and all that stuff to have the basics quickly. But there's a big question mark in my ...
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1answer
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How can I transform a point from world space to object space?
If I have an object space described by transformation matrix that should be applied to object to transform it to world space, what I have to do to transform point (world space) to that object space.
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Fitting 3D points representing bones to a BVH animation file
I am developing a motion capture animation system and I want my data to be stored within a BVH file. At the moment I have measured the size of the actor so I can create the hierarchy of the BVH file. ...
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1answer
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Computer generated 2d graphics for games - how to get started
I've seen a lot of nice 2d games recently, like Geometry wars that have really nice computer generated graphics.
I would like to know how is it done so game looks really nice even if it is composed ...
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What features does D3D have that OpenGL does not (and vice versa)?
Are there any feature comparisons on Direct3D 11 and the newest OpenGL versions?
Well, simply put, Direct3D 11 introduced three main features (taken from Wikipedia):
Tessellation
Multithreaded ...
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1answer
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Customiazable graphical weapon models
I'm new to game dev. I need 2D or 3D models of real weapons for an app I'm writing.
But I'm no 2D/3D graphics genius ;)
Is there any place where I can get such things? For free or commercially. Both ...
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1answer
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Can I use one set of images to represent multiple sprites in Java?
I've got a game that has 3 basic sprites, at the moment I'm loading 8 images into each sprite for animating.
Each character class has a sprite object.
if I've got 10 characters on screen at once ...
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2answers
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Getting the number of fragments which passed the depth test
In "modern" environments, the "NV Occlusion Query" extension provides a method to get the number of fragments which passed the depth test. However, on the iPad / iPhone using OpenGL ES, the extension ...
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Where can I find free game assets? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Where can I find free sprites and images?
I am making a 2D isometric game and I want to know where to get some free resources of buildings, avatars, cars, and ...
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Where can I find a collection of images or frames? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Where can I find free sprites and images?
Is there a repository of small images... for example a spacecraft in space or a Mario Bros jumping and running...
Thanks in ...
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1answer
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rendering a reflection on a texture [closed]
I want to render reflection on a planar surface but the reflecting surface has a texture mapped onto it.Would the normal technique of using stencil buffer and then blending in the reflected image with ...
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Clipping frustum to portal - where's the bug?
I'm working on the implementation of portal rendering into my personal engine project. Right now, portals are hard-coded, rectangular polygons.
In general, there are three possible cases:
None of ...
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1answer
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What C++ features should I know about for a graphics programming job interview?
I really don't want to be boring, I searched a lot but didn't found a focused answer to this question. I wanted to focus on the role of C++ in graphics programming.
Can somebody explain, which are ...
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1answer
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What is a CPU-efficient cloth simulation technique for a 2D game?
Are there techniques for simulation of cloth and hair in an efficient (in other words, not too CPU-intensive) manner? I only need to calculate the key points as the drawing will be done in 2D.
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What name (if any) applies to this particular 3D rendering technique?
Is there a name for this technique where when instead of rendering certain polygons, you just calculate a few key points and do the drawings in 2d? For instance, instead of rendering a sphere, you ...
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How can I modify how my scene is drawn to make it look like it's taking place at different times of day?
My game has a day-time association with the scene, that the morning light will be different from the afternoon and the night. But I don't know how to make this difference.
Here is an example in ...
