The process of generating an image or series of images from a model by means of computer programming.
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Rendering projectiles
I'm working on a simple game that has the user control a space ship that shoots small circular projectiles. However, I'm not sure how to render these. Right now I know how to make a LPDIREC3DSURFACE ...
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OpenGL Fast-Object Instancing Error
I have some code that loops through a set of objects and renders instances of those objects. The list of objects that needs to be rendered is stored as a std::map>, where an object of class ...
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Drawing “Stenciled” Sprites and making them glow
Currently, in my game - I'm not using XNA's SpriteBatch to render anything(I am using Farseer Physic's Debug View), and I was wondering how I would render something like this:
only using XNA. My ...
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Entity System and rendering
Okey, what I know so far;
The entity contains a component(data-storage) which holds information like;
- Texture/sprite
- Shader
- etc
And then I have a renderer system which draws all this. But ...
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Which isometric angles can be mirrored (and otherwise transformed) for optimization?
I am working on a basic isometric game, and am struggling to find the correct mirrors.
Mirror can be any form of transform.
I have managed to get SE out of SW, by scaling the sprite on X axis by -1. ...
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2D scene graph not transforming relative to parent
I am currently in the process of coding my own 2D Scene graph, which is basically a port of flash's render engine.
The problem I have right now is my rendering doesn't seem to be working properly. ...
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Game window systems and internal frames
I don't know if this is a valid question, but: What kind of window manager do games use which have internal frames (Frames inside frames)? Does this differ between the programming languages (Are e.g. ...
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What's the standard location of a 3D clipping box?
The way I understand 3D rendering, polygons are transformed using several matrices, and they are then clipped if they are not inside a certain box, before projecting the box onto the screen. Before ...
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Working out of a vertex array for destrucible objects
I have diamond-shaped polygonal bullets. There are lots of them on the screen.
I did not want to create a vertex array for each, so I packed them into a single vertex array and they're all drawn at ...
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Vertex fog producing black artifacts
I am rendering a textured model using the XNA BasicEffect. When I enable fog, the model outline is still visible as many small black dots when it should be "in the fog". Why is this happening?
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Two graphical entities, smooth blending between them (e.g. asphalt and grass)
Supposedly in a scenario there are, among other things, a tarmac strip and a meadow. The tarmac has an asphalt texture and its model is a triangle strip long that might bifurcate at some point into ...
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Information about rendering, batches, the graphical card, performance etc. + XNA?
I know the title is a bit vague but it's hard to describe what I'm really looking for, but here goes.
When it comes to CPU rendering, performance is mostly easy to estimate and straightforward, but ...
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Faking Display tree (Sprite) parent child relationships with rasters (BitmapData) in ActionScript 3
I am working with Rasters (bitmapData) and blliting (copypixels) in a 2d-game in actionscript 3. I like how you can move a sprite and it moves all it's children, and you can simultaneously move the ...
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Rendering another screen on top of main game screen in fullscreen mode
my game runs in fullscreen mode and uses active rendering. The graphics are drawn on the fullscreen window in each game loop:
public void render() {
Window w = ...
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Drawing graphics in Java game
I am quite new to game development, so here is a question (maybe a stupid one):
In my sidescroller i have a bunch of different graphics objects that i need to draw (player, background tiles, ...
