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Is this an appropriate use of abstraction in my game engine?
I have been stuck in the design phase on my new game for a few weeks now because I keep finding new parts of the game engine that I could make more modular and neat. I did, however, run into a ...
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What could cose dispersed triangles instead of integral model?
So the thing is, I get dispersed triangles instead of model that I'm loading, in this case it's just a cube. It seems as those triangles have no points that connect them. Is there anyone who had this ...
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Quaternion Camera
Can someone help me figure out how to use a Quaternion with the PerspectiveCamera in libGDX or in general? I am trying to rotate my camera around a sphere that is being drawn at (0,0,0). I am not sure ...
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libGDX using Stage and Actor produces different camera angles on desktop and Android Phone
libGDX using Stage and Actor produces different camera angles on desktop and Android Phone.
Here are pictures demonstrating the problem: http://brandonyuh.minus.com/mFpdTSgN17VUq
On the desktop ...
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Using Quaternion in libGDX
Can someone give me an explanation about how to use the Quaternion class in libGDX to move my camera around a sphere or just set it up, manipulate it, and apply it general? I am trying to acheive ...
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setPosition of Sprite onUpdate in AndEngine
I am trying to get a "highlighter" circle to follow around a sprite, but I am having trouble, I thought I could use the onUpdate method that's available to me in SequenceEntityModifier but it's not ...
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Move Camera Freely Around Object While Looking at It
I've got a 3D model loaded (a planet) and I have a camera that I want to allow the user to move freely around it. I have no problem getting the camera to orbit the planet around either the x or y ...
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GestureListener's fling method doesn't get called
I'm using SimpleGestureDetector from the libgdx-users Wiki as my InputProcessor. I set it in the created() method:
Gdx.input.setInputProcess(new SimpleDirectionGestureDetector(charController));
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Android real time multiplayer over LAN
I've developed several games for the android platform and now planning to create my first multiplayer game. What I have in mind is basically just a 2-player game witch you can play with 2 phones over ...
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Is it possible to compile an android game for pc desktop?
If I have an android game based on java native libraries. Is it to possible to compile into a windows/linux executable without a 3rd party emulator?
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Drawing Lines on android with matrix
Can a matrix be used when drawing lines and paths on android?
the DrawBitmap mathod takes a matrix as argument, I cannot find anything similar
when drawing lines.
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Making a Background Scrolling in Stacking Game
Hmmm...Is it a good idea to use a LibGDX parallax background for making a stacking game (i.e. PAPA STACKer Lite)? For example, I'm starting to use the blocks to drag-n-drop it. Next, when the next ...
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which is better performance, using a disposable local variable or reusing a global one?
This is for an android game.
Suppose I have a function that is called several times for second and do some calculations involving an arraylist (or any other complex objects for what matter).
Which ...
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How To Scale Canvas In Android
I am writing a android game using Canvas as the way to draw everything, the problem is that when i run it on different android phones the canvas dosn't change size i tried using canvas.scale() but ...
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How to detect a touch on transparent area of an image in a (libgdx) stage?
Can some one please help to detect a touch on an image which I am using as an actor in a stage. The image is actually a long diagnol brush which has plenty of transparent area. The problem is when I ...
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How to implement a birds eye view of 2D Grid Map using Android
I'm a true beginner with using the android platform and I'm having difficulties on implementing a 2D grid system for a tower defense type game. Where I can place towers on a specific tile and enemies ...
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How to manage my model
I have in my model, a list of Classes : Player, NonPlayerCharacter, Monster, Item, NonMovableItem etc
With AndEngine I've a list of sprite for each piece of my model,
How can I manage the ...
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Android Array Lag?
I am making a platform game for Android. It is sort of a tile based game. I added bullets and enemies with AI and a bunch of tile types.
I created a simple map with no Enemies. Everything was running ...
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AndEngine player, background and camera
I'm developing a 2D shooter using AndEngine. At the moment I'm trying to make the camera follow the player. As I've understood the common approach is to use the SmoothCamera zooming it and setting the ...
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How do I add AndEngine documentation in Eclipse?
I am very new to AndEngine. I have just downloaded the full documentation file, but I can't attach it to Eclipse. How can I do that?
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How should I generate and store the boundries of a cave?
I am making a small cave copter game (seriously, where did this type of game come from anyway) and I am trying to figure out how to make and store the procedural generated walls. I am thinking about ...
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rotate sprite and shooting bullets from the end of a cannon [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to Align Gun with Bullets
Hi all i have a problem in my Andengine code,
I need , when I touch the screen, shoot a bullet from the cannon (in the same direction of ...
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How to pass an interface to Java from Unity code?
First, let me say that this is my first experience with Unity, so the answer may be right under my nose. I've also posted this question on Unity's answers site, but plugin questions don't seem to be ...
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Collision between sprites in game programming?
I've since just started coding for an android game using eclipse. I've read Beginning Android Game Programming and various other e-books. Recently, I've encountered a problem with collision between ...
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Better way to generate enemies of different sub-classes
So lets pretend I have an enemy class that has some generic implementation and inheriting from it I have all the specific enemies of my game. There are points in my code that I need to check whether ...
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Networking library compatible C++ and Java
There is any networking library like eNet compatible with Java and C++?
'm trying to find a way to communicate an Android game in Java with a C + + server, but I prefer to use a network library ...
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LibGDX - Check if currently on Android/Desktop
I'm using LibGDX and flixel-android to build a Desktop/Android game. It feels like there should be a way of checking to see if you're currently being run on an Android device, the Desktop, and so on, ...
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Andengine. Put bullet to pool, when it leaves screen
i'm creating a bullet with physics body. Bullet class (extends Sprite class) has die() method, which unregister physics connector, hide sprite and put it in pool
public void die() {
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Android Java: Way to effectively pause system time while debugging?
In my project, I call nanoTime and use that to get a deltaTime which I pass to my entities and animations.
However, while debugging (for example, stepping through my code), the system time on my ...
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LibGdx drawing weird behaviour
I am finding strange behaviour while rendering TextureRegions in my game, only when pausing it. I am making a game for Android, in Java with LibGdx.
When I comment out the line "drawLevelPaused()" ...
