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onTouchEvent only working for one view within activity
I have a parent Activity which contains 2 views. One view is a custom view class, where I am overriding the onDraw method. This view contains an onTouchEvent function, which is checking for user ...
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Show view over existing view in same activity
I am newbie Android developer, and I am starting out with a simple Sudoku game. The problem I am facing right now is that I have my game showing on a dedicated Activity, which is displaying a custom ...
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Top Down bounds of vision
Obviously in a first person view point the player sees only what's in front of them (with the exception of radars and rearview mirrors, etc). My game has a top down perspective, but I still want to ...
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Model View Controller linking dynamic model to view
I currently an implementing a game roughly using a model-view-controller setup. A single game controller instantiates a model and view. The model and view then instantiate child models and views, ...
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Camera - View matrix in Android + openGLES 2
I am trying to use the touch screen on the tablet to control my camera movements and generate the view matrix accordingly.
I get the x and y coordinates of the screen and after doing some sanity ...
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Why is Y up in many Games?
I learned at school that the z-axis is up. It is the same in modeling software like Blender. However in many games the y-axis is up.
What is reason?
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Y Axis inverted on vertex output
I've got my project running and somehow it seems my vertex y components are inverted. 10 in the positive on Y goes down and 10 negative on the Y axis goes up.
I can't find anything with the ...
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Why do we move the world instead of the camera?
I heard that in an OpenGL game what we do to let the player move is not to move the camera but to move the whole world around.
For example here is an extract of this tutorial: OpenGL View matrix
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How to switch between views in android?
I've tried several methods to switch between two views in my program. I've tried creating a new thread then have the view run for 5 seconds before creating intent to start my main activity. This is ...
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Matrix camera, movement concept
Someone told me that the movement concept in my 2D game is bad. When left or right arrow is pressed I'm scrolling the background which makes you feel that player avatar is moving (the avatar's ...
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UIView with IrrlichtScene - iOS
i have a UIViewController in a Storyboard and want to draw a IrrlichtScene in this View Controller.
My Code:
WWSViewController.h
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
@interface WWSViewController : ...
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Implementing Circular Sprite Masks
So I've been scouring the interwebs for a couple of days with regards to how to implement sprite masking in XNA 4 and C#. Coming from a pet project I did in Flash, this was pretty easy as masks are ...
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Best Method to Simulate Height in a Tiled Top-Down Game
What is the best method to simulate height for a top-down tiled 2D game? One way I thought was to make tiles which are supposed to be higher brighter, but I was wondering if there was a standard or ...
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Android-Handling screen clicks for dynamically moving objects in a view
I have a kind of broad question to ask but I have to start some where so.....What is the best way to handle onscreen clicks for moving objects being drawn on a canvas in a view. Im registering the ...
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Strange 3D game engine camera with X,Y,Zoom instead of X,Y,Z
I'm using a 3D game engine, that uses a 4x4 matrix to modify the camera projection, in this format:
r r r x
r r r y
r r r z
- - - zoom
Strangely though, the camera does not respond to the Z ...
