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How calculate distance for fog effect model in xna?
I struggled for some time to add a fog effect in my xna games.
I'm working with a custom shader effect in a file (. Fx).
The "PixelShaderFunction" works without error. But the problem is that all my ...
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UV mapping doesn't work without duplicating vertices, but duplicating will reduce performance, right? Is there another solution?
Situation: I've been trying to gradually get a lower and lower level of understanding of how games work, and lately I've been following Rastertek's DirectX 11 tutorials. Of course, I started branching ...
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Good C++ based game engine or API/library to start with? [closed]
I am involved in a team study at college this year, and we will be working with graphics and game engines. We're having a bit of trouble deciding on how to start out in the course (it is almost all ...
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Do games depend on OS to scale resolution?
I'm having issues with my computer related with scaling when using different resolutions other than the native. So I started to wonder, in PCs, is scaling handled by the card driver or the game ...
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Sharing data between graphics and physics engine in the game?
I'm writing the game engine that consists of few modules. Two of them are the graphics engine and the physics engine.
I wonder if it's a good solution to share data between them?
Two ways (sharing ...
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Collision and Graphics integration
I'm a little confused about the integration between collision and graphics. They both need to share the same position in the world. The most obvious choice is the center of the entity, which is good ...
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BSPs, Octrees and modern graphics hardware
I have read a lot of literature on BSPs, Octrees and like. Problem is that it is all old literature from software rendering time. Nobody describes how it is implemented today. So here is my idea how ...
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What platform were old TV video games developed on?
I am very eager to know how TV video games (which we all used to play in our childhood) were developed and on which platform.
I know how games are developed for mobile devices, Windows PC's and Mac ...
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C++ Efficient Pixel Management for Non-Polygon Graphics Engine
So I've been looking for a way to efficiently manage the pixels on a screen, but so far all I've found is along the lines of SetPixel() in windows (painfully slow), and drawing a rectangle 1px X 1px ...
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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 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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Ideas for extending tic-tac-toe game? [closed]
I'm building a 3D tic-tac-toe game and this is what I've implemented so far:
3D renderer with texture mapping
Playing against the computer
Playing online (multiplayer)
Now I'm a little lost what I ...
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Where to start with game development? [closed]
I asked this earlier in this thread at stackoverflow.com. One of the early comments redirected me here to gamedev.stackexchange.com, so I'm reposting here.
Searching for related questions I found a ...
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The recommended road map to be a good graphics/game engine programmer
I am a computer science student and I am developing with C/C++ and Python and I want to begin learning graphics tools to start developing with game engines, especially the Blender Game Engine. So what ...
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Why can we recognize game engines?
About many games you can say "oh that's the Unreal engine for sure", "this was made by upgrading GTA 4", etc. We can often recognize the engine used for a game just by looking at its graphics ...
