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Mouse Aiming Causing Rotation Jitter

When our game's ships move around, mouse aiming causes them to shake around a lot. The body being aimed is moved kinematically. I think we've narrowed it down to this block of mouse tracking code. ...
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Getting correct angles between Vector3s

I'm working on a project where you can draw lines between points. You select one point and drag the mouse onto another point and a line is drawn between them. The line itself is a 3d object which is ...
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Moving A Sprite In The Direction Its Facing XNA [duplicate]

There are many questions on this site that explain this except they seem to all be in Java. I want to move a sprite in the direction it's facing, in XNA. I know you must use Radians and lots of ...
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How rotate a 3D cube at its center XNA?

I try to rotate a 3D cube on itself from its center, not the edge. Here is my code used. public rotatemyCube() { ... Matrix newTransform = Matrix.CreateScale(scale) * ...
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save bones position after rotation un xna

i'm developping a game for solving a rubik's cube in xna framework c# i want to know how to save bones positions after rotating them i'm calling this method to draw bone witch construct the ...
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Smooth rotation [duplicate]

I would like to rotate my Player very smooth. At the moment the player stops rotating when I release the button. Also the rotation should get faster, if the player rotates longer. I use XNA and have ...
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Rotating a 2D Skeleton

I am currently implementing a 2D skeleton system in C# with XNA, but got stuck in how I would rotate the bones around a skeleton's axis. A basic algorithm that I have figured out already would ...
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how to move the camera behind a model with the same angle? in XNA

I'm having difficulty moving my camera behind an object in a 3D world. I'd like to have two view modes: for fps (first person). external view behind the character (third person). I've searched the ...
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Rotating multiple points at once in 2D

I currently have an editor that creates shapes out of (X, Y) coordinates and then triangulate that to make up a shape of those points. What will I have to do to rotate all of those points ...
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How can I implement smooth rotation from one direction to another?

I'm having a problem with animating rotations with 1Matrix.CreateRotationY() with my basic 3D game. Based on where you click the mouse, I want the 3D object to rotate to that direction and then move. ...
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Rotate a vector

I want my first-person camera to smoothly change its viewing direction from direction d1 to direction d2. The latter direction is indicated by a target position t2. So far I have implemented a ...
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Rotate to a set degree then stop Unity [closed]

I'm trying to make an object rotate up on the Y axis 90 degrees, then stop. I've got the rotating up bit working fine, it's getting it to stop once it hits 90. Some of the things I've tried include ...
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(Quaternion based) Trouble moving foward based on model rotation

Using quaternions, I'm having trouble moving my model in its facing direction. Currently the model moves can move in all cardinal directions with no problems. The problem comes when I rotate the move ...
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Xbox thumbstick used to rotate sprite, basic formula makes it “stick” or feel “sticky” at 90 degree intervals! How do you get smooth rotation?

I am using a very basic formula to calculate what angle my sprite (spaceship for example) should be facing based on the Xbox controller thumbstick i.e. you use the thumbstick to rotate the ship. In ...
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Move model forward base on model orientation

My model rotates on it's own Y-axis regardless of where it is in the world. Here are the controls for the left ThumbStick: UP (move model forward on Z-Axis) DOWN (move model backward on Z-Axis) LEFT ...
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Rotate object Up/Down/Left/Right in any orientation

I'm rendering model at the origin with a fixed camera looking at it positioned on the z axis. I want to be able to rotate the model up/down and left/right. Currently I have 2 variables, ...
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Calculating a quaternion so a bone points in a specified direction

In an attempt to solve this question, I decided to figure out the absolute (world space) directions of each joint in the source pose (as normalized unit vectors), and then rotate the joints of the ...
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Creating a 2D Line Branch (Part 2)

Yesterday i asked this question on how to create a 2D line branch; Creating a 2D Line Branch And thanks to the answered provided, i now have this nice looking main branch; *coloured to show the ...
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Passing an objects rotation down through its children

In my topdown 2d game you have a player with a sword, like an old Zelda game. The sword is a seperate entity, and its collision box "rotates" around the player like an orbit, but always follows the ...
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How to make something rotate a certain amount over an exact amount of time

I'm trying to make a plane rotate down a certain amount and 180 degrees horizontally over 2 seconds. Basically I want it to take the plane 1 second to rotate to a horizontal-facing angle, then take ...
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Transformation order when dealing with Meshes

I have created a player model out of primitive types. To do this I have created a Model class and Component (mesh) class. Each model consists of one or more components my problems start when you have ...
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How to calculate origin and position of a weapon which should be “in hands”?

I'm currently stuck with my game, which is from the top perspective. I'm currently using these sprites for player: (using the second at the top): And here's what I use for my gun My problem is ...
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Image spinning in c#

I'm currently in the process of making a top-down shooter for my programming class, and one idea I had, but don't exactly know how to implement is image rotation in order to spin the object ...
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Turning a sprite such that it rotates in the direction that's most efficient

I have a sprite that moves from waypoint to waypoint. It turns to face its velocity vector, but not instantly (there's a rotation speed). The problem I'm having is, from one direction to another, the ...
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XNA - Use Mouse To Rotate & Arrow Keys To Scroll A Linearly Wrapped Texture:

Using XNA I'm working on my first, relatively simple, videogame for the PC. At the moment my game window is 1024 X 768 and I have a 'Starfield' linearly wrapped background texture 1280 X 1280 in ...