Programming related to the visual representation of information on computer screens.
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Selecting and moving object in OpenGL Gameplay3D Engine
I'm using Gameplay3d as a game engine to develop a simple board game. PEG Solitaire
I've come to the part where I've created a 2D grid for all the movable object, empty locations and also where it's ...
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Problem reseting device when using render target
How can I reset the device when I am rendering to a surface, and then stretching that surface to the back buffer. If i don't change the render target everything goes well, but when i change the render ...
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Matrix Translation Transformation Question
I've been reading a lot about computer graphics lately and because of it I'm building my own math library's for fun. I was reading about Matrix Translation and Homogeneous Coords, and was wondering ...
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Does my 2D OpenGL renderer need optimized?
I've started a game engine for learning purposes. I have successfully gotten an opengl renderer working and I can draw textures of varying sizes to the screen. The way I have done this is by creating ...
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Is it possible to push real-world, real-time data into Unity? [closed]
I'm pretty new to this, and I'm having trouble figuring out where to even look. If there's relevant terminology that'll be google-able, that would be a great help.
Suppose I want to have a monitor ...
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Can I use multiple OpenGL version together
I want to use GLSL but keep my current OpenGL 1.1 setup. The thing is that can I use OpenGL 2.0 shaders on OpenGL 1.1 renders?
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Can I use a shader with 2 different textures in Cocos2D (x)?
We are evaluating a variety of different graphic engines for use in our game and we want to be able to use 2 different textures for many of our sprite maps. One sprite map would be the standard RGBA ...
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How can I load 2D texture data without a GraphicsDevice instance?
We have a client/server architecture for our game with the client being the XNA Game, and the game server is separate and only references XNA. They both use a shared DLL for networking. The game ...
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Dealing with field of view when zooming into a terrain from a height
I'm creating a tech demo featuring a small planet. The problem I'm having is that the planet doesn't really feel like the right "scale" when the camera in down on the surface, I think it could be the ...
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Another Question from the Image Efficiency for Memory Handling
At this topic, "Which image format is more memory-efficient: PNG, JPEG, or GIF?", one of the fellow Game Development community @Panda Pajama told about the complex concept about image memory handling ...
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Which image format is more memory-efficient: PNG, JPEG, or GIF?
Which image format is more efficient to save memory? PNG, JPEG, or GIF?
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Box2D and Slick2D: Graphics bug [closed]
The bug
The physics ground represented by a horizontal line. The object is stationary, and seems to be pretending that the ground is lower. This is because the center of the Shape is incorrectly ...
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Drawing sprites messes up my model in XNA4
I have a model which draws correctly in XNA4.
However if I try to add a background image (or any sprite), the rendering of my model is messed up. There are two problems with the rendering
model is ...
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Tile Draw Order
I started working on a tile engine recently and have been trying to get this depth sorting for the tiles right. I am using XNA and the SpriteSortMode.Deferred to get the tiles to sort correctly in the ...
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How to draw a large number of model (identical) with vertex buffer in XNA?
I am facing a problem that many developers as have probably found a solution.
I have a small project with a floor designed with small cubes (100X100).
If I exceed this limit, my game suffered major ...
