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Catapult projectile math [duplicate]

I'm trying to make a catapult that will attack enemies as they approach a castle but I have only a foggy idea on how to get the math correct for the projectile to travel from the catapult, to the ...
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LibGDX Perspective Camera for 2D

I'm very new to LibGDX and I'm trying to use DecalBatch with PerspectiveCamera, simply to have z-coordinate for my sprites, as SpriteBatch does not offer that. However, I don't know how to calculate ...
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Inventory Grid Detection

I'm working on creating an inventory system for a game. The inventory system will use cells and 2D images to represent items, like Minecraft, Diablo, or WoW. I've hit a bit of a snag when trying to ...
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Converting a 2D curve into points for data storage

I’ve created an algorithm which converts any curve i.e. path into minimum number of points so that I can save it into a file or database. The method is simple: it moves three points in equal steps ...
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Point inside Oriented Bounding Box?

I have an OBB2D class based on SAT. This is my point in OBB method: public boolean pointInside(float x, float y) { float newy = (float) (Math.sin(angle) * (y - center.y) + Math.cos(angle) * ...
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Please help me with my 2D isometric tile picking [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to convert mouse coordinates to isometric indexes? Okay, I apologise in advance if I make no sense here. Basically, I've got a simple application that takes in a ...
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Drawing isometric walls

I'm having some trouble with isometric walls. I'm drawing isometric floor tiles using the back to front rendering method, and it works fine. I also keep my floor tiles lined up properly in a nice ...
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1answer
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Find the footprint of an isometric entity

I'm working on making a 2D isometric engine in Java. I'm getting into collision detection and I've hit a bit of a problem. Characters in-game are not restricted to movement from tile to tile - they ...
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Suggest a simple Java math library for matrix operations for use with OpenGL (lwjgl) [closed]

I'm writing an OpenGL app with Java. I need to do some math for camera and frustum culling (for AABB). Could you suggest a simple and fast Java math library for that?
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Isometric - precise screen coordinates to isometric

I'm trying to translate mouse coords to precise isometric coords (I can already find the tile the mouse is over, but I want it to be more precise). I've tried several different methods but I seem to ...
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1answer
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Move projectile in direction the gun is facing [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Move sprite in the direction it is facing? I am attempting to have a projectile follow the direction a gun is facing. When using the following code I am unable to make ...
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(int) Math.floor(x / TILESIZE) or just (int) (x / TILESIZE)

I have a Array that stores my map data and my Tiles are 64X64. Sometimes I need to convert from pixels to units of tiles. So I was doing: int x int y public void myFunction() { getTile((int) ...
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Java Collision Detection of a Slope using a Gradient [closed]

Im testing out collision detection for a game, The ball is traveling and i need to know when the ball hits a sloped line. For this example i have used the whole screen, with a sloped line going from ...
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2answers
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Get all triangles that are < N dist from you?

Does anyone know of a way I could add a radius to this code for p? Like basically saying "this is true if the triangle is < N dist from the point" public boolean isPointInTriangle( Vector3f p, ...
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How to move an object along a circumference of another object?

I am so out of math that it hurts, but for some of you this should be a piece of cake. I want to move an object around another along its ages or circumference on a simple circular path. At the moment ...

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