Refers to games or art assets built in a three-dimensional space, where all positions have X, Y and Z coordinates.
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XNA ModelMesh.Draw vs GraphicsDevice.DrawIndexedPrimitives
I am using XNA 4.0 and I wonder if drawing models with multiple meshes is better by filling the vertex and index buffers first and calling GraphicsDevice.DrawIndexedPrimitives() or by simply using ...
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What I need to know before be a Game Developer? [on hold]
My Friends,
I'm a beginner in this cause. I search in Google and everywhere. But, I couldn't get an answer for my question.
My question is -
What We Need To Know Before Developing A Game?
I hope ...
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3D “tile” mapping tool? [on hold]
I am looking for a 3D "tile" map editor. The game I am looking to create has retro-esque graphics, and will be using 3D cubes as most of the terrain/etc.
I am looking to create an HTML5/JS game, so ...
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How to rotate the camera to point to a specified location?
I have a quaternion based camera class (which controls a view matrix) and would like a function to rotate the camera to face a specified point. The best approach I can come up with is that I rotate ...
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Collision Issues
When I run the collision code, there are no errors, but when I shoot the enemy nothing happens..... Any problems that are blindingly obvious?
Class Level Variables
public Model model { get; ...
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Expirimenting with a 3D Game [closed]
I am wanting to experiment some ideas about an MMORPG game, for now a 'normal' RPG game will definitely do.
The idea is that you can control 3 characters in the old-style MMORPG way (So not first ...
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3d Wall sliding collision
I'm working on collision for walls in my game and the way I currently have it I get stuck walking into a wall. I'm trying to make my character slide on the walls but still collide.
My character moves ...
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Why is my character's body not casting a shadow?
I found a biped character mesh online and downloaded it. When I put import the .fbx into Unity3d, the shadows work except for his torso! What is causing this? How do I fix it?
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Export object or scene with textures
Is there a way to export or publish some work to a folder so somebody else can open the .max file and does not have to reassign all the textures again?
My problem is that i used lots of textures ...
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What is faster — full size with AA or reduced to screen size with no AA?
I wonder what is less expensive resource-wise:
Drawing a usual modern 3D game scene with some geometry at 100% scale, with some AA;
Drawing a downscaled scene (to fit the screen, but originally a ...
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How to check for cube collisions?
I want a method, which takes two "ObjectBox" objects (A "ObjectBox" has .getX() .getY() .getZ() .getSizeX() .getSizeY() .getSizeZ() methods) as a parameter and return true if the two Boxes are ...
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jMonkeyEngine Pros and Cons
I want to know some good reasons to use jMonkeyEngine for a Java 3d game development tool instead of just creating a game with LWJGL myself? I want to know a good reason I should choose this tool. ...
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Is JavaFX suitable for making 3D games?
JavaFX has 3D graphics capitabilities.
Is it possible to create 3D games with it?
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What caused “falling out of the world” and what fixed it?
A lot of early 3D games had the problem where you'd be trundling merrily along and suddenly everything was black, with an island of what looked like the hollow facade shell of the scene you'd been ...
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Collision detection in games in 3D - edge to edge cross product
I am having trouble understanding why, in a game collision detection, separating axis determination requires checking for the cross product of edges of the two polytopes as additional potential ...
