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Is there an algorithm for a pool game?
I am looking for algorithm to calculate direction and speed of balls in a pool game. I am sure there has to be some type of open source code for this since pool games are some of the oldest computer ...
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Should I write my own physics engine, because of networking integration?
I'm currently developing a top down, realtime, zombie shooter. I'm coding this in Java, using JBox2D as my physics engine. I have been coding the networking this week, and am now up to the physics ...
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Physics in my game confused after restructuring the Game loop
I'm on my way with making a game in Java. Now I have some trouble with an interpolation based game loop in my calculations.
Before I used that system the calculation of a falling object was like ...
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Box2D Difference Between WorldCenter and Position
So this problem has been brothering for a couple of days now. First off, what is the difference between say Body.getWorldCenter() and Body.getPosition(). I heard that WorldCenter might have to do ...
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2D Polygon Triangulation
I am creating a game engine using the JBox2D physics engine. It only allows you to create polygon fixtures up to 8 vertices, To create a body with more than 8 vertices, you need to create multiple ...
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Why is my velocity decaying?
Programming in Java. Tinkering around with physics. My entities all have position and velocity. In the main loop, all I'm doing is applying gravity and bouncing off the edges, like so:
// add ...
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Splitting logic into threads in Java tower defence game
I'm making a tower defence game in Java!
It's my first game development.
I want to know how many threads Do I need to create in a game, to split logic..
I've made this one:
Main App thread (adds ...
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2D game - Missile shooting problem on Android
I have to make a tank that sits still but moves his turret and shoots missiles.
As this is my first Android application ever and I haven't done any game development either, I've come across a few ...
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Point of contact of 2 OBBs?
I'm working on the physics for my GTA2-like game so I can learn more about game physics.
The collision detection and resolution are working great.
I'm now just unsure how to compute the point of ...
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New Vector Calculation for Elastic Collision of Circle and Fixed Rectangle
I am writing a fairly simple breakout-style game for Android phones. I have successfully detected the collisions between the ball(s) and bricks. The problem that I am having is in calculating the new ...
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How to Make Objects Fall Faster in a Physics Simulation
I used the collision physics (i.e. Box2d, Physics Body Editor) and implemented onto the java code. I'm trying to make the fall speed higher according to the examples:
It falls slower if light object ...
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Converting 2D Physics to 3D
I'm new to game physics and I am trying to adapt a simple 2D ball simulation for a 3D simulation with the Java3D library. I have this problem:
Two things:
1) I noted down the values generated by the ...
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Transforms in Box2D
I'm attempting to implement a camera in my game. I had it working for regular objects, but I began using Box2D and obviously things changed a bit. I have a Body object that I want to draw at the ...
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Perpendicularity of a normal and a velocity?
I'm trying to fake angular velocity on my vehicle when it hits a wall by getting the dot product of the normal of the edge the car is hitting and the vehicle's velocity:
Vector2D normVel ...
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Rotating a cube using jBullet collisions
How would one go about rotating/flipping a cube with the physics of jBullet?
Here is my Draw method for my cube object:
public void Draw() {
// center point posX, posY, posZ
float ...
