The process of generating an image or series of images from a model by means of computer programming.
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Can anyone point me to some open source directX rendering engines or frameworks? [on hold]
I'm completely new to graphics API programmming, but not at all new to the theory and principle operation of game engines and rendering engines. That being said, I want to do some experiments of ...
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Visitor-pattern vs inheritance for rendering
I have a game engine that currently uses inheritance to provide a generic interface to do rendering:
class renderable
{
public:
void render();
};
Each class calls the gl_* functions itself, ...
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Basic Android game loop having issues
I've set up a very basic game loop that should draw a circle, run 100 times, then draw another. I also have a text field that should display how many times the loop has ran. However, the screen seems ...
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Entity system and rendering types
I would like to implement entity system in my game and I've got some question about entity system and rendering.
Currently, my renderer got two types of elements:
Current design
Mesh : A default ...
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(SOLVED) Problems Rendering Text in OpenGL Using FreeType
I've been following both the FreeType2 tutorial and the WikiBooks tuorial, trying to combine things from them both in order to load and render fonts using the FreeType library. I used the font loading ...
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Material, Pass, Technique and shaders
I'm trying to make a clean and advanced Material class for the rendering of my game, here is my architecture:
class Material
{
void sendToShader()
{
program->sendUniform( ...
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Does a game engine affect the quality of pre-baked Global Illumination?
If I were to pre-bake Global Illumination into light maps using a high quality renderer like Mental Ray or PRman, and loaded it into two different engines such as Unity and Unreal, would there be a ...
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Library for rendering voxels in Java [closed]
I tried searching for an answer to this already, but all the info I could find was outdated or gave answers which don't quite fit my needs.
Basically, I just want a library that lets me easily render ...
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Separating game data/logic from rendering
I'm writing a game using C++ and OpenGL 2.1.
I was thinking how could I separate the data/logic from rendering.
At the moment I use a base class 'Renderable' that gives a pure virtual method to ...
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LibGDX drawing portion of tmx map
I am trying to make a tile based game in LibGDX and I have run into some problem.
In earlier versions of LibGDX you were able to draw a certain section of a .tmx map instead of a whole and even a ...
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Maya Command Line - change texture applied to a model before rendering
I've written some batch scripts which automate maya through the Render application. The batch scripts are working over a series of different scenes and render all of them out.
For some of the models, ...
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Precision loss when transforming from cartesian to isometric
My goal is to display a tile map in isometric projection. This tile map has 25 tiles across and 25 tiles down. Each tile is 32x32. See below for how I'm accomplishing this.
World Space
World Space ...
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Tiled Map Editor - Isometric View Problem [closed]
I'm using the latest version of Tiled Map Editor (0.9.1) to create isometric maps. I have objects that are larger than my tile size (64 x 32), so I am breaking them up into two tiles of the correct ...
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Texture Won't Load in OpenGL
I've started trying to make a 2D game in C++ using OpenGL, and I'm using SOIL as the imaging loading library. The problem is, I've been trying to get a simple 64x64 image of a red square to open and ...
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Drawing entities in an isometric engine
I am having some problems drawing my entities in an isometric map.
Tiles are drawn using Painter's algorithm to do the z-sorting which works great for the tiles alone. Entities are parented to a ...
