A very common input device in computer games. It offers a more direct form of movement compared to directional input.

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How can I detect mouse events on sprites in a canvas?

I'm making an HTML 5 game. I want mouse clicks on sprites drawn in a canvas element cause events that my code can react to. At the moment, I'm doing it by checking through all of my sprites in a ...
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How to handle simultaneous mouse and keyboard input with sdl?

I'm making a game in SDL2 that so far is basically just a top down shooter, where the player aims at the mouse. When I run the game, you can move properly and shoot properly, and shoot and move the ...
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Clamp the scroll wheel value [closed]

I'm having something like an inventory bar at the bottom of the screen. However, when the highlight square (indicates what object you are going to place) reaches the end. The value of the scroll wheel ...
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Slick2d mouse over org.newdawn.slick.Rectangle

I have made this class /* * Copyright (c) Makerimages 2014. Do not distribute as your own. */ package net.makerimages.sandbox.client.gui; import org.newdawn.slick.TrueTypeFont; import ...
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Monogame mouse handlelike touche panel style [on hold]

I work wwith XNA Monogame, i made a game for windows phone that i want to port on windows 8. But touchPanel and windows don't correspond. I'm stuck with mouse event. I want to reproduce these : ...
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LWJGL: Camera distance from image plane?

Let me paste some code before I ask the question... public static void createWindow(int[] args) { try { Display.setFullscreen(false); DisplayMode d[] = ...
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How to select a vertex by mouse clicking in OpenGL?

I'm programming a simple graph game and so far I'm still doing a few tests in OpenGL. Right now, let's say I defined a GL_POINT with the glVertex2f(20.0f, 0.0f). I have this function to calculate the ...
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Unity3D Drag Object with Mouse Gives Invalid Position

I am trying to implement a simple script to drag a GameObject with the mouse in Unity. However, when the position of the object is updated with the following script, I get an error saying: ...
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How to Point sprite's direction towards Mouse or an Object [duplicate]

I need some help with rotating sprites towards the mouse. I'm currently using the library allegro 5.XX. The rotation of the sprite works but it's constantly inaccurate. It's always a few angles off ...
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I need to move an entity to the mouse location after i rightclick

Well I've read the related questions-answers but still cant find a way to move my champion to the mouse position after a right-button mouse-click. I use this code at the top: float speed = ...
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Java: See if Mouse is hovering/clicking Sprite

The game I am developing is in which you defend the Cell from the Viruses, and I need the sprites to have a MouseListener for when the mouse clicks on that sprite, it will get destroyed, and I cannot ...
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When do you get Mouse.getstate().X or Y as negative?

I am creating a game in which I use a function: int x() { int px = 100; int pxend = 128; int xx = 0; for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++) ...
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I am getting zero in my int x() when using Mouse.getstate().X?

Ok I have a Function int x(), which is used in new Rectangle(x(),a,a,a); in DrawMethod in XNA but when I use it I get x() = 0 as as the answer.Here is my CODE: int x() { int px ...
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Grab mouse input in OpenTK? [duplicate]

I've searched a lot on the Internet but I can't seem to find any code that works with the current OpenTK, that "grabs" the mouse input (just gives the delta-x and delta-y, for camera rotation for ...
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SharpDx how to detect if Mouse Button is pressed?

I'm wondering how it's possible to detect if a mousebutton is pressed or released. var di = new DirectInput(); _mouse = new Mouse(di); _mouse.Acquire(); _mouseState = _mouse.GetCurrentState() All I ...
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Mouse input not updating in custom XNA/Winforms panel

I have a custom Panel residing within my WinForm. the custom Panel holds the XNA rendering. So far, I've rendered an 3D test model. What I'm doing now is trying to handle the input.Using a camera from ...
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Getting mousemovement despite mouselock - unity

I have lockcursor so the cursor doesn't leave the screen, but now i have to rotate an object based on mouse movement (think garrys mod item rotation) but the mouse cursor is obviusly locked to the ...
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Is there a way to write a camera class without matrix-transformation?

I have a problem with a camera class I got from the internet. It does a transformation like this: public Matrix get_transformation(GraphicsDevice graphicsDevice) { _transform = ...
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LWJGL multiple keyboard/mouse input checks

As in many game libraries such as LWJGL, you can check mouse/keyboard events with Mouse.isButtonDown or Keyboard.IsKeyDown. I want to check for button/key presses, not if it's currently pressed down ...
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How to read (and discard) Windows events in Ogre?

In my Ogre application I use a custom mouse handler implementation instead of OIS (to support more than one mouse). That is working fine, however, without OIS when reading mouse events directly they ...
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How do I read input from multiple keyboards/mice on one computer?

I want to be able to read inputs from multiple keyboards and still differentiate them. It's for split-screen. I know it's possible, because Serious Sam 3 allows it. Edit : Well a whole lot of my ...
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MonoGame Linux Mouse.SetPosition doesn't work!

Having a really weird issue, it seems that no matter what I do I cannot get the Mouse to lock to the center of the screen in MonoGame. I triple checked all the possible noob mistakes, and ...
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How to make camera rotation independent from frame rate?

I multiply the mouse movement by a given number to get camera rotation of a desired speed. But it only works at 60 FPS. When I don't limit the frame rate I get around 350 FPS and the camera rotation ...
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Irrlicht mouse input

I am trying to make a chess game at this moment, using Irrlicht. It will be a 3D Chess game but apart from most chess games it has one special quality: Free movement of the camera. The Chess game ...
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Trap mouse in SDL2

When using SDL 1.2 it the way to implement full screen or windowed applications with "no cursor" you did the following: SDL_ShowCursor(SDL_DISABLE); SDL_WM_GrabInput(SDL_GRAB_ON); See Trap mouse in ...
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Cannot get 3D mouse coordinantes [closed]

I'm using viewport.project() to find my mouse position in 3D space. I have my projection, view and world matrices defined in the same area that they are used to draw the model. Code is below: NOTE: ...
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Converting Mouse Coords to 3d coords with Camera position [closed]

So I've looked at all the answers I can possibly find, and nothing seems to fit what I need exactly (because im bad at math). I'll explain what I have thus far: A camera with x,y,z, Pitch and Yaw ...
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Exclusive mouse movement with WM_INPUT

Microsoft seems to recommend using WM_INPUT for input. I want to only get relative mouse input and hide the mouse cursor all together for a short while (For gesture based input). However, using ...
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c# opentk - converting screen coords to world coords

I'm making a windows forms application with opengl view. I need to get the mouse coords converted to the opengl world coords. Well, my Y coord gets converted wrong. It's hard to explain, so here is ...
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Moving an object (pong paddle) along the x,y axis in 3d-space with mouse/touch

First of all: Sorry, my English isn't quiet good, I'm very new in 3D and I'am using JMonkeyEngine. What I would like to do?: A 3d pong game and I want to control the paddle with the mousecursor ...
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Moving the camera as in a first person shooter

I am trying to implement the movement of the camera with the mouse. The result I want to achieve is the same that you get when you move your aim in a first person shooter. Here is the code I wrote, ...
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How do I convert a 2D movement (from mouse) to a displacement along a 3d axis?

I'm making a small 3D scene editor (that only allow to modify objects positions). Each object is draw with a 3d X/Y/Z axis : How it works : user choose an axis (X, Y or Z) by left clicking on it, ...
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How to emulate knob turning, based on x/y movement?

I'm doing a game where one component is that you turn a knob. I'm having trouble getting good "knob behavior". I know the current touch/mouse X,Y location, and I keep track of the previous X,Y ...
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How to determine mouse position outside stage, and center the cursor?

I was wondering if it is possible to have my flash game determine the position of the mouse, even when the cursor is not inside the stage. My movie clip should move horizontally between x = 100 and ...
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C#/XNA get hardware mouse position

I'm using C# and trying to get hardware mouse position. First thing I tryed was simple XNA functionality that is simple to use Vector2 position = new Vector2(Mouse.GetState().X, Mouse.GetState().Y); ...
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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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Isometric Rendering and Picking [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Isometric rendering and picking? I've been looking for a formula to plot (world->screen) and mouse pick (world->screen) isometric tiles in a non-diamond-shaped world. ...
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Help needed throwing a ball in AS3

I'm working on a flash game, coding on the time line. What I'm trying to accomplish is the following: With the mouse you swing and throw/release a ball which bounces against the walls and eventualy ...
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Turning to face mouse

Given three points on the same Y plane; A ship A point along the ships heading A mouse cursor How can I find which direction and angle the mouse cursor is from the ships heading? I have a limited ...
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What sort of data should be sent for mouse-based movement in a multiplayer game?

I'm new to the Multiplayer Rodeo here so please bear with me... I am just getting started and I'm trying to figure out how to deal with movement. I've looked at the question Best way to implement ...
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AS3 Stage3D Mouse click problem?

I have a problem with Mouse interaction and Stage3D. The only way I found to register to listen to mouse clicks and interact with Stage3D, is to add a mouse eventListener directly to the .stage. ...
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Trap mouse in SDL

How can I trap the user's mouse inside my game? It's not a fullscreen game, but I want it so that the user cannot drag the mouse to outside the screen? Do I have to check the coordinates of the mouse ...
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Rotating To Face a Point

I am trying to rotate a line to point to the mouse's world coordinates (rather where the mouse lies on the plane where y=0). I am running into a couple of problems though: Whilst it follows the ...
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Java Slick2d - Mouse picking how to take into account camera

When I move it it obviously changes the viewport so my mouse picking is off. My camera is just a float x and y and I use g.translate(-cam.cameraX+400, -cam.cameraY+300); to translate the graphics. I ...
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How can I do Mouse Selection In OpenGL 3.0?

Hello I'm pretty good programmer I've made my own 2D games in SDL and made a gui in 3D using Old OpenGL and Modern OpenGL but.. I'm having problems with trying to click 3D models with opengl I have no ...
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Minesweeper: Mouse listener problem

I have wrote a code for game Minesweeper and there is no problem with the graphics,but there is some problems with MouseListener. Here is my code /* * To change this template, choose Tools | ...
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What is the best way to handle MouseEvents in AS3?

What is the best way to handle MouseEvents? Should I add an event on each MovieClip I want to work with, or a general Event at a holder MovieClip (or even at the stage) with internal control from the ...
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How to set blur on mouse over and remove on mouse out in AS3?

How can I do it? I want to active glow when the mouse is over a Sprite and remove it when the mouse is out. Is it possible? I have the following code: var myGlow:GlowFilter = new GlowFilter(); ...
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Mouse click rectangle doesn't update to actual mouse position

I'm making a menu in XNA; and to solve clunky input via arrow keys, I thought I would use mouse input. I got everything to work perfectly, then I tried to click on something specific and nothing ...
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Controlling the snake in a snake game with the mouse

I am trying to implement a snake game in C# using the WPF forms. Well I know to implement the snake game, where the snake is controlled by the keyboard. But how would I do it, if I wanted to control ...