A very generic term referring to visual part of a game. Thus try to avoid unrelevant usage and instead tag for specific grapics type (2D, 3D), API, framework or a library you are using if possible.
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Rendering shadows on terrain: Does this look correct?
I don't think it looks correct what I am making, image here:
You see a floor with terrain floating above it, on the top left you see the scene depth-visualized and right to it you see things from ...
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Animate Unit Movement on Tiled Grid
I'm writing a turn-based strategy game the uses a grid in Java. I use Swing for the windows, but paint the Grid with Graphics2D. I've already come up with two working solutions, but I'm not sure ...
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Efficient tilemap rendering with layers? [on hold]
The tool I'm using to develop my game is extremely inefficient, and I cant use another tool for now.
If i render the map tile by tile, 32*22 tiles, it gives me a performance of 1fps. So its not ...
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How are Volumetric Effects made within games? (e.g. Smoke/Fire)
For computer generated volumetric elements such as clouds, fire, and whitewater.
How are they made? Is it just a simple collection of particles [put to pixels] taken from Physics equations or are the ...
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Rookie question about how to start [on hold]
I am very new to game development. I want to start off easy, but I do want to do it in the turn based strategy grid type direction. So I'll probably start with making tic tac toe and such. But even ...
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Load and Unload Texture Atlas in Unity 2D Game
I want to know that when texture atlas are loaded and unloaded in Unity 2D? I am experience 2d programmer of AndEngine in that I have way to handle manually each texture atlas. But in Unity 2D I don't ...
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XNA blurring moving images
Why does XNA blurs the images which moves less than 1px in between two draws? It is quite annoying, because everything looks really blurry. Is there a way to disable it?
I have tried to set the ...
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Creating a gradient for a texture - Why is the color becoming dark on one side?
Updated
While debugging I looked at the lerp and it was calculating into a negative number at the start. So I added in checks for to low or high a value, and that seems to have fixed it. I'll answer ...
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How do you calculate a gradient value within multiple colors (gradient stops)
In WPF/Silverlight XAML you can have a brush with multiple gradient stops at different points along the color line.
I was able to replicate this behavior with two colors, a single color lerp, from ...
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Multiple resolutions for Unity 2D Android game
I'm trying to target as many devices as possible by providing a consistent experience. So I'm trying to make sure the aspect ratio fits each device it's played on.
After reading some forums and ...
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Rotating an object towards a point in OpenGL C++ [duplicate]
I calculate the matrix like this:
modelMatrix = glm::translate<float>(position) *
glm::rotate<float>(orientation.x, glm::vec3(1, 0, 0)) *
glm::rotate<float>(orientation.y, ...
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Checking if two lines are crossing [duplicate]
How can I check if two lines (created with function love.graphics.line) are crossing themselves? I may use this ability to create procedural maps via graphs.
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Day and Night Cycles and Skybox Blending
I've been working on adding day/night cycles and random weather to my project using the Neoaxis engine. The day/night cycles itself is pretty simple, just rotating the "sun" light around the Y axis.
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Isometric objects are mapped incorrect angle, but the map is fine. What am I missing?
I laid out my iso map and it's fine, but when I add my sprite actors they get located in the correct location but they are laying down not standing up. I tried rotating them on the z by 45 but then ...
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Planet sized quadtree terrain precision
I've been working on a planet sized and shaped terrain lib for a while (In webgl and Unity) and have a couple of working implementations [Quadtree cubesphere and circular clipmaps].
But both of them ...
