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How can I make a character move forward in a certain direction?

I have an entity class which is updated every game tick. Let's just assume said entity moves forward constantly. What i want to know is, how can i make it so that i can give an angle to a function and ...
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First Person Shooter vertical mouse aim

I've just started writing a 3D First Person Shooter in Java, and I'm having a bit of trouble with tracking the mouse movements and moving the camera accordingly. I'm implementing typical FPS movement, ...
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How to I rotate a triangle by dragging the mouse in libGDX?

More specifically, I have rotation working in a way I don't like as follows: //Draw the triangle using this draw method //batch.draw(texture, x, y, ...
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Render rotated rectangle inside other rectangle bounds using Libgdx

I have this code to generate a red rectangle inside a grey rectangle: new Rectangle(grey_rectangle_position_x, Game.SCREEN_HEIGHT/2-Rectangle.height/2,0); This code makes the following: Now, I ...
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Fling and Spin an Object with Touch

For making a bottle to spin, I focused first on the touch dragging via input processor interface. It's a bit unresponsive since when I rotate clockwise or counter-clockwise as long as my finger ...
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Rotating 3d plane to XY plane

I have a triangle in 3d space and would like to create a grid over the triangle, such as in the image below. The purpose of this is to store information about each block of the grid. In order to ...
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Pitch (X-axis) rotation problem [closed]

Situation: From a first person perspective (camera position) I want to be able to grab an object and have it fixed to the center center of the screen while looking up-down (pitch) and looking ...
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Rotation of viewplatform in Java3D

I have just started with Java3D programming. I thought I had built up some basic intuition about how the scene graph works, but something that should work, does not work. I made a simple program for ...
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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 ...
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rotate sprite and shooting bullets from the end of a cannon [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to Align Gun with Bullets Hi all i have a problem in my Andengine code, I need , when I touch the screen, shoot a bullet from the cannon (in the same direction of ...
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OpenGL Get Rotated X and Y of quad

I am developing a game in 2D using LWJGL library. So far I have a rotating box. I have done basic Rectangle collision, but it doesn't work for rotated rectangles. Does OpenGL have a function that ...
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How to Align Gun with Bullets

I have a top-down 2D shooter. I have an image of a player holding a gun, that rotates to face the mouse. Please note that the gun isn't a separate image tethered to the player, but rather part of the ...
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How to I get a rotated sprite to move left or right?

Using Java/Slick 2D, I'm using the mouse to rotate a sprite on the screen and the directional keys (in this case, WASD) to move the spite. Forwards and backwards is easy, just position += ...
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Move sprite in the direction it is facing?

I'm using Java/Slick 2D. I'm trying to use the mouse to rotate the sprite and the arrow keys to move the sprite. I can get the sprite to rotate no problem, but I cannot get it to move in the direction ...
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Can't get sprite to rotate correctly? [closed]

I'm attempting to play with graphics using Java/Slick 2d. I'm trying to get my sprite to rotate to wherever the mouse is on the screen and then move accordingly. I figured the best way to do this was ...
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Vector movement in space type game (Mouse rotation)

I'm having an issue with my movement in my 'game' prototype. It's basically not working and admittedly my knowledge with vectors is lacking. The issue I'm running into is that the ship won't move in ...
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Moving an image by rotating and increasing y axis causes a trailing issue

Forgive me if me anything is unclear, this is a tricky thing for me to explain. In an applet I draw a little ship gif. I have it so I can rotate the object and then increase or decrease the y axis to ...
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Rotation of images in Slick2D

I have have a rotation problem in the Slick2d library, the image is just not rotating (ie I set a rotation but no result is shown). Here is the rotation code: if (input.IsKeyDown(Input.KEY_LEFT)) { ...
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Rotate an existing quaternion around an axis?

I have an existing quaternion (Java Quat4f). I would like to rotate this quaternion around an axis (i.e. 90 degrees around the x axis, 25 degrees around the y axis, 10 degrees around the z axis, 180 ...
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Clock hand, how much should I rotate the hand by every frame?

I've got a virtual clock. The clock consists of the actual clock sprite, and a hand to go over it. I'm able to set how long the clock duration is. Say I set it to: 5 seconds. While the clock time is ...
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LWJGL glRotatef() without rotating axes?

Okay so, I noticed when you rotate around an axis, say you do this: glRotatef(90.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f); That will rotate things 90 degrees around the x-axis. However, it also sort of rotates the y ...