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Java LWJGL Rotating pistol with camera axis
Hello everyone I was writing a simply heightmap based game and I wan't add some range weapons like pistol. But I stuck in rotating part. My rotating on x axis was good. But problem starts when I wan't ...
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Is there an on-line repository of simcity series' cities?
It would be great if we could share our cities from all Sim City games (I was wondering about my old SC2000 .sc2 files). It would be nice to see tools comparing different cities, measuring the effects ...
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Importing .Max files in Net Beans or eclips
i am a student and i am making a dress design desktop application in JAVA. For that i first had to model cloths in 3D. I chose 3D Max as per my supervisor's advise. Not i am done with modelling cloths ...
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How to align angular velocity wit target rotation in 3D?
I'm making a space crew sim (controlling a ship) and have recently posted a question about how to calculate ETA between two rotations. I how now a new question more well defined.
Background:
I have ...
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Box2D: Making it Determinsitic?
From articles on the web, I found that floating point math generally has accuracy of at least 6 digits. With this in mind, is it possible to make Box2D which uses floats fully deterministic through ...
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Use Slick2D for standard application instead of game
I was wondering how well Slick2D would work when used for a custom rendered GUI in a standard application? A standard application not being a game. More like a text editor or 2D level editor that ...
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Load a multiplayer game Gameranger [on hold]
This question is somewhat related to programming. I was Wondering how do gameranger call the games like NFS MW and automatically set the players and their info. Can you please give information about ...
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Requesting any good ideas and symbols to make a girlfriend feel less lonely; also need thoughts on my game's design, that I gonna develop on weekend [on hold]
Long story short - my girlfriend is in another city because of work, and I want to make a short surprise-game to make her feel less lonely. It was planned that she will leave for only a week, but ...
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Unity - render 10,000 objects at once using DrawMesh [on hold]
If I was gonna run the following function in update 10,000 times to draw a mesh at a certain position, would this be an efficient way to do it? Would there be a way that would get better performance ...
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How to get started with making textures [on hold]
I have Photoshop CS6 (I haven't installed it yet), and I was wondering if there was a good book or tutorial on how to get started on making my own video game textures.
SIDENOTE: I saw a question on ...
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Valid instances not drawn
i have a problem with my code, my valid instances aren't drawn.
I'm just at the beginning so i will post the whole code(which sounds bigger than it is)..just a few lines
public class MyGame ...
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How do I draw an object that I always want to appear in the same place on screen on a scrolling orthographic camera using lib gdx?
So I want to make an endless scroller game and the orthographinc camera is scrolling downward so i want the character to stay with the camera. I'm not sure how to aproach this i've been looking a lot ...
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Which commonalities are shared by >90% of all JRPG's? [on hold]
I really want to make a 2D JRPG after reading this article.
-Please explain the basic requirements for every graphics pipeline. Whether I decide to use DirectX, XNA, Coco, Mono, etc., what common ...
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PlayFab Custom Server Integration
I want to use PlayFab to host and manage my server instances but I'm unclear on how to implement the requirements they listed here. My server SDK is in .Net and I'm hoping I can fulfill all the ...
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How import and draw a tiledmap with slick2d
How I can import and draw a tilemap with different layers? I have the next code and send me error if the tilemap have more than one layer.
public class Map {
private TiledMap map = null;
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What is the best way to make a Game State Manager in java [on hold]
I have tried to make a Game State Manager for an RPG but have had no results.
So now I ask how can I go about making a State Manager which uses the State Stack system?
I am planning to make the ...
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Game AI. Behavior Trees struggles
I'm writing a bot for a MOBA game as final project.
Game status is read directly from the screen (that's the requirement).
Now I have come to the AI part. On the first steps it started as some ...
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How to unsmooth polygons in 3dsMax
i am creating a game using a "Low Poly Art Style". Meaning there is an effect of polygons on the model. Whilst modelling a tree, a portion somehow became smooth and i continued to model not knowing ...
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Unity 64 bit support compiler causes problems? [on hold]
I just updated my unity to 4.6.2 and compiled it to support 64 bit.
On my desktop version, here is the start screen in the monitor:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ar5xbdqer9vog9x/test1.jpg?dl=0
When I ...
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Simple multi-player web-based game to illustrate a reactive real-time framework [on hold]
I'm putting together a one-hour introductory workshop to Meteor.js, a full-stack JavaScript framework with automatic data sync between clients and the server, and reactive declarative front-end. You ...
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Instance Data is Always Zero
I'm trying to get an extremely simple instancing example running on my machine.
I've created a 'model' with three vertices (in other words, a triangle), and the vertex/index data is kept in an ...
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Surfaces not being drawn on game maker
I'm trying to draw a surface in black in game maker. This is the code:
//Create event
surf = surface_create(room_width, room_height);
//Draw event
surface_set_target(surf);
draw_clear_alpha(c_black, ...
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Graphics Raycaster of Unity; How does it work?
I'm making a small game for the first time and enjoying it thus far. The only thing that keeps bothering me is that I can't find a human explanation of what the graphics raycaster does. What's the ...
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Where is Light in Game view
Very Basic Question.when i run the the game the game Mode is Too dark as shown below in the picture. please suggest me some Setting how to globally switch on built in light while Running the game in ...
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Rotating an object towards a target on the Y axis
I am attempting to rotate a 3D object on its Y-axis towards a target it is looking at. I have always struggled with rotations so I would like to try to avoid using Unity's built in functions, i.e ...
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Handling an item database with procedurally generated items?
Let's say you have an item database which has every item in your game.
This works fine for regular items like a Health Potion, a normal Iron Sword etc, because these items have ItemID's so we can get ...
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Can I develop a game for Kinect without a Kinect?
I have to make a game in Unity3D using Kinect. The problem is I don't have the Kinect yet. I need to wait until they deliver it to me.
Can I imitate Kinect's movement for debugging my app?
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rating prompt for unity
I want to integrate a rating prompt to ask player to rate my game. I know there is iRate and Appirater for iOS and Android. Is there anyone for Unity? I want to have one that can use my own images. ...
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Error with SpriteSheet on slick2d [on hold]
I have a error using SpriteSheet class on my java project. I have a SpriteSheet with 3 hearts, one full, one half full and another empty. But I can't render the Image.
public class HUB{
public ...
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How can i Zoom and Drag The Multiple Image in RelativeLayout
i try but it did not see the effect for the zoom and Rotate the image ..Here is my code....
ima1 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.image);
ima1.setOnTouchListener(new ...
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What is classified as a “High Level Design Decision”? [on hold]
I'm a student studying game development and I have an assignment about level design due in a few days, the last question is about identifying high level design decisions from a game scenario, but the ...
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SpriteBatch passing textures to GPU
How exactly (or, how often) are textures passed to the GPU shaders in MonoGame/XNA?
I am asking because I was profiling a MonoGame/XNA application and noticed that the memory controller load (using ...
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invisible actor at group (libgdx)
I add to HorizontalGroup several actors: 1, 2, 3. I want to set invisible 2nd actor, and it doesn't take any space (seems in Android View.GONE - ...
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How Use loop's in cocos2d-x
I've for loop which work well on Windows
double speed = 35;
for(int i=0; i<60 ;i++){
speed += 0.3;
Sleep (1000); // sleep 1000 mili seonds
}
But it responds an error ...
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How to create a non-player characters (BOTS) in actionscript3 flash?
I have created a board game like LUDO which is working fine for four users. I thought of implementing non-player characters in case if any number of user is unavailable. Is it possible to create ...
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How to make a game save in Java? [duplicate]
I'm using JFrame to make games.
How do you output the variables in the program to a external file and retrieve it when the player loads the game.
I could not find a tutorial on it.
If you can lend me ...
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Unity game in edit the scene mode all of a sudden became incredibly slow/“laggy”
So I recently have been working on a game. So far I have very few assets in the game, which are a point light, a piece of terrain (which is textured), a player controller and a tree. Everything was ...
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Collision detection of cicle and rectangle
How to find the collision detection of a moving rectangle on circular object?
Here i have tried to junp rectangular object but the collision detection of a small rectangular object while jumping ...
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How can I import Pygame in PTVS? [on hold]
I have installed PTVS2.1 on VS2013 and pygame, but when I input
import pygame
in VS python interactive window, it shows
import pygame
Traceback (most recent call last):
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How to trim a sprite?
I have a spritesheet:
var spriteSheet = new createjs.SpriteSheet({
// ...
frames: { width:520, height:600, regX: 260, regY:300 }
// ...
});
I am computing it's physics body as follows:
...
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Finding break in voxel grid (3D array)
I am working at dynamic voxel engine in Unity (something like Space Engineers) where player can create object from voxels, push them, damage and split in to other object.
I store all data in 3D ...
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What is the most discussed / hot topic on image processing for mobile games, at the moment? [on hold]
I will make it more clear..
Im working in a display processing team.. Im new here at the company (Im intern) and they want me to bring some new tech demos, or things being developed in this area, on ...
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Geometric approach to frustum
I've calculated a frustum with these formulas
The Camera's position represented by P (this is a point) = (-20,35,-50)
The normalized viewing vector represented by v = (.3249,-.3791,.8664)
The ...
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How to shift blocks and player upwards all at a constant rate? [on hold]
So I have a game where there are basically a tower of blocks as you can see in the picture
So to clarify the question I would like to know how to be able to be able to lift blocks up and also raise ...
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What is the state of opengl quad-buffer 3D support on nvidia GeForce GTX cards?
Recent posts on forums suggest that nvidia has added quad buffered stereo 3D support to drivers for their GTX cards. Despite nearly identical hardware, in the past only Quadro cards were able to do ...
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Texture filtering: Is the minification or the magnification filter used when rendering at the exact texture size?
Suppose you have a texture where the minification filter is linear, but the magnification filter is nearest-neighbor (point filtering). If the texture is rendered at exactly 1:1 pixels, but at a ...
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How to set up SDL? [on hold]
BACKGROUnD INFO :
Im new to game development but have used gamemaker for a few months and want to go to SDL because I here it is an amazing software.
I Don't see any tutorials on actually setting it ...
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I want to get into Game developement but dont know where to start? [on hold]
Info about me : I have spent 8 months in game maker: studio and hear it is a horrible awful program and that I need to stop using it if I want to take this seriously, which I do. I kind of want to do ...
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RPG Inventory Help [on hold]
So I've managed to get an inventory started and have reached a few roadblocks. I am using lists to contain the items and I have three for each item type. However the attributes are not displaying in ...
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Drawing sprites only under certain conditions - alternatives to using 'if statements'?
Within my game (which is Java/Android), I wish to draw a sprite only under certain conditions, so up until now, I've been using if statements to accomplish this. Something like so:
if ...
