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Quaternion math from real world to screen
I'm writing an application (not a game per se, but close enough) where we use attitude sensors (an IMU) in the real world to affect the orientation of an object in the application's 3D space (OpenGL). ...
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How to start encouraging team collaboration?
I am working on converting a single player game to multiplayer, but I am concerned that if I simply do a 1-1 conversion, even in modes with "multiple players" there won't be any incentive for team ...
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Unable to move GameObject?
This simulates a GameObject swinging between two positions.
I am unable to manually move a GameObject on the Y axis using the Unity editor (in scene view) when the following script is attached and ...
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What is the difference between “stealth” and “social stealth”?
I was recently researching the stealth mechanics of several games and I stumbled across the distinction of "stealth" (eg. Splinter Cell series) vs "social stealth" (eg. Assassin's Creed series).
What ...
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How can I use pre-rendered high resolution models as a basis for generating normal maps?
I was reading through the Wikipedia page on pre-rendering and at the end they mention in the following quote that doom 3 used pre-rendered models?
While making Doom 3, id Software used ...
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Designing a stats system
NOTE: I am currently not using any frameworks or other game dev tools like Unity - this is purely written using c# 6.0 in Visual Studio 2015. I would be interested to learn about any frameworks or ...
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Browser Multiplayer Game - Where to start? (Newcomer) [on hold]
I am currently working on a game, which the end goal is for it to be a multiplayer game on Browser. I am pretty fluent in C# and have been coding for almost a year. I would be fine learning new ...
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SourceSDK/Hammer Saferoom creation. NoDraw trigger brushes
When creating a safe room at the end of a map in SourceSDK (Left 4 Dead 2) you must surround the room with 'no draw trigger brushes'. Can anyone clarify this? Does this mean that the room must be ...
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Require maths help calculating deflection angles of quadrants
For each quadrant, I need to find a neat way of calculating the deflection angle for a small circular object striking a circle, as shown in the diagram.
Angles a and b are already known.
Angle a ...
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Getting error with transform.position? [on hold]
This simulates a GameObject swinging between two positions.
I'm getting this error when I run the code below:
error CS1502: The best overloaded method match for
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My Sprite class generates a EXC_BAD_ACCESS error, and is sometimes NULL? Rect has weird values?
So, lets start off with the weird Sprite* object sometimes being NULL.
I run my game, the EXC_BAD_ACCESS error comes and sometimes, only sometimes my Sprite* has a value when it crashes.
Sometimes ...
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Allowing a unit to equip only certain types of weapons
I'm making a FireEmblem style game, and I am working on items at the moment. I have a Weapon class from which Sword, Axe, etc. are derived. I also have character classes like Swordsman, Mage, etc. I ...
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maximum number of vertices in a compute shader? [on hold]
DX11 resource limitation specifications say that we can use 128mb for vertex data and have 10^32 vertices?
that seems crazy...
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How to make a triangle move using GDI in C++
I want to make a triangle move from one place to another using Polygon() function does anyone knows how to?? Just a simple one.
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How do I “teleport” an object in Unity?
I'm trying to make a script where once a player triggers a collision they are teleported to another position that is determined by a empty game object. I think it has to do something with the ...
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How can I avoid referring directly to the state type when transition to new states in a state machine?
I finally found a good way to implement a "stack-of-states" to manage what screen I am on.
Minimal example:
class gameEngine {
public:
//Removes state at the "back" of the stack and puts the ...
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How can I make an actor fire bullets repeatedly?
I created a Jet and a Bullet, and when Jet is touched, the Bullet is fired.
Now I want to know how can I make the Jet fire again after it has fired the first shot?
public class MyGdxGame implements ...
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Translate D3DXMatrixLookAtLH to Unity compatible code
I am currently trying to port a really old Game (I have the source of it) to Unity as a fun project. And I'm currently stuck with the object rotation techniques in Unity compared to the ones used in ...
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Suggest me a degree for Game development [on hold]
Which degree I pursue to become a game developer and from where?
I have done BCA and now i want to become a Professional Game developer to work in companies like ubisoft or ea games.
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Object has its heading stored as Euler angles. After it makes a turn, how do I calculate the new angles?
Assume said object is an aircraft. I store three angles (in degrees) that describe where it's headed: yaw, pitch and roll - in that order. Let's say the plane is flying vertically, upwards. The angles ...
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What do you call the sounds that play when players place/destroy blocks?
I'm working on a game and trying to find sounds for it. I'm not sure what terminology to use when searching to find the kinds of sounds I need.
Specifically I'm looking for sounds that make sense for ...
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Which platforms will support the epson bt-2000 (Vuforia, Wikitude…)
I hope I'm in the correct place here, at least I couldn't find a better stack exchange. My question is simple, I can't find after days of research which platforms like Vuforia and so on will support ...
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My Movement Function is working good but called only once
I have a function, It's working but not getting called every frame if It's in canMoveDown function but !canMoveDown its not.
if (!canMoveDown && UpdateTilePhysics(currentBoardPiece)) like ...
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WPF for 2d game [on hold]
I want to create the snake game in WPF, could you recommend what should I use for the graphics and animations ?
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Increasing chance of good loot after multiple tries
I'm looking for a way to make chances of getting better loot increase the more you've looted. I do not want it to be possible to get a rare item the first 5 times and not being able to get an epic ...
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Beta Testing Request? [migrated]
Can we request or post a request for beta testers sign up in here? New to this section, used stack Exchange for work work but now using it for game development. Little new to these rules
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LibGDX - Player Movement Flickers
So, I was programming a very simple LibGDX game, so I decided to include a player class into the program. Once I did that, the players image started to flicker/stutter while I moved it.
Here's the ...
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Detecting position within a circle
I need to detect the position of a knob on a touchpad. I need to detect if it is in particular areas and if so, which one. The sections, of course, being the colored parts.
I know that the black ...
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Unity 5.. How to Block interaction below panel?
New to Unity...Is there an easy way to block all interaction underneath a panel that I would have stationary at top of my game. There will be a pause button in that panel and some game info. Just ...
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Does pausing the canvas draw restores the FPS to higher value in a HTML5 game?
I set Frame Per Second of 60 for my game. But after 1 minute it gets to a significantly lower value - around 8 FPS.
Does pausing the canvas drawing restores the FPS to higher value? If it does, how ...
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Why does Intel Graphics Monitor crash after I set a depth stencil state in my Direct3D 11 application?
I'm programming a managed Direct3D 11 application with SlimDX. I want to use Intel Graphics Monitor to capture draw calls for a single frame. When I try to set a depth stencil state my application ...
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How to efficiently organize different game zones with different functionality?
For now I have a list of basic data class like position in game world, dimensions, type and stuff like that, but since I am starting to implement their functionality it seems kind of a bad pattern, I ...
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When should I extrapolate and when should I interpolate?
I'm having trouble understanding when to extrapolate and when to interpolate. In gaffer on games, he said to interpolate but then in another article it recommended extrapolating the player. So my ...
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Unity UI Problems
I am using unity UI for the first time and trying to create a level selection menu just like angry birds. I had successfully created the dynamic level selection menu it was all good in the inspector ...
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Create multiple object with for loop [on hold]
Like in question, I want to create multiple object from the same prefab in for loop.
Something like this:
for(int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
{ GameObject Orb = (GameObject) Instantiate (OrbPrefab, ...
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How does this math behind converting angles to vectors work?
I calculated the vectors of my yaw and pitch successfully. Even tho it works fine, I can't seem to understand how the math works exactly.
Could someone (graphically / demonstratively) explain me this ...
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Why does reverse depth buffering provide more precision? (with DXGI_FORMAT_D24_UNORM_S8_UINT Datatype layout)
I lately came around methods optimizing the use of the depth buffer, as the easiest solution reverse depth buffering is mentioned but I cannot wrap my head around why I would be gaining a better depth ...
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Loading font in Monogame
This question is probably a duplicate but I'm still asking it since it's all yesterday that I'm trying to get this done without any success. I followed many solutions and tried even more libraries ...
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Cocos2dx : Lua with C++: lua_pcall closing my app
I'll try to explain what is happening with my current project:
I want to make some custom scripts myself without using the lua script engine from cocos2dx, so I linked lua51.lib on Linker->Input, and ...
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Merge static libraries into my game engine library [on hold]
I'm tyring to set up a custom C++ game engine library that I can use for future games.
I wanted to include multiple third party libraries (such as box2d, SFML, SFMGUI) to implement rudimental ...
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Combine Unity games in one app
I want to combine multiple Unity games in one Unity app (or other framework if necessary). This app would have a bunch of buttons that will start the desired game. Is this possible and what would be ...
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Cocos2d changing game play dynamically like Hellrider
I am creating a game somewhat related to Hellrider. I also want to change game play similar to this game.
Like, at starting player goes in Upside, after sometimes, Left-to-right, Right-to-left, ...
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libgdx sphere rotation after movement
I'm moving my sphere on the screen using this method:
Matrix4 m = myBall.body.getCenterOfMassTransform();
Vector3 translation = new Vector3();
m.getTranslation(translation);
float multiplier = delta ...
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Android based game for motion detection and server-side counterpart [on hold]
I am starting to work on a small game for trial purposes. There is information I am missing and I thought I would get some good suggestions.
The game :
A simple prototype to test how we can control ...
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How can I implement Player Prefs to Save High scores in unity?
I am new to both unity and C# and facing trouble in saving and displaying the highscore.text in the game.Til now I only successfully managed to display the scoreUI and update them whenever player ...
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Mathf.PingPong Speed Issue?
How can we stop Mathf.PingPong speed from increasing once the object1 and object2 have reached a specific distance between each other?
float min;
float max;
// Update is called once per frame
void ...
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QuickGame can be with player outside google circle?
Does the quickgame option, in the multiplayer google play games, match random players who are
(i) in one's google plus circle or
(ii) with any online player.
I want to implement quickgame with ...
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Can you explain the following C# script for camera behavior
Here is the script, it rotates the camera left right with a target "player in this case" rotating with it.
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class ControllingCamera : MonoBehaviour ...
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Can I use JavaScript for Unity 5?
Sorry for my bad English. I wanted to know how similar is JavaScript with Unity Script. I know that Unity Script is not JavaScript and it was done for marketing purposes but I just wanted to know if ...
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Camera movement in unity engine
I have a basic camera setup which is angled like so:
x: 30
y: 0
z: 0
Projection: Orthographic
And i attached a C# component to it and made it so the camera moves with a right click and drag ...
