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Conveying a claustrophobic atmosphere in cavalier oblique projection
I need your collaborative knowledge in finding the best way to graphically represent a scene in a manner that would suit a SNES-era rôle-playing game. I've chosen to represent the game in what I'm ...
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Setting oblique projection to data visualization
I'm developing a small application using Directx intended to plot frequency spectra data in a waterfall plot. It should look like this:
So far, I managed to created most of the chart ...
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Control frustum near and far clip plane sizes in a Projection Matrix
I'm trying to achieve a dolly zoom effect.
My first try was the obvious one, the original "zoom in & dolly out" technique, which works nicely.
Except that there are cases which this is not ...
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Projection Matrix Breaks My Rectangle
This is my vertex shader, shown below.
#version 330 core
in vec3 a_position;
in vec4 a_colour;
// FOV = 70, near plane = 0.1, far plane = 1000
const mat4 u_projection = mat4(
1.428148, 0.0, ...
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Filling Closed Shapes
Game Engine : Unity 5.1
Developing on Windows 7
Hello,
I am using Vectrosity to draw some some shapes on screen run time. I also need to fill these shapes and none of them are really trivial shapes. ...
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glOrtho and VBO
I'm trying to send triangles to OpenGL using screen coordinates. Using the deprecated glBegin and glEnd I could just set up an orthographic projection and use screen-space coordinates as the ...
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Replicating a worldspace sphere on screen space
I have quite some struggle with a post processing shader that I'm working on.
I use Unity, and I have a shader in which I want to, in screen space as part of post processing, render a sphere that ...
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Problems with converting from Screen Space to World Space
I have an unproject function I've written, which takes in x and y values between -1 and 1, and a z value between 0 and 1 (0 is near plane, 1 is far plane). I create a vector off of this, and multiply ...
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How do I align the cube in which shadows are computed with the view frustrum? (“View Space aligned frustum”)
Short and concise:
Given 8 world space positions that form a cube of arbitrary size, position and orientation and given an arbitrary light direction.
How do I compute the View and Projection matrix ...
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Projection type/camera angle in Alien Soldier
I am trying to build a 2D game similar to Alien Soldier from oldies (Sega Genesis). The problem I am having is with assets.
What kind of projection/camera angle does the Alien Soldier use for it's ...
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How to get UV coordinates for sphere (Cylindrical Projection)
I have created one sphere and I want to map onto it a texture map. But I want first to project my map texture to cylinder and then to sphere.
So I want to create a function which takes as ...
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Projection type used in videogames
I'm trying to create a web application, to display 3D objects on canvas. To represent the 3D object I'm using an array of Points (from application's point of view, a Point - is just an object ...
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How do I convert 3D vertices and faces to 2D shapes?
I'm assuming all the math is done with projection matrices from linear algebra, but I don't yet understand how they work, and haven't found much information on them.
What I'm mainly curious about is ...
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How to use GetViewProjMatrix().TransformVector(LineDirection) in UE4?
I try to project a 3D vector (a direction, not a position) in screen space, but it does not return satisfying results:
FVector LineDirectionOnScreen =
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Construction of perspective matrix
Is it possible to Construct a perspective matrix by multiplying a perspective transformation with a parallel projection ?
I want a perspective projection in 2D space which is calculated by ...
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seamless stereographic projection
i have been struggling with this problem on and off for a few years now - making a seamless stereographic projection texture mapping on a sphere where the two halves of the sphere use the projection ...
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Issue creating a dynamic seemless cube map
I have a function for building a cube map, given a location in space. I also have a system for displaying cubemaps (either loaded from images or given as a texture handle), and they work fine and are ...
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Perspective projection math help?
I have points X,Y,Z and have a camera at Cx,Cy,Cz. Assuming the camera is not rotated and is facing the -Z direction and is at 0,0,0. What would the math be for projecting the X,Y,and Z values onto ...
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3d projection help?
I've been wanting to know how to do 3d projections.
Can someone explain how i can use this to find the position for x and y on the 2d plane that is 600 * 600 pixels.
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How do I convert a panorama image into a skybox?
I have two panoramas (1, 2) that are the same but are shaped a little different.
I don't care which one, but how should I go about converting them into a Skybox? I was looking for something like ...
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What projection is this?
Could someone tell me what this projection is called?
It's as if you are looking at an object from directly above it and then smear it up and left equally. Only the one dimension seems to be true ...
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Perspective projection
I'm studying Perspective projection in a computer graphics course and i'm really confused about a detail. The study material says there are 3 cases:
Case 1: View plane parallel to the xy plane and ...
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Does projection take place before clipping in the rendering pipeline?
At first I thought clipping happens before projection since new vertices may be added and the output of projection is in NDC which is 2D.
However after a lot of googling, I found that some ...
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How do I correctly project a point behind the camera?
I am making a 3D game in which I put an exclamation marker above points of interest.
In order to find out where in the 2D screen should I put my marker, I am manually projecting the 3D point where ...
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How to draw 2d above 3d scene?
I have an OpenGL(3.3)+GLEW application.
I want to draw a black vertical rectangle at the left side of the window for writing some information on it, like fps (I use GLEW function for drawing text).
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How do 3D games create the illusion of depth?
How do libraries like OpenGL convert three dimensional coordinates into the two dimensional pixels we see on our screens? I'm not talking about the 3DS or games that require 3D glasses, but rather the ...
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Projectile Shoot three at a time
In my game there is a bird flying and on touch it throws different artifacts projectile downwards. And these artifacts should hit the containers moving right to left on the screen. Now if user keeps ...
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How can I achieve a pseudo-3D camera effect like this?
I am trying to achieve a pseudo-3D camera effect similar to this:
I have gotten the following results using a 3D camera and billboards:
I am now running into the following problems:
In the ...
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What is Clash of Clans projection called?
What is Clash of Clans projection (it doesn't seem to be isometric! enter image description here )
photo from here
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What is the difference between an orthographic and oblique projection?
They both seem to be a parallel projection. I know that the angles of axes of viewing differ based on the type of orthographic projection (eg, an isometric projection has equal angles for all the ...
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Why does the projection matrix transform object points into a unit cube in computer graphics?
This semester I both took a computer vision and a computer graphics seminar. But only now before the exams I realize that there seems to be a fundamental difference between projection in both topics.
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Distortion problem with perspective projection
For various reasons – partly educational, partly technical – I'm writing a 3D game engine from scratch, using OpenGL 3.0; aiming for Core Profile, eventually, so of course I'm using a custom matrix ...
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Perspective Projection Far Plane Not Clipping?
I've just discovered that far away objects in my world don't seem to clip like they should with a perspective projection matrix.
When I fly far away from my main landscape, so that I am much more ...
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How to calculate a 3D orientation from 2D vanishing lines on an image?
Let say I have a image that represent a 3D scene. I did not have the 3D camera orientation of that scene (left, up and forward vectors) and i'd like to calculate it.
On that picture, I draw the ...
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Perspective Projection - Drawing Lines
So I sort of understand the math behind projecting 3d points onto a 2d plane. It's just some simple dividing and multiplication of distances. However I can't seem to wrap my head around projecting ...
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GameObject is only rendered when it has a negative z scale
I have an orthographic camera that looks like this:
I create 2d polygonal meshes that have uniform z values in their vertices. I use Camera.ViewportToWorldPoint() to map these viewpoint vertices to ...
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Scaling world - projection, view or separate matrix?
I am currently writing a simple 3D space visualisation program.
Things get loaded into it from a simple XML file, which contains positions and sizes of objects in space, so you can put basically any ...
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Mesh Generation In Code [closed]
My camera looks like this:
I am trying to add 2D polygons to the screen based on the percentage that they take up of a 1920x1080 pixel canvas. Therefore, I calculate this and then use ...
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How to compute point in view space from depth?
I am trying to implement do some screen space rendering but after looking over the web I still don't find answers to some doubts.
First, I need to compute the point in view space from a value in the ...
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Change 2D Angle Into Isometric Angle
i Rendered My Sprite With 72 Angles In Isometric View.
Rendered Frame Number 0 And Angle 0 Is When My Sprite Looking Right And And I Rendered My Sprite Every 5 Angle.
In My 2D Game My Sprite Moving ...
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Mixing Perspective and Orthographic Projections?
I'm going to start with some background, so jump to my question at the bottom for the TLDR version.
Problem:
In a Japanese 4gamer article (english translation via Chev on Polycount) explaining some ...
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XNA: How do I match Spritebatch View/Projection Matrices with BasicEffect Matrices?
I'm rendering a bunch of 2D content using SpriteBatches to a default XNA viewport. A simple 2D camera is used to move around the scene, which generates a transformation matrix passed to each ...
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Orthogonal projections question
I'm very VERY new into the game development world and I had just some slight trouble wrapping my head around something. We were told between classes just to think about how scaling matrices can ...
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Computing Field-of-View from window dimensions
I'm looking into computing the vertical Field-of-View (FOVy) based on the projection parameters of my camera. From this source, I've found an equation that seems to work.
float ...
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Rendering order for units behind objects?
Im developing a 2D game with some fake 3D effects (parallell projection).
2D-units are able to walk in front of buildings aswell as behind them, although themselves being just 2d-objects.
This leads ...
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How do I deal with floating-point error given a far-away camera?
Whenever a camera is "far" away (its location is some "large" vector), trouble arises when rendering objects close to it: It is the classic precision loss from subtracting 2 floating point numbers.
I ...
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How do you create a 2d world then view it in 3d?
I have been learning OpenGL for a while now and have a pretty good understanding so far.
What I would like to know is if I create a 2D game in Orthographic Projection, is it possible to switch to a ...
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How to determine the visibility of a single vertex, given a viewpoint?
I have a 3D triangle mesh, and I want to know, given a viewpoint (defined by a model, view and projection matrix), if a certain vertex is visible or not.
My approach was to render the mesh using ...
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projection and matrices [closed]
Many games do just fine with two projections, that can be represented by a matrix (orthographic and linear perspective). But what about projections that can't be represented by a matrix? Can you ...
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Projective texturing and falloff
I quite understand how projective texturing works. I implemented successfully a shader for that following nvidia doc.
The major problem I'm facing is that with that implementation the projector ...
