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how to correctly scale box2d in libgdx
I'm currently using 800x480 resolution and FitViewPort and I divided that by PixelPerMeter variable which is equal to 10 and that helped to move my box2d body faster. But when I tried to use fonts I ...
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How to fake a 3d character displacement by sprite scaling in GameMaker?
I want my 2D sprite to become bigger when moving down the screen (closer to the camera), smaller when walking away and to maintain the same size when moving left or right.
The scaling along the y ...
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GUI scaling: Viewport-based scaling or individual logic
I want to use scene2d for creating a GUI for a libGDX game. In scene2d all sizes are provided in pixel units (instead of percentages). So I wonder what is the best approach to deal with different ...
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Looking for a dirty pseudo 3D trick
To be specific I want to do bad sprite scaling like in Operation Thunderbolt. For some reason I'm getting it all wrong so far.
I started over from scratch and I've literally got a sprite that follows ...
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Unity2D: Scaling and Locking Image to anchor points
I have a script that uses Index to change an objects sprite using OnClick to move through the sprites, like a slideshow. I want the image to scale to the size of my anchor points, because I've notice ...
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Inverse zoom in/out (scaling) of AR 3D model using ARToolkit for Unity5
I have done a AR project using ARToolkit for Unity. It works fine but the problem I'm trying to solve here is to inverse the scaling on 3D model. Right now when you take camera further away from the ...
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(GameMaker) Smooth scaling and transparency while zooming
My game has a zoom function. There is a man in a spaceship, we can see the interior of the room room from side on as the outside is totally transparent. When I zoom out I want the outside of the ...
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Instanced based game with multiple node instances
I have a nginx load balancer with 4 nodejs instances behind it, and one Redis server to share certain memory.
My game is an instance game, similar to Diablo 2. Players can create "games" if you will ...
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Bullet: Apply any Transformation to RigidBody?
I'm using Bullet for CollisionDetection.
I load a scene from a Collada-File using Assimp.
Let's say I want to give every object in the scene a RigidBody with a box as CollisionShape.
Right now I first ...
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Animation Scaling?
I have an animation that changes the scale of the GameObject but also happens to change the position as well. I do not want the position to be changed by the animation, only the scale. How can I do ...
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How to render Fonts with correct size?
I'm making a game using libgdx and box2d so my Orthographic Camera Viewport is only 20x12 pixels/meters, when I try to render the a font on screen it becomes really big and pixelated, I also tried to ...
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Scaling Uma Character Unity 3d
My room is bigger than my UMA character so on spawn my character looks tiny. I have found this link: http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/988134/uma-how-to-increase-npc-avatar-scale.html
but ...
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Why would this scaling matrix have no effect?
To draw a simple model using the DirectXTk, I'm doing the following. It all works perfectly, draws correct, and so on. Except changing the scaling factor makes NO difference, and I can't figure out ...
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What screen resolution do I make an android game in? [duplicate]
Is it safe to assume that most mobile phones and tablets today have moved to 1280x720 resolution and above and make the games in that resolution, scale down for smaller screens or is a smaller ...
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Scaling images in Unity
I have a question about how scales work in Unity (using 5.0).
I've made a .gif image that is 100x100 pixels in size.
I put it in Resources folder under Assets.
When i drag it onto the scene it ...
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Relationship between Camera's view size, screen resolution and objects scale
I've had this question since a long time ago and wanted to know the relationship between how an object is viewed through the camera depending on the resolution of the device, the camera's view size ...
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Scaling surface changes colors
I'm building a pixel art game with pygame, and I'd like to scale it to double the size. I have tried the pygame.transform methods like scale and scale2x, but they seem to alter the colors quite badly, ...
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Working out velocity/time based on physical pixels moved
In my game I integrate like so: (Please assume all variables to be declared)
sprite.xTimeInSeconds = 5.0; //Time in seconds it should take this object to cross screen
sprite.xVelocity = 1f/...
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How can I scale up sprites but maintain visual quality?
I am using WebGL. I have an isometric grid which contains tiles. Some have 'tree' sprites on them. If I have my tree sprite loaded from a texture with a fixed resolution, when I zoom into the grid (...
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Libgdx Box2D and Screen Viewport Scaling
I am currently having problems getting an easy to manage system of scaling my units for use with box2D. Normally I would create virtual units to go along with me viewport and camera but since I am ...
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LibGdx Scalling sprites on Android
I have a sprite that is a few buttons but need them in the center of the screen for all android devices. I tried setting it's location to the center of the screen by dividing the orthogonal camera by ...
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Will Unity automatically scale everything? Please help!
I don't have a GUI or anything. Just a bunch of game objects with pictures on them.
I want everything to scale with the size of the screen. So if it's a small screen, the character will take up less ...
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Scaling sprites in XNA 4.0/Monogame
So I looked up a tutorial on how to scale sprites in XNA and I think I have it all figured out.
The only problem is that I want to use a spriteBatch.Begin() method overload without changing anything ...
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Adjust bitmaps according to screen ratios on android
I always thought that pixels were square... it turns out i'm wrong, and I am quite worried by this.
This means that if I draw a circle, it will be round on my screen but it could be an ellipse on ...
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Pygame - Increase and decrease the image size
I'm creating a 2D game where the player shoots cannon balls.. To give the impression of movement, i want the cannon ball to increase size untill half of the path, and then decrease untill it reach the ...
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How do I letterbox a C#/Monogame viewport within a resizeable window?
I am making a 2d game with xna/monogame. I want the main view area to always show 15x15 tiles, or 480x480px.
I've got something that sort of works, following this guide. It expands the view range if ...
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Scaling entity by screen height (simulating depth on orthographic camera)
i want my entities to be at 100% scaling (for example 128x128 pixels) when they are at 40% of the screen height (for example 480 pixels at 100%), so when they are at 41%, they are at 99% scaling (126,...
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Scaling issues with Open GL viewport / scissor box (Trying to draw outside of viewport)
In my game I am currently scaling the viewport so it retains the ratio of my development device like so:
width = (int) Math.min(deviceWidth, deviceHeight * 1.702127659574468); //1.702127659574468 is ...
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Confusion over GLViewport
I'm hoping someone can help me understand the GLViewport and what happens when we resize it
This will illustrate my confusion....
So, here I have a quad stuck in the middle of the screen. If I have ...
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libgdx - Image artifacts when downscaling image
Why does this border appear around the edges when I downscale a bitmap and how do I avoid it? I tried every filter I know, the results go from bad to worse.
Here's the original bitmap:
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MonoGame - 2x2 texture scaling issue
I've just recently switched from XNA to MonoGame and now I've run into something that has never happened to me in XNA before.
I've created a 2x2 texture and filled it with a color by doing this:
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How do some mobile games scale graphics so beautifully? [duplicate]
I'm working on my first Android game and have been struggling a bit with scaling.
I've got 3 test devices 800x480, 1920x1080 and a 2560x1600 tablet. Some games look near perfect on all of them - many ...
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Getting sprites to move exactly the same on different devices
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When moving a sprite along the X axis, this is my code:
spriteXReal = spriteXReal + (spriteXVel * dt); //.5 would be halfway point of, 1 would be right hand side screen etc... ...
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How do I scale and rotate around different points in Libgdx? [duplicate]
I'm using a SpriteBatcher to rotate and scale a TextureRegion in libGDX. I'd like to rotate the texture around an origin outside of the region, but have the texture scaled around the region's center.
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Scaling background without scaling foreground in platformer?
I'm currently developing a platform game and I've run into a problem with scaling resolutions.
I want a different resolution of the game to still display the foreground unscaled (characters, tiles, ...
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Applying scale to objects appears to have little effect when close up.
I just started out with D3D 11. My goal is to write a cube voxel engine (Minecraft style). Actually it's working pretty solid already, but when I finally tried to change the size of my cubes, I ran ...
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Inconsistent sprite velocity?
I'm moving my sprites using the following formula:
Code that I'm using (Only shows sprite's X position being calculated but Y position is also being done)
spriteGridX = 240/480; //I start out with ...
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How do I scale up pixel art without blur in GM Studio?
I'm creating a game in Game Maker Studio that uses pixel art. When I launch the game, all scaled-up textures are really blurry. (It doesn't happen to small ones.)
For example, this image
renders ...
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How can I approximate an “opening fan”-transformation?
Is there a way to—with matrices—transform something as if opening the image on a Japanese folding fan?
Image from Wikimedia Commons.
I'm at a loss of what to call it, so pointers towards avenues of ...
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Precision loss when transforming from cartesian to isometric
My goal is to display a tile map in isometric projection. This tile map has 25 tiles across and 25 tiles down. Each tile is 32x32. See below for how I'm accomplishing this.
World Space
World Space ...
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Is it more efficient to render full size with AA, or scaled down with no AA?
Which is more resource-efficient (given a typical modern 3D game scene):
Rendering it at 100% scale with anti-aliasing, or
Rendering it larger and scaling it down to fit the screen, but without AA?
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How to reduce image size without pixelation?
I see lots of games with smooth edges characters and high res images, however when I try to reduce images to say 64x64 for my character I just get a pixelated mess. even if I start with a 64x64 canvas ...
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Should I implement anti-aliasing by rendering large and scaling down?
Having read about anti-aliasing, I came to realise that I could render my scene 8× the original size of the screen, then shrink it to render it on my original screen to improve the effect that I have ...
