The imitation of a real-world process or system.
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Any examples on how to set up damage deal on country simulation(population decrease)?
maybe the title is a bit lacking... I did find a lot of data about how damage is done in RPGs but not in strategy simulations.
I wanted to figure how population increase/decrease by it's ratio in ...
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How to edit visual appearance of mod in Euro Truck Simulator 2(ETS2)
Not sure if this is the right place, so here goes nothing...
I want to update my truck's appearance in-game, to make it more on par with it's real life counterpart. The part of the truck I want to ...
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How to bend train wagon using Hermite Spline Controller in Unity3D 5?
I am making a Train Simulator using Unity3D 5 and i want to bend train wagon smoothly at curved track and back to normal at straight track , how to do it, please help.
I am using Hermite Spline ...
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How is structural analysis done in games (e.g.: bridge building, Dig or Die, and 3D)?
From what I understand a typical interactive truss system would need substantial calculations since every component affects the entire system. I think you could arbitrarily stop at a given number of ...
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Simulate dirt spread (Normal distribution?)
-This question is technically more math related, but it has to do with a simulation so I am here first. I can post this in the math SE instead if needed.
I am in the process of trying out some mesh ...
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Simulating Physics - dt vs formula
I was just wondering, when simulating physics is it usually a good idea to get the time delta from the last frame and apply the relevant motion equations?
Something like:
void simulate(float dt)
{
...
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How can I make sure multiple player scripts all get the same amount of execution time per game tick?
I'm looking for a way to allow players to write code in a high level language, but I need to be able to keep all script instances synchronized in terms of script execution time per game tick so that ...
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Simulation of a two-masses connected by a rod 2D system
I'm working on a multitouch-based interface and I want to add some physical behavior to gestures (pan, zoom and rotation). I thought model the system like that:
When a touch starts, a point mass is ...
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How should my creatures see the world?
This may not be the best forum for this question, but I know a lot of you have dabbled in the field of general AI for games so here it is.
I'm doing the cliche population evolution of creatures in a ...
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Should the Sprites in my Boids implementation be backed by model objects?
This question is about the proper way to architect an implementation of Craig Reynolds Boids algorithm.
I have an Agent object like this:
struct Agent: Equatable
{
let identifier = ...
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Serious issues with grid of connected springs
So i have a simulation I am trying to make where there is a grid. Each dot will be connected to the dot Above, below, left, or right (If such dot exists) via a logical grid.
Theoretically when I ...
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2d block based game storing water simulation
I am making a 2d block based sandbox game like terraria.
I'm trying to think where is the better place to store water in, data structure wise.
That is, to store it in the block world array, or to ...
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How can I simulate thousands of things at high frame-rates?
I'm working on a simulation game like SimTower where I'd like to keep track of thousands of items at once.
Other games like this, appear to have hundreds or thousands of rooms with elevators with ...
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Non-real time simulation of overlapping repulsive balls
I want to make a non-real time simulation of overlapping repulsive balls, initially in 2D and later in 3D. With "non-real" I mean that rendering is not needed after each time step.
First of all, ...
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Correct order of entity updates and collision detection
I'm trying to simulate a number of units walking in a single file. My update loop looks like this:
for each unit:
n = compute next position
if n is empty then move to n
If I start the loop ...
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Circular motion
I'm working on a to-scale simulation of the Solar System
with HTML5 Canvas but a problem appeared which I am unable to solve.
All the astronomical objects I've added have a point-of-reference (i.e. ...
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Cell Based Simulation
I'm working on a cell based simulation in a pixel shader (webgl, shadertoy.com specifically), but am having some challenges trying to make the simulation consistent.
Each cell (pixel) has the ...
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How should I efficiently store faction relationships?
I'm working on a game that follows the life of a powerful magician as she lives, dies, and reincarnates dozens of times across hundreds of years. Meanwhile, empires rise and fall around her--she can ...
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How would I implement a realistic stock market?
I'm making a corporation simulator, and it contains stocks. In the game you can buy and sell stocks, but I can't implement a realistic change in the price for them. How do I make them change up/down ...
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How to make the inside of a cube accessible
I have a cube, it is made up of smaller cubes each making the big cube 8x8x8. The cube is the map. The player of the game needs to be able to appraise the entire map and understand it without having ...
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Why is my gravity script repelling and not attracting?
I'm currently working on a small simulation of Newton's Law of Gravitation in Unity3d, and it seems to be working pretty well, except, it's doing the opposite of what I expected. Instead of attracting ...
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Open Borders in Fluid / Smoke Simulation
I am trying to adopt a fluid / smoke simulation based of the source files of this video to my needs but came across a few problems when trying to make it open at the borders (flows into the void).
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Non linear scaling to show a sol system
In a sol system 2d simulation I have some problems in showing the entire system (ie: eaven planets far away than saturn )
letting distinguibles the nearest planet orbits.
Actualy a use a simple ...
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How can I simulate these two droplet? [duplicate]
Below is a two droplet merging together,in 2d.
I want to simulate the behavior when I exert combination force(through mouse or fling force on touch screen) on one of them to
make them to be a larger ...
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Synchronisation on a non authoritative networked peer to peer scene
I currently have a piece of coursework that requires 3 or more 3d simulations connected via p2p to maintain a simulation that is visually consistent amoung all peers. A big issue is that I'm not ...
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Simulation of ball movement in a 3d landscape. The easiest way?
I have a landscape(generated via Perlin noise) and a ball. I want the ball to move along the geodesic(implementation of basic physics: gravitation, friction). I thought to do raycast around the ball ...
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Height field/Shallow water eqation water simulation with ground height
Hey guys I found a lot of tutorials on 2D height field/swe water simulation but I have yet to find one that takes into account of ground height, i.e.
http://zejiazheng.com/?p=87
The overall water ...
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Elegantly simulating NPC movement in inactive areas
My AI is utility-driven in a similar pattern to The Sims, where all unique behavior is coded into interactable objects, and the only thing an NPC does is decide which object they wish to use, path to ...
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Simulate popularity
I'm working on a music game. It has genres like pop and rock.
Different centuries have different music popularities. (Influences the sales)
I thought about building an object like this:
var rock = {
...
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How do I model diffusion and heat?
So I'm trying to solve a heat/diffusion equation for a continuous space, but I'm not opposed to a grid solution. I'm a little short on the maths needed but have made it work so far.
If I model ...
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Programming Dynamic 3D Water/Waves?
I'm a little bit stuck on how I might go about programming dynamic, interesting water in a game. To qualify that a little bit, I'm interested in creating water with broad, rolling waves that affect ...
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Transmission implementation in a car game
I'm trying to create a simple car game with manual gear changes. However, I'm having a bit of trouble implementing the gear changes.
Here's my current code for the "car":
int gear = 1; // Current ...
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Fixed joints in 3D
I'd like to build something like rigid origami in 3D space. So I need some mesh where each vertex is a particle and the set of the edges makes a chains/fabric where each edge is a "fixed length" ...
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Simulating Smartphones on PC with Unity
I want to make a game that depends on the phone orientation (changing shoot direction with tilt), however I need to test this on PC. So is there any tool I can use to simulate the orientation of the ...
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How to run physics simulation in the background for possible future outcomes?
I'm designing a physics-heavy game in 3d.
The core mechanic of this game is that the user gets to choose his actions based on probable future outcomes.
For example - the player has a choice whether ...
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Simple Water surface simulation problems (GDC2008 Matthias Muller- Hello World)
Im attempting to implement a simple height field water surface simulation outlined in Matthias Muller's GDC 2008 talk. "http://www.matthiasmueller.info/talks/gdc2008.pdf"
I can't seem to see why it ...
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Implementing traffic conditions in TORCS
I am working on a project about "Effects of Traffic conditions and Track Complexity on Car Driving Behavior".
Is it possible to implement traffic in TORCS, or should I use another car simulator? By ...
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How do I calculate legal moves in a travelling board game?
I'm making a traditional roll-the-dice-and-move style board game.
Players move along the white squares on the board (see image) and may move in any available direction from a junction.
Players must ...
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Throwing a ball and estimating its path using a Physics engine
The problem:
A player entity wishes to throw a ball from a known position with a known initial velocity. The surrounding environment contains physical objects that can alter the trajectory of the ball....
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How can I simulate a floating character in Box2D?
I am creating a jump'n'run game using the Box2D physics engine. The main character should be a robot like creature without legs, floating over the ground powered by a jet engine.
The motion should ...
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Run a few seconds of simulation just after loading a scene
I'm looking for a way to execute 3 to 15 seconds of simulation once a scene is loaded.
The problem is: some objects can be left suspended in motion while the player exits the scene. their state is ...
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Does client side prediction sync with the server in the past?
I've spent some time now messing around and just trying to learn dead reckoning and client side prediction for the fun of it. Most of what I do doesn't need it, so i've never had a need to go down ...
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How do I calculate the motion of 2 massive bodies in space?
I'm writing code simulating the 2-dimensional motion of two massive bodies with gravitational fields.
The bodies' masses are known and I have a gravitational force equation.
I know from that force I ...
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How can I maintain saved game backward compatibility?
I have a complex sim game I want to add save game functionality to. I'll be updating it with new features continually after release.
How can I make sure my updates don't break existing save games? ...
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How can I handle merging and splitting lots in a city block? [closed]
I am currently working on a SimCity-style game in C# using SharpDX. I'm having trouble handling the growing and shrinking the game entities that represent zones within a region. For example:
+---...
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Simulating (Human) Needs? [closed]
How can I simulate the vegetation (of a human being)?
To simulate Hunger for example, I use some kind of saturation based system now. Means that every food-object saturates differently and the ...
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Lunar lander: How to calc acceleration in each step
I'm trying to make a lunar lander simulator. I'm going to use a simple Euler integration. AFAIK all I've to calculate is the acceleration in each step, and then I should be able to update velocity and ...
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Advance efficient water physics simulation [closed]
Summary: I am looking at creating a large(ish) ocean which multiple ships will be present in doing their own thing. I want the ocean to be a life like as possible but without compromising too much on ...
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Math to steer a car
I'm in the early stages of a city driving simulation project, and I'm having trouble with the math to determine how the AI should steer the cars. My car model is very simple, with nothing like ...
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Representing feelings such as temperature, pain, smell, taste, hunger, and thirst immersively
In a totally immersive, simulation-type role-playing game, the player should not look at bars or numbers to keep track of his or her stats, so another method of showing these stats is needed. For ...
