Unanswered Questions
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How can I get PagedGeometry grass to receive shadows?
I made the switch to Ogre3D (v1.7) and to using PagedGeometry. What I'm trying to do is make a simple scene with a terrain, some trees and grass. In a nutshell, I would like to achieve this kind of ...
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How do I run functional tests against my Unity3D game?
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I am continuing some legacy code for a game in Unity3d, and I want to write some functional tests meant for regression, to ensure I don't break things when implementing new things or when ...
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BRDF and Spherical coordinate in ray tracing
I developed a ray tracer that use standard phong/blinn phong lighting model. Now I'm modifying it to support physically based rendering, so I'm implementing various BRDF models. At the moment I'm ...
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Dual Contouring - Finding the feature point, normals off
I am following this tutorial to implement Dual Contouring
http://www.sandboxie.com/misc/isosurf/isosurfaces.html
My data source is a grid 16x16x16;
I traverse this grid bottom to top, left to right, ...
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How would one generate a Navigation Grid for a 3d world?
I am attempting to find a solution to this problem. I'm trying to build a navigation mesh in the format of a grid of verticies locked to x,y floored coordinates in the shape of squares for 3D space. ...
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How can I use the Kinect as a microphone in Linux?
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and the Kinect camera has type Microsoft_Xbox_NUI_Sensor_043367545147-02-Sensor.
I can access the Kinect's camera from a Linux program that I'm writing, but I'd also like ...
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SSAO and normal issues
I'm using a SSAO alghorithm called "SAO", seen here: http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/papers/SAOHPG12/
I'm currently having issues with "smooth" normals, for example when using normal/height maps.
To ...
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Word game - board implementation?
I'm working on a boggle type game for android, using libgdx. The user is presented with a 4x4 grid of letters and must find words by dragging their finger over the letters.
Unlike boggle I want used ...
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How can I visually see changes made to a scene since the last git commit
I'd like to see the changes made in a scene (.unity file) before I commit them to git.
I have looked into several GIT/Unity solutions but all of them are made for merging changes and not for showing ...
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Shader to see silhouette through alpha blended sprites
I want to achieve in Unity a see through effect like the one in these examples:
In my specific scenario there are a couple of requirements:
Sprites are using alpha blending, and sprites have ...
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Whats in Nintendo's 'Dev Interface'?
Not that long ago, Nintendo opened their developer program for access by anyone who registers a Nintendo Developer account, giving equal access to indie and commercial developers. Or, at least thats ...
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Spherical Area Lights do not match reference
So I'm adding spherical area lights to my application, and comparing my results with mitsuba, I am getting some differences (left is my approach, right is mitsuba - a pathtraced reference):
What I am ...
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Entity-Component-System data storage design
I'm working on an ECS and I've already read a lot of articles about it. Most of these articles are talking about a simple case (store data contiguously, read it in a single for loop). However the real ...
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How can i port my OpenGL game to linux?
I made a game with OpenGL 4.3(core profile) and C++. I used GLFW3 for window and context management. I am also using bunch of third party library which are also available for linux.
What things do i ...
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Is this a good way of separating graphics from game logic?
Currently my architecture (game engine) looks like this (not accurate):
Everything graphics related is done in the GraphicsEngine (and in its components, like Material, Mesh, etc), but my problem is ...
