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How to create a similar 2.5D art style character
EDIT: I am asking about the characters not the 2.5 scene
I am the graphic designer of a game and I want to recreate the look and feel of these images:
My questions are:
Does this style have a ...
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How to handle zooming? (Collision detection and speed are off)
I'm working on a bird's eye view 2D game. I want to zoom in/out based on the entity's speed (similar to GTA 1/2), but I'm struggling with the zooming.
To zoom, I simply scale all the entities by the ...
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How to best implement scrolling in a 2D game? [duplicate]
I'm a bit confused as to how to best implement scrolling in a 2D game. I've implemented it before, but I was never quite happy with how I separated the concerns.
My starting point this time is ...
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Good Book or Resource for 2D Game Art [closed]
I have a very clear idea for my first Game . I have immense Experience in Coding Games in LibGDX but i am very poor at game art . So far I've been hating all the characters I've drawn . Are there any ...
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Recommended graphic software for creating great graphics in game? [closed]
I came across a game called Trine2. It has a great graphics here is one image i captured here. Forgive me but I need 10 reputation to upload image so i use external sites.
How did they create that ...
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Are there shaders or at least shader like things in Swing?
Is there? Because I'm wondering if it supports GLSL, HLSL, or it's own shading language? I don't know much about Swing graphics. Does anyone know?
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Should my assets match my reference resolution?
I'm confused over supporting multiple resolutions in my 2D game.
I'm currently working with a reference resolution of 1280x720. That means that all elements are positioned in a 1280x720 coordinate ...
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2D Software Lighting Issues in Java
I'm creating a 2D top-down tiled game in pure Java and by now I'm trying to implement a way to do lighting.
First, some details on how I render: there is a screen class which handles all the ...
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Is it better to import photoshop files or illustrator files into flash? [closed]
I was wondering what would be better to import into flash for when I animate.
My intention is to animate my characters and objects and then export as a png sequence and make a sprite sheet then take ...
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Why use textures that are Power of Two? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why are textures always square powers of two? What if they aren’t?
I am using C# and XNA (also MonoGame for other platforms than Windows) to create a game in 2D. ...
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Filtering (e.g. Gauss blur) on seamless textures but without border artifacts?
I am looking for a way to apply (Photoshop, Gimp etc.) filters to seamless textures without the usual border artifacts. The kernel of the Photoshop Gauss filter for example does not wrap around the ...
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How to edit specific mipmap images in a DDS?
I am looking for a way to edit individual mipmaps within a DDS file. To my knowledge, the NVidia Plugin only lets you create the largest image and then computes the smaller ones automatically. ...
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How to implement rotating Earth effect in 2D?
I've modeled a photorealistic scene of the Earth rotating in 3DS Max and would like to use it as a backdrop of a menu screen in a 2D game. What would be the appropriate way to implement this effect ...
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2D graphics scaling
I've been wondering how to archive kind of zooming behavior with 2D graphics. I'm pretty sure that this is not right term, but let me try to explain my thoughts.
Ok, let's start by defining that we ...
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What kind of projection is used here?
Tibia is a 2d game, but it's sprites are drawn using certain kind of orthographic projection that is not the same I'm used to:
I'm trying to figure out what projection is used here. I've guessed ...
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Making a 2D game with responsive resolution
I am making a 2D game, however I wish for it to be resolution agnostic.
My target resolution i.e. where things look as intended is 1600 x 900.
My ideas are:
Make the HUD stay fixed to the sides no ...
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Making an interactive 2D map
So recently I have been working on a Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past clone, and I am wondering how I could handle certain map interactions (like cutting grass, lifting rocks, etc).
The way I am ...
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Question about creating a sprite based 2-D Side Scroller with scaling/zooming [closed]
I'm just wondering if anyone can offer any advice on how best to go about creating a 2-D game with zooming/scaling features akin to the early Samurai Showdown games. In this case it would be a side ...
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Create Adventure Game Scene/Room/Backdrop from Real Photo
Is there a suitable software or a good tutorial for creating 2D rooms/scenery for adventure games from real photos?
Is it possible to achieve good results by using photos, or the hand-drawn style ...
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Issue with distinguishing levels in isometric game [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I change this isometric engine to make it so that you could distinguish between blocks that are on different planes?
I'm working on an isometric game however I ...
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bmGlyph alternative for windows (Bitmap font generator)
I have been using this tool (bmGlyph http://www.bmglyph.com/) to create fonts from apple machines, but now, I'm on windows and need a program with same / more features. The main features about this ...
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Provide A Scrolling “Camera” View Over A 2D Game Map
I'm in the process of attempting to create a 2D MMO type game with Kryonet and some basic sprites, mostly for my own learning. I have the back end set up great (By my standards) and I'm moving on to ...
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How to remaster a retro game's graphics?
I want to remake an old game, which graphics is pretty old (1980s game), and I want to make a "HD version" of it. Of course, the game will have an "old graphics" setting, but I want to remaster the ...
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How to create a “retro” pixel shader for transformed 2D sprites that maintains pixel fidelity?
The image below shows two sprites rendered with point sampling on top of a background:
The left skull has no rotation/scaling applied to it, so every pixel matches perfectly with the background.
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Is there any advantage in using DX10/11 for a 2D game?
I'm not entirely familiar with the feature set introduced by DX10/11 class hardware. I'm vaguely familiar with the new stages added to the programmable graphics pipeline, such as the geometry shader, ...
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How to create life-like sprites from photo or video capture like was done for games like Mortal Kombat 1?
I know they digitized actors but how can I get those same results? How to take a photo or video of someone and digitize it for a 2D game? Digitized sprites were used in several video games through the ...
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How are non-repetitive pixel backgrounds created in 2D games? (e.g., Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP)
What methods are used to create complex, rich, non-repetitive 2D pixel backgrounds in games like Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP? Examining screenshots from the game, I really can't detect ...
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What features should a 2D graphics library have? [closed]
I am making a 2D graphics library in Python designed to make 2D easy and fast. Internally it uses OpenGL. The library does cover a bit more then a graphics library, it also includes windowing and ...
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How to achieve graphics like those in Spy Mouse
I'm really interested in making a new application for iPhone, and I have some experience in objective-c. My main problem is the visual part. I want to have graphics like in Spy Mouse. Could this be ...
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Quick 2D sight area calculation algorithm?
I have a matrix of tiles, on some of that tiles there are objects. I want to calculate which tiles are visible to player, and which are not, and I need to do it quite efficiently (so it would compute ...
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How to efficiently handle registration/anchor points for graphics?
I am currently working on an iPhone project, but most of my work has been in Flash. Flash has a feature where you can place a bitmap into a MovieClip, set its registration point with the mouse and ...
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How do I make light objects in XNA?
Here's my dilemma : I want to have light sources placeable by the player, in terms of lanterns.
I know the best way to do this is to use pixel shaders, which I have done a lot of research and use ...
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How to deal with arbitrarily large images in 2D games?
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When you have a 2D game that uses really large images (larger than your hardware can support), what do you do? Maybe there's some interesting solution to this problem that never occured to ...
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Computer generated 2d graphics for games - how to get started
I've seen a lot of nice 2d games recently, like Geometry wars that have really nice computer generated graphics.
I would like to know how is it done so game looks really nice even if it is composed ...
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What name (if any) applies to this particular 3D rendering technique?
Is there a name for this technique where when instead of rendering certain polygons, you just calculate a few key points and do the drawings in 2d? For instance, instead of rendering a sphere, you ...
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How do you get graphic? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Where can I find free sprites and images?
I'm talking about 2D graphic in this particular question.
Do you create it, buy it, or..?
I tried to develope something stuff, ...
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Find new position of rotated by 10 degrees line
I have a line that goes to x (x1) of 300, and then I rotate the line by -10 degrees. How can I get the new x (x0) of the rotated line?
Here's a picture to show what I mean:
Are there any books ...
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What is the name of perspective of Age of Empires II?
One would describe Age of Empires 1's "perspective" as a 2D sprite game (screenshot).
Below is a screenshot of Age of Empires II. How would you describe the "perspective"? Is it also a 2D sprite ...
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Where and how to obtain/buy good-looking 2D art sets [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Where can I find free sprites and images?
I have developed a 2D engine which has a real lot of technology stuffed into it, but as I'm a programmer and a bad artist, I ...
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Anyone know of an online resource with spritesheets from classic games? [closed]
I'm looking for spritesheets for classic retro games, and old home computer games (c64, amiga etc.) Does anyone know of a source online?
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How can a programmer learn to draw 2D assets?
Are there any good tutorials for someone who wants to create 2D graphical game assets? Drawing classes for absolute beginners, preferably teaching skills that can be as relevant as possible to games - ...
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Good book or tutorial for learning how to apply integration methods
I'm looking to animate a graph layout using edges as springs and nodes as weights (a node with more links will have a bigger weight).
I'm not capable of wrapping my head around the usage of ...
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2answers
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What are the advantages of a sprite sheet over an image sequence/flash timeline?
I've noticed sprite sheets are used more and more in Flash games and I don't fully understand what are the advantages over an image sequence/flash timeline - MovieClip.
I've read this related ...
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Drawing very large slowly rotating planets
I'd like to draw very large (~500 px) graphics of planets slowly rotating. These graphics are meant to impress. What's the best way of doing this? I don't have experience with any particular 3D ...
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XNA Required information to represent 2D Sprite graphically
I was thinking about dividing my game engine into 2 threads: render thread and update thread (I can't come up on how to divide update thread from physic thread at the moment).
That said, I have to ...
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Representing 3D World Space with 2D Tiles
How can I represent 3D world space with 2D tiles? I do not mean isometric, which is visually represent 3D objects in 2D space.
Let's say there's some height map, and each 2D tile (X, Y) represents a ...
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Style/technique to focus on for creating visual art assets efficiently
I'm mostly a programmer, but I'd like to be able to do competent work on other parts of games I make when working on solo projects.
What I'm specifically asking here is what sort of techniques or ...
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Where can I find articles/books on 2D graphics (how it works etc.)?
After I have been through more intensive C++ studies, I am thinking of giving it a start in my practices of computer game programming. Therefore, I think 2D knowledge (processing images, animating ...
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Rendering SVG art directly in XNA
Suppose I have a bunch of 2D art in some vectorized format such as SVG. Is there an easy-ish way to render that directly without having to implement a full SVG renderer myself?
Of course I could ...
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Is there a way to blur objects in a 2d game with OpenGL without using shaders?
Is there a nice way in OpenGL to blur objects without using shaders?
Currently, I'm accomplishing blur by rendering the object slightly up, down, left, right, and the four diagonals from its original ...
