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Simulating flight dynamics in two dimensions

I have decided that in order to improve my math skills and game programming skills I am going to work on a two-dimensional space simulator. The view of the player or camera will be from inside the ...
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How to do perspective projection “parallax” but without changing the scale or offset of objects?

Hello everyone I have this problem that I have tried everything I could think of. The problem: I am making a 2D game with parallax effect but I am using 3d space so am not simulating the parallax but ...
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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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2D camera perspective projection from 3D coordinates — HOW?

I am developing a camera for a 2D game with a top-down view that has depth. It's almost a 3D camera. Basically, every object has a Z even though it is in 2D, and similarly to parallax layers their ...
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Keystone Correction using 3D-Points of Kinect

With XNA, I am displaying a simple rectangle which is projected onto the floor. The projector can be placed at an arbitrary position. Obviously, the projected rectangle gets distorted according to the ...
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How should I calculate world and projection matrices in this scenario?

I'm trying to understand transformation matrices. Suppose I use the camera from this StackOverflow answer, this is how my view matrix would look: Matrix.Identity * ...
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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 ...