The simulation of an in-game entity's motion, such as running or sitting or striking.
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Start an animation exported from 3ds Max in UDK
I made a shape in 3ds Max with one bone and I gave it an animation. I exported it and imported to UDK. When I shoot to that shape, I want my animation to start playing.
How can I do this?
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442 views
Running one action on multiple sprites simultaneously
I have created a spiraling animation for a football. I want to be able to run it on 2 sprites simultaneously.
This is what I have done:
CCAnimation* footballAnim = [CCAnimation ...
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1answer
201 views
Player sprite moving slower on iPhone 4
I just finished getting movement/jump animation for a player sprite in Xcode using Cocos2D. The basic movement algorithm is a timer that updates every 0.01 sec, changing the sprite position to ...
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1answer
34 views
How to linearly blend between multiple points, deviating from a default point?
I have a set of 3D points that I need to "blend" between. Lets say I have points [A,B,C] and I have the amount I want to blend each as [0.5, 0.2, 0.8], how can I blend between these points with the ...
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1answer
74 views
How to linearly “blend” between multiple 3D points?
I have a set of 3D points that I need to "blend" between. Lets say I have points [A,B,C] and I have the amount I want to blend each as [0.5, 0.2, 0.8], how can I blend between these points with the ...
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0answers
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How to make an oscillation move on opengl qt
I'm trying to make a character make an oscillation move. That is, the character will start by rotating to a certain angle, say 60 degrees, and then slowly come back to an upright position then rotate ...
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1answer
148 views
What are file formats that store skeletal movements, and are there databases of them?
I have a set of 3d vectors representing the positions of a character's hand, foot, shoulders and so on. Is there any kind of easy to read file I can use to animate those with walking, standing, ...
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Drawing an animation over an already drawn screen
I am working on a XNA WP7 card game whose basic prototype is complete. In game screen, 6 cards are displayed at a time (3 for each of the two players say 1,2 and 3).
If player A attacks one of player ...
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114 views
Creating Smooth Animations [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What’s the best way to create animations when doing Android development?
What animation technique is used in ‘Dont Starve’?
I've always admired Zeptolab for their ...
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1answer
355 views
Breathing for game/movie characters
Breathing (the movement of chest and face features): I'd like to ask if it is hard to model and whether it is computationaly expensive. I recently noticed the great effect it has in Madagascar 3 ...
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1answer
452 views
Animating DOM elements vs refreshing a single Canvas
A few years ago, when the HTML Canvas element was still kinda fresh, I wrote a small game in a rather "unusual" way: each game element had its own canvas, and frequently animated elements even had ...
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Best way to programmatically create 3D curves for animation paths in UDK
Working on a character that throws projectiles. Every time the projectile is thrown, it needs to travel along a different curve. Are there any built in classes for parametric curves and path ...
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2answers
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How can I improve my Animation
The first approaches in animation for my game relied mostly on sine and cosine functions with the time as parameter.
Here is an example of a very basic jump I implemented.
if(jumping)
{
height = ...
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1answer
93 views
How stoper one annimation model on XNA?
I do not understand how to pause an animation of XNA. I can "Start" the animation of my model but not stop it. I use SkinningSample_4_0 sample dll
Here is my code to use.
Here is my code to use.
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1answer
141 views
Applying prerecorded animations to models with the same skeleton
well my question sounds a bit like, how do I apply mo-cap animations to my model, but thats not really it I guess. Animations and model share the same skeleton, but the models vary in size and ...
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2answers
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Splitting a texture atlas into seperate images [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to decompose sprite sheet
I'm doing a port of an existing game and the designer no longer has all of the original art; he only has the resulting texture atlases he ...
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1answer
413 views
How do I make a jumping dolphin rotate realistically?
I want to program a dolphin that jumps and rotates like a real dolphin. Jumping is not the problem, but I don't know how to make the rotation. At the moment, my dolphin rotates a little weird. But I ...
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2answers
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Trade offs of linking versus skinning geometry
What are the trade offs between inherent in linking geometry to a node versus using skinned geometry?
Specifically:
What capabilities do you gain / lose from using each method?
What are the ...
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1answer
216 views
Character jump animation is not working when I hit the space bar [closed]
I am having an issue with my game in XNA. My jump sprite sheet for my character does not trigger when I hit the space bar. I can't seem to find the problem. I have also include the code below to make ...
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1answer
84 views
Animate multiple entities
I'm trying to animate multiple(3) entities using one model(IQM format).
It's working but performance is really bad because I'm calling animate function for each entity in my game loop (I think ...
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1answer
322 views
Lightweight sprite animation software [closed]
Does anyone know of a good lightweight sprite animator solution? I've created a couple of spritesheets using TexturePacker, but I'd like to, for example, create an XML file that tells me frames one ...
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1answer
315 views
Animation Trouble with Java Swing Timer - Also, JFrame Will Not Exit_On_Close [closed]
So, I am using a Java Swing Timer because putting the animation code in a run() method of a Thread subclass caused an insane amount of flickering that is really a terrible experience for any video ...
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2answers
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Data-driven animation states
EDIT: To clarify what exactly my question is: is this a good way to handle animations / animation state in a game engine with the eye on content creation / management? What are the flaws in doing it ...
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2answers
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I'm looking to learn how to apply traditional animation techniques to my graphics engine - are there any tutorials or online-resources that can help?
There are many traditional animation techniques - such as blurring of motion, motion along an elliptical curve rather than a straight line, counter-motion before beginning of movement - which help ...
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3answers
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What animation technique is used in 'Dont Starve'?
While playing a few games in my personal time off development I've stumbled across a survival 2D/3D survival game. The game was apparently made in SDL and GLUT (Dont starve) but what really amazed me ...
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1answer
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Adjusting the rate of movement of different objects on the same timer
I have a series of objects moving along the straight lines. I want to implement slight changes of velocity of each of the object. Constraint is existing model of animation. I am new to this, and not ...
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2answers
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Efficient skeletal animation
I am looking at adopting a skeletal animation format (as prompted here) for an RTS game. The individual representation of each model on-screen will be small but there will be lots of them!
In ...
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8answers
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How do I get started making Android games? [closed]
I am new to game development. I am interested in developing 2D games for the Android platform. What is the best place to start with (i.e) What are the basics and how to proceed? I already have ...
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3answers
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Detecting End of Animation
So I am making a death animation for a game. enemy1 is a UIImageView, and what I'm doing is when an integer is less than or equal to zero, it calls this deathAnimation which only happens once. What I ...
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2answers
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Learning resource for 3d modeling [closed]
I want to start learning 3d modeling. I already have experience with maya and 3dsmax but I made a long pause (2 years)
Now I have free access to maya, 3dsmax and blender (I am a student). I know that ...
4
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2answers
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Bejeweled-like game, managing different gem/powerup behaviors?
In general, what I am asking is, given any game where a game element can look/behave/affect-other-elements one way under one set of conditions, and look/behave/affect-other-elements a different way ...
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1answer
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how to change the number of rendered frames in Blender
i´m using blender to render an animation in single pictures and i want to make an 16 frames animation out of an 24 frames one without changing the set keyframes. Is there an option to skip every 3rd ...
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2answers
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I can't figure out how to animate my loaded model with Assimp
I have loaded in a model to my C++ OpenGL game. It is a COLLADA file type that I have loaded, and I setup an animation under blender for the file. The problem is I don't know how to animate the model. ...
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1answer
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Blender to 3ds max to cal3d format
There are quite a few questions on cal3d but they are old and don't apply anymore.
In Blender(must be 2.49a for python script to work!!!):
I have a scene with 7 meshes, 1 armature, 10 bones. I tried ...
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1answer
547 views
Problem animating in Unity/Orthello 2D. Can't move gameObject
I have a enemy npc that moves left and right in a corridor.
It's animated with 2 sprites using Orthello 2D Framework.
If I untick the animation's play on start and looping, the npc moves correctly.
...
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0answers
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Is there a tool to explode an existing sprite into smaller images or make an animation of it?
Is there a tool or a plugin for GIMP that allows me to automatically create an explosion of a sprite? I am not talking about some fire effects, I want the actual image to explode into smaller pieces ...
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2answers
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Animation Blending Basics
Say I have a framework with characters that can run and walk and of course, stand still.
Am I right in thinking that animation blending is the process of smoothly transitioning between these by ...
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1answer
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How to animate a flip of a card in Cocos2d?
I am working on a card game and would like to ask if someone could advice me how to implement a flip of a card in Cocos2D?
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Need to produce an animated texture of Water where each image tiles in all directions
I need to produce a 2D 'animated' texture of "water" for a game in which each image tiles in 'all' directions, much like those produced by the Caustics Generator, but with the power and flexibility of ...
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2answers
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How do you deal with transitions in animating walking?
I'm pretty new to this whole animating models thing. Just learning the ropes. I got a nice walking animation going, which I can loop while a character is walking, but what about when they stop ...
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3answers
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Exporting an animated FBX to XNA? (in 3DS Max)
I'm now working on an XNA 3D game, and I want to add animated models in it. I came across this example. I see there is one FBX file and a few texture files in the content project, and that in the ...
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0answers
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Flixel - Animated Tilemaps
I am using Flixel 2.55 and I am trying to animate a tilemap. I found this piece of code that apparently enables the use of sprites as tiles.
From what I understand, this loops over the tilemap's ...
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3answers
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How to update entity states and animations in a component-based game
I'm trying to design a component-based entity system for learning purposes (and later use on some games) and I'm having some troubles when it comes to updating entity states.
I don't want to have an ...
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1answer
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Recreating Doodle Jump in Canvas - Platforms spawning out of reach
I have started to recreate Doodle Jump in HTML using Canvas. Here's my current progress. As you can see, if you play it for a few seconds, some platforms will be out of the player's reach. I don't ...
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0answers
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Is there a simple isometric graphical game engine (using vectors?) that could be used for a (multiplayer) crafting/farming game? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Good, free isometric game engine?
With little game development experience (albeit having graphical skills and some programming knowledge) a group currently working on a ...
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1answer
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Spriting Animation Method
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/539087245/spriter
At 3:00 they discuss that there is a method used to separate the parts of character into individual sprites and move them saving production time ...
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4answers
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Playing a death anim on an enemy that I want to remove
I've been trying to find a tutorial on how to best make animations in Android. I already have some animations for my enemies and my character that are controlled by rectangles and changing ...
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2answers
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How do I apply skeletal animation from a .x (Direct X) file?
Using the .x format to export a model from Blender, I can load a mesh, armature and animation. I have no problems generating the mesh and viewing models in game. Additionally, I have animations and ...
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1answer
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Are there tools available for building hierarchical sprite-based objects in games like Vector Man or Gunstar Heroes? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Tools for 2D skeletal animation
I'm looking for a tool that would let me build multi-part sprite objects of the kind you can find in Sega Genesis games like Vector Man ...
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Why don't more games use vector art?
It would seem to me that vector art is more efficient in terms of resources/scalability; however, in most cases I have seen artists using bitmap/rasterized art. Is this a limitation put on the artists ...
