The simulation of an in-game entity's motion, such as running or sitting or striking.
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Xna GS 4 Animation Sample bone transforms not copying correctly
I have a person model that is animated and a suitcase model that is not. The person can pick up the suitcase and it should move to the location of the hand bone of the person model. Unfortunately the ...
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help animating a player in Corona SDK [closed]
Working on a game in the Corona SDK with Lua and I need help so the player animates on the line drawn. Right now he animates at the beggining and the end but not on the line.
Here is the player code:
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Free animation/sprite art [duplicate]
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Where can I find free sprites and images?
I am looking for free to use (commercially) art for a small app I am making. Specifically I need some sort of animal (any ...
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How can I control the frame update rate of a thread?
I'm building a small game for a college project. It's quite a simple game. There are a number of dots on the screen and the player has to select them in a specific order. It's kind of a "join the ...
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Public format for 2D animations
What public animation file formats are there available for 2D games? I'd like to know about both formats for procedural/skeletal animation, as well as traditional animation.
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Making smooth walk/jump/fly etc animations
i am soon gonna start with developing my own game for the iOS, i have the plan and idea of the game ready. BUT i have 1 question. How do people make such a smooth animation? Lets take for example: ...
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Animation with non-uniform frame sizes
How do you know when to draw the next frame if its bounding box is larger/smaller than the current? For example, in KOF, some characters have elastic arms and things of the like..How are these handled ...
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Which 3D Authoring Application to Decide for
I have read a lot individual information about three key 3D Graphics Authoring Applications: Softimage, 3DS Max, Maya.
To me, it looks like each of them has its own way to accomplish the same goal, ...
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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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Anybody remember this webpage? [closed]
I remember visiting a webpage some time ago (1 year ago maybe)
It contained many java applets, describing how certain mathematical functions like sin, cos, arcsin, exp would make an object move, with ...
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How can I change the path a sprite is following in real time?
Is there a common way to implement a character following path that is issued and replaced in real time?
For example: the character follows a path issued, and while it's on that path, if a new path is ...
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Can I use an animated gif as a texture?
I want to have a plane that shows an animated Gif as it's texture, so essentially it will be a movie. Can I apply an animated Gif as a texture? If so, does it apply like a normal texture? Note: I know ...
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How to efficiently manage animations and/or textures (resources) in a game?
I am using Java, particularly the Slick2D library. Seeing as this is my first game, I have no idea how I should manage the Animations and the textures in the game in a way to be both memory efficient ...
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Handling collision for sprites with different frame sizes
I am creating a platform game, and the main character has three images for its left and right animation. The problem is that when it is walking and the player run into a block, if at that moment it ...
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Armature in Unity3d distorted
On the left is a base mesh with armature in Blender. I imported this model and armature into Unity3d.
The result is on the right. The arms are clearly distorted, and I can't seem to fix it by ...
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Make a 2D character stop moving and going back when encounter an obstacle
I am using a 2d character who is sliding infinite ( huge incrementation of the X or Y value ) when moving.
He can only move up, down, left, right inside a virtual grid, made of multiple squares.
Now ...
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Moving a 2D character on a straight line
I am trying to create an Android Game and I am facing my first big problem.
After reading blogs, tutos ... I am able to easily move a character with a drag and drop, make it move move to a touched ...
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How to handle sprite speed when objects move using Box2d?
I have a basic platformer using Box2d that works great. However, I now want to stop using my default square, and implement some running and jumping animations.
How can I ensure that:
When running, ...
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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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Sprite animation problem
I have this sprite I have to animate. The sprite is 7 images total but animation is 10 frames (2 positions are repeated).
The order I want to go through the frames is like this:
3 -> 4 -> 5 -> 6 -> ...
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Cascade(Waterfalls) particles animation - openframeworks, alternatives
Has anyone tried to create a waterfall particles animation using openframeworks? Is it possible? Is it good?
If not, can you recommend any other frameworks for easier creation of cascade animation?
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Special Effects in a 3d game
I am creating a 3d game ( a car racing game) using opengl ES.
i know the rendering concept and also using a physics engine for all the physics stuff.
All modeling is done using 3d modeling softwares.
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Shapes and sprites in SVGs
I understand SGV images are used in 2D games to store shape data for the physics engine of the game. I'm unsure though, should the raster sprite also be stored in the SVG or should it be separate?
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SWiSH alternative Flash animator for AS3
In the past I've used SWiSH to create small animations that I could use for Flash projects, however, I'm now trying to move to writing AS3 which SWiSH doesn't support.
Whilst I have access to Flash ...
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Blender books for advanced character animation and modeling?
I've been messing with Blender on and off for over a year, and am now ready to put a lot of sweat into making a great model for an iPhone app I'm working on. I want to learn tips and tricks on how to ...
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anyone knows any open skeletal/bones 2d animations framework for java?
Some examples could be the animations framework used in Aquaria, or in Crimson Legend.
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Change animation speed of a 3D model
I am working on a small simulator. There is a 3D character on the screen and it randomly plays an animation (I used animation.PlayQueued(...) command inside a for loop).
Now I have added a slider ( ...
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How to Animate a Mechanical Model to work with Unity's Mechanim?
I made a relatively simple model in 3D Studio Max to be used in a game. It's a simple stationary laser turret with an openable maintenance hatch. I want to use Mechanim to handle the animation states. ...
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Is using Sprites the most recommended way for doing 2d animations with Directx?
I am working on a game engine of my own and I was using Vertex buffers to create triangles and then draw textures on them. Now I want to extend it so I can do simple 2d animations using "sprite ...
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Use FlxAnim to Animate a FlxSprite in Flixel on FlashBuilder
I am trying to animate a FlxSprite, whose image I loaded from an embedded sprite sheet. I instantiate the sprite like this:
// embedding a png file given a relative path
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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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XNA: Good way to queue up animations
I'm writing an AnimatedSprite class that has an Animation object (which itself contains a sprite sheet).
The AnimatedSprite plays certain animations during key input. My problem is that how do I ...
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Frame Interpolation issues for skeletal animation
I'm trying to animate in-between keyframes for skeletal animation but having some issues. Each joint is represented by a quaternion and there is no translation component. When I try to slerp between ...
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How do you make game objects (enemies, NPCs) move in interesting, non-linear ways? (e.g. shoot 'em up enemies)
I'm using a series of easing equations to make menus and transitions a little more interesting in my first game. That got me thinking about how game objects (enemies, NPCs, spaceships, whatever) are ...
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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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3D Bone Animation API in C#
i have been looking for 3d Bone Animation for plain C# (to be used with Sharpdx or Slimdx) but i did not find anything !!!
I just find some for XNA.
Any Suggestions!
Accept c++ suggestions also
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Process for developing psd images into animation
I wrote a kids' picture book that I want to make into an iPad app and iPhone app.
(More of a story than a game, but same principles, I guess.)
Here's a sample page: ...
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How to determine what animation to render in a component-based system without breaking encapsulation?
In a component based system, how should change the rendering/visual state of an entity such that I know what animation to use, without breaking encapsulation?
My guess is that it would have to be ...
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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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Smooth animation in Cocos2d for iOS
I move a simple CCSprite around the screen of an iOS device using this code:
[self schedule:@selector(update:) interval:0.0167];
- (void) update:(ccTime) delta {
CGPoint currPos = self.position;
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Should I use animated objects or use the physics engine on iOS scenes with lots of rigidbodies?
I have a scene with lots of houses and other objects. These objects will be bombarded from the sky. How to handle these kind of settings having in mind that you want the physics to be as realistic as ...
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Having a slight problem moving my camera based on time passed using GLUT/OpenGL
Before anyone asks, this is for a university project and I have to use GLUT. I'm not tagging this as homework because this is not a requirement, nor will I have extra points for this.
With GLUT, for ...
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My first animation - Using SDL.NET C#
I'm trying to animate a player object in my 2D grid when the user clicks somewhere in the screen.
I got the following 4 variables:
oX (Current player position X)
oY (Current player position Y)
dX ...
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What external 2d animation formats can I use in android?
For an artist who won't be dealing directly with the code, what formats for 2d animation could they use that would be portable into an android game?
In my particular case there are no collision ...
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Exporting distinct images from a sprite sheet using GIMP
I have recently found that in Photoshop there is a script that enables you to export individual images on different layers into distinct png images on disk.
Is it GIMP capable of doing the same ...
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Correct way/How to think to plan out “control/animation flow”?
So basically, a problem I've had in past attempt at making games (little playing around with stuff): how to do a correct, non-sloppy way of planning the flow of animations/control?
Let's take an ...
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Creating the Animations in C++ from 3DS Max
I'm reading from the FBX format and I'm using Bones to animate an object, and I'm at the point where I have to decide on the code that actually moves the vertexes.
So far I thought on two methods:
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Efficient types of 2D animation
I currently am doing art for a game being made (by me...) and started to think of multiple different ways of animating.
The two I am currently debating, with myself, is single layered animation and ...
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Sprite Animations in XAML for Windows Phone 8
I'm developing a 2D game for windows phone. It will feature rather simple 2D graphics and animations. I can get most things done using XAML an storyboards for animations. The performance is fine as ...
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How to implement scene changing in real-time?
I want to implement real-time scene changing effects to make my game could changing from spring to summer, summer to fall, fall to winter. And Chaning effects like this game. Giana Sisters.
I think ...
