The simulation of an in-game entity's motion, such as running or sitting or striking.
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animating roulette ball
I'm trying to achieve something like netent's roulette (which is a great product in my opinion). It's going to be implemented in html5.
I wonder which path should I take to have such a great ...
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2answers
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Can CCAnimations be paused?
I am new to cocos2d. I am using CCAnimation. It's working fine, except I want to pause the animation occasionally. How do I do this?
Here's what I'm doing so far:
[mySprite ...
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Android cocos2d getting collision detection to work only on some frames of animation
I have an animated bomb sprite in my game and use CGRect for collision detection:
for (CCSprite bomb : _bombs) {
CGRect bombRect = CGRect.make(bomb.getPosition().x - (scaleFactor * ...
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How would you program sprite movement in a 2-D ariel view rpg game?
I'm relatively new to programming and I have recently programmed an RPG game in java.
Any tips on character movement with animations? I would like it to be similar to those of other rpg games such as ...
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Skeletal Animation in DirectX
A few weeks back I asked the following question: Are there alternatives to Vertex Tweening?
I was pointed towards Skeletal Animation, or more specifically: Hardware Skinning. While I found quite some ...
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1answer
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How to animate a destruction of a model?
I have a model (see image) and I am trying to animate a destruction.
But it doesn't seem possible, since XNA is using only bones to animate.
So my question is:
Which workflow should I use, to ...
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3answers
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Why does exporting to FBX in 3dmax loses simulated animation
I made a cloth simulation (wind blowing a cloth). When I export it to FXB and the animation box is ticked on export menu it seems ok (no error in longs). When I reload it to Unity. or 3DMAX again. The ...
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OpenSceneGraph, multiple instances of a model
Im working on my first project using OpenSceneGraph. The project is a model flight simulator for one of my university courses,
I want to be able to load airplanes (consisting of multiple models) and ...
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Android cocos2d removing a sprite after animation
I have an object going across the screen with an animation using the following code:
CCSpriteFrameCache.sharedSpriteFrameCache().addSpriteFrames("ninjastar.plist");
CCSpriteSheet projectileSheet = ...
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3D Studio Max biped restrictions?
I have a stock biped character in 3D studio max which has a jump animation.
The problem I have with the jump animation is that there is actual y offset happening inside it which makes it awkward to ...
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How do I animate images with OpenGL? [closed]
I've been thinking about using set of PNG images (representing frames) and continuously change between them to look like an animation.
Is there a simpler/better way? (maybe using GIF?)
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Moving sprites based on Delta time - consistent movement across all devices with different resolutions
This is the formula I am currently using to move my sprites across the screen:
Examples below only deal with X coordinates to keeps things as short as possible.
Initial variable declarations:
float ...
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1answer
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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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Sprite Animation in Android with OpenGL ES
How to do a sprite animation in android using OpenGL ES?
What i have done :
Now I am able to draw a rectangle and apply my texture(Spritesheet) to it
What I need to know :
Now the rectangle shows ...
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8answers
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How to learn 2d animation?
Where can I learn how to do simple 2d animation well? Or is it really just literally drawing every single frame of something in photoshop? Is there tips or tricks? Tutorials to help get started?
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1answer
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How to Generate Spritesheet from a 'problematic' animated Symbol in Flash Pro CS6?
In the new Flash Pro CS6 there is an option to generate spriteheet from a symbol. I used these tutorials:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/using-sprite-sheet-generator.html
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How to render alpha channeled animated 2D sprites in OpenGL ES 2.0
I searched, but I can't find specifically how to render animated 2D sprites with an alpha channel onto a 3D polygon, z=0, in OpenGL ES 2.0.
This is just a basic 2D concept, but since I'm using, ...
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1answer
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Are there alternatives to Vertex Tweening?
Now that I'm getting into animating 3D entities in my game, I was wondering what the best approach for this would be. I did some research and came across something called "Vertex Tweening". However, ...
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1answer
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Rotate Rigged and Animated Scene?
I have a rigged and animated mesh that I need to import into Unity. We several characters that all use the same script, and access their bones to do procedural animations as well.
The problem is ...
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3answers
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Detect when two keys are pressed at the same time [closed]
I'm doing a game with XNA and I need an animation when two keys are pressed.. I tried this but it doesn't function.
if (Keyboard.GetState().IsKeyDown(Keys.D) && ...
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Pac-man animation
So for my intro to java class we need to re create this. http://people.highline.edu/tostrander/142/demo/pacman.htm
We need to use only the Java.awt package so I figure to make the pacman I need to ...
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1answer
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Animated rig improperly imported, unsure how to fix [closed]
In the following screenshot I have the elbow of a rigged human model in 3d studio max, as you can see it looks natural: http://i.imgur.com/CFozg.png
Here it is in Unity: http://i.imgur.com/ltGib.png
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How do I use the morpher modifier in 3dsmax to morph into several targets simultaneously?
I have a 3D-Face from Facegen here including all necessary phenomes' positions. But these targets are separated into upper, lower teeth, sock and eyes. How do I combine them for the face to morph into ...
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How are the following 3D effects mocked in Myst 4? (link)
Superficially, I thought 'all' that would be required to make a myst style game would be to place the camera inside a 3D sphere, with the sphere's inner surface textured with an ...
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texture won't move OpenGL ES 2.0
I want be able to move my texture in GLSL I have set my texture to wrap S and wrap T but not sure why it wont move
my fragment shader looks like this at the moment
uniform sampler2D n_mapTex;
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How do I make an arrow line up with a bow when rotating them?
I am trying to create a bow and arrow animation in which the player can drag downwards to increase the bow strength (see the image) and release it to hit a target. I can't get the arrow to align ...
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Bullet not return when player shoot to any object [closed]
package com.example.game4;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import javax.microedition.khronos.opengles.GL10;
import ...
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1answer
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Behavior Trees and Animations
I have started working on the AI for a game, but am confused how I should handle animations. I will be using a Behavior Tree for AI behavior and Cocos2D for my game engine.
Should my ...
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1answer
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How do I loop my animations seamlessly?
I am trying a complete my method, which crops Maya-Animations (from Maya-Models) to specific ones using the SkinnedModelProcessor.
My only problem is, that after one animation-loop completes, the ...
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votes
3answers
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How to play animations in Cocos2d-x?
I'm new to Cocos2d-x and looking for a good way/tutorial on how to play animations in Cocos2d-x.
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1answer
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Animating a 3D model with XNA
How do I animate a biped model from 3ds max using XNA framework or not necessarily the biped model, it could be any 3D model but how can I code the animation?
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Animation from bones?
I have a model loaded into my XNA project, it has bones that were created in 3DS Max and I am wondering can I animate my model using code?
All I will be doing is basic movements such as an arm swing.
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0answers
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CAT RIG to FBX XNA problems
Im trying to export my 3ds max cat rig to fbx for use in XNA. in that file i have 1 animation playing and i want to be able to use it within xna.
So the problem is, once ive exported the file out, ...
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2answers
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generating animations in runtime
i am creating my 3d game engine using Opengl.
this question might sound stupid to you but i am still in the process of learning, i have a 3d animated girl that slaps guys of different talls on the ...
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how is orthografic created in 2.5d? [closed]
"Hi and welcome to the site. You shouldn't use the "Answer" to ask a new question. If you have a question, use the "ASK QUESTION" button. Regarding your question about Sonic 4: They most likely use a ...
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1answer
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Skeletal Animation with UV seams
I have a UV-mapped model that I am about to animate and load into my game. Like most unwrapped models, I have several UV seams. In order to render the model correctly, I split each vertex along the ...
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Flash CS6 Spritesheets and XNA
So new with Adobe Flash CS6 comes the new Feature to export Movie Clips as a Spritesheet which seems very nice!
I have a few questions to CS6:
http://imgur.com/enllkyL
Its nifty but it lost its "up ...
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2answers
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Animating a background 'pulse' with easing equation
I'm trying to find a suitable easing equation (or other method) to animate an object so that it 'pulses' (imagine a 'spike' on a music visualiser, or see the image I drew badly below)
'v' is the ...
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1answer
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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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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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How to change/modify or animate an existing OpenGL object on Android?
I maybe know understand it all a little bit better so i thoug i make a new shorter question to eventually get an answer.
Get back or delete an existing OpenGL object, then change it and draw at new. ...
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Syncing texture animations which can be created at any given time
I have a texture animator that will advance animation frames based on the time that has elapsed since it was instantiated.
timeElapsed += (float)gameTime.ElapsedGameTime.TotalSeconds;
...
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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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2answers
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2D animation example in pyglet (python) looping through 2 images/sprites every x seconds
Suppose you have two images: step1.png and step2.png .
Can anyone show me a very simple example in pyglet how to loop through those 2 images say every 0.5 seconds?
The character doesn't have to ...
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2answers
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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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1answer
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Adjusting a skeleton to a Specific Stance
Imagine having a climbing wall and you take 4 adjacent handholds and footholds where together they create a stance. Is there any algorithm or technique with which it would give you a realistic human ...
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Game Designer or Game Programmer, please help me choose! [closed]
I know this question is asked a lot but I am still so confused and overwhelmed by the different opinion and comments everybody has on the internet, that I wanted to ask my questions in a single thread ...
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1answer
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Two characters controlled by one set of controls? [closed]
I am using Unity 3D to make a multiplayer game using the Photon Network package in the asset store.
I have initiated two characters controlled by a Mecanim script, and they both have animations. ...
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Time animation in update method
I have 3 animations.
The first has 4 frames with a total duration of 0.4s: ccanimation::createwithspriteFrames(animframes,0.1f);
The second has 2 frames with a total duration of 0.2s: ...
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UDK: Animating characters with weapons
I imported a custom character and a pistol model to UDK and both work, but the pistol doesn't appear with the animation of the pistol when I shoot or reload... Also, the character doesn't change its ...
