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Optimization of Storage of Spells a Character Knows

I need to store which spells a character knows. While the game is executing I have them stored in a vector. Obviously storing this many values is either going to take a lot of computing to get the ...
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Min/Max of two vectors?

This seems like a simple question, but i'm having trouble searching the internet for it. In XNA, during a collision detecting method, I would determin the minimum of some vectors. // Get the minimum ...
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Determining a point that reached another point

I have two points, one is moving and one is stationary. I would like to know if the moving point has reached that point or not. I tried to calculate the distance between two vectors and the distance ...
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Billboarding + aligning with velocity direction

I'm working on a particle system where I'm orientating the billboard using the inverted orientation matrix of my camera. This works quite well and my quad are rotated correctly towards the camera. ...
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C++ Directx 11 D3DXVECTOR3 doesn't allow me to devide it [closed]

If i have a simple vector3 like this: D3DXVECTOR3 inversevector = D3DXVECTOR3( (pos+lookat_pos)); It works perfect! But let's say i wanted to multiply it by: Speed*(float) timeHandler.GetDelta() ...
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Normalization of Vectors: Return a copy of the result or alter the object itself?

When calculating the normal of a vector, which is considered canon: Returning a copy: Vector2D Vector2D::Normalize() const { double a1 = GetX(); double a2 = GetY(); double a3 = GetZ(); ...
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C++ and SDL Trouble Creating a STL Vector of a Game Object

I am trying to create a Space Invaders clone using C++ and SDL. The problem I am having is in trying to create Waves of Enemies. I am trying to model this by making my Waves a vector of 8 Enemy ...
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Detect if square in grid is within a diamond shape

So I have a game in which basically everything is a square inside a big grid. It's easy to check if a square is inside a box whose center is another square: *** x *o* --> x is not in o's ...
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Most effective way to manage a gamestate system that is easy to use?

I just started working on my game, mostly the game management. I plan and using game-states to make the menu's and other stuff easier. My main idea for implementing the game-states is creating a game ...
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Vector Class Mutex String Is Missing [closed]

UPDATE After going over all my code, the updating code was pointing to the wrong variable which made it null. It works now, very good may I add, thanks for anyone who took the time. I have a C++ ...
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How would I successfully split a vector to increase game performance?

Okay so I have a vector for all of the monsters that are spawned in my game. All of these monsters are in a single vector and are "active" according to what zone they are in relative to the player's ...
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How to make sure that a Point A moving in the direction V reaches at Point B?

Let say I have, Point A(X1,Y1) moving in the direction V(W, H). I need to make sure that it reaches B(X2,Y2). I think I need to subtract some value in Point A(X1, X2). But not know what? I also sure ...
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std::vector::size with glDrawElements crashes?

( win32 / OpenGL 3.3 / GLSL 330 ) I decided after a long time of trying to do a graphical user interface using just opengl graphics to go back to a gui toolkit and so in the process have had to port ...
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Calculate the direction, From Outer Polygon Point to Inner Polygon inside Point

I was able to find the co-ordinates of inner Polygon using this trick. Need the co-ordinates of innerPolygon But, I have some problem in getting the direction from Outer Polygon Point to Inner ...
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Need the co-ordinates of innerPolygon

Let say I have this diagram, Given that i have all the co-ordinates of outer polygon and the distance between inner and outer polygon is d is also given. How to calculate the inner polygon ...
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Trouble with speed and vectors

I'm working on adding bullets to my game. Right now I can shoot bullets in the direction that I would like from a ship by getting the ship's angle: int speed = 5; int dx = ...
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How do I calculate collision response between a sphere and a plane?

I'm trying to create a simple 3D game and need to constrain the player within the limits of the game world. When the player hits the sides of the world I want the player's ship to bounce off slightly. ...
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vector rotations for branches of a 3d tree

I'm attempting to create a 3d tree procedurally. I'm hoping that someone can check my vector rotation maths, as I'm a bit confused. I'm using an l-system (a recursive algorithm for generating ...
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Is there a good cross-platform C++ vector graphics library out there?

I'm making a game and want to use vector graphics. I started re-coding it using Cairo and the performance is horrific. So, I'm looking for a different library. It needs to be for C++ and ...
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Why aren't linked lists more common data structures for enemies?

I was recently listen to a talk that Jonathan Blow gave, you can find it here. In the talk, he was talking about what data structures he (and he seemed to imply many others) use, and why. Which is ...
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When to return a reference and when to return a copy?

I was looking at the d3dx math .h and noticed that a difference between the "+" and "+=" operators: D3DXVECTOR3& operator += ( CONST D3DXVECTOR3& ); D3DXVECTOR3 operator + ( CONST ...