A 3D or pseudo-3D action game genre categorized most famously by its first-person perspective and a bias towards ranged projectile combat.
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Perfect FPS camera angle
I am making a multiplayer FPS and I am in search of some helpful tips on the perfect FPS camera angle. Because it is a multiplayer, I am making a full body model holding the gun, I find, however, that ...
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MMOFPS Player Positions [closed]
I'm working on a MMO game project. I have a question about MMOFPS game architecture. (I have basic network knowladge)
(MMOFPS) I want to send player position to other players(clients) and other ...
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Is there any game engine capable of true binaural positional 3D audio? [closed]
I am by no means a game designer, so I apologise in advance if I fail to use the proper jargon. Feel free to correct my mistakes.
My understanding is that, at the moment, in most if not all ...
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First Person Shooter vertical mouse aim
I've just started writing a 3D First Person Shooter in Java, and I'm having a bit of trouble with tracking the mouse movements and moving the camera accordingly. I'm implementing typical FPS movement, ...
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FPS games: don't they have unrealistic one-eyed view? What are the causes?
I have played many fps games, and noticed that the camera perspective is similar to the 'one eyed view' of the surroundings. It does not feel like bilinear. :/
Is it because of the single flat view ...
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What's the term for the “vertical looking angle” in FPSs?
I guess the "vertical angle" of looking in an FPS could be called the pitch of the camera, but surely there is another term for it?
(I'm trying to mod ArmA II, but I can't find anything in their ...
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enemy shooting towards FPS [closed]
WELL first of all I want you to see my game (its deployed on heroku cloud) :
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(It takes almost 10 sec to load so please wait for couple of sec)
I have ...
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problem with bullets shooting in FPS game
Please check out my game here: http://still-escarpment-3701.herokuapp.com
The problem is with shooting. The bullets keep on moving with the First person controller instead of moving from the same ...
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How to achieve 'forward' movement (into the screen) using Cocos2D?
I'm interested in creating a 2.5D first-person shooter (like Doom) and I currently don't understand how to implement the player moving forward. The player will also be able to browse around the world ...
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Client Side Prediction for a Look Vector
So I am making a first person networked shooter. I am working on client-side prediction where I am predicting player position and look vectors client-side based on input messages received from the ...
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Is it possible to make/translate a 3d engine to ruby on rails?
I am looking to make a 3D FPS that runs inside web browsers. I looked into using WebGL, but it didn't seem far enough along into development. I decided on using RoR because Ruby was a language I knew.
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Extremely Hybrid Game requirements [closed]
What system specifications would a game need if it was:
Total players per planet: ~20000
Total players per team:~1M
Total players per map(small volume of space or small surface over a planet): ...
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Adjusting server-side tickrate dynamically
I know nothing of game development/this site, so I apologise if this is completely foobar.
Today I experimented with building a small game loop for a network game (think MW3, CSGO etc). I was ...
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How can I customize an FPS game?
I want to create a customized (modded) fps game where I can change the look and feel of the game to match my intended theme.
Some of the things I would like to do:
Create a custom map (terrain).
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In a client server first person shooter how does the server keep track of each player's hit boxes?
Do all the clients send a transformation matrix for each of the hit boxes which make up the character?
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a 96kb 3d first person shooter [closed]
There was a game that look like Quake-3 graphics but is only 96kb. What was its name?
In the game, there were spider-like creatures and i was shooting at them. I forgot the name.
When the ...
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How many UDP ports for an MMOFPS
I'm designing an MMOFPS. I'm not sure whether to use one UDP port for all clients or one UDP port per client. Or is there another alternative?
Currently UDP is only being used for position data ...
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How to keep my Quaternion-using FPS camera from tilting and messing up?
I am using an FPS-like camera, and it uses quaternions. But, whenever I try looking up and then sideways, it tilts, and sometimes it can turn upside down. How can I fix this?
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FPS networking with server sending input instead of gamestate
Why do all fps games have the server send gamestate instead of input which is smaller?
One reason I can sort of see is that if the server sends input to the clients and a packet gets dropped then the ...
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Why do FPS games have a 3rd and 1st person mode when doing animations? [closed]
I noticed how in FPS mode you have cool looking skins on the gloves and weapons but in 3rd they are screwed. Why does a game need this sort of structure ? And also where do you learn how to rig ...
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First person camera is somehow “magically” expanding
I'm making a first-person game, and I've gotten the camera done (modified version of Lloyd Goodall's code), but whenever I scale an object, it doesn't appear bigger, but the speed of movement seems to ...
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What is the proper term for “permanent world”?
How to name the fact that for a MMO game there's one big session, the same things are happening for all the players, you log out and after two days log in to the same place as the same person ?
I'd ...
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Prevent players from wallhacking in an online FPS?
Why do we still moan on wallhackers in multiplayer first-person shooters?
Isn't it possible to perform occlusion culling for all players server-side? For example, send player xyz information to ...
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Client-side prediction for FPS
People that understand client-side prediction and client-side interpolation, I have a question:
When I play the game Team Fortress 2, and type cl_predict 1 into the developer's console, it enables ...
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Is it worth it, to try and prevent cheaters?
Perhaps one of the biggest issues that plague FPS-games are cheaters.
If you use a server-authoritative model, you will prevent some level of cheating. But why do this if people can still aimbot?
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Automatic weapon recoil with that “Counter Strike”-feel
How would you do it?
I already found this function for an impulse (helped by math.SE). It works for single shots, but not for automatic weapons.
Any ideas?
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Make the game run 60 fps in Irrlicht Engine
I want my game run at 60 fps, but i don't know where to start, i have the simple loop:
while(device->run()){
How do i lock the fps to 60?
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What's the best head-bob formula?
Given a point in space, a direction of travel, and a time since start, what's a convincing, non-sickening formula to simulate head bob? What's been successful in previous games? Has there been any ...
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How to handle walking into walls?
Say we have a player who's walking around in first person perspective. He would like to walk forward, but that would put him inside an object, and that's no good.
Right now what I do is... ...
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How do I create good looking plasma explosion effects?
Is this just a billboard quad with a bloom shader?
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How does Halo draw projectiles?
I am trying to draw projectiles and doing billboarding. A projectile consists of a bill-boarded "particle" and a "tracer". When I billboard a projectile, it cannot be seen when the player's viewing ...
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Need help for weapon models for Unity
I've been working on this FPS game and I've gotten to the point where I need to start adding the weapons in and have been having trouble creating (unsure of what engine to use) them. Is there an ...
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3d Model Scaling With Camera
I have a very simple 3D maze program that uses a first person camera to navigate the maze. I'm trying to scale the blocks that make up the maze walls and floor so the corridors seem more roomy to the ...
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How to implement “bullet time” in a multiplayer game?
I have never seen such a feature before, but it should provide an interesting gameplay opportunity.
So yes, in a multiplayer/real-time environment (imagine FPS), how could I implement a slow ...
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Searching for the right engine for a simple FPS [closed]
With some holiday time coming up I thought it might be interesting to look to try and make a game that's been in my mind for a while now.
I'm a professional programmer so I have experience with most ...
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How can I implement view wobble when my player is running?
I'm creating a FPS in XNA. So far its' going great. What I'm looking at doing is replicating the camera movements that you see in Modern Warfare. So, if you are walking the camera stays pretty ...
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How to create a view looking down the sight of the gun
I am in the midst of creating an FPS game using XNA. I am using the camera class from the First Person camera demo from dhpoware.com, and everything is working great. What I'd like to implement is ...
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Implementing recoil in a realistic and balanced way?
To clarify, I've seen this post already
I really like the idea that the chosen answer suggests, yet when I go to implement it the recoil still doesn't "feel" right. The problem is mainly the fact ...
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In FPS's what is the primary reason for unused ammo in a removed magazine returning to the ammo pool?
All FPS's I know of return unused ammo in a removed magazine back to the users overall ammo count.
For example, I have 3 magazines with 30 rounds in each, I fire off 25 rounds and do a magazine ...
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Techniques for bot movement in (first person) shooter games
I was wondering what kind of technologies were used in FPS games to move bots around the level. I know the pathfinding is done using waypoints or navigation meshes but how do the bots actually rotate ...
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How does one develop a first person shooter with a one man team? [closed]
I have an idea for a first person shooter game and I have plenty of free time to work on it.
I know java and objective-c very well and I also know autodesk inventor (which is similar to 3ds max).
...
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vector collision on polygon in 3d space detection/testing?
In the 3d fps in java I'm working on, I need a bullet to be fired and to tell if it hit someone. All visual objects in the game are defined through OpenGL, so the object it can be colliding with can ...
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XNA Framework and looking around relative to the world instead of camera?
So I've been toying around with creating a game in the XNA framework. A great place to start is simply being able to move and walk around.
I kinda have looking around...
I start off with the camera ...
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Multiplayer FPS server side performance
This is related to MMO Performance except that question is about bandwidth. This is about cpu load.
I put together a simple FPS using node.js and webGL. It's extremely simple, a lot like the ...
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Where can I download the Doom Classic source code, the iOS port?
Doom classic source code for iOS was released by id software, and has a download link on this page: http://www.idsoftware.com/doom-classic/. The issue is that the url doesn't work, I sent an email to ...
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Ideas for a puzzle in first-person [closed]
I'm working on a very small game, a puzzle in first person similar to games like Portal and The Trap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ELRzlGegc
I would love to hear some ideas about challenges, and ...
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Gravity strength in first person games
In our game, we set the acceleration due to gravity to the appropriate value of 9.8 m/s^2. Although physically correct, it feels more like moving around on the moon.. It feels about right at a value ...
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Does anybody know any Twitch FPS games that allow you to extensively customize individual bot profiles (OpenArena is one example)
Specifically I would like to mess with the idea of giving each bot a specific "personality" so to speak. Open Arena provides this functionality, and I'm assuming that Warsow/Nexiuz (Xonotic?) may ...
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Implementing network smoothing
We are making a multipler first person shooter.
The client sends it's position to the server at a fixed rate (currently at 10Hz). The server sends a single message contatining all player's positions ...
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Recommended 3D camera settings and model sizes for an FPS
I'm making a simple FPS and I can't decide on the size of my models and my camera settings. Could someone please recommend a good combination of:
camera field of view
near and far planes
model ...
