Questions related to images, including creation and modification
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Using Slick2D/LWJGL to brighten an Image
Using the Slick2D Library for Java, I want to know if there is a way to brighten an instance of org.newdawn.slick.Image. I'm willing to use other image-manipulation libraries if need be.
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Creation of .des files from .png files?
A DES file is text file. In this file you can find information about the atlas(sprrite sheet) file including: where to find atlas (sprite sheet) image AND describe the position of original image on ...
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How do I set a single pixel of an image in Slick2D?
I would like to set an individual pixel in Slick (i.e Image.setPixel(x, y, r, b, g)) but I can't figure out how.
There is an Image.setPixel function but it doesn't take x and y coordinates. Any ...
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Moving an image by rotating and increasing y axis causes a trailing issue
Forgive me if me anything is unclear, this is a tricky thing for me to explain.
In an applet I draw a little ship gif. I have it so I can rotate the object and then increase or decrease the y axis to ...
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Keep running CGRectIntersect Method - Objective C
I have two UIImageViews. mainSprite, and enemy1. And I have a method that makes enemy1 start moving towards mainSprite. So here's that method.
-(void)enemy1Aggro{
if ...
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Looking for a place to do Custom Images? [closed]
I am looking for a good company who can make a few custom images for my app I am developing. I am looking for someone who can do sprites, backgrounds, and regular images. Does anyone know a place for ...
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Why is the background image less smooth on the phone?
I've just downloaded Gamestate code from create.msdn.com, and as you can see from the image below:
The result is less smooth then the image imported to visual studio, how do I increase the quality?
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Creating a vertexbuffer to define vertices arranged in a grid with the view for easy editing later
I'm using the marching square algorithm (2D version of marching cubes) to generate vertices.
I end up with vertices arranged in a grid.
I want to enable destructible terrain, and the way i was ...
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Basic knowledge for 2d gaming and images?
Can anybody refer me some pdf or ebook that i should follow for basic 2d programming and texture ,shaders and other gaming elements details in depth.By which i can easily get through the 2d game ...
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Loading and rendering one large image or many smaller ones
I am working on an android game with a top down style view similar to the original GTA's or a scrolling version of Legend of Zelda.
I have recently begun designing some prototype levels for the game ...
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Where would I get 3d models and/or graphics for a program? [closed]
I'm a programmer that made a simple html5 mobile app. I would like to have a nice 3d model of a cartoonish goofy cow for the program icon.
Is there a simple 3d program out there that I could try? Or ...
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How to create a XNA texture from a GDI Image with source rectangle?
A Texture2D in XNA can only hold so much. Depending on which profile I use that limit is either 2048 or 4096 pixels wide. As far as I could tell from my research (someone correct me if I'm wrong) GDI ...
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How can I resize pixel art in Pyglet without making it blurry?
I have a tileset of 8x8 pixel images, and I want to resize them in my game so they'd be double that (16x16 pixels, e.g. turning each pixel into a 2x2 block.) What I'm trying to achieve is a ...
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Why would some PNG files extracted from games display incorrectly?
I've noticed extracting PNGs from some game files that the image becomes distorted part-way through. For example, here are a couple of PNGs extracted from the Textures file in Skyrim:
Is this some ...
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Can I use one set of images to represent multiple sprites in Java?
I've got a game that has 3 basic sprites, at the moment I'm loading 8 images into each sprite for animating.
Each character class has a sprite object.
if I've got 10 characters on screen at once ...
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What game systems exist which uses camera input?
The group and I is in the middle of a semester project where we are currently researching on which game systems are using camera as input or as an interactive medium?
We would like some help listing ...
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Where can I find a collection of images or frames? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Where can I find free sprites and images?
Is there a repository of small images... for example a spacecraft in space or a Mario Bros jumping and running...
Thanks in ...
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Pygame circular cropping/masks
I have been going through the documentation and the Pygame functions and classes today, but couldn't find a reasonable way to either create a circular crop of an image or how to use a mask to perform ...
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Image splitting / tiling software for Mac
I have been programming for a bit and for 2D games and other applications I frequently make large images for the levels / the maps. Before I place these into the games I split the large images down ...
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Detect collision between a graphics object and picture object in Visual Basic
I am making a lunar lander game that randomizes the terrain for each new game, so each game is different. For my game, I am creating a graphics object that draws a closed curve for the terrain of the ...
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State of the art in image compression?
I'm looking for good algorithms for compressing textures offline (ie decompressing them at install or load time, I know about using DXT/3DC to save runtime video memory, but these create awful visual ...
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Image drawing tools (that aren't Photoshop) that work in the sRGB colorspace
I'm looking for a way to create sRGB raster images. Now, I could use Inkscape and just have it render to a raster format, but are there any image drawing tools other than Photoshop that work in sRGB?
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Is there a game oriented graphics or image editor?
I remember looking a few times over the years for an alternative to Photoshop for editing images. I've tried using Gimp too, and that's also not quite sufficient. There are some problems that have ...
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How do you handle iPhone graphics for both high and low DPI settings?
How do you guys create your game graphics for iPhone? Considering you need a retina version and a nomal one?
Do you create a big version of your image, save HD, then resize to smaller version, and ...
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Graphic optimization for iPhone
Basically, I am creating a large iPhone game (with an overwhelming amount of 2d graphics).
I am concerned about the game file size.
Since the iPhone game will accept Retina and Normal display, we ...
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How to render images/textures in shape/polygon form?
I'm working with SFML right now, and upon finishing the tutorials I still do not know how to give a shape a texture or image -- not just a solid color/outline.
The only thing I know can take an ...
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split pngs for sidescroller
I want to split a long png from my artist into vertical chunks that I can load into my code for a side scroller.
Is there a tool that will help do that or do I have to do it manually?
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Need a good quality bitmap rotation algorithm for Android
I am creating a kaleidoscopic effect on an android tablet. I am using the code below to rotate a slice of an image, but as you can see in the image when rotating a bitmap 60 degrees it distorts it ...
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Whats the point of all these Surface Formats
I am relevantly new to Graphics Programming. I have written some basic games in xna in the past but I am trying to understand what the point of all these surface formats is. For instance Xna and DDS ...
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Does swf provide better compress rate than zlib for png image?
Somebody told me that when a png image is stored in swf, it's separated to several layer, hence the alpha channel can be compressed better. Is it true? Or, once png image is imported into a swf, it's ...
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Colour Problems When Using SDL_Resize()
In a 3D SDL application I inherited (I have little 3D or SDL experience), I have a 'screenshot' routine that either saves a full-size image or a scaled image, depending on the context (differing ...
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Rendering a 3D scene without a window
This is kind of an odd question, but what would be the best solution for rendering a 3D scene without a render window active? The end goal would be to simply render a 3D scene to an image file.
I ...
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How can I get the palette of an 8-bit surface in SDL.NET/Tao.SDL?
I'm looking to get the palette of an 8-bit surface in SDL.NET if possible, or (more than likely) using Tao.SDL. This is because I want to do palette swapping with the palette directly, instead of ...
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Should the color of a texture be adjusted for display on a television?
If a 24bit RGB image with a range of 0-255 per channel is displayed on a television that displays a range of approx. 16-235 per channel, color detail will be lost, correct?
If so, should images be ...
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How to get quality sprite sheet generation with rotations
I'm working on a game that uses sprite sheets with rotation for animations. While the effect is pretty good, the quality of the rotations is somewhat lacking. I exported a flash animation to png ...
