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Rotating and Translating a Node in Horde3D with Matrices and Quaternions

I have been trying to learn how to use the Horde3D rendering engine for the past couple of days, and so far I have managed to learn a decent amount and integrate Bullet Physics with it as well. My ...
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Directional light and matrix issues

I'm trying to implement basic directional lightning in OpenGL 3.3 by emulating the logic shown in this guide: http://www.arcsynthesis.org/gltut/Illumination/Tutorial%2009.html I do not understand ...
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2D Matrix Transformation (with a Player and Ground)

I have a simple game that I'm trying to do for learning purposes, but Matrices are a bit hard, especially in DirectX. I currently have a tilesystem that renders tiles at the screen and a character ...
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How should I organize my matrices in a 3D game engine?

I'm working with a group of people from around the world to create a game engine (and hopefully a game with it) within the next upcoming years. My first task is to write a camera class for the engine ...
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How does gluLookAt work?

From my understanding, gluLookAt( eye_x, eye_y, eye_z, center_x, center_y, center_z, up_x, up_y, up_z ); is equivalent to: glRotatef(B, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0); ...
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Vectors from matrix

In XNA you can get front/back/left/right vector of Matrix class. How get these vectors without XNA, through C++ using standart 4x4 matrix ? I dont understand what exactly they mean but found them very ...
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Is it possible to billboard a sprite using a transformation matrix?

None of the current topics on billboarding seemed to answer this question. But, given a sprite (or quad) that has it's own 4x4 transformation matrix a camera with a view matrix (a standard 4x4 ...
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Problem with Assimp 3D model loader

In my game I have model loading functions for Assimp model loading library. I can load the model and render it, but the model displays incorrectly. The models load in as if they were using a seperate ...
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3D Translation using only distance and angles

So I'm starting to foray into 3D game programming, but I've hit something of a snag. I have an object I want to move around. It should always move either forward or backward relative to its local Z ...
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How do I build a matrix to translate one set of points to another?

I've got 3 points in space that define a triangle. I've also got a vertex buffer made up of three vertices, that also represent a triangle that I will refer to as a "model". How can I can I find the ...
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Help understanding gluLookAt()

I am fairly new to openGL( 3 months ) and am asking for assistance in understanding the fundamentals behind gluLookAt(). Currently I have spent most of my time with openGL modeling scenes with fixed ...
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Problem with DirectX scene-graph

I'm trying to implement a basic scene graph in DirectX using C++. I am using a left child-right sibling binary tree to do this. I'm having trouble updating each node's world transformation relative to ...
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Inverting matrix in HLSL

I've got an object in HLSL and I'm using hardware instancing to render multiple copies. But I've come a bit of a cropper when it comes to the vertex normals. Currently I am not using normal mapping ...
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Is there are a good double-precision small matrix SIMD library for x86?

I'm looking for a SIMD library focused small (4x4) matrix operations for graphics. There's lots of single precision ones out there, but I need to support both single and double precision. I've looked ...