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Sharp DX Identity Matrix, Matrix.Forward vector pointing at negative Z

I'm trying to take a steady grip on Sharp DX. Already done some work like translating, scaling and rotating objects. Now i have to calculate the rotation matrix using only direction vector and ...
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What kind of projection is ScreenX=X/Z, ScreenY=Y/Z?

I have an existing class which transforms 3D vectors and projects them on a 2D plane (Camera). The code is all written in C without help from an external library. To project a single vector (X,Y,Z) ...
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Tetris - Rotations using Linear Algebra (Rotation Matrices)

I'm making Tetris in Java and am at the point of rotations... Originally I was hardcoding each rotation: if (direction.equals("right")) { if (shape.equals("Bar")) { if ...
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Rotate Points with Object in world space

I posted this in the original stack overflow then realized that a game-dev specific one exists. I am working on personal project that requires me to have 4 points surrounding an object (1 at each of ...
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Rotating plane to be parallel to given normal via change of basis

I have two planes and their respective normals. I would like to rotate the second plane, planeB, so that it is parallel to the first, planeA. To do this, I am using a change of basis to rotate each ...
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Transform a Screen Delta

I have a delta in screen coordinates that I want to transform to a 3d delta in world space. The delta is in this case a movement across the (x,y) coordinates in screen space on the near projection ...
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convert orientation vec3 to a rotation matrix

I've got a normalized vec3 that represents an orientation. Each frame of animation, an object's orientation changes slightly, so I add a delta vector to the orientation vector and then normalize to ...
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How to Draw texture between 2 Vector3

My scenario: RTS combat style, 1 unit fires beam on another unit My problem is i want to draw a flat texture between 2 Vector3 points. I have looked at various Billboarding styles but that doesn't ...
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3D rotation matrices deform object while rotating

I'm writing a small 3D renderer (using an orthographic projection right now). I've run into some trouble with my 3D rotation matrices. They seem to squeeze my 3D object (a box primitive) at certain ...
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how can i get rotation vector from matrix4x4 in xna?

i want to get rotation vector from matrix to realize some parent-children system for models. Matrix bonePos = link.Bone.Transform * World; Matrix m = Matrix.CreateTranslation(link.Offset) * ...
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How to make an object stay relative to another object

In the following example there is a guy and a boat. They have both a position, orientation and velocity. The guy is standing on the shore and would like to board. He changes his position so he is ...
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Transform 3D vectors between coordinate systems

I've got 6 points in 3D space: A,B,C,D,E,F, that represent 4 vectors. AB is perpendicular to AC and DE is perpendicular to DF. I need to find a transformation matrix M, that transforms AB to DE and ...
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multiply matrix by vector: what to do if need to change y-up to z-up?

I multiply a matrix with a position vector to get a new position, however, now I need to change my matrix from y-up coordinate space to z-up. Changing only the matrix won't work: how to apply the ...
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How to prevent 2D camera rotation if it would violate the bounds of the camera?

I'm working on a Camera class and I have a rectangle field named Bounds that determines the bounds of the camera. I have it working for zooming and moving the camera so that the camera cannot exit its ...
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How do you extract a Vector3 positions only from a world matrix in an array of positions (from Kinect)

've just started building a physical camera class for the depth data you get from a Kinect. I have a Vector3 array of [imageWidth, imageHeight] describing the LOCAL positions I get in from the kinect ...
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Confused about order of operation when using a Matrix in XNA, C#

Here are two different pieces of code This is what I started with Vector2 hold = Vector2.Transform(pos1, mat1); Matrix inv = Matrix.Invert(mat2); Vector2 pos2 = Vector2.Transform(hold, inv); And ...
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Vector games (Wireframe, Elite-like) theory and implementations?

I'm interesting in knowing more about how vector games like Elite and Star Wars Atari were built from grounds up. The question is not how to implement vector graphics with modern 3D APIs like OpenGL ...
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Downprojecting an imaginary 4D mesh to the screen

As a mental exercise, I'm trying to imagine projecting an arbitrary 4D mesh onto the screen (2D). I'm guessing a single 4D triangle would still consist of only 3 points, however each of those 3 ...
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Mesh to world vector translation

Suppose I have a world defined in typical OpenGL coords.. then the up vector defined for this space is (0,1,0). Now, if I load a model that is defined with (0,0,1) as its up vector, what are the ...