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Displacement Mapping opengl-es

I need to do an application similar to this Morfo. And I posted a question here where the answer states the solution is "Displacement Mapping" . And I googled this to do it in opengles. I couldnt get ...
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Interleaved formats for meshes confusion

So I have been reading up on data formatting for 3D objects so that I can render my meshes as fast as possible in openGL, I am quite new to openGL so bear with me. The format for interleaving your ...
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Benefits of upgrading from OpenGL ES 1.1 to 2.0 on iOS

I have an animated 3D iPhone game that I first wrote using OpenGL ES 1.1 in late 2009. After many updates to the rest of the game, the OpenGL ES 1.1 code still runs fine under iOS 6, but I'm ...
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Keeping Track of Position OpenGL

I have a sphere in my 3D world located at the origin. I have models orbiting it and I need to keep track of each models' position (x, y, x coordinates) as well as update their bounding boxes for ...
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2D map/plane with nodes overlayed that supports panning, scaling and clicking on nodes

I'm trying my hand at Android development and seem to be running into an invisible ceiling in trying to get what I want accomplished. Basically I'm trying to create an app that renders a 2D surface ...
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Why do my pyramids fade black and then back to colour again [closed]

I have the following vertecies and norms GLfloat verts[36] = { -0.5, 0, 0.5, 0, 0, -0.5, 0.5, 0, 0.5, 0, 0, -0.5, 0.5, 0, 0.5, 0, 1, 0, -0.5, 0, 0.5, 0, 0, -0.5, 0, 1, 0, 0.5, 0, 0.5, -0.5, 0, ...
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Creating a highlight halo around a selected object

I'm looking to create a halo highlight around the selected objects in my game screen. The main platform is android, but I am writing an iOS version as well, updating it whenever I successfully add the ...
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How do I render .dae models?

I'm building a game for iOS. I'm quite new to OpenGL but what I want is to take a 3D model I have made in Google SketchUp and use it in my 3d game. The problem is I don't know how to proceed. I have ...
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How to export deform modifier animation into a game engine?

Hi we animated a simple plane with deform modifier to give a folding cloth like effect. How do we export it from maya so that we are able to import into our game engine. Can we export them as a ...
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Special Effects in a 3d game

I am creating a 3d game ( a car racing game) using opengl ES. i know the rendering concept and also using a physics engine for all the physics stuff. All modeling is done using 3d modeling softwares. ...
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Ball bouncing and throwing, how to?

I was given a task to make a 3D game for Android, but since I never programmed games and opengl until now I'm totally lost on how and where to start. Right now I'm using libgdx framework to ease my ...
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Culling Techniques for 3d OpenGL ES game

I'm developing a 3d flight simulator for Android and am using a relatively large (10k triangles) scene in 3ds format for the scenery. The scene is one polygon soup, not separated into separate ...
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What should I do to get my Blender models into my iOS game?

I am working on a 3D OpenGL|ES game for iPad. All the models are created in Blender. How should I go about getting my models into my game? I have the following requirements of my models: One ...
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OpenGL ES 2.0: Perspective Projection for 2D Games

Prespective Projection has features that could be very well used even in 2D games. At least two very beneficial characteristics that come to my mind are: Using Perspective Projection to substitute ...
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OpenGL ES 2.0: Understanding Perspective Projection Matrix

Setting the Perspective projection matrix in Open GL (including OpenGL ES 2.0) has the following general format: glm::mat4 perspective(float fovy, float aspect, float zNear, float zFar); Notice the ...
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OpenGL ES on iOS Books

I was wondering if someone has read both the: iPhone 3D Programming And OpenGL ES 2.0 books and have an opinion if one is better than the other? I'm basically wanting to get into doing 3D ...
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OpenGL ES 2.0 Point Sprites Size

I am trying to draw point sprites in OpenGL ES 2.0, but all my points end up with a size of 1 pixel...even when I set gl_PointSize to a high value in my vertex shader. How can I make my point sprites ...
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Can one draw a cube using different method/drawing mode?

I've just started learning gamedev (in particular android EGL based) and have ran over a code from Pro Android Games 2 that looks as follows: /* * Copyright (C) 2007 Google Inc. * * Licensed ...
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Maya 3D model to iOS OpenGL ES

I need to display, rotate, and zoom a 3D model in OpenGL ES (iPhone/iPad). The 3D graphic artists are using Maya (on OS/X). What export format should I be looking at to use their 3D models in the ...
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Is Frustum Culling by itself enough for Consoles and Mobiles?

Software occlusion culling is often expensive, especially for smaller and older devices. Is frustum culling alone adequate on systems that can optimally display 10k triangles at most? If not, are ...