A physical point in an image or the smallest addressable element in a display device.
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Where can I find pixel-art artist [closed]
I want to do a great 2D MMORPG and I think my idea is not bad at all.
I'm a good programmer, but my skill in pixel art is not that great.
I would need to find a good pixel artist to help me and share ...
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Texture Shaders vs. Pixel/Fragment Shaders?
My question is a simple one.
Functionally, practically, and performance-wise, what are the differences between using a D3DX Texture Shader, and using a Pixel/Fragment Shader rendered with a full ...
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1answer
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Making up everything from single pixels
I recently saw a game which looked a bit like minecraft, but it was a RPG.
The enemies in this game consist completely of voxels and if they die, they collaps and every single voxels falls down, ...
2
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1answer
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2D Software Lighting Issues in Java
I'm creating a 2D top-down tiled game in pure Java and by now I'm trying to implement a way to do lighting.
First, some details on how I render: there is a screen class which handles all the ...
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1answer
140 views
Application design for specific points on image
Hi guys I am starting a simple hobby app in Unity, its a 2D app, which have some alphabets like A,B,C..Z (images) . There ll be specific paths where user touch one by one to complete drawing the ...
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How can I replicate the color limitations of the NES with an HLSL pixel shader?
So since 256 color mode is depreciated and no longer supported under Direct3D mode, I got the idea to use a pixel shader instead to simulate the NES palette of all possible colors so that fading ...
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3answers
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help using image to overlay grayscale around player
I'm sorry for the confusing title but it is hard to explain in one sentence.
This is what I have
What I want to do is use that black overlay to convert everything in the black area to grayscale. ...
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Is it possible to render part of the screen in different pixel density using openGL?
Say I have an openGL screen and I want to render part of the screen in different pixel density than the whole screen pixel density. Is it possible and if possible how?
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Vertex shader to Pixel shader NVIDIA problem - restarting drivers
I have problem with my shader on NVIDIA cards. On AMD it's working right.
Shader Builder exported CODE:
//ROOT
//PSParts
//VSParts
//Samplers
sampler sLod23ColorGround : register(s0);
sampler ...
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1answer
141 views
Picking a suitable resolution for a modern low-res game?
I'm working on a 2D game project right now (using SFML+OpenGL and C++) and I'm trying to figure out how to go about choosing a resolution. I want my game to have a pixel resolution that is around that ...
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How do I scale down pixel art?
There are plenty of algorithms to scale up pixel art. (I prefer hqx, personally.) But are there any notable algorithms to scale it down? My game is designed to run at a resolution of 1280x720, but if ...
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HLSL Pixel Shader that does palette swap
I have implemented a simple pixel shader which can replace a particular colour in a sprite with another colour.
It looks something like this:
sampler input : register(s0);
float4 ...
0
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3answers
184 views
How do I create a curved line or filled circle or generally a circle using C++/SDL?
Hello I've been trying for ages to make a pixel circle using the putpixel function provided by SDL main website here is that function :
void putpixel(int x,int y , int color , SDL_Surface* surface)
{
...
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1answer
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How do I check on non-transparent pixels in a bitmapdata?
I'm still working on my window cleaning game from one of my previous questions
I marked a contribution as my answer, but after all this time I can't get it to work and I have to many questions about ...
0
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1answer
134 views
Scanline filling of polygons that share edges and vertices
In this picture (a perspective projection of an icosahedron), the scanline (red) intersects that vertex at the top. In an icosahedron each edge belongs to two triangles. From edge a, only one triangle ...
2
votes
1answer
138 views
How to alter image pixels of a wild life bird?
Hello so I was hoping someone knew how to move or change color and position actual image pixels and could explain and show the code to do so.
I know how to write pixels on a surface or screen-surface ...
3
votes
1answer
217 views
Scaling sprite velocity / co-ordinatesin Android
I'm trying to find the answer to a question that I've had for a long time, but am having trouble finding it! I hope someone can help :-)
I'm trying to find information on how to scale sprite velocity ...
3
votes
2answers
321 views
Scan-Line Z-Buffering Dilemma
I have a set of vertices in 3D space, and for each I retain the following information:
Its 3D coordinates (x, y, z).
A list of pointers to some of the other vertices with which it's connected by ...
3
votes
1answer
188 views
How do I multiply pixels on an SDL Surface?
Okay so I'm able to put blank pixels into a surface and also draw gradient pixels rectangles,etc
But I don't know how to multiply the pixels on a surface so I was hoping someone could provide me ...
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3answers
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Trying to figure out SDL pixel manipulation?
Hello so I've found code that plots a pixel in an SDL Screen Surface :
void putpixels(int x, int y, int color)
{
unsigned int *ptr = (unsigned int*)Screen->pixels;
int lineoffset = y * ...
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1answer
439 views
Where can I find a programmer/game developer to team up with? [closed]
I'm a pixel artist looking for an ametuer programmer/game developer to team up with, But I'm not sure where to start!
I'm not particularly worried about profit, I'm only interested in making the game ...
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1answer
161 views
Fixed texture size (Pixel) libgdx, java
If I resize the window (e.g. fullscreen) the texture size also changes!
I want that behaviour: If I change to fullscreen you will see more of the game world. The size (Pixel) of the texture stay the ...
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What is the standard way of using Q15 values?
To process 8-bit pixels, to do things like gamma correction without losing information, we normally upsample the values, work in 16 bits or whatever, and then downsample them to 8 bits.
Now, this is ...
2
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2answers
676 views
Using pixel art on small high resolution screens
I'm making a game and I would like to utilize pixel art as my style. But I faced a problem, modern displays on my target platform (iOS) have extremely high resolution.
So if my artist makes me some ...
2
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2answers
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Java: How to Make a Player Class in a Tile-Based RPG
So I've been following a JavaHub tutorial that basically uses a pixel engine similar to MiniCraft.
I've attempted to make a Player Class as such, and I'm basically making a mock Pokemon game for ...
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2answers
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Android Game Development problem with Speed = Distance / Time
I have been coding speed for an object. I have made it so the object will move from one end of the screen to another at a speed depending on the screen size, at the monemt I have made it so it will ...
3
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1answer
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Spritesheet per pixel collision XNA
So basically i'm using this:
public bool IntersectPixels(Rectangle rectangleA, Color[] dataA,Rectangle rectangleB, Color[] dataB)
{
int top = Math.Max(rectangleA.Top, rectangleB.Top);
...
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3answers
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C++ Efficient Pixel Management for Non-Polygon Graphics Engine
So I've been looking for a way to efficiently manage the pixels on a screen, but so far all I've found is along the lines of SetPixel() in windows (painfully slow), and drawing a rectangle 1px X 1px ...
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1answer
164 views
XNA - Debugging/Testing Individual Sprites and Pixel Collision
I ran through the first training on XNA where you make a shooter game. They did some thing that I would not do and I want to use their starting point to learn more things.
I want to try better ...
2
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2answers
154 views
How to do reflective collisions with particles hitting background tiles?
In my 2d pixel old-school platformer, I'm looking for methods for bouncing particles off of background tiles. Particles aren't affected by gravity and collisions are "reflective". By that I mean a ...
2
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3answers
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Optimum Screen Resolutions
Most PC games nowadays obviously come with the standard option to change the game's resolution from between 640x480 to 1920x1080 on average, depending on your monitor and whether or not you are ...
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Why is the pixel so popular as the metric unit of a game?
I keep seeing everywhere people using pixels for resolving collisions, angles, distances. I wonder if using the pixel as the metric unit for a game is a good solution, first because you're tying your ...
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How does one avoid the “staircase effect” in pixel art motion?
I am rendering sprites at exact pixel coordinates to avoid the blurring effect caused by antialiasing (the sprites are pixel-art and would look awful if filtered). However, since the movement of the ...
