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Calculate new coords of camera after a 90 degree rotation in an isometric 2D projection

I made a 2D isometric renderer. It works fine but now I want to show my scene from 4 different points of view (NE NW SE SW) but, on a 90° rotation, my camera cannot keep the center of my scene on ...
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Camera Projection back Into 3D world, offset error

I'm using XNA to simulate a robot in a 3D world and then do image analysis on what the camera sees. I have my camera looking down in front of the direction that the robot is going, and I have the ...
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2D camera perspective projection from 3D coordinates — HOW?

I am developing a camera for a 2D game with a top-down view that has depth. It's almost a 3D camera. Basically, every object has a Z even though it is in 2D, and similarly to parallax layers their ...
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Orthographic unit translation mismatch on grid (e.g. 64 pixels translates incorrectly)

I am looking for some insight into a small problem with unit translations on a grid. Update and Solved I solved my own issue. See below for details. Everything in this part of the post turned out to ...
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Understanding how to go from a scene to what's actually rendered to screen in OpenGL?

I want something that explains step by step how, after setting up a simple scene I can go from that 'world' space, to what's finally rendered on my screen (ie, actually implement something). I need ...
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Perspective projection with 90 degrees between X-Y axis?

I'm trying to create a game that mimics Tibia's projection style: , As you can see, a 3d point is mapped to 2d like this: So I've downloaded Three.JS and a lib to create a Orthographic Camera. But ...
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What's a pre-multiplied 4x4 matrix?

I'm using a 3d game engine, that uses a 4x4 matrix to modify the camera projection. The matrix is in the regular 4x4 format: r r r x r r r y r r r z - - - zoom The description for the ...
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Can a 4x4 matrix describe a camera's perspective?

I'm working with a closed-source 3D engine, and it only allows you to set the view projection via a 4x4 matrix. Can this matrix describe the camera's translation, rotation & perspective? I turned ...
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Portal Projection

Ok ok I admit, I'm bored and toying with a portal script like the one on steam. I've figured out the following: relative positioning of the mirrored cameras render to texture for the portal (the ...