The process of generating an image or series of images from a model by means of computer programming.
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Prevent using Gamma Correction?
In almost every game I've come across that includes a dark situation made to change the way a user interacts, there are always some players who turn up their monitor's gamma correction in order to ...
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Input rendering
Suppose I have a simple game model (designed with MVC pattern):
There is a World, there is a WorldRenderer and there is a GameController.
Now, World is a model of the world, i.e. game state. ...
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How do you triangulate an arbitrary polygon?
I need to triangulate a polygon for rendering in opengl es on android ( no glu triangulation available)
Is there an already known algorithm for polygon triangulation? The polygon can be convex or ...
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How to render polygons of arbitrary shape? [duplicate]
I am trying to render a plane with nodes.
FYI : Nodes know what other nodes it is being attached to.
I can think of a way to render them as long as they are aligned in a circular pattern; have a ...
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Abstracting entity caching in XNA
I am in a situation where I am writing a framework in XNA and there will be quite a lot of static (ish) content which wont render that often. Now I am trying to take the same sort of approach I would ...
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Resize a texture using the full SpriteBatch.Draw in XNA
I'm using the full Spritebatch.Draw function to draw my explosion sprite since I also need rotation. I am using the Scale value to resize my texture, but I can't get it to be accurate.
I want to be ...
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1answer
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Seamless tiling with TexturePacker and Marmalade/IwGX
I'm looking for a way to get seamless tiling working, where the tiles are sprites off a TexturePacker sprite sheet, and the rendering is done with Marmalade's IwGX's streams. I also need to render the ...
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Multiple render targets and gamma correctness in Direct3D9
Let's say in a deferred renderer when building your G-Buffer you're going to render texture color, normals, depth and whatever else to your multiple render targets at once.
Now if you want to have a ...
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Rendering another screen on top of main game screen in fullscreen mode
my game runs in fullscreen mode and uses active rendering. The graphics are drawn on the fullscreen window in each game loop:
public void render() {
Window w = ...
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Vertex fog producing black artifacts
I am rendering a textured model using the XNA BasicEffect. When I enable fog, the model outline is still visible as many small black dots when it should be "in the fog". Why is this happening?
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How do games deal with Z-sorting partially transparent foliage textures?
I was busy implementing basic transparency in a prototype I'm working on when something occurred to me.
In order for a given texture's transparency to work as expected, the (semi-)transparent texture ...
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How can I acheive a smooth 2D lighting effect?
I'm making a 2D tile based game in XNA.
Currently my lightning looks like this.
How can I get it to look like this?
Instead of each block having its own tint, it has a smooth overlay.
I'm assuming ...
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rendering a dynamic sized rock
I am developing a 2d mobile game that has a large deformable terrain (a lot like worms). I am rendering the terrain using a gray scale bitmap (in a fragment shader) which serves as a texture position ...
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Preferred way to render text in OpenGL
I'm about to pick up computer graphics once again for an university project. For a previous project I used a library called FTGL that didn't leave me quite satisfied as it felt kind of heavy (I tried ...
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Need a 3D Graphics Rendering Library or Game Engine with Cross-Platform Support [closed]
I am looking to develop a 3D MMORPG, and I would like the game to be available on the iPad, Android, Mac, and Windows. I've done some research, and I've discovered the following game engines and ...
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How do I improve terrain rendering batch counts using DirectX?
We have determined that our terrain rendering system needs some work to minimize the number of batches being transferred to the GPU in order to improve performance. I'm looking for suggestions on how ...
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Divide single SVG into separate files
I have an SVG file contatining deck of cards, each of them in g-container:
<g id="kingspades">...
How do I render individual cards or separate big SVG files into pieces?
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Anti-Aliasing in Java
In my game I want to have the different anti-aliasing option like: none, x2, x4, x8 and x16. I know that you can use anti-aliasing with Graphics2D in the way below bu is there any way that I can use ...
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Rendering structure [closed]
my question is "What is the best way to structure rendering code".
Is it better to make a class with a render function that iterates through all game objects
based on there name or type and have no ...
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How many commercial games use software rendering? [closed]
It seems many games today use graphics accelerating (e.g. OpenGL) but how many still use software rendering? I mean commercial game wise, how many?
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Drawing the same scene with perspective then orthographic projections
I have a scene that I'm rendering first with a perspective matrix. I then want to rerender it in a different viewport using an orthographic matrix for a top-down 2D view of the scene. I think I may be ...
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Skeletal Animation in DirectX [closed]
A few weeks back I asked the following question: Are there alternatives to Vertex Tweening?
I was pointed towards Skeletal Animation, or more specifically: Hardware Skinning. While I found quite some ...
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Rendering multiline text with SDL_TTF
Can you use any function to render more than a line of text in a surface?
If you can't do this, what whould be the way to go?
I am doing the following: Create a surface (not sure if should be a ...
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XNA 4.0 DepthStencil Buffer problem [closed]
I am trying to manage deferred rendering in my project. Esspecialy the skybox and clouds which has to be rendered behind everything and for sure the skybox+clouds will not be passed by deffered ...
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1answer
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Displaying sprites in a 2.5D raycasting engine
I'm developing a raycasting engine like the one used in DOOM, Wolfenstein 3D, etc.
My engine is capable of correctly displaying walls and textures on walls, but I'm stuck at sprites rendering.
Given ...
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How to preload a vast amount of models?
This is more a theoretical question,
during runtime, my game runs smooth without any hickups. But as standard game-objects, my game contains collectibles such as coins (which are rotating Models).
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Rendering Unity across multiple monitors
At the moment I am trying to get unity to run across 2 monitors. I've done some research and know that this is, strictly, possible. There is a workaround where you basically have to fluff your window ...
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Android OpenGL ES 2.0 gameloop problems
I implemented a gameloop found here: http://www.koonsolo.com/news/dewitters-gameloop/ into my OpenGL ES 2.0 Android game. The tutorial was written with the canvas API in mind, not OpenGL so I made a ...
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What is Volumetric Rendering?
I came across this term when searching for ways to visualize collection of voxels.
What is volumetric rendering ? How is it different from normal surface rendering ? Are there any special advantages ...
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1answer
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Why does this LUA code not render any objects on the screen? [closed]
Did I mess up something somewhere? If i put a putsxy in the same box, it renders a string just fine, but for some reason this code hates objects. What this code is supposed to do is render a set of ...
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2answers
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Irrlicht rendering basic OBJ
I have been trying to render a "room" with some basic functions and I found some "bugs".
So at first I have made a "room" out of 6 planes in blender and gave each of them a diffrent color.
...
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1answer
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Weird rendering issue when applying lightmap through HLSL
I have a weird issue when trying to render the lightmaps in my game.
Please see the following screenshots.
Note how the scene looks up close with the lightmaps enabled.
Note how that same part of ...
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How to provide a fully programmable pipeline for rendering?
I am writing a game engine and I want people who use it allow to define the rendering pipeline. Just they can define the scene geometry, characters, items, light sources, and so on. So the term ...
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Issues upscaling pixel art with SampleState.PointClamp
I'm developing a 2D game, and I'm striving to create a nice blocky low-res appearance for the game, yet allow it to be played at variable resolutions. So, I've researched resolution independency and ...
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2answers
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HTML5 - Does it have the power to handle a large 2D game with a huge world? [closed]
I have been using XNA game studio, but due to private reasons (as well as the ability to publish anywhere & my heavy interest in isogenic engine), I would like to switch to HTML5.
However, I have ...
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3answers
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Where to run logic update in openGL ES?
Using Canvas with Surfaceview I had a run() method where I would essentially do the following:
onDraw();
update();
Where onDraw method would do the rendering and update would update all my game ...
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Optimal OpenGL 2D Sprite Batching (Best Practice)
I am working on simple 2D engine using OpenGL (3.3+) for rendering and was wondering what the optimal method of sprite batching would be. I plan to put all sprites into one (or fewer) texture atlases. ...
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One or multiple VertexBuffers
I'm currently working on a personal project where I'm trying to load the levels and all of the geometry from the game "Medal of Honor Allied Assault" into my own C# code-base based on SharpDX.
I ...
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Rendering a black and white image in OpenGL 1.1
Is there is any way that I can simple disable the color in OpenGL 1.1? Or can I "grey out" textures in LWJGL?
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Drawing a circle in OpenGL ES Android, squiggly boundaries
I am new to OpenGL ES and facing a hard time drawing a circle on my GLSurfaceView. Here's what I have so far.
The circle class
public class MyGLBall {
private int points=40;
private float ...
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What is the state of the art of ray tracing on the GPU?
I think ray trace rendering had to be done on the CPU for a long time. But since we have compute shaders in OpenGL 4.3 now, it might be possible to move the computations on the GPU and perform ...
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3ds max render to texture in PNG
Using 3ds Max 2012, I've been able to use the "render to texture" function to successfully bake my lighting. The only problem is that these image files are always output to TGA files. I need PNG ...
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Interpolation of surface normals on the face of a triangle and Goroud shading
My question is detailed at this link.
I linked it instead of copy paste because here I can't seem to get the fancy math symbols to show properly here.
Thoughts?
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How can I render the whole faces instead of only the vertices? [closed]
I'm doing my master thesis in comparing DX9 LoD with DX11 Tesselation LoD. Therefore I use a ShaderManager that calls either the shader for the DX9 implementation, where the model is exchanged by the ...
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Choosing the correct isometric character facing direction
I am currently building a 3D game presented from a 2D isometric viewpoint.
The 3D coordinates start at the top left corner of the screen with x and y increasing towards the right and bottom edges ...
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1answer
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GLES2 rendering performance for different iPad generations
I'm using C++/GLES2 for iPad only (no iPhone). The only device I own is an iPad2 and I do not plan to support iPad 1.
Can anyone help me understand realistic goals/limits on iPad 2/3/4 in terms of ...
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How to render a tilemap efficiently? [duplicate]
I'm using this code to load a tiled map, composed of 1000x1000 32x32px tiles:
map = new TmxMapLoader().load("levels/xyz.tmx");
camera = new OrthographicCamera();
camera.setToOrtho(false, ...
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Synchronizing input, update and rendering threads
How do you synchronise the input-handling, state-updating and rendering threads?
If a sprite position is modified due to input, the wrong position of the sprite might be drawn to the screen if the ...
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Problem rendering cube using DirectX 11
I'm toying with DirectX 11 and am trying to render a simple cube, but I can't seem to get anything to show (except the clear color, which is a good sign I suppose...)
Everything seems to be working, ...
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2answers
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Libgdx Animation Timing
I'm having a small issue with libgdx animation.
I'm using getKeyFrame() to get the current frame of the animation and I'm updating the state time by adding on deltaTime in my update function for the ...
