A 2D rendering of an object in space.
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Differently-sized sprites?
I'm still at the very early stages of my game design -- nowhere near actually needing the sprites yet -- but a thought occurred to me: What's the best way to approach sprites of different dimensions?
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Oscillating Sprite Movement in XNA
I'm working on a 2d game and am looking to make a sprite move horizontally across the screen in XNA while oscillating vertically (basically I want the movement to look like a sin wave). Currently for ...
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Designing for multiple screen resolutions and aspect ratios, target one resolution then scale to meet others or use normalized values?
I feel like what I'm currently doing is stupid but would just like reaffirmation it is. Basically I'm writing games which target a certain screen resolution (800x480), so all positions, widths and ...
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Design sprites for games (iPhone game)
I'm not the very best at design, but I have looked for tutorials to design normal sprites for games (mobile devices), like background, ground and all that stuff in 2D. Are there any ...
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Smooth pixels while rotating sprite
I just started with andengine, so this maybe gonna be silly question.
How to make my sprites more smooth while I rotate them? Or maybe it because this is screenshot from tablet?
Thanks JohnEye it ...
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Separating Sprites from Models with PyGame
So I'm trying to code a game using the Model-View-Controller pattern, and therefore have a need to separate the models for my game objects with their sprite representations. The problem that I'm ...
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Alternatives to multiple sprite batches for achieving 2D particle system depth
In my 2D XNA game, I render all my sprites with a single sprite batch using SpriteSortMode.BackToFront and BlendState.AlphaBlend.
I'm adding a particle system based on the App Hub particles sample. ...
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How to handle a Sprite Class?
Currently I am learning XNA and while playing around with some tutorials knowing what I am aiming for a game it made me think that the Sprite Class will be something very important and re-used a lot ...
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Where can I find pixel-art artist? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Where can I go to find a game graphic artist?
I'm pretty good programmer, and I want to create new pixel-art-game. I know how to program, visualise and optimize the ...
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2D sprites in 3D space?
How can I draw a 2D sprite to look like it's at a particular placement in the 3D world?
My goal is to use this as loose items in the world.
Minecraft Example: ...
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Sprite batching in OpenGL
I've got a JAVA based game with an OpenGL rendering front that is drawing a large amount of sprites every frame (during testing it peaked at 700). Now this game is completely unoptimized. There is no ...
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Move sprite in the direction it is facing?
I'm using Java/Slick 2D. I'm trying to use the mouse to rotate the sprite and the arrow keys to move the sprite. I can get the sprite to rotate no problem, but I cannot get it to move in the direction ...
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Clipping a SpriteBatch Draw() in XNA
Is there any way to enable a temporary clipping mask in XNA while using a SpriteBatch? I'm drawing a bunch of Texture2D objects and Sprites in a given rectangle, and I want to make sure that said ...
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How can I ease the work of getting pixel coordinates from a spritesheet?
When it comes to spritesheets they're usually easier to use, and they're very efficient memory-wise, but the problem that I'm always having is getting the actual position of a sprite from a sheet. ...
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XNA Required information to represent 2D Sprite graphically
I was thinking about dividing my game engine into 2 threads: render thread and update thread (I can't come up on how to divide update thread from physic thread at the moment).
That said, I have to ...
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Player sprite animation in 2D platform game
It's pretty easy to get animations rolling from a sprite sheet. Though which ways there are on combining the animations with player dynamics and motion?
I've figured there's two starting points ...
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LibGDX tutorial help Scene2D
I'm having trouble understanding this tutorial. It defines the importance of classes, but it doesn't show an outline of the project file so far. From what I got from that tutorial was that there is ...
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How to rotate “stacked sprites” in XNA?
I'm working on a simple Sinistar-style shooter in XNA, and I'm constantly running into trouble with transformations. I feel like I'll get it eventually, but this problem is really bending my mind.
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Smooth Sprite Movement - Don't Add Velocity to Position?
I am trying to figure out if there is a way to move a sprite smoothly on the screen at different speeds without stuttering, but keeping the effect that it's moving smoothly; especially at faster ...
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snapping an angle to the closest cardinal direction
I'm developing a 2D sprite-based game, and I'm finding that I'm having trouble with making the sprites rotate correctly. In a nutshell, I've got spritesheets for each of 5 directions (the other 3 come ...
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The right way to add images to Monogame/Windows
I'm starting out with MonoGame. For now, I'm only targeting Windows (desktop -- not Windows 8 specifically).
I've used a couple of XNA products in the past (raw XNA, FlatRedBall, SilverSprite), so I ...
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How to decompose sprite sheet
I have a lot of spritesheets that are poorly formatted that I want to decompose, or split out into many small images, one for each sprite.
If I can do that, I can use my custom texture packer tool to ...
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Regarding sprite design and resolution for tablets and phones
I am about to start working on a game for android devices, in my spare time, to get familiar with android development. I'm more interested in using the best practices possible than getting a quick ...
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2D animation: Animated 3D models or sprites with animation frames?
Starting out with new project, I am stuck choosing between:
3D textured model animated directly through the renderer
2D sprites and drawing each animation frame
The game will be 2D platform, I ...
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Geometry vs sprites
I'm developing an android game, where the enemies are geometrical shapes. Performance is a main goal for me so I was wondering if defining shapes directly in OpenGL would be more efficient than using ...
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Should I be subclassing CCSprites?
When I am working with cocos2d I can add CCSprites to the layer or 'stage' and manipulate them.
Now, to do my ongoing calculations for movement AI and such, things that will always run, should I:
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Rendering a Sprite with an Effect… how?
gettings tuck doing some 3d Rendering and I think you guys may have a lot more knowledge in it. I am tasked with basically rendering a texture onto a screen, preparing the way to apply graphical ...
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Are there any good 2D fighting game engines that can be used to make a commercial product?
I'm looking for a good 2D fighting game engine based on sprites. I really dont care much about which language that it is programmed in. Specifically I'm looking for an engine I can use for a game I ...
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Mixing sprite drawing with 3D primitive drawing in XNA?
In my game, I have a base Note class, and various subclasses of Note. In addition, I have a NoteCollection class which contains a collection of these Note objects and draws them to the screen. ...
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How to get quality sprite sheet generation with rotations
I'm working on a game that uses sprite sheets with rotation for animations. While the effect is pretty good, the quality of the rotations is somewhat lacking. I exported a flash animation to png ...
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SpriteSheet Animation with XNA
Hi i'm working on my First 2D Game with XNA and I have a little problem.
To give a running effect to my Sprite, I scroll through a SpriteSheet with this code(running right):
if (AnimationDelay == 6)
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Better to use fixed sprite size or variable sprite sizes in a sprite sheet?
you have N frames for an animation (an idle animation for example) of a 2D character. What is the best resolution to use for each frame? The problem is that if you save the N frames such that each of ...
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Changing the color of a sprite at runtime
Is there a form to change the color of a sprite in runtime?}
I have a black point loaded with an image, but i dont want to load various images with different colors, is there a mode to change the ...
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What's the best place to showcase my pixel art?
I recently started learning spriting/pixel art to help propel my game development endeavors and I've gotten to the point where I'd like to start sharing it for comments, critiques and other feedback.
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Sprites are sometimes blurry in Flash
I am playing around with drawing an SVG sprite (imported in through [Embed]). Depending on the coordinates of the image, sometimes it appears more crisp than others.
The following image shows how at ...
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Collision and response between sprites?
What is an easy way to have sprites collide and react to the collision? E.g. if I'm writing a game in XNA or with Canvas 2D and need to write the code myself very simply.
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How do you set the movement speed of a sprite?
I'm using Slick 2D/Java to play around with graphics. Getting an image to move is easy:
Input input = gc.getInput();
if(input.isKeyDown(sprite.up)){
sprite.y--;
}else if ...
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What is causing these visual artifacts on my OpenGL sprites?
What could be the cause of the defects in my characters sprite? I am using OpenGL ES 2.0. I draw my sprites in a sprite batch that uses UV coordinates from one large texture atlas. If you look around ...
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Managing animations
I'm developing a 2d game that requires sprite based animations. I was thinking about which is the most convenient way to manage many of these sprites all together with timings.
I already know how ...
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Batching dynamic sprites in OpenGL
I'm trying to wrap my head around how batching is done in a 2D sprite-based game. My understanding is I'd get the vertices that represent each sprite I want to draw and stuff them all into a single ...
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Combining multiple sprites vs separate sprites
I have a character which can hold ten types of weapons.
Should I:
Create ten sets of animations for the character with each weapon
Create animations for each weapon, and programmatically draw them ...
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Is character movement with an animated sprite controlled by the animation itself or moved manually?
How is a walking animation of a given character designed? I can see two possible ways:
The first way is to draw each frame of the animation such that, if the frames are displayed at position (0,0), ...
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Turning model from 3ds max file into sprite
I'm planning to buy animated 3D assets to render and use as 2D sprites in my game, but i don't know anything about 3ds max or own any software. How do i render the animations (i need top-down ones) to ...
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Turning a sprite such that it rotates in the direction that's most efficient
I have a sprite that moves from waypoint to waypoint. It turns to face its velocity vector, but not instantly (there's a rotation speed).
The problem I'm having is, from one direction to another, the ...
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How do I access variables in the Game1 class from another class in XNA?
I'm trying to write a SpriteManager class in XNA, but I need access to the Game variables. For example, the Game.Content property would be very helpful in loading textures, and ...
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How to prepare a sprite for a game?
For example, I created my character drawing on Paint.NET using the Pencil tool and now it's a sprite like asset.
If I want him to move do I need to create many different poses for him and render them ...
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How to make a map surface object
I'm making a 2d tile based game. In pygame I could create a map like this:
screen = pygame.display(resolution)
map = pygame.Surface(width, height)
for tile in all_tiles:
map.blit(tile)
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Using raw vertex information for sprites rather than SpriteBatch in XNA
I have been wondering whether using SpriteBatch is the best option. Obviously for prototyping or small games it works well.
However, I've been wanting to apply techniques such as shaders and lighting ...
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Improving SpriteBatch performance for tiles
I realize this is a variation on what has got to be a common question, but after reading several (good answers) I'm no closer to a solution here. So here's my situation:
I'm making a 2D game which ...
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How can I get a list of sprites which are being drawn in the current viewport using XNA?
Just starting out using XNA to draw 3D scenes and have a question about determining which objects are currently visible.
If I load many thousands of sprites and shapes in a scene, then render the ...
