A 2D rendering of an object in space.
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2D RPG - Character sprite size bigger than tile size
Ok so I'm trying to make a nice little RPG game in Java & Slick2D engine, the tiles are 16x16, so the collision array is also 16x16, how ever my character sprite is 16x20
What would be the best ...
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Relative and absolute position with sprites in libgdx
In libgdx, can i add a sprite as children of another an set it with the relative coordinates of the father and not the stage?
Like in HTML when you add controls they are relative to its parent, but ...
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Objective-c Cocos2d moving a sprite
I hope someone knows how to do the following with cocos2d:
I want a sprite to move but not in a single line by using
[cocosGuy runAction: [CCMoveTo actionWithDuration:1 position:location]];
What ...
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How do you get textures out of a png file
I have 1 png of many different textures. I want to use these textures in my iphone game using cocos2d. I found the program "Zwoptex" where you can combine many textures to one png and create a plist ...
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TileBased Game: Blitting Hero or Sprite?
So my environment is all set up and now I'm working on the movement physics of my character. I used blitting to copy over my tiles from a tilesheet. But since they are static, they are only copied ...
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DX9 sprite / font draw depth order
I need the ability to order the drawing of sprites and fonts. Some sprites need to be drawn behind and some in front of text. My problem is that my sprites and fonts use separate Begin() End() calls ...
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Make a laser beam effect with Ogre and a BillboardChain
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_15/images/laser_beam_lg.gif
I want to be able to such an effect, but I don't really know how the BillboardChain class works or how I can use it, ...
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Sprite Animation in XAML/C# for Windows 8 Modern UI (Metro)
I'm working on a project that requires doing sprite based animation in XAML / C# for a windows store app. I've worked out a method for displaying the animation, but it causes flickering during the ...
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Changing sprite animation depending on direction
I'm working on an android game where my sprite is controlled by a joystick. I just added an animation to my sprite with 4 rows and 3 columns:
Now I want to change the animation of my sprite ...
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Opengl drawing a section of a texture stretched over a quad
Current Situation
I have a spritesheet loaded in for a texture when drawing the specific portions of the sheet that I'd like to have on my quads I do some simple math to get their location on the ...
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Horizontal wrapping with AndEngine
How would one implement the effect of a sprite disappearing on one side of the screen and appearing on the other using AndEngine? Like in Kid Icarus, seen here at around 1:22.
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Letting the user draw a Polygon Body and Image
In my game, I want to provide the user with a drawing feature.
By free hand drawing, the user creates a polygon shape. Then, in my game implementation, I have to create a body for the found vertices ...
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Detect multitouch (two fingers touch) on a sprite to apply pinch zoom behaviour
I am using andengine, want to move, zoom and rotate multiple sprites individually on a scene. I have achieved "move" but for pinch zoom i am unable to get the event to two fingers' touch. Below is the ...
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Best practice to use Sprites in a game using AndEngine GLES2
Currently I am having static reference to all my sprites and loading and initializing them in my OnCreateResource mthod of SimpleBaseGameActivity, But now I have to override onAreaTouched listener on ...
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Tool for editing sprites contour pixel alpha value
I have seen that most games uses sprites that have a transparent contour, that is, the pixels that belongs to the contour of the object in the WxW sprite image is below 255. It is not perfectly ...
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Tools for Sprite generation? 3D Blender model for Sprites -generation?
My speculation is that sprites can be generated rather painlessly from good 3D Blender models either to 2D or 3D. I am skeptical to sprites generated other ways because I like the ability to do ...
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How do you maintain content size vs. content quality in a mobile application?
I am developing my first Cocos2d iPhone/iPad game that includes quite a few sprites, I would need approximately 80 different. As this is for both normal and HD displays I have 2x of each sprite. I am ...
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What is a technique for 2D ray-box intersection that is suitable for old console hardware?
I'm working on a Sega Genesis homebrew game (it has a 7mhz 68000 CPU). I'm looking for a way to find the intersection between a particle sprite and a background tile. Particles are represented as a ...
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Free animation/sprite art [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Where can I find free sprites and images?
I am looking for free to use (commercially) art for a small app I am making. Specifically I need some sort of animal (any ...
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OpenGLES 2.0: Rendering Multiple Sprites - Texel Corruption
I'm having a tremendous time getting the second (or additional) sprites in my game engine to render properly. The first one always works great: it is positioned and sized properly in screen coords, ...
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Which isometric angles can be mirrored (and otherwise transformed) for optimization?
I am working on a basic isometric game, and am struggling to find the correct mirrors.
Mirror can be any form of transform.
I have managed to get SE out of SW, by scaling the sprite on X axis by -1. ...
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How to Handle frame rates and synchronizing screen repaints
I would first off say sorry if the title is worded incorrectly.
Okay now let me give the scenario
I'm creating a 2 player fighting game, An average battle will include a Map (moving/still) and 2 ...
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Collision detection with non-rectangular images
I'm creating a game and I need to detect collisions between a character and some parts of the environment. Since my character's frames are taken from a sprite sheet with a transparent background, I'm ...
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Managing sprite sheets for animation [closed]
I am trying to use a sprite sheet for animation but I'm having some trouble with my implementation. The three key things that I require my code to do are:
Play through a set of images once, for ...
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How are 8/16 bit sprites created?
I already found this question, but it only talks about the kind of software used - not the actual methods. Were they drawn at a high resolution first and then shrunk down? Or did you just zoom way in? ...
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Animation with non-uniform frame sizes
How do you know when to draw the next frame if its bounding box is larger/smaller than the current? For example, in KOF, some characters have elastic arms and things of the like..How are these handled ...
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OpenGL ES 2.0: 2D game rendering, no performance gain with glDraw call batching
I just did a small benchmark. To my surprise batching sprites into a single draw call doesn't give any significant performance boost. Following are my results:
Hardware: iPod touch 4
Extra info: ...
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Common practice when handling sprite animation
Let's say I'm using the following sprite as a sample to try LibGDX Animation and TextureRegion.
http://www.smackjeeves.com/images/uploaded/comics/7/8/78bc6b62fEySW.gif
As you can see, the provided ...
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Tutorial or Example of creating custom sprite tool/map editor for XNA?
I want to create various sprite tool and map editor using XNA. Now, the problem is I do not know how would I implement the window forms and components (such as button, check box, sprite list, etc.) ...
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1answer
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What should my map creation workflow be for a turn-based tactics game?
I am planning to make a tile turn-based game like Final Fantasy Tactics. Now, I am brainstorming of how can I implements the map arena system (the battle arena where there are block by block tile so ...
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Getting 2D Platformer entity collision Response Correct (side-to-side + jumping/landing on heads)
I've been working on a 2D (tile based) 2D platformer for iOS and I've got basic entity collision detection working, but there's just something not right about it and I can't quite figure out how to ...
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Defect in polygon sorting [closed]
I have a 2D game with sprites that come from texture atlases. I'm trying to resolve the sorting of my sprites for rendering.
I want two sprites to be ordered by their order of insertion, or z-order, ...
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haxe level scrolling
How would level scrolling be implemented with haxe and nme?
I started plying with haxe and currently the only way to display things on screen is by using nme.display.Sprite.
I don't think changing ...
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1answer
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How to handle sprite speed when objects move using Box2d?
I have a basic platformer using Box2d that works great. However, I now want to stop using my default square, and implement some running and jumping animations.
How can I ensure that:
When running, ...
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1answer
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Sprite animation in openGL - Some frames are being skipped
Earlier, I was facing problems on implementing sprite animation in openGL ES.
Now its being sorted up. But the problem that i am facing now is that some of my frames are being skipped when a bullet(a ...
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Using Copyrighted Images
I was thinking about developing a sidescrolling platformer very similar to an old Mario and Luigi game for NES. To start out I was thinking about taking the images from a site like this:
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XNA - Drawing zoomed 2D sprites
I have a tile based game. Each tile texture is loaded and then I draw each one next to the other, forming a continuous background. I actually followed this tutorial for the xml files.
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Duplicating Images in SFML
I was wondering how one would go about duplicating the same sprite in SFML, instead of having to create new sprites every time I would want have another sprite of the same image. Just some basic ...
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XNA: draw a sprite in 3d, is that possible?
since now I always used sprited to draw in 2D:
spriteBatch.Draw(myTexture, rectangle, color);
(I suppose the texture is binded internally to 2 triangles and then scaled.)
Now, I'm porting my game ...
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Create a body of an irregular 2D sprite in Farseer
I'm trying to create a body of a irregular 2D sprite Farseer 3.3.1.
The regular shapes that BodyFactory provides are not that I want. Is there a way that one can create irregular objects? Could it be ...
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1answer
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Create sprite and place in pre-defined places using mouse
So, I have a table. I want to be able to click on a button that allows a mode where I place a sprite on the table, on places that are predefined. How do I do that?
I was thinking I could constantly ...
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1answer
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Powers of 2 textures in Android 2d games?
I've read a lot about the importance of using powers of 2 png's for textures when using OpenGL ES. However, how does this relate to Google's own documentation regarding the resizing of graphics for ...
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1answer
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Is using Sprites the most recommended way for doing 2d animations with Directx?
I am working on a game engine of my own and I was using Vertex buffers to create triangles and then draw textures on them. Now I want to extend it so I can do simple 2d animations using "sprite ...
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1answer
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Use FlxAnim to Animate a FlxSprite in Flixel on FlashBuilder
I am trying to animate a FlxSprite, whose image I loaded from an embedded sprite sheet. I instantiate the sprite like this:
// embedding a png file given a relative path
...
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Simple Bounding Sphere Calculations for 2d game
I'm writing a 2d game and have a question regarding the use of bounding spheres.
I'm kind of OK with the math, but I'm confused about one thing.
To work out the distance between the 2 centre points ...
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setPosition of Sprite onUpdate in AndEngine
I am trying to get a "highlighter" circle to follow around a sprite, but I am having trouble, I thought I could use the onUpdate method that's available to me in SequenceEntityModifier but it's not ...
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If statement causing xna sprites to draw frame by frame
I’m a bit new to XNA but I wanted to write a simple program that would fire a cannon ball from a cannon at a 45 degree angle. It works fine outside of my keyboard i/o if statement, but when I ...
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How to deal with Character body parts from Design to Cocos2d
I'm trying to figure out the pattern the game developers use together with game designers:
See the picture below with the independent parts:
Questions:
1) Should I create different image parts ...
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Including sprite file for mobile games
I'm making a simple online RPG for Android & IOS using HTML5 & Phonegap and was wondering: should I include sprite file with the game for downloads (because of bandwidth)? What should I do ...
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How does sprite customization in 2D games work?
I´m working on the design of a new game concept at the moment and I would like to know how to handle a customization of sprites. (In 2D that is, hence the topic.)
This is my scenario: The player will ...
