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A mathematical concept that can be used to express position, direction or velocity and which can simplify or outright trivialise spatial problems.

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Relative cam movement and momentum on arbitrary surface

I have been working on a game for quite long, think sonic classic physics in 3D or tony hawk psx, with unity3D. However I'm stuck at the most fundamental aspect of movement. The requirement is that I ...
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Ball bouncing at a certain angle and efficiency computations

I would like to make a pong game with a small twist (for now). Every time the ball bounces off one of the paddles i want it to be under a certain angle (between a min and a max). I simply can't ...
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Rotate Points with Object in world space

I posted this in the original stack overflow then realized that a game-dev specific one exists. I am working on personal project that requires me to have 4 points surrounding an object (1 at each of ...
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Calculate initial velocity of a 3d vector-based projectile

Okay, so I got a Projectile with 2 Vectors, position and velocity. I now want to calculate the initial velocity for it in order to reach a specific point on the map. Or actually, how high has the ...
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JavaScript “Floats”, or ThreeJS wrong positioning?

I want to learn how to use Vectors with 3D. Here is a strange Error I have encountered today. Instead of stopping exactly on the other Cube, I get this: When I change the IF to (cube.position.y ...
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Uses for vector projection?

My previous question was solved by vector projection. Thus I spent some time studying it (Few helpful links: Interactive projection, short video and a longer video.). There were plenty of sites that ...
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Transform a Screen Delta

I have a delta in screen coordinates that I want to transform to a 3d delta in world space. The delta is in this case a movement across the (x,y) coordinates in screen space on the near projection ...