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How can I make water appear darker with depth, like in Minecraft?

effects

aug 14 at 7:29 Community♦ 1

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Is there a 2d physics engine that can model fluids and gases?

2d physics

may 31 '11 at 14:34 ghost 1,064

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How is a 3d perlin noise function used to generate terrain?

procedural-generation terrain minecraft

apr 17 '12 at 16:35 Okr 21

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Can I call c functions within the XNA framework?

xna c# xbox360 c

may 25 '11 at 15:28 David Lively 1,770

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Could I make a multiplayer fps on xbox live as an indie game?

xna multiplayer xbox360 indie first-person-shooter

apr 17 '11 at 22:08 Community♦ 1

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Can someone explain radiosity lighting to me?

lighting minecraft radiosity global-illumination

aug 27 '11 at 22:05 Chewy Gumball 1,029

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I need help with 3d shading/lighting

3d opengl shaders lighting

apr 14 '11 at 0:00 Zaphod42 432

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Should I give each character its own VBO or should I batch them into a single VBO?

opengl vbo

aug 1 '11 at 21:52 Shelly 369

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How to insert and remove blocks quickly in a Minecraftian world?

opengl engine maps performance minecraft

apr 19 '11 at 12:16 Will 3,439

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Rendering 2d sprites into a 3d world?

graphics opengl iphone opengl-es webgl

nov 26 '10 at 2:38 arriu 2,548

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Why would someone chose midpoint displacement over perlin noise for 3D terrain generation?

algorithm minecraft terrain perlin-noise

mar 1 '12 at 7:11 BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft 3,547

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I'm a single developer making a game made of blocks. Can I make 3d characters made of blocks without looking like Minecraft?

game-design 3d art voxels minecraft

jul 31 at 14:43 archdrone 11

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How many UDP ports for an MMOFPS

architecture mmo client-server first-person-shooter udp

jun 30 at 17:09 johlo 238

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Does radiosity work with skylight?

lighting radiosity global-illumination

sep 19 '11 at 13:46 bobobobo 7,031

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How do I determine the collision normal in an axis aligned bounding box collision?

collision-detection geometry normals bounding-boxes

may 29 '11 at 18:49 Valkea 2,293

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3D game special effects, fire, lightning, water, and ice

xna graphics 3d opengl directx

nov 8 '10 at 1:28 Dave 388

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In a client server first person shooter how does the server keep track of each player's hit boxes?

client-server first-person-shooter

aug 25 at 16:56 John Calsbeek 3,154

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Can I use the Minecraft avatar in my game as long as I texture it differently?

models legal minecraft character avatar

feb 10 '12 at 2:34 Valkea 2,293

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How do you make a water shader?

shaders lighting water

sep 1 '11 at 6:22 zacharmarz 2,579

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opengl rotations for a human

opengl opengl-es matrix rotation linear-algebra

mar 31 '11 at 8:05 momboco 1,302

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How to deal with VBOs when rendering mesh's that may or may not be displayed?

opengl vbo

apr 17 '12 at 22:56 Nicol Bolas 15.8k

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When updating a mesh does glBufferSubdata belong in the update function or render function?

engine rendering game-loop

apr 4 '12 at 1:23 Xavier 737

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How do I create menu with text in OpenGL?

opengl webgl

may 2 '11 at 13:20 void 1,079

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