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Unity New Input System - Changing The Binding of An InputAction Without Using A String?
Good Afternoon,
I would like to change the binding of an InputAction at runtime without using a string.
This is how I am currently doing it:
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How do you do vehicle rendezvous?
If you want to have a missile track and hit a target, Proportional Navigation is a common technique.
But that's simple intercept and collision, getting the pursuer to the same X, Y, Z as the target.
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My character keeps bugging into the ground or into the air [closed]
You can see in the video that my character mesh is hard bugged and im sure its because of the scale since the character mesh is small I had to scale it up by about 30 when changing the size back to 0 ...
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How to fix distortion when wrapping heightmap around sphere
I currently have a 3D model of the moon. You are able to pick a point on the moon and it takes longitude and latitude coordinates of that point and generates a mesh based on the heightmap. So if you ...
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"Button is not an attribute class" error when integrating Steam achievements
I am writing the code for my button, but it's giving me errors like this:
Assets\Scripts\SteamIntegration.cs (60, 6): 'Button' is not an attribute class
Where did I make a mistake in this code?
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How to rotate body in server-side physics without imparting angular velocity?
I'm developing a 2D cloud-based MMO using WebSocket and have struggled a lot to get proper working physics on the server side. I'm using Next.js for the client and currently Node.js for the server.
I ...
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How to save and instantiate game data containing lists of polymorphic types
Let's say I have a class named Entity such as:
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Dialogue Manager Godot 4 Signals
When using the Dialogue Manager addon on Godot, I am trying to run a function to change the sprite of a character. My function look like this under my character script:
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Unity New Input System - What Is The Correct Way To Check If Any Button From An Action Map Was Pressed?
Good Morning All,
I am using Unity's New Input System. I have an Action Map created called 'Menu'.
Currently, this is how I check for specific button presses.
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Please explain this matrices interpolation code
int rate,frac;
sint16 *frmptr[2];
frac = GetFrames(item, frmptr, &rate);
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How would I mask the player node out of a canvas shader?
I'm making a 3D game, and I want to create a post processing effect using a canvasitem and a colorrect, that effects everything on screen apart from the player. I already have the shader itself made, ...
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Changing the scale of a character and speed to match the perspective of a 2D background while traveling along the Y axis
I am making a 2D point and click game, just for fun.
I want to create some sense of perspective, so I am trying to change the scale of the player as he travels along the Y axis. Obviously, the speed ...
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Validate structure for a room escape game
In a game like a simple adventure or a room escape game, I would like to know if there are established algorithms to check for simple constraints on the layout.
I would like some pointers so I could ...
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Twin-stick backwards tank movement
I'm creating a 3D twin-stick tank game in Godot with C#. I have created the tank movement and rotation, separate of its turret, and it seems to be working properly.
The issue: I want the body of the ...
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Using github pages as development blog
Can I use github pages for free hosting of a development blog about my game, even if:
the game itself is not hosted on github, not even in a private repository,
the blog would contain posts not ...
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Rotate Object Smoothly When Dragging
I want to make a 3d object rotate smoothly when being dragged in a ui in Unity. My stuff currently works but I just can’t get it to rotate smoothly, I can only make it rotate instantly which looks bad....
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Can a C file compiled from CGo code, be imported into Cython? [closed]
Is it possible to 'include' a C file compiled from CGo (C+Golang) code, into Cython (C+Python) ?
If not, is there any other way to access Golang API hosted on a server, from Python clients ?
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How do games package their textures in relation to image compression?
I know that you have to keep in mind what platform you're targeting, but it feels like you might have to have multiple sets of textures. Like let's say you're targeting desktop. How do I know what ...
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How to adjust resolution to display only in portrait mode for both phones and tablet devices?
I am facing an issue where I'm able to adjust the resolution for different phones like Android and iOS but not for tablet devices.
Is there any way to set it, for all kinds of devices, to display only ...
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Rotating 2D sprite around tilted Y axis
I am building a sprite that I want to spin along an axis. I am using SpriteKit on iOS for this, but I'm sure that the question is not really tool specific.
In my case, I have a sprite such as:
and I ...
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Calculation of far distance plane based on yaw and pitch for a map renderer
I'm working on a vector map renderer. I want to calculate the far plane for a protective transformation, based on the yaw, pitch, roll and height of the camera above the map. Yaw (looking to the left ...
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Change colors after drawing lines in Pangolin using OpenGL
I am drawing a bunch of lines using pangolin library. Each line has 4 vertex pairs. My goal is to give each line a different colour. Here is the code snippet I am using. In each render loop I do the ...
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FixedUpdate in Unity
I am trying to test my project for different discretization levels of a game object.
For this I use a metric to compare the dynamics of the object for different discretization (compare the positions). ...
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Enemy not responding to chained attack
I am working on a 2D mobile platformer where there will be different characters with unique skill sets. I am working on a character that should be able to perform chained attacks.
I have a button in ...
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How to achieve a blend of Top Down 2D and Isometric maps/art like in Sea of Stars?
I recently started playing Sea of Stars and what amazed me was the seamless blend of Isometric and Top Down 2D. Sometimes even in the same map. It's what I have in mind for the game I'm currently ...
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What does VSync mean on a variable refresh rate monitor?
A game which enables VSync means that the game frames get synchronized to the monitor's refresh rate (to avoid tearing).
A variable refresh rate monitor means that the monitor refresh rate gets ...
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Move UI element by a specific amount relative to current screen resolution
I want to achieve the following:
At some point in the game, the UI Image (dashed rectangle) should shift towards the right edge of the screen (black outline rectangle) up until the part of the image, ...
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Static Niagara System for fire on a torch
I'm building a Niagara System for fire and smoke that would be placed on a torch when it's lit. While smoke works just fine when it's static, when I move the camera (and so the torch itself moves too) ...
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Raycast suspension simulation rebounds car on landing
I'm expecting the car to land and engage the suspension to dampen the landing. The code I'm using currently has this effect:
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Explode image into component pixels shader
I'm currently stuck on trying to write a shader for Godot 4.x. and get it to look right.
I'd like to take an image, pixelate a bit so that particles are a bit chunky, and then explode it into ...
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Mobs in 3D tutorial "Squash the creeps" don't move
I'm following the tutorial Squash the Creeps using Godot 4.1.2 on Ubuntu 22.04. At some point, the mobs are instantiated but they are not moving. I'm sure the mob scene is called from the main scene ...
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Convert legacy OpenGL script to a newer one
I have a script drawing 3D chart, three axes and a surface. Unfortunately, it was implemented using old OpenGL approach with Begin and ...
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Why are the transform game objects moving away from the snail when they are swapping their direction?
I am making a game in which I created a character (main player) and another character(snail). Now the snail will move on the ground, when there is no ground detected it will change its direction. I ...
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Change width/height of ellipse to always be circular, independent of viewing angle
I have the following shader graph attached to a quad that draws two circles at some position.
Naturally, when viewed at an angle, the circles appear to be ellipses.
I'd like to know how to adjust ...
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Solution for session based MMO [Unreal] [closed]
Re-posting the question from UE forums, since no one responded to it :)
I have an idea for a game.
The idea is: session based MMO with battles of 5-200 players. What’s the best networking solution for ...
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Generate coastal line from water tiles
I have a 2D tiles map. Some tiles are water (black tiles on image). I can compute which tiles are coastal when it's 4 neighbors are not water (black dots on image).
I would like to compute coastal ...
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How to extract data about in-game events?
I recently started playing New World, and I thought I would like to create something like a "data collector".
It would report data like: during the session,
I fired X bullets,
type of ...
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Stuck trying to build UE for iOS on Mac
I am trying to build an AR game for iOS, using a custom build of Unreal Engine 5.1.1, on an Apple Silicon (M1 Max) Macbook Pro.
(I have to use a custom branch of UE5 because there is a problem with ...
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Batch rendering with more textures than texture slots
I'm trying to implement batch rendering for my 2d game engine, and I need to render more than 32 different textures every frame. The first thing that comes to my mind is to sort the vertices by ...
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How do I remove the gap in a Godot HBoxContainer between items?
I created a HBoxContainer and put two ViewportContainers into it.
They line up side by side, but there is a gap of a couple of pixels between them.
How do I tell Godot that I don't want any spacing/...
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Procedural NavigationPolygon for a platformer in Godot 4
I'm trying to make navigation possible for npcs in a 2D platformer.
The game generates chunks with random platforms as the player ascends, so I also need to implement the navigation procedurally.
Each ...
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Can i copy exactly same character from league of legends? [duplicate]
Lets say i will copy exactly same mechanic of a character from the game "league of legends"
or Copying puzzles from another games. But changed assets etc.
Is it illegal ?
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Units in Unity?
I have read that in Unity 1 cube of size 1x1x1 and scale 1x1x1 is representing a cube in real life of 1mx1mx1m.
Now, the only setting I find, where I can input anything related to Units is gravity, ...
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How do I change the motion reference in an animation state during runtime?
I tried this solution: https://discussions.unity.com/t/how-to-change-animation-clips-of-an-animator-state-at-runtime-is-there-a-way/183135/4
But this doesn't work if I try to use a different animation ...
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Vertex Shader Sphere Projection and CPU Distance Calculation
I have multiple planes whose vertices are transformed to a position on a sphere in the vertex shader. The GLSL function called pointToSphere transforms a point <...
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Separating Game code and Engine code
I've decided to take on a challenge of making 16 c++ games based on this challenge from FamTrinli, I'm using SDL + OpenGL. I've created a simple 2D game in the past, but I didn't like the code ...
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How can I handle voxels that require extra data in my octree?
I am using octrees as an efficient way to store voxel data in a voxel game. The details of my octree implementation can be found here, but in a nutshell, each node is 16 bits, and the most significant ...
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How to get Keyboard working with GameInput on PC in C++
I need some help here. I try this for a while now but it won't work and I can't find anything online.
I want to write my own input handling. At first I used XInput for gamepads and Win32 callbacks for ...
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Is there a way to make area affected by light completely white despite object color in Unity?
I have a 3D object that is affected with a directional light with a cookie texture (might be irrelevant). This object has a specific color lets say blue for the example. I would like the area affected ...
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Camera.main.WorldToScreenPoint does not return correct position
I have a cube in the center of my camera view, when I call Camera.main.WorldToScreenPoint(transform.position) I expect to get the same result as if I called ...
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