Questions tagged [3d]
3D refers to three dimensional space where coordinates are represented with X, Y and Z values.
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How to get started in real time 3D? [on hold]
I'm a 2D UI designer and want to start creating real time rendered 3D user interfaces. I've downloaded Unreal and Unity but am a bit stymied with how to make the transition into the programming ...
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Is it possible to generate a 2D surface that approaches certain mesh, and then a specialised ray-tracing function for it?
As an example, suppose we are trying to ray-trace a sphere. There are two options. The first one is to build a mesh of triangles approximating the sphere and ray trace it. Unfortunately, the more ...
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Hexagonal Prisms [on hold]
Probably many know how to make a world with cubes like in minecraft, but maybe some can explain how to do the same or better with hexagonal prisms!?
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most compact way to represent dice face translations rolling in cardinal directions
I'm making a 2-D dice rolling game in BASIC (think mechanics similar to Devil Dice on the Playstation, but top-down 2D graphics). I'm trying to accurately represent the transitions of a die when ...
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Interpreting focal length in units of pixels
I am working on a renderer of sorts and I have some fundamental questions. Let's say I have a vector in a 3D virtual world space which is unitless, and I want to project it onto a 2D screen, so I need ...
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How can I prevent the balls from merging? [duplicate]
In my game mutiple balls are overlap/merge into one ball.please tell me solution of this problem.
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Godot: Possible to create a 2D tilemap and set it as a texture for a 3D surface?
If I created tilemap of some sort of pattern or image and wanted to set it as the texture of a 3d surface or 3d model, how would I do it?
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Scrolling in 3d Shmup with 32Bit era effects
How can I create a scrolling effect like in Ikaruga, where the background is on Rails and the foreground is fixed with the player in Unity?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6d0PkEPKSk
Some more ...
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OBB vs Frustrum collision detection
Some definitions:
An oriented bounding box (OBB) is a rectangular block which can be represented in many ways, as a collection of eight vertices, a collection of six planes or others, for this ...
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unity input controls
so im going through the roll a ball tutorial for unity and ive gotten though setting up all the controls to allow my ball character to move around the space ive built. but the tutorial says nothing ...
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LWJGL Java 3D Collision
I am trying to make a 3D FPS in java, but I am having a hard time with the collision. I tried multiple methods but none of them worked. The code is based on ThinMatrix's 3D engine.
I want something ...
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Find if one player is visible to the other
Two players (p1 and p2) are standing in a 3D space, represented by points (x1, y1, z1) and (x2, y2, z2). Player 2 is holding a light source, pointing in the direction given by a normalised vector (xn, ...
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Convert bones by bone matrix
I have a 3d-models from old game.
They have the following structure:
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Polygons depth sorting in Z-buffer
Why is it that the Z-buffer algorithm does not require polygons to be depth sorted to function correctly?
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Unity: Creating Word Search highlighting
For days I am struggling to implement the highlighting functionality in game as there is not much tutorial also for this. I did how ever make the cell of the grid change the material color but it ...
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Game assets are images or 3D models
I am new to game development and I have created simple games with javascript and SFML. Those games are 2D and there I used images as my gaming assets. I was trying to be familiar with OpenGL like 3D ...
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Unity3D C# Drag object smoothly on it's x axis that's already bouncing
In my scene, I have a bouncing ball that collides with a cube. On each collision the ball returns to the same height. How can I get the ball to smoothly move along the x-axis by dragging my finger ...
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Why does the head of my ragdoll act like its about to fly off its shoulders?
The problem can be seen here: https://gfycat.com/LimpingMerryGermanshorthairedpointer
Ive created my ragdolls by using the Unity ragdoll creator tool.
To begin with, all the limbs of my ragdoll ...
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how do i make this infinite in unity 3d
I am making a game where you wander around a world collecting things. I don't need it to have terrain. I just need to repeat this area a bunch of times as the player moves around. I got a script ...
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How to make backgrounds for 3D games? [closed]
I've started to study game design and I couldn't really find an answer for this one. Let's imagine a small level with a nice (non passable) background in the distance. The background has mountains, ...
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Problems when rotating object to animate in Unity
I am trying to create some animations for a car model in Unity and I have a problem with the rotation of the wheels
https://imgur.com/a/HcWxyob
Here I can set the rotation properly as the pivot ...
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UE4 how to make smooth transisions for surfaces
Looked for hours now. I'm looking for a way to make a smooth transisions for different surfaces. Like I want to make a minigolf course with things like downslopes but I don't want a hard edge for the ...
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3D affine transformation (rotation) mimicking Mode 7, Java 2D
I watched videos of games using mode 7 like Outrun or Space Harrier and I want to make a game which imitates this classic graphic.
I was inspired by Notch's Prelude Of The Chambered too.
After ...
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How do 3d game engines draw this pattern?
I am doing a small project, where there is a 3d engine, however I do not know how to draw something if it is like the image below. Usually I would draw from farthest back to closest. But here there is ...
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Logic at a low framerate with interpolated rendering at higher framerate
It takes too much processing power to do game logic on every rendered frame (60fps), so what if I made my game save frames?
It would actually calculate important stuff 20 times a second, and the ...
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Adding force to a 3d object in a 2d scene
I have a 3d game object placed in a 2d scene (top-down view) in Unity. I want to add force to the object to move it in the direction it's facing. I attached a RigidBody2D component to it and when I ...
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How can I make 3D games in 4K that are a few megabytes?
I would like to make 3D games in 4K that are a few Megabytes (MB) in download size.
Is there a way to use 3D Vector Graphics in games to reduce the file size ?
Or is there any other way to achieve ...
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3D Perspective issues
My team is currently developing a 3D Sidescroller game and we encountered some issues regarding the whole in-game perspective of the levels.
The levels are composed of 3D modeled corridors which are ...
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First Person Shooter Character in Unity - Meshes Clipping When Close to Body?
I am working on a game character using Unity. I'd like it to be playable in 3rd Person and 1st Person depending on what the user chooses (switchable in game whenever ideally).
I've worked on and read ...
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How do I determine distance of a point within a ProBuilder mesh?
As in the title, I have an effect prepped for my game which applies certain derived parameters to a post-processing effect after the player enters a boundary I created with ProBuilder. Finding how far ...
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Draw text in OpenGL ES 3D game?
I am making a game using OpenGL ES 1.0 and I want to keep player score. So I need to draw text dinamically. What is the best approach? Some library, textures, bitmaps?
I tried to use TextView but ...
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Does it make sense for a view matrix to have a scale?
When building a view matrix from an SRT matrix multiply, examples (here and here) only ever compose it with a R and T. Does it make sense to have the S component be anything other than the identity? ...
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Unity3D Hinge Joint Ropes Unstable
I need to create several ropes to go on the head of a mop, which can be picked up and moved around as a physics object by the player. I've tried composing each thread out of several capsules connected ...
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Efficiently drawing a batch of meshes?
I was playing around with some isometric ideas, I want to create fairly large maps with a couple of Z levels, much like the older X-com games. I figured I am probably way better off to draw the quads ...
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Adding large 3d models into Unity
I have a 3d model of a restraunt with several characters in it probably over a hundred objects. Whenever I try to import it into Unity Unity just loads forever until I force close it. How do you ...
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In a game such as Star Wars Galaxies, Planetside, and Warcraft how would server-side collision/terrain navigation work?
I'm trying to learn some advanced topics in multiplayer networking for fun and education, specifically how server-side collision/terrain navigation works in MMOs and/or any online game.
Personally, I ...
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How do you find the collision between 3D boxes and 3D QUAD face meshes?
I have an axis aligned bounding boxes for 3D object collision, but I have a complex 3d mesh that's divided into 3d faces so I want to check for bounding boxes and collision with the faces of that ...
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2D and 3D Tablet Games Definition
I would like some clarifications how to distinguish between a 2D and 3D mobile game, as mobile devices do not really have 3D screens.
i) Do 3D iOS or android games really exist or are they 2D tablet/...
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How Can I Fix Spawning The Tiles?
I am making a 3D infinite runner game in Unity in C#. When the player has reached the end of the tile it should spawn another tile and then delete the previous tile. When the player reached the end of ...
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How to implement the seek steering behavior in Unity3d?
Following this tutorial: Understanding Steering Behaviors: Seek, I tried to add seek and steering behavior to my Unity prototype but it's not working this is my script. The cube does not steer it just ...
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Using 3D models in an 2D Game in libGDX
In my libGDX 2D RPG-Game (like Zelda or something) I want to display some items as 3D-Objects. Since I'm using an OrthographicCamera like this:
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Transforming a 2D Grid in 3D Space
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to implement a 2D Grid in a simple 3D Editor. Here are some debug-rays I already implemented:
Everything is working as intended as long as the object is not rotated.
For ...
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Using PyOpenGL, can I rotate raw data rather than the current matrix?
I'm trying to create a sort of PyOpenGL renderer for the Bullet physics engine, and at the moment I'm rotating my basic cubes with math in Python. However, if I do the math in Python that's going to ...
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How to include car spinout in vehicle physics?
I would like to know how I can go about implementing car spinout in games. I heard that spinout is caused by loss of traction in the rear wheels of the car but I don't know how it relates to velocity ...
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libGDX 3D texture is stretched
I'm working on a 3D maze game using libGDX. I'm using MeshBuilder to render the walls. All walls are a single part made using a ModelBuilder in the create():
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Weird object's behavior
I have created a character. It is a zombie that I design.
I have this code for the zombie to follow my character controller:
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How do I find the texture origin using UV data?
I am writing a map decompiler for the video game Tron 2.0 and its map editor, DEdit. DEdit requires a set of three vectors in order to correctly map textures to each model. The vectors are what I ...
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How to implement weighted blended order independent transparency in OpenGL?
I want to implement weighted blended OIT in my C++ OpenGL 3D game, but I didn't find any C++ examples about weighted blended order independent transparency.
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How to clear accumTexture(...
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How to implement floating behavior on player character
Lets say I have a body of water with the level of the water at each frame, with waves that basicly go up and down. How would you implement the computation of the velocity to keep the object/npc/player ...
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How to find volume of convex 3D shape
I'm not sure what can be said that isn't in the title.
The gist of it, is that I have a convex mesh delimited by polygons (can have more than 3 sides), and I want to find it's volume. Is there an ...
