Questions tagged [c++]
C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language.
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C++ SDL2: How to join two windows in one: top_Window + bottom_Window?
I have a code where the camera scroll left, right, up, down, and I would like to add a progress bar similar to the one below at the bottom of my window
Is it possible to create the progress bar in a ...
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What's causing this stutter when framerate fluctuates?
I'm working on a class responsible for arm sway in an fps engine, and am having an issue with a stutter that appears to be related to fluctuating framerate. However I have also noticed it when locking ...
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is there any different solution for different buildings different behaviours [closed]
I'm trying to make different behaviours of worker for diffferent buildings let's say as agricultural he would seed and collect wheet when it's grown let's say Behaviour0
for carpentry he would get ...
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Parts of 3D model disappear during animation
I'm trying to properly play an animation done in Blender 2.8 inside my OpenGL application. When the animation is running, it happens that at some particular frames, some parts of the 3D model "...
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Does anyone know a good C++ 2D DirectX 11 video tutorial series? [closed]
I have been learning 3D DirectX 11 for a while now, but now I would like to know a good video tutorial series that focuses directly on 2D graphics.
Does anyone know where to find one (preferably on ...
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How to implement an tooltip item cache?
I'm building a tooltip item like that
I would like to keep this information cached on the client side, avoiding that whenever the information is displayed it's necessary to make a request to the ...
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Pathfinding algorithm isn't finding correct route [closed]
I am attempting an online coding challenge wherein I am to implement a pathfinding algorithm that finds the shortest path between two points on a 2D grid. The code that is submitted is tested against ...
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Rotate camera around its center in 2D
I'm currently trying to develop my own little game engine (trying to understand maths in games).
I have implemented 4x4 matrices and 2d vectors (I don't need 3d since I'm aiming at orthographic ...
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SDL_Init segfault on linux
I am using Manjaro linux and SDL 2. However, when I build the application in debug mode and use gdb or something like qtcreator with gdb, to debug it, it gives me a segfault, when the function ...
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How do I detect image clicks in Dark GDK?
I am trying to determine if an image has been clicked, using the Dark GDK game engine. I've found no methods in the engine that do this.
I would rather not brute force this with a large nested if/...
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How is tile offsetting accomplished in 2d side scrollers?
The idea is to work with tiles that together make up a larger image, or world so to speak.
but im confused as to what the methods used are to offset the tiles, and whether is a good idea to draw ...
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JoyStick::GetInfo(JoyStick::id1).dwButtonNumber always returns 0x1
I am using an XBox 360 gamepad for Windows.
I am having an issue with the following legacy code base, which relies on JOYINFOEX, ...
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How to generate a multiplier map for radiosity
I am following this tutorial: here
I am at the part where you are creating a hemicube.
I have got the code to render the scene into a texture and therfore an array.
Now how can I generate a so-called ...
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Frustum culling issue at oblique angles
I am using the following algorithm to test if my camera frustum contains an axis-aligned bounding box:
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Proper way to update pixel array data
For a game that updates a board every frame I am calculating the next arrangement of board, updating pixel array data and render board as 2D texture to quad the size of the screen using OpenGL.
I use:...
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Are closing window and destroying DirectX11.1 independent?
I have a project with DirectX support.
In this program uses two threads.
One is a dedicated message loop and the second is executing DirectX API's.
The question is about ending such program.
The ...
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How to keep same aspect ratio in different devices with cocos2dx?
I have been making a board game and I am using cocos2dx. There are two scenes for now, One is main menu and the other is gameplay scene. When I run the apk on tablet with EXACT_FIT resolution policy ...
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Unreal4, C++: Spawned actors visible after stopping, not during play
I've created a class with a function InitializeModel, that is exposed to blueprint. In this function some AStaticMeshActors should be spawned, but I cannot see them during play, I need to stop the ...
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Using quaternions to rotate an object
I started to learn quaternions and got very weak idea of how they work. So I blindly followed some tutorials on you tube on how to rotate object with glm.
I had problem with weird rotations when I ...
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What is the best way to approach a multi pass rendering system?
I am trying to code a new feature in my engine but I can't find a way to implement my idea, which is the next one. I am trying to get multi pass rendering with more than two passes.
I know how to do a ...
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Texture blends into one single color
It looks like that it's being sampled from the least detailed MIP level, at least RenderDoc sees the texture as it should be, and what the actual texture looks like is the same as MIP 9th. I'm using ...
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Radiosity lightmap generation [closed]
Is there any working C++ source code for a lightmap generation algorithm using Radiosity or any other GI system? I've found technical papers only, but I can't really find any implementation.
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OpenGL/C++ Rotate relative to shooting gun
I'm trying to make a 2D game where I have a gun that i use to shot things in the direction of the mouse resulting in an angle that I can get. I have some problems with the trajectory of the bullet ...
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How to allow infinite custom inputs?
Summary: What approach should I take to allow custom inputs saved in a file be interpreted in the engine?
So I am making a game engine similar to Mugen where I want characters to have their own ...
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Getting data from the backbuffer D3D11 using Map [duplicate]
I'm having some trouble using ID3D11DeviceContext::Map() correctly.
Here's the whole function so far:
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Switch statement efficiency in game code
Recently, I was digging into VVVVVVV's source code that was released on GitHub by Terry Cavanagh. I went into the Game.cpp file, and found that it contains an ...
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Moving a sprite along a circle given by an implicit equation
I’m trying to create a hyperbolic version of Pong in a Poincaré disk, using C++ and SFML.
Here is my problem: when the ball rebounds on a paddle, I deduce two coordinates allowing me to recover the ...
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How do I get my sprite to do a regular jump instead of jolt up?
I have been getting into game development and I have made some progress. I have come across an obstacle which is jumping I managed to get the Jumping to semi work but it doesn't look like a jump but ...
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Unreal MouseWheelAxis negative axis does not work
Would like to avoid using separate action mappings i.e. MouseWheelUp and MouseWheelDown for a system I'm developing.
I noticed <...
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How to efficiently average multiple rotations (quaternions)?
So, I'm working on an animation system in C++, and am trying to blend multiple animations together. A slerp is easy on two quaternions, but is it efficient (or accurate) to chain together for more ...
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OpenGL model not rendering properly
I have been playing with OpenGL for a while and I came into the wall that I don't know how to pass. I am trying to render a model of an object based on a .obj file. In that file I have position ...
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Attempt to fix sprite sheet pixel bleeding in OpenGL 2D causing sprite distortion
While working on a project, I encountered the common problem of pixel bleeding when trying to draw subregions of my sprite sheet. This caused sort of "seams" to appear at the edges of my ...
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Modern Compilers Inlining and Header and Implementation Practices in Game Development
I was taught that in general practice its best not to try to beat the compiler, at least until its proven to be stupid. So in general, and since I was told that its generally only used as a suggestion ...
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SDL2 Block collision with player Bug
I am currently working on a small 2D Games Engine with SDL2 for fun. The engine works in a way, that you can define a tileset, which accesses the engine and allows you to place tile by tile on the ...
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How to Sync the Location After Getting Up from Ragdoll?
I am currently working on multiplayer fighting game and my game will have an anim->ragdoll when the player is knocked out and be able to getting up from it. My problem now is ragdoll is making my ...
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SDL Texture not scaling to the renderQuad
I'm building a Space Invaders clone and using a sprite sheet for my invaders, but when I grab the texture from the sprite sheet, it doesn't scale to the renderQuad that I set.
This is the original ...
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Z-Buffer Problem
I was working on my engine and while implementing post processing a very weird bug appeared. It seems to come from the Z-Test but I can't firgure out what exactly it is hapening
First of all here's ...
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Why does my SFML game cause screen tearing on Linux? [closed]
I wrote a little game of a bouncing ball, using SFML and Box2D.
On Windows, the graphics animate smoothly. However, on my Linux machine, the animation stutters randomly. To be precise, I get a ...
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How can I calculate the future position of my moving object?
I'm relatively new to games development and I have a 2D game where the playing area is an enclosed rectangle with width w and infinite height. In the playing area there is a ball. A gravity force of ...
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Directx11 batching verticies to draw later
I have several draw functions in my renderer to draw primitives e.g.:
Drawing a Quad:
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How to render a PNG-file on the screen with SDL? [duplicate]
I'm coding a 2D platformer in using C++ and SDL2. I've started by coding the GUI, however I'm unsure how to get the menu buttons onto the screen and in the right positions.
How do I load the PNG ...
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Instancing with Directx11
I'm a total beginner with Directx/3D programming. I need help with implementing hardware instancing on Directx 11. I'm trying to render multiple cubes on the screen, to create some sort of Minecraft-...
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Switched from immediate mode to VBOs, game runs slower
trying to improve draw performance on my c++, OpenGL, SDL game. Back in school we mostly learned immediate mode, so thats how my drawing was originally implemented. When I started reading up online ...
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How to collect objects from map in blueprints
I have a plate with trigger(TriggerVolume) on it. When it overlapped cubes from map deleting. I've manually created references on cubes in blueprint to delete them but it seems very hard-coded. Is ...
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Why is my call to SetDisplayMode not supported?
I have some legacy DirectX code that always returns DDERR_UNSUPPORTED.
I originally developed the code using DirectX3, and I am porting it to DirectX7 after ...
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Unable to create Shader Object for Geometry Shader (GL_GEOMETRY_SHADER)
I am just starting with OpenGL using c++ on Ubuntu 18.04. The problem I have is that when I try to link Geometry Shader in my main program, the following function call is unable to create an object (...
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Instantiating GameObjects in Custom Game Engine
So,i'm having a bit of an issue with instantiating my gameobjects into to universe(My Scene object).
I can create an empty object from scratch and populate it from there with ease,my problem starts ...
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Smooth out movement of the snake in a 2d Snake game
I am working on a 2-D snake game in C++ with the SFML library. I would like to smooth out the movement of my snake as it looks extremely choppy currently.
How the Snake moves
The snake is made up of a ...
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What type does one cast the result of “get_function_address” to in order to call the function within a C++ DLL?
According to the game maker documentation for dll manipulation:
get_function_address('function_name')
Returns the address of a GameMaker function. This can be passed to
DLL's so the can call ...
