Questions tagged [camera]
Game worlds are viewed from a camera, which is the viewpoint from which the game world is observed from.
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How to get world coordinates from a 4X4 camera matrix
I have Intel T265 camera which has a camera coordinates system like following diagram:
The camera system has two cameras and the center of the two cameras is the position of the camera system.
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Camera doesnt track player properly on different resolution
Hello i have 2d mobile game where camera follow players car, on my mobile phone with resolution 2960x1440 everything works fine but when i start the game on tablet with resolution 2160x1620
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Unity Light Bug
I saw this while testing my game.
I have a light situated behind the Main Camera.
All is working perfect, until I get a Game Over, and changes to the Game Over scene. From then, all lights have no ...
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Creating a custom camera in Godot
Allow me to start with what I'm trying to achieve - there might be an easier way to do this and I'm just overcomplicating things.
I'm trying to implement a camera, that will be able to rotate around a ...
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Rotating around pivot so target is 25% away from top of screen
I have a camera which rotates around a pivot (green dot) that is always a constant X units away from that pivot. I want to find the pitch to rotate around that green dot so that the target (red square)...
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Drawing OpenGL camera frustum
I am trying to display camera frustum in my OpenGL application. I calculate the vertices of the frustum pyramid using reverse projection from screen space to world space. The camera uses perspective ...
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Why are clipping planes… plane?
A frustum is used to clip geometry, deciding which parts of it are visible. It seems that most cameras use a frustum shaped as a pyramid segment, i.e. a box between two rects of equal alignment on ...
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How to add level-by-level game camera following in 2D java game?
I've been working on my first game recently, and I've built a player tracking camera that works great, but my goal for the game would be to have a camera that is fixed for each area that the player ...
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How do I make 2D Camera Matrix with zoom?
I trying to understand how to make a 2D Camera Matrix. The problem now is when I zoom the world shifts horizontally.
The Camera need to zoom on the current Position.
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How to dynamically create unique layerMasks and assign it to the player
My goal here is that each player that joins the game will get a unique layer for their player, that way I can set the first person camera's culling mask to only exclude their own body from rendering, ...
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Having issues with 3rd-person Camera Raycasting / Local<->World Space / Clipping
I would like my camera to inherit the player in the hierarchy, and get closer when there is a wall or floor between the player and the camera.
Right now I am trying to raycast from the player to the ...
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How to ensure that a randomly-generated velocity vector moves the camera forward within a valid arc?
I spawn a camera in a scene using random coordinates for x and y and setting z=0 and orient ...
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limit orthogonal camera movement to the positive axis(x,z)
What I'm trying to achieve is limiting the orthogonal camera movement to the positive axis(x,z) , so the camera clamp/stop moving to the negative axis.
The problem is I can' find any property or ...
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position locking and smooth lerping side scroller camera follows the player with jittering delay
I've seen this question:
How to smoothly move camera when the player is climbing a diagonal staircase in 2D tile-based side-scroller?
And here's my code:
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How to enable anti-aliasing when camera zoom in libgdx
I develop a game where I draw some textures on the screen and want to zoom in and out the scene. I am using OrthographicCamera and when I zoom in, the textures ...
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Godot label Attached to 3D object gets larger when moving away from the object
I have a scene that consists of a CSGBox and a Label as a child of it.
In the script for the ...
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Orthogonal Camera Clip/Hide part of 3D model
How to prevent the Camera from Clipping/Hiding part of the 3D Model/Object?
I tried playing around with ...
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How to make a custom 3d view cone that mixes orthographic and perspective cameras
I'm trying to make a camera that displays objects the same height no matter the distance, but still changes width relative to distance. Similar to having an orthographic view vertically and a ...
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LibGDX getting model roll
I'm working on a 3d game in LibGDX, got help on here with my model rotation. Worked great. But now I'm dealing with the model's roll, and it's not behaving as expected. It's controlled by:
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Calculating size and position of Tilemap for camera bounds
I'm new to Unity and I'm following a series of tutorials covering off building a 2D Zelda-like game. I'm at a stage where I have two Tilemaps side by side and I'm working on a transition between them, ...
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LibGDX setToRotation canceling out position
I'm working on a 3d project in Libgdx. I've got a camera flying around in 3d space, being controlled with touch. Works great, moves forward and backward, strafes, full 360 look around with no gimbal ...
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About the cameras in the original Metal Gear Solid for PSX [closed]
Since I first played MGS on the PSX I have been wondering about this.
To my understanding, MGS loads the geometry of the 'room' where you are and lets you move through it by using semi-fixed cameras ...
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how to center 3d camera vertically and horizontally
How to center the player/camera in the middle of the window/screen , to mimic a 2.5d camera, ...
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Show Camera Inside Object Bounds
I'm making a mobile game, and I want have secondary camera that shows another part of the scene within a box. I'm able to do this easily enough by setting the camera's viewport settings, but the issue ...
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How to set camera coordinates without making a Camera class?
Recently, I have been making a 3D game (and asking alot of questions about it), and yet again, I've run into another problem.
I'm trying to rotate a cube across the "camera" origin, which is ...
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How to make sound fx follow the player?
Here is the setup:
> KinematicBody2D (Player)
- > Camera2D
- > Node2D (SoundFX)
- - > Timer (1 sec)
- - > AudioStreamPlayer2D (Beep)
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Get direction vector of camera in voxel game
I am currently working on a Minecraft clone (a voxel game). The feature I'm working on is the ability to break blocks. I have a ray-casting/ray tracing algorithm for traversing the voxels, but the ...
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Godot Camera shake without target
I'm working with godot 3.2 to make this screen shake, but my issue is that i don't have a target, like in the example, in the example code, it's a kinematic body that is being followed by the camera, ...
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How can I limit the y-rotation of a cinemachine POV camera based on the player's direction?
I'm using Unity (2019.4.11.f1, HDRP).
My goal is to create a first-person POV camera.
To this purpose, I tied a Cinemachine (2.7.3) Virtual Camera to the head of a third person player character (one ...
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How to handle player slowness while moving up and down in a Top Down game with angled ortho camera and angled sprite due to stretching of ground?
So i'm making a 2D top down game setup in 3D using tilted Sprites and angled orthographic camera.
My camera setup is as shown.
In my game I have the floor flat on the X/Z plane with walls/characters ...
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How can I set up a 3D camera for a top-down game like Enter the Gungeon?
DodgeRollGames, the developers of Enter the Gungeon, tweeted that the game was in fact made in 3D
They tried to explain how they set their camera in this reddit post.
Basically what they said was :
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Free movement in a 3D isometric world
I'm currently experimenting with movement in a isometric perspective world and i'm thinking about how the movement should work. The movement can be either by WASD or gamepad.
Since the player can ...
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Retain Position and Scale Values of Render Texture Canvas Elements to another Canvas
Now the title might not be able to express the entirety of the question but here's my problem. In my main scene I have a camera and a canvas in overlay mode, let's call this "View A". In ...
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How does time-dependent camera rotation with a mouse work?
The commonly used equation for camera rotation with a mouse does not involve time. This make sense since higher frame rates have smaller changes in mouse position and vise-versa so it all evens out. ...
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Masking cameras for Voronoi splitscreen
I would like to mask a camera to only render to a certain (non-square) region of the screen, to be used as an overlay, for splitscreen, or any other application.
The goal is obviously to prevent any ...
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SpriteKit prevent camera going out of bounds
I've been working on a Mario Bros clone for the first level, trying to learn how to make games with SpriteKit
I'm trying to use an ...
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Is it possible to record video, depth map and 6D pose of any games?
I'm not a game developer, but a researcher working on improving video quality in various contexts. For my current problem, I need to collect videos which have both RGB data as well as depth data. ...
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Handling real projectiles with different FOVs on a first person shooter camera stack
I'm prototyping out a First Person Shooter and I'll admit I have little work experience in the genre (though I've played many of them). I'm using a traditional weapon camera stack in which the main ...
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How can I hide the camera gizmo in Unity?
How can I hide the camera gizmo in Unity?
As said here I tried to use the gismos menu in the top of my Scene view. But it does not work. Why?
Also, I tried saving my scene and project after the gizmo ...
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How to convert screen space to world space?
I have a shader that should do raymarching.
But I have problems converting the fragment's position to a worldspace coordinate.
This is my vertex shader:
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What is the proper way to create a camera matrix?
I am having issues when trying to create a camera transform. It seems to have odd distortions and it does not seem to rotate properly, though it will translate alright. While I have seen issues like ...
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Render texture seems to ignore camera background type
I'm currently trying to pull a fog of war for an rts game, and planned it like this. (Unity 2020.2.7, URP 10.3.1)
Use units field of view to generate a texture of what is seen (alpha 0).
Create other ...
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Lerp performance for camera movement
In my current script responsible for camera movement, I use Mathf.Lerp to smoothly move the camera to the desired position (with WASD movement, panning with MMB, ...
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Correct way to set up camera buffer [DirectX]
I would like to play with two different implementation of particle system in my project (ok, actually not mine, but I am working on it).
I copied the particle system successfully, however, faced the ...
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Press and hold camera movement with mouse in new Input System?
I am transitioning to the new movement system and am having trouble figuring out how to move the camera when a mouse button is pressed and held.
Here's how I did it before:
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How to apply Time.timeScale only to certain scripts?
I have a need to pause my game and the simplest and most clean way that I know of (other than completely designing my own time system) is by using ...
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LibGDX TiledMap Rendering
For the life of me I cannot figure out why these lines keep appearing on my rendered tiled map. Every time I resize my libgdx window, the tiled map creates lines all across the screen.
I have adjusted ...
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Terrain does not show up in distance in play mode, but does in editor
I'm trying to make a big landscape with high mountains but the terrain doesn't show in the distance in play mode.
Which settings should I change, or what can I do?
My terrain is divided in many pieces ...
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Camera field of view for far objects
Dears,
I am building a flight simulator game with third person camera. I facing a problem that when I go high with the plane, objects, land and farms didn't look very far.
I tried to change the field ...
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Main Camera re-sizing in 2d
My UI :
An UI from YouTube video :
Look my camera's size is 10 and his camera's size is only 5. But, my camera's width is larger than height. If you look at scale (x,y,z)=(1,1,1). I tried to change ...
