Questions tagged [mathematics]
Mathematics questions deal with the arithmetic, geometry, calculus, formulae and other calculations used in the development of a game.
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How do I calculate to and from a Non-Linear Acceleration?
I am looking at non-linear accelerations using the following values:
initial_acceleration
time_to_max_velocity
max_velocity
current_velocity
Initial_acceleration is the per frame acceleration we ...
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Isometric tiles on wrong positions if the mouse points at a negative world coordinate
I am using this approach:
http://clintbellanger.net/articles/isometric_math/
Basically, you can calculate the iso coordinates based on the screen coordinates.
What I am doing is, getting the actual ...
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Find projectile initial velocity, and air time, given projectile elevation, distance, angle
I have a target X position (D). I have a turret Y elevation (E). Turret is always pointed at 45 degrees (A). I need to calculate the initial projectile velocity required to hit the target, with an ...
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How to rotate velocity Vector3 to always point the same direction so that it can be applied to 2d blendtree?
Given two variables, a Vector3 representing body velocity and a Quaternion representing body's local rotation, how could I normalize the velocity vector so that it's always oriented towards the ...
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Getting angle from current position and next position
I am using pathfinding to move a train along rails, but I need the train to rotate. I have the next intended position and the current position at my disposal, how would I go about this? Pseudocode ...
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How to make good combinations of xp tables and xp rewards?
Is there a known step by step (automatable) to define mean xp reward formula/table to bases specific challenges rewards (generically, not only defeating enemies) and total xp table that set character ...
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How to make a dynamic frontline system for my game?
My problem:
Basically the units, units meaning soldiers or vehicles, influence the frontline by moving into the opponents territory (See example image).
I'm trying to understand where to even start ...
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Why does this order of Quaternion multiplication not introduce roll into my fps-style character controller?
I'm working on an OpenGL based project (in C#), employing Quaternions to rotate my camera I first tried to:
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C++ Help with Separating Axis Theorem
I am trying to detect collision between two triangles using Separating Axis Theorem however I am unaware what is wrong with my code. The CollisionHelper::isTriangleIntersectingTriangle is called every ...
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Using enemy, player and gun position can player shoot enemy?
I was asked this question in an interview last week and I've been thinking about it but I'm unsure how to solve it.
You are on a spaceship and want to shoot the enemy space ship. You have the enemy ...
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Formula to calculate Level and Current Experience from Total Xp [duplicate]
So I'm building a mobile game where I have simple XP progression system that goes like this:
Level1: 0-399 Total XP
Level2: 400-1199 Total XP
Level3: 1200-2399 Total XP
So basically for the first ...
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Upside down ground correction?
How would you go about making ground correction for a platformer but upside down(reversed gravity)? I used this formula: P.Y+=(P.Y-2)%8-1 but the character just ...
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Formula for displacement in a straight-line racing animation
I am making an animation of a race on a straight-line track (e.g. 100Ā m sprint, horse race, etc.). The results of the race are known in advance; all I need to do is animate the race. I am trying to ...
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How to check if two normals/directions “look at” each other?
I need to flip polygons in my application. How do I determine if two vectors face each other, like in the second image below? Note that the origin of the vectors is also important, in addition to the ...
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Getting points inside a circle with a given radius in a 2D array?
Let's say you have a system that removes everything within a square made up of 4 position points. This square is calculated by taking the center point and adding or subtracting the range from this ...
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Math: determining a proper procedural vector for sine-movement
My Problem
Suppose you have an object moving along the x-axis, wobbling up and down. Movement code might look like this:
x += 1;
y = Sin(x);
Move((x,y) * speed);
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How to predict where the soccer ball should be intercepted by an AI player after being kicked?
This question has been asked many times before, but most of the answers give solution to the problem where ball (target) is assumed to be moving at a constant velocity.
In my scenario, I'm making a ...
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Calculate the starting position of a turning aircraft with inertial force to make it stop at desired position and heading
Continued from the answer here, I have some problem when the aircraft in my game has inertial forces after going forward and turning itself. To illustrate, from the following image (https://imgur.com/...
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Calculate the aircraft's movement path in which its side speed is required
I am working on an implementation problem in which given an aircraft and the objective of the system is to find the quickest route (optimal in terms of time) from point A (contains the information of ...
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Godot - Offscreen Target Indicator
I have a crosshair image that will lock onto enemies that are visible in the camera and will stay on the edge of the screen when the enemy is offscreen. This works until you face more than 90Āŗ away ...
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Rotate Object in world space - Raytracing
Iām programming a C raytracing project.
Iāve been wanting to implement object rotations (square, cylinder) for several days but I canāt do it.
For each object I have its position (x, y, z) in the ...
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Damage-calculating formula for turn-based RPG with a twist: I have developed a formula, do you the experts think it will scale up successfully?
Iām developing a turn-based combat system for an RPG. Itās a little different to your standard RPG though. The idea being, the faster the player solves the problem they are presented with each time it'...
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Getting the edge-cells in a list of cells on a 2d grid, and knowing which neighbor is missing
I create a "circle" on my 2d-grid using this code:
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Diamond shaped map: converting tile number to coordinates and back
I have a diamond shaped map that is displayed as follows:
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LibGDX Efficient way to reduce a vector's value gradually until it reaches 0,0
I can manage to achieve this but the code seems to be much longer than it should be. Velocity is given an initial value, either positive or negative and then is ...
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My arcball camera does a roll when it shouldnt be
I am trying to build an arcball camera and it's mostly working, the problem is that as you rotate around the object you have selected (orbit_target_pos in the code),...
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Trying to 'stamp' an arbitrary assortment of pixels to a texture2d that may be rotated at an arbitrary angle
This one is hard to explain but I'll try to not to overcomplicate it. Engine is Unity, for reference.
I have a system where an object has a 2d texture to display a custom splat map. The user can '...
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Clamp quaternion relative to plane normal
How would one be able to clamp a quaternion based on the angle relative to a plane surface (defined by a normal)?
My diagram below provides more of a visual explanation of exactly what I am talking ...
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Rotate quaternion around plane normal
How can one rotate a quaternion so that the rotation is around a plane normal?
A graphic/diagram I made below gives more detail about what exactly I am implying. Note that the tip of the quaternions ...
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(Unity3D) Determine If Ray Intersects Given Rectangle
I'm building a city generator for my game and I want to ensure buildings are never placed in such a way that they overlap roads. Currently I have the system build the roads, then place buildings ...
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Need Help Figuring Out Damage Calculations for Diablo RPG Clone
I'm building a Diablo clone using Unreal Engine 4 and have been having trouble wrapping my head around how the combat calculations should work. I copied a lot of the core stats from the original ...
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tilemap movement bounderies
My active tilemap surface is 5x5 tiles, and I try to limit the player's movement inside this area with the following code:
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Advice for a table top rpg with rpg systems
English isn't my first language so sorry in advanced for odd wording.
Idk if this is the right type of form but,I would like to make a game much Like D&D.
With that said basic attacks seem to ...
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Spawning objects inside rectangle JS
I'm making a JS game "Monopoly", where I spawning players in random position inside a rectangle. I need a formula that spawns circles INSIDE a rectangle, without being outside.
Here what I have tried:...
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Is it possible to work out rotate in degrees per second based on this rotate logic?
I have this code to rotate an object towards another at a given speed.
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Intersection of ray and non-axis-aligned box
I need to compute the intersection of a ray with a non-axis aligned box. Currently, I transform the ray into the local space of the box, do classic ray-AABB intersection and transform the intersection ...
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2d navigation for physics-based car
i'm making a game, one npc is a car with spear in head, he try to hit the enemy (yellow pot in image) with the spear point.
here is the promble ,the car is physics-based , it has veloctiy ,max ...
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Check if point is inside convex hull
I first tried with a simple axis aligned bounding box to test my algorithm (later shape will be different but always convex 6 faces), but even this case did not work, it always tells me that the point ...
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Octagon border algorithm
I'm working on an open source game for 2 years but I'm very bad at math. The game permits moving a character on an octagonal basis. When the character reaches the border coordinate (colored in yellow),...
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how to track point on object with rotation
I'm working on a top down shooter in C++ and need to have a fire point on the player and npc's so that when they rotate bullets come out of the fire point and not the actual position
here's what i ...
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How to get x in radius percentage value?
How to find the percentage value from A to B when I know the X value in between these two points?
I created this picture to kind of illustrate what I mean better.
I wrote this function which gets ...
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Player losing alignment with tilemap after moving
I'm using an isometric tilemap(2:1) and I can't figure out how to make grid based movement on it's surface. I managed to get a code working for the grid based movement, moving my character with 0.5 ...
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Unity difficulty placing text within the reference resolution of the canvas
I have a TextMeshPro GameObject, which I placed within the Canvas. The canvas is set to Scale with Screen Size and has a reference resolution of 1440x1080.
The ...
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How to keep the object rotation while using RotateAround in Unity?
I've got an object that has a comet-like sprite rotating around it. I'm using this code in LateUpdate() to make it rotate and keep the comet's tail at the right ...
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How to make 2D particle explosion
So as in the title I want to know how I accomplish an explosion effect with particles. So far I am able to generate particles in a random position and they just fade out. What do I need to make the ...
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Idle game: calculating resource generation/consumption
I'm making an idle game in the vein of Melvor Idle and I've run into a problem calculating the yield and consumption of resources while the user is away. For those who don't know, many idle games have ...
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Mathematical equation for CHOMP AI?
Players take turns in taking a rectangular bite out of the bottom right corner of the bar, by shading a square, tighter with all the squares below and/ or to the right it. The top left-hand square is ...
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Function to draw an image inside a rectangle
How can I draw an image inside a rectangle?
I am introducing myself in the manipulation of images for games, I have a window and inside there is a rectangle that deforms. I would like to fill the ...
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How to scale smaller values more
Hello it seems like it should be easy and i am missing something but i really couldn't find a solution as i am fairly new to programming.
So basically i want to rotate a object faster when its closer ...
