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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Dividing amount of exp between rank A and B into a curve?
In my game I have a rank system. You start at rank A, and then you can level from level 1 to level 10. When you reach level 10, you get promoted to rank B, and you go from level 1 to 10 again, and ...
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Unity3d - Tile-based "Slippy" map rendered on a sphere (earth)
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I'm creating a spherical version of a slippy map using osm tiles and my luck has been limited thus far. I'm starting to think my strategy has lead me astray and that I need to start from ...
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Snap joystick value to minimum magnitude when it falls below
I got a joystick displayed in the image below with range -1 to 1.
Green area is 80% of the total circle and yellow area is 20%.
I want to get corrected values for both areas. For example:
If given ...
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How do I calculate a matrix to render a mirror about a plane using GLM?
I've been trying to work out how to render a mirror for a while now, but a lot of resources I find either use very outdated tools I'm not familiar with, appear to be college slides referencing other ...
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How do you come up with formula, balancing and state management? [closed]
Let's look at a game with lots of stats and modifiers:
If you are starving, you move slower;
If you are inspired, you do more ...
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Math formula for: the higher the stress, the higher the difficulty
My game has a stat called Stress, and the player has some missions to do. Each mission has a computed stat called Difficulty ...
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Compass objective indicator points towards wrong direction
I have a compass that is pointing towards player forward direction.
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Quaternions distorting object in Metal
I've been trying to get rotations with quaternions to work for a while now, and I feel I am very close to it actually working but I just can't get it to work.
I do not have a view matrix yet and am ...
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Find the smallest angle to turn between two angles in range 0..1
I have a function for approaching a value to a target by a certain amount:
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What kind of math is used by this camera panning script?
I'm not fluent in English so I apologize in advance. I have found a source code in order to pan camera by touch - here it is:
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Dynamic circular motion increases in energy
I am experimenting with designs for physics engines for which I use particles and fields like magnet fields. In magnet fields you have a thing called Lorentz force ...
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Isometric projection, calculate camera angle for specific tile height
I'm experimenting with different tile dimensions while rendering 3D assets for an isometric game (or dimetric to be exact). Everyone does a 2:1 ratio so the tiles in isometric view are 256wx128h, ...
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What would be the effect of making Wealth a diminishing-returns variable?
I've been playing a bunch of Fallen London lately, and I find it interesting how they do "pyramid qualities": Achieving level X in something requires +X points.. 1 for level 1, 2 more for ...
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Find those points lying on a circle from a ton of points
Given a 2d scene and 10,000 players with coordinates in the scene, I want to implement a function, the input is a circle with the center coords and its radius, the output is those players that lie on ...
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How to compute an incremental movement: \$f(t+h)-f(t)\$ or \$f(t)-f(t-h)\$?
For the sake of getting precise position, I think I need you to clarify whether or not the tutorial calculation is incorrect and my calculation is correct.
Assume we want to move an Actor up and down ...
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Formula for stacking percentages to keep them from getting out of control
I have a game that has a mechanic, where a specific class can stack what are called "life stealing enchantments" to steal greater amounts of health from the enemy depending on the type of ...
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Could you explain how this GameObject rotating around another GameObject works?
I'm just learning Unity and I follow a tutorial for a simple game which I want to build up from.
I'm already mostly done with the course and at the end a "boss enemy" gets implemented.
Its ...
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Calculating child world translation, rotation and scale
I'd like to know if it's possible to calculate a child's world translation, rotation and scale individually. I'm used to seeing devs resorting to matrix multiplication and then decomposition, like so:
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How do I predict where a player will be next in Forge/MCP?
I am trying to predict where a player will be next based on where they are now in Java. I have their XYZ position, their XYZ motion, but I don't have their speed. How can I predict where they will be ...
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Java Simple 2D Grid Pathfinding
I want to code some basic pathfinding for my bot in Java. Below is a 2D grid representation of the 3D world. 0s being the places you can go, and 1s being the places that you cannot go.
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How to find player movement speed in Forge/MCP?
I want to predict where a player will be next based on where they are now. I have access to their XYZ, their motion in each direction, but I don't know how fast they are moving. Let's say that the ...
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How to gradually interpolate smoothly between two yaw rotations in Minecraft MCP/Forge?
I am coding a custom client for Minecraft using MCP. (Please no hate, I'm not making a hacked client!) I have two variables currentYaw which is the current yaw ...
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How to find Particle Position at Time with velocity and friction?
I have a Particle p.
A particle consists of a start position p0,an age t, a velocity ...
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Arranging points in a 2D grid so that successively added points approximate a square shape
So, I ran into a problem with placing points in a grid while always trying to fit them into a square. Here are some examples (the numbers represent the order of placement):
Placing 1 point:
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Unity: how to make a kinematic rigidbody react to a rigidbody hitting it?
How do I make a non-kinematic rigidbody react to a "normal" rigidbody colliding with it in Unity? Like when the rigidbody hits the non-kinematic one, it pushes it back (note: not using the ...
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using a starting and ending point, how can i find how far in-between those two points a third point is?
quick diagram to explain what i mean. i have a start and an end, the third point can be anywhere in space, but i need to calculate from 0-1 how far they are in-between these two points.
The points are ...
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How to get the up direction given a point and rotation
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I'm asking for the direction of the up vector of an entity that can rotate in JavaScript that has a x, y, and ...
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How to tile a texture
I'm creating a simple program in C# and now i'm trying to slice an image into multiple tiles similar to a grid pattern so it does not get stretched when drawing to different resolutions.
What i'm ...
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2d zooming function using transformation matrix
I'm trying to create a sort of "graphing calculator coordinate system" where you can zoom into a point by scrolling with the mouse wheel. I'm using javafx's transformation matrices (Affines) ...
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How to calculate speed of a moving object in unity
Currently I am trying to calculate the speed of an object here is the below code snippet:
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How to find the center of mass from CapsuleCast in unity
Is there an easy way to find the center of mass from a CapsuleCast, or should I find the geometric center of it?
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How to implement texture slicing
I'm making a simple game in C# and i'm trying to slice my UI images into 9 smaller rectangles, so the image doesn't get stretched when drawing to different resolutions, but i'm having lots of problems ...
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Orthographic camera clip the model when Panned with mouse
I am dragging the camera (point Of View) of scene. I am using orthographic projection
Problem I am facing is suppose the camera is not rotated then I can drag the camera and it is working fine , But ...
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Approximate doom/heretic-style freelook distortion with modern graphics APIs
Currently working on a doom-like engine with fewer technical limitations, and looking into rendering techniques. I'm aware doom's a raycaster, and I want to capture a similar look but with modern ...
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How do you encourage players to do hard things?
I'm working on an app that teaches real-life skills by pitting players against each other to compete in skill improvement tasks. The problem is, players have a number of different tasks they're ...
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Pygame : problem with calculating an angle between two points
I've been struggling to calculate the angle alpha between an object and a certain point M so that I can move that object to M.
To calculate alpha, I'm using ...
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How to orient a rectangular object, so when a sphere ( ball ) collision happens to redirect it towards a point?
I have a rectangular object and a ball ( sphere ) in 3D and would like to orient the rectangular object in such way that when a collision with the ball and the object happens, to redirect the ball ...
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Move two sprites together with offset?
I'm making a simple game in C# for practice and i'm having some problems when dragging a sprite
and making another sprite follow it.
What i'm trying to achieve:
When dragging a sprite, i want ...
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Move sprite in relation to parent? [duplicate]
I'm writing a simple game in C# and i'm having some difficulty to calculate the local position of a sprite.
What i'm aiming to achieve:
Calculate the sprite "local position" relative to the ...
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How to keep objects in the same position relative to their parent?
I'm writing a simple game in C# and i'm having some difficulty to calculate the local position of a sprite.
What i'm aiming to achieve:
Calculate the sprite "local position" relative to the ...
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Update the positions of child objects of a scroll bar when its parent moves?
I'm implementing a vertical scrollbar for a small game project and I'm having some issues with calculating
correct positions of the scrollbar controls when its parent control moves.
At the moment, ...
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How to draw splatter (one color) on 2D grid to cover approximate number of pixels? (looking for algorithm/math answers)
Imagine a 2D grid, where water stain increasing because of water drops. But not in plain circular way but more like noisy-splatter way. Or like corruption way. I want to create effect that will ...
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How to implement a simple Scrollbar
I'm making a simple UI system for a small game and i'm having some difficulty to implement a Scrollbar.
At the moment i'm having two major problems that i need some help to solve:
. Calculating the &...
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Space torque semi-independent of center of mass
I am making a 2d user build spaceship game that allows the user to place thrusters where they would like. I've read a bunch of posts in a lot of places including stack exchange on how determine the ...
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How can I create this springy oscillating motion chasing / orbiting the mouse?
I'm trying to recreate this motion,
I think most of the motion is based on this formula
\begin{eqnarray}
x(t) &=& A e^{-\gamma t/2} \cos(\omega t - \phi) \\
y(t) &=& B e^{-\gamma t/2} ...
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How do I replicate this camera effect?
I am trying to re-construct the camera logic of RE4 that is applied when the player aims a gun.
I have attached a hack to RE4 which enables the user to change the camera's FOV.
Because of that I ...
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Why is the derivative important in game development? How did you use it in a real scenario?
I'm really eager to know how a programmer finds useful a derivative in game development, using a real scenario as an example. Also I plan to use this question to understand the importance of ...
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Calculating view matrix from rotation, elevation and location
I have the rotation(A), elevation(B) and location(C) of a camera in a left handed 3d space. +...
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Best way to implement a to hit formula based on provided stats
There are a ton of these questions, some can get really mathy - which is fine, but I am looking for a simple way based on a few stats, I thought I came up with one, so I will share it in hopes that ...
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How to best deal with percentage from gear and skills when stacking
I have a issue I am unsure the best way to go about solving. Developing a game I store all the "percentage boosts" a character could get either from skills, equipment, quest items or whatnot ...