Questions tagged [rendering]
The process of generating an image or series of images from a model by means of computer programming.
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How do game engines implement multiple rendering platforms?
How do game engines like UE4, Unity, Source, Cry Engine, etc add different rendering library's to their game engines? (Eg. OpenGL, DirectX, Vulkan)
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Problem with rendering a quad from four lines
I am having a problem with rendering a quad in opengl via 4 lines (5 vertices via GL_LINE_STRIP). The rendering is generally working fine in terms of connecting the lines into a quad. The problem is, ...
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Is there a difference between using one large mesh with 100k polygons and using 1000 meshes with 100 polygons each?
I'm planning on creating a first-person shooter for mobile. Now I know that fps games usually have a lot of meshes in the scene (trees, buildings, terrains, etc.). So I've been looking at a lot of ...
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OpenGL streching up geometry
I'm developping my own game engine in C++/OpenGL 3 but I've got some troubles with my geometry. Indeed, when I render something everything is weirdly streched up :
By tweaking scale values we can see ...
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C++ SDL2:2D tilemap with every tile has its own behavior
I am working on 2D tile based game.
I want to render the tilemap from a file but every tile has its own behavior
for example:
magmablock : poorlava();
slimeblock : knockback();
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Render Mode “Screen Space - Camera” inflates prefab buttons to no longer fit on canvas, help
Referencing a previous post (link) and using the solution I came across a situation I'm not understanding where when I have the canvas render set to "Screen Space - Camera" rather than "Screen Space - ...
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How to load large arrays to gpu and render with OpenGL?
I am trying to make a volumetric rendering of a cloud. I have been defining the cloud density functions on the glsl shaders and performing ray-marching methods successfully. But now I would like to ...
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How to pass renderer through classes?
I am making a game with SDL and C++. I am trying to render simple image to the screen but I can't. I am not getting any error but I see only black screen.
I think because the renderer in ...
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Only one triangle drawn
I am trying to render a quad with gl render mode GL_TRIANGLES with using element array buffer. Here is some code to explain process. Only the first 3 elements of indices array are drawn as expected. ...
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can't achieve a smooth movement with ShapeRender
I am using ShapeRender to render Circles and in the update function on every loop I update the coordinates that represent my ...
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What would be a good way to render individual meshes for a Tetris-like game in Unity?
I've been thinking of making a Tetris-like game in Unity3D, and I've looked at a few options to render several amounts of blocks in a matrix. I want to use the classic iterate-through-all-items-in-the-...
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Confused on graphics rendering
Implementing a viewport is just a rectangular space on the back buffer usually a 2d texture set to the size of the client window that we render to.
However in direct3d when we describe the viewport ...
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Unity: White outline around seams in my character, make it stop!
so once upon a time I made a really cool character for my game project and he looked great. Then at some unspecific point in time, my character's UV seams got these awful white outlines around them:
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RayCasting with Mode7
I'm trying to join the mode7 algorithm with RayCasting. For mode7, I'm using a simple rotation matrix to implement the rotation. The result is a little strange and I can't fix it. Do you know what is ...
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Blurred sprite in Scene view
The thread between the tree and the spider here is a LineRenderer.
When the BackgroundLandscape or the ...
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RayCasting picture noise render method
I'm creating a RayCasting tutorial on github (click here to access it) and I'm following a lot of tutorials, implementations and other render methods in the web. One game made with it is the "Prelude ...
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How to access random material in a renderer besides first without cloning any materials except accessed one?
Clones only first material:
renderer.material
Clones all materials in the same renderer:
renderer.materials[0]
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How to improve Antialiasing on Unity WebGL?
I have a problem with the render in WebGL.
On the Unity Editor or Standalone the builds looks perfectly fine but on WebGl builds the image generate this white dots. I have a "DirectionalLight" and a ...
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How to draw a string into a polygon? (Libgdx, Java)
I am working on a 2D grand strategy game (like Hearts of Iron from Paradox but as I said only 2D game) and I would like to render the area names on the map. I made the Polygons for each area. How can ...
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How to add ambiant occlusion to a mesh created by script
We created a mesh point by point with a script (a huge mesh), and we would like to add ambiant occlusion to this mesh.
We use Unity 2019.1.6 and the LWRP template.
we already tested the unity ambiant ...
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How to make a world map from image like in paradox games? (Java, LibGDX)
I'm working on a grand strategy game similar to those made by Paradox Game Studios with their Clausewitz engine. I'm trying to create the world map from an image. On that you can see the areas, and ...
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How to handle latency in a pipelined rendering architecture
I've currently got a pipelined rendering architecture based on OpenGL, with three pipeline stages. First stage is that my main game loop generates OpenGL commands for a frame, but buffers them rather ...
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Unity LWRP alternatives for camera stacking
I am working on upgrading a project in unity from a 2018 version to the latest 2019. One of the mechanics of the game is an AR (augmented reality) system. Some of the UI elements appear in the 3D ...
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Graphic render speed in libgdx using many sprite sheets
I am currently working on a customizable Player-character for my top down view 2D pixel game. I am using libgdx and aiming for android devices as well as desktop applications.
I am wondering about an ...
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Techniques to mitigate microstuttering when the FPS is above 60fps and vsync is off
The problem with first person shooters is that your input is important, and coupling it with VSync ruins it.
The following frames per second data when rendering with OpenGL shows:
60-100 fps: ...
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Unity particles rendering on top of camera space UI
I'm using LWRP in Unity 2019.1.12f1. The UI is in Screen Space - Camera. The shader used for the particles is Lightweight Render Pipeline/Particles/Unlit (Transparent, Premultiply).
Any ideas?
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3D title Rendering in Maya For babylon Js Game Engine
I created a 3D title in Maya and applied color through lambert and rendering with mental ray.
Problem is when the coder is rendered in the game engine, it is looking very sad. The colors are faded ...
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Implementing a main loop with rendering in a Windows Desktop Application
I'm writing the beginnings of a small game engine in Visual C++. What I have so far doesn't seem to be updating the rendering each frame, but I don't understand where I'm going wrong with it.
The ...
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Unity - How to tell which objects in scene are creating the most triangles?
I have been working on a game and every time a player prefab is instantiated, it creates 1M+ triangles. That is a nightmare considering the model itself is not even close to 1M. The only thing on the ...
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How do I render text in a view in SFML 2.5.1 without artifacts?
I'm using the following code to render text in a letterboxed view.
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(Tiled) Background stops being rendered in libGDX
I'm using Tiled and I created my background as an image in a Tile Layer.
When I load the map in LibGDX, it shows fine. However when the camera moves, the whole background dissapears.
The problem is ...
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Unity “Convert To Entity” does not work (Render) with “Skinned Mesh Renderer” for Animations
I'm trying to make a game with Unity's ECS and Job System.
I came across the issue where, Convert To Entity does not support Skinned Mesh Renderer. It does not render the mesh. I need it for ...
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Modify Unity's New 2D Renderer for the Lighweight Render Pipeline
I would like to use the new 2D renderer available with the LWRP to take advantage of the 2D lights.
I would also like to replicate the things in this video - basically, I want my character to be ...
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How can I update my materials to work with LWRP?
I'm using Unity 2019.1.6f1.
When I open a new scene with the LWRP template project, I see errors from all materials in the scene. For example, the Jigsaw appears in my scene but in console window I ...
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How do I correctly show both sides of a plane in Unity?
I am trying to show both sides of a mesh. I understand this question has been asked a lot, but all of the answers I've found seem like they're written for Unity 5 and I can't find a "Cull" setting on ...
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Why is integer value not updating as a text?
I have a space shooter game and I am trying to create a shield power for the player ship. My mechanic for shield is working. When I press the shield power button(P), the shield power decreases from ...
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Rendering Problems(Artifacts, Flickering) with the Mirage Solo VR Headset
Im getting some strange flickering artifacts when testing on device (Mirage solo), this problem occurs on Unity 2018.3.2 and Unity 2019.1.2. Its not happening on other devices such as the OculusGo, ...
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Why are my screenshots created through a RenderTexture too small?
Current render result:
When I am rendering image in Unity and saving as file(.png), quality of those files are reduced. They become tiny and very poor.
How can I enhance that?
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Shadow problems with Unity's Lightweight Render Pipeline
So I installed the Lightweight Render Pipeline onto an existing project of mine and the placeholder model I've been using for the player (the broom) started showing a hole in its shadow.
I don't ...
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How to fx low FPS in a single threaded Directx9 3D game
We're having issues with low FPS in a third-person shooter 3D game. This happens when you have too many polygons on screen. The FPS is locked to 60, and the gameplay is fine, but the moment when you ...
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Unity - Set/Manipulate Render-Buffer for “Render Overlay Effects”
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This is more of a question on how/where to do furhter research into this topic becasue I do not know anything about it yet. If anyone has answers on how to accomplish this goal, I'd very much ...
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SDL2 doesn't render a window
A tutorial's code from LazyFoo wonderful place's 01_hello_SDL page doesn't show a white form, but a desktop's screen, like a screenshot. Something like:
The code:
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Displaying pixels on a canvas at 60 hertz [closed]
I'm (new to SO and) attempting to code an "emulator" for an 8-bit CPU I am making with a friend.
I have only ever used Java to make simple GUIs with Swing, and from reading similar questions it seems ...
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How do i update opengl lightning equation in my fragment shader to make my texture less glossy and more like a fabric
I built a model in blender, and am currently trying to import it into my android app using assimp together with opengl, i dont have any issues with the importing but my goal is to make the object look ...
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How can I draw lines and curves on a canvas that's not rendered?
I need to draw lines and curves on a canvas that is not rendered on the screen but just updates the array of pixels that would otherwise be rendered. I need this to separate my game engine from my ...
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How to reproduce examples from ShaderToy on my computer?
I am a beginner with computer graphics. I have some experience with drawing polygons, shaded surfaces, the use of geometry shaders, etc. I am trying to create a volumetric cloud/volume render shader ...
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How to render top-down perspective in a tile-based RPG?
My question is specifically about the type of perspective that GBA Pokemon games like Fire Red/Leaf Green have:
I'm not sure of the correct terms for what I'm trying to achieve.
I am using SDL2 and ...
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Octahedral impostors, Octahedral mapping
I'm facing some issues understanding this article about octahedral impostors.
More specifically I quite don't understand how one can map the hemi-octahedron (subdivided) vertices to texture ...
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Looks like render in Unity ( Light Shaft on Particles etc.)
guys, i hope someone can help me, i want to get a looks like rendering, like a screen, i can buy Aura 2 and use volumetric light to have affect on Fireflies, and make a light shaft / good ray?
The ...
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Video feedback effect with recursive RenderTextures in Unity 2018.3
I have a project where I'm playing with a video feedback effect by rendering a camera to a RenderTexture and pointing the camera at a quad displaying that RenderTexture.
This works great normally, ...
