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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Best bangs per buck render engine [on hold]
I'm looking to speed up 3D renders in (eg) Iray and 3Delight. My question is two-fold.
1) choosing a new machine for rendering is it better to spend on CPU (a cheap option is an aging Xeon rack ...
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Running OpenGL app on Windows XP x86 produces incorrect texture colors
I'm working with the Cen64 emulator and I compiled from source a x86 version that operates fine on Windows 10 x64. As soon as I run it on a Windows XP x86 machine the colors are then all incorrect. ...
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What do game developers do when they have to port their DirectX games to PS4/Switch?
I'm not a game developer (hope to be one day though!) and was wondering how devs handle porting their games that use DirectX to PS4/Switch? From what I know neither supports DirectX, only OpenGL, and ...
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DirectX 11 - Rendering to Texture only display the clear colour
I'm attempting to render the scene from the current view matrix onto a texture (currently just for testing purposes) but I can't for the life of me get it to work.
Currently all the texture displays ...
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Instances in the Unity Profiler Timeline
What do Instances mean when you click on an operation in the Timeline section of Unity Profiler?
In this example:
Total: 11.90 ms (10 Instances)
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Godot: error(10) expected '(' after Identifier
When trying to write up a new shader for a material, I've been trying to create a variable to use to alter speed and test animation. Now, the below outputs fine until I try to assign a value to number....
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“RENDER WARNING: there is no texture bound to the unit 0” When not Rendering Texture
I have a webgl program that sometimes renders textures, but mostly renders triangles or lines. When I am not rendering a texture, webgl gives the warning, "...
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Why does my FPS go down so much when rendering basic sprites?
I have a UWP DX11 application and I've recently removed the vsync and noticed that my fps goes down drastically when I'm only drawing very basic sprites on the screen and I'm trying to learn why this ...
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Line Rendere Default Pink Color still Visible
I am using the line Renderer for shooting in my game. Everything works well except for the fact that the default pink color is still visible. I have a Material set, so I do not think it is a problem ...
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Throwing away inner faces of cubes of a transparent voxel structure in Unity3D?
I want to create a "Building site is (not) obstructed." indicator for my building system.
How can I throw away those faces which would be hidden if the material would be opaque?
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What are these circles in the Phong model I'm implementing?
I haven't implemented the Phong model for many times but I'm confident it's correct. The only problem I've noticed is this. Seems like a quantization is taking place somewhere :
I'm not sure if it's ...
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How do I draw a rectangle in Pygame?
I am getting the error "AttributeError: 'Rect' object has no attribute 'draw'" with this code:
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“DirectX will only draw polygons with an [X,Y] from [-1,-1] to [1,1] and with a Z from 0 to 1.”, What does this mean and how to work around it?
I've been following the D3D11 tutorials on Rastertek to expand my knowledge on rendering which I will need as I want to build my own engine, as a hobby.
After finally getting a model to be rendered ...
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Rendering a selected part of the terrain with different shading
I'm trying to understand how to modify the shading of the section of the terrain based on some user selection. In a game like Civ5, when a user selects a city or unit, that area is lit up more than ...
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Set multiple render targets with OMSetRenderTargets using ComPtr<T>
I've recently decided to get rid of pretty much all of the raw pointers from my Direct3D code, and I ran into a problem with using ComPtr<T> template with ...
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Why do I get this weird shadow render error?
Using Unity 2018.2.14/15 I've recently been working on a small project and I encountered a very weird problem. It's hard to describe so here is a picture:
Originally I assumed it may be an issue with ...
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Dynamic Vertex Buffer vs Pixel Shader?
I am writing a basic 3D line which has two major factors into what is displayed:
A list of points.
A point in time.
In the case where the line does not care about the current point in time (a user ...
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Player object's model starts to shake after some time
I created a default scene in a new project and imported a model from Unity's asset store and then get this strange behavior of the model starting to shake for no reason after some time after starting ...
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What resolution should I render art for a 3D game for PC?
I hope this is not too stupid a question. I'm making my first game for PC and I'm wondering what resolution I should render the artwork at. It will be a fixed-perspective game, so I'm using a 2D ...
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Fixing T-Junction artifacts in a BSP Editor
I'm starting a little BSP engine, and have begun implementing Brush CSG. Currently I represent my brushes as the enclosed volume of surface planes (like old idTech 3 maps), with a cache for each face ...
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Rendering clouds similar to Sky: Light Awaits?
I'm interested in adding clouds to my game, with a style similar to those in Sky: Light Awaits
You can see them in motion in these videos:
(Starts at 26:00)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
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How to apply a visual filter to what I am drawing?
I'm looking to apply a sepia filter to what I'm rendering. Perhaps we could just apply the filter to the view or pass it to the draw method to draw everything with the filter (I'm using one draw ...
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Turning on Vertex Attribute Divisor With Instanced Rendering Renders Nothing
When I render with glDrawArraysInstanced with the vertex attribute divisor set to zero, the triangle appears as expected. But when the divisor is set to any value other than zero, the triangle ...
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How do I reduce overdraw in a forest scene with lots of foliage?
Unity comes with an overdraw view that looks something like this:
We've probably all seen it, and have probably been advised to check for overdraw. How do you go about actually doing anything about ...
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Unity - Adding a sphere volume to this shader
I'm trying to create a spherical effect around my player that when they walk into range of hidden object, it gradually renders the object.
I found a shader that would work pretty well for this. When ...
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Why loss of floating point precision makes rendered objects vibrate?
I'm working on an open-world game. I noticed glitches when I move far away from the origin. The objects seem to be shaking or wiggle. Especially the z-fighting seems to wiggle. And the objects that ...
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Depth sorting issue
I've been working on a custom tile-based map editor for a while now, and everything works as expected, or so I thought until I've tried rendering the actual map including the dynamic objects as well.
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What is the relationship between clipping and the fog of war concept?
I'm currently developing a 2D top down game and recently implemented clipping.
I understand clipping in a 2D top down game as rectangle or any other geometrical form which defines a viewport for the ...
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How are semitransparent polygons rendered in the correct order?
It is my understanding that while opaque triangles can be rendered in any order thanks to the Z buffer (especially when rendering in hardware), semitransparent triangles cannot. Instead, they need to ...
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Migrating 2D game from immediate mode to VBOs
I am in the process of migrating away from legacy OpenGL calls in my 2D LWJGL game. Previously I would render each sprite using immediate mode, which was dead easy - bind the texture, add the vertices,...
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Render moveable entities into 3D isometric world?
I have a separate list of moveable entities, and then the regular 3D map, represented by a 2D array of stacks of tiles. My problem is that right now, I'm rendering my moveable entities after the map, ...
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Error code 1282 when calling glDrawElements
I am trying to render my terrain using an EBO, but the function glDrawElements returns an error (1282). I tried to find out what ...
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Display object at different position
Id' like to create impression of shaking holographic image of NPC in Unity 2018, but moving it with transform will cause unnecesary transform-rigidbody syncing, and using Rigodbody.position isn't an ...
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Instancing Meshes With Overdraw Algorith
I am working on a Game Engine(DX11) and we are at a point where we are starting to cull, and order our objects in the scene for rendering order.
However, since we want to instance the same mesh, ...
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Minecraft/OpenGL - Create Multiple viewports
I'm working on a project for the game and i have been trying to draw a second smaller "window" that would act like a second camera, independent from the player.
I have looked into glViewport however ...
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Queued rendering in LibGDX 2D
In my 2D game project, as well as in LibGDX in general, are a lot of different entities that need to be rendered(static images, sprites, animations, etc...), as well as have certain effects applied (...
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How to composite my UI render target over my backbuffer?
I have two render targets, the back buffer and another target that I am using to draw UI (at the moment this is only a quad on-screen).
I have gone through the graphics debugging and checked that ...
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Sun model matrix
I'm playing with sun implementation in my engine and I correctly built model matrix using below order of matrix operations:
Translate to camera position.
Calculate x and y axis of rotation matrix ...
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How can I create explosions like in Zelda: Breath of the Wild?
The explosions in BotW look spectacular. Here's a video of them in slow motion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZtaNoUOSDQ
It looks like it's not all billboards, but also some volumetric geometry - ...
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Why do we need a depth buffer to display a single 3D cube?
According to a Vulkan tutorial I am following, I will need to create a depth buffer in order to display a 3D cube:
However, as far as I understand, depth buffers are used for the Z-buffering ...
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Is it possible to run unity headless in linux/mac? [duplicate]
I need to run unity without rendering the graphics. If anyone around knows how to do it, it will be really helpful.
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Using 3D models in an 2D Game in libGDX
In my libGDX 2D RPG-Game (like Zelda or something) I want to display some items as 3D-Objects. Since I'm using an OrthographicCamera like this:
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Draw the HUD just once on the canvas
I am not able to draw only one HUD of my game on a separate canvas, so I do not have to redraw it to each frame, I have four functions, init(), render(), loop() and drawHUD():
init() is my function ...
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How to Load PDF file in runtime using PDF Renderer Asset in unity?
Hello Guys : I am working in Unity PDF Renderer. I will purchased that Asset but i need to Know, How to load PDF file one by one in run time in File path mode but old PDF File will remove and Load new ...
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Using PyOpenGL, can I rotate raw data rather than the current matrix?
I'm trying to create a sort of PyOpenGL renderer for the Bullet physics engine, and at the moment I'm rotating my basic cubes with math in Python. However, if I do the math in Python that's going to ...
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UE4 : Get Normal, Depth and Semantic Segmentation of rendered scene
I started using Unreal Engine 4 to generate a dataset for machine learning.
I'm looking for how to generate images containing the following specifications :
Depth Map of the environment
Normal Map ...
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Artifacts in unity shading
I created block of 3x3x3 cubes, disabled shadows, set directional lighting color to white and ambient to black. And I'm getting this:
Any idea what is going on and how to fix it? Effect is visible ...
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Vulkan: Unable to render using multiple view ports
I have been trying to enable multiple viewports in my Vulkan Pipeline but have been unsucsessfull. I used this code sample as a reference point. The problem is that when I attempt to draw two side by ...
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Scale screen space quads (used in font rendering)
I have quads positioned in <0, 1> x <0, 1> coordinates. I use this system for font rendering.
In vertex shader I have:
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JFrame pack() method
I'm quite new to java.
I was developing a game using java and I realized that the position of pack() method can influence rendering. For instance:
Frame Class
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