The process of generating an image or series of images from a model by means of computer programming.
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Render “spherical” 2D World without duplicated visuals
I made a "Don't Starve" like 2.5D tile based game. Everything consists of squared tiles and you are able to rotate your camera in 45°. The Textures are in 2D and will show the same face even after ...
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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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Monogame Screen Tearing Between Tiles
I've noticed some 'tearing' or gaps appearing between tiles when the camera moves over a tile map, and I have no idea why.
I should mention, the game is being drawn to a render target (320x192), then ...
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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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Unity3D Sprite not rendering correctly when it's too small? (Appearing like a blob)
This issue has been tripping me up for quite a while now. I'm using a sprite to mask out a portion of the main camera's output using DepthMask in a 3D scene (http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php?title=...
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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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Reducing texture bindings in LibGDX when drawing text
I'm making custom menus and buttons (I don't want to use scene2D) and I have everything in atlases, but when I draw a button, if it has text, the texture binding is always x2 because of the switching ...
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Graphics2D.drawImage not working
I'm quite new to java.
I'm trying to come up with my own game after watching a few video tutorials. However, I encountered a problem where I cannot draw an external image file that I loaded using the ...
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Intel GPU running faster than Nvidia GTX 1060
My app in its current state renders only 2 triangles to the screen using OpenGL.
I am using std::chrono::steady_clock for frame counting.
With Intel graphics, I ...
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Rendering an isometric tilemap
I have a tile which is 512x256 pixels and I'm trying to render it in an isometric fashion.
I have this helper function:
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What's the use and difference between Forward, Deferred and Physically Based Rendering?
Maybe I'm still confused about my own understanding,
Forward Render: render the lighting of an object according to the light source in the scene. (e.g Phong)
Deferred Render : render the scene to ...
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Rendering model shading to frame buffer/texture for use on another model
I'm currently working on a game with a pixel-art style,
but the visuals are accomplished by rendering 3D voxel-style meshes at an angle.
Now I would like to add sub-pixel animation to the models by ...
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Managing different types of Actors/Entities in a rendering engine
I'm coding a simple game engine using DirectX11, and I'm stuck on how to implement a kind of ECS. Now my rendering system look like this (sorry if the diagram is not real UML, it's just for ...
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OpenGL Array Texture generates black texture
I am creating a game using OpenGL that has many textured cubes. I am trying to use an Array Texture to load multiple textures from one file. I tried to setup my texture atlas; however, all that ...
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Screen Capture rendered on a RenderTexture in Unity
I have a pretty wild idea for a unity application that would work on a multi-display setup.
The app would be running in full screen mode on one of my displays, and the contents of the remaining two ...
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Do I have to take aspect ratio into account, when computing a direction in View Space?
I read an article about implementing a Single-Pass Volume Renderer.
After thinking about it, I have a question, which concerns the provided GLSL code snippet of the Fragment Shader.
To calculate the ...
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Why are my explosions not showing?
I'm creating a space shooter using type script and I don't understand why explosions won't work meaning that nothing is drawn on the screen and I don't understand what I'm doing wrong.
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2D top-down camera for top down games Java
I'm working on a 2D game where you can build houses and factories and progress by doing so. I cannot get the camera to work. The camera must have an area to go out of world bounds (definable as max ...
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Render problems (black, purple and blue effects) in old GPU and Unity3D 5.6 project on Unity 2018
Well, I have a PC that has a GPU from 2009, and now I have some problems with a fork.
The project was on Unity 5 (2015) and I have upgraded it to Unity 2018.1.0, without any problems.
But some times,...
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Problem with draw distance in Unity editor 3D view
The Unity editor scene renderer is not letting me get a close-up view of anything. As the camera moves closer, the geometry closest to the camera just disappears. It's as if the draw distance has ...
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Is there a way to run Unity without rendering the scene on the monitor (headless)?
I am doing some machine learning and I get my environment from Unity in the form of images but the training is taking too long and it keeps me from doing anything else on my system. Is there a way to ...
