Transformation in game development is usually refers to linear algebra operations on points, vectors and matrices.
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Issues Rotating 3rd Person Camera Following an Object's Orientation
I've developing a flight simulation in openGL with GLM in C++ and I am having issues rotating the camera around as the plane pitch, yaws, and rolls. It's also my first time using quaternions, ...
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Determining Player “Forward” in VR
EDIT: I've removed some vagueness and replaced it with more of a description of the intended use case.
I'm looking for some suggestions for ways to infer what the player's "forward" vector is in a ...
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Unity transform.position question
Looking at example code for mesh deformation in unity
https://answers.unity.com/questions/746673/sine-wave-mesh-deform-with-different-directions.html
And i see theyve used
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Efficiently calculate 2d world position based on parent(s) recursively
I am writing a small 2d html5 game engine in javascript that relies on the concept of a hierarchy. The scene is the root node or entity, and its children make up the game objects. These children can ...
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How do I allocate to a C# dictionary having a string key and an integer 2D array or transform for value?
I'm working in C# on a Unity 2D game that spawns a shape that has only one correct landing place. There are 7 basic shapes but the component 4 squares of each shape are unique, with each bearing, say, ...
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Can I position a player avatar behind the camera based on rotation?
I'm currently reverse engineering a video game where what's rendered on the screen depends on the proximity of the player avatar to the camera. As such, for my freecam to work properly, I need to ...
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From screen space to world space for a 2D game
I'm making a 2D game and I want the user to be able to position an object in the world using mouse input. After a while I found an answer to 'OpenGL Math - Projecting Screen space to World space ...
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How can I use NetworkTransformChild when the target only has RectTransform?
I used the normal way to add them by code like below:
gameObject.SetActive(false);
addNetworkTransformChild(newItem.transform);
gameObject.SetActive(true);
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Position an object at the center of the screen
I need to create a grid of squares such as the grid is centered on the screen. Here is a schema:
I need the two green lengths to be equal, and the two red lengths to be equal.
Here is the method I ...
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Unity move Vector3 position with transform
How can I move a new Vector3 position with a Transform? Like the transform is the parent the vector.
Example if I want to push the x position for example by 10 value and I rotate the transform its ...
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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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Relative camera movement with character in center
I'm trying to translate and scale a 2D space from world space to camera space with my character in the center. Adding in the scaling is tripping me up.
Here's what I've got so far, without the ...
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How to store 3d transformation in a game?
I am curious what is the best strategy to save 3d transformation of a model.
Here are the few choices I think about:
4x4 matrix
4x3 matrix(skip the bottom row of a 4*4 matrix)
Dual quaternions with ...
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Detect when an Oculus headset is stationary/idle using transform.hasChanged
I want to know how can I change in unity the thershold of the method below:
transform.haschanged
At the moment it is so sensitive and it triggers with 0.00001 change in the camera.
We have ...
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Inspector does not appear to match actual value
A text object is where the inspector says, but not where I expected it, and not where Debug.Logerror says it is. What I read as my "strengthTextObj.transform.position.x" is -213 in the inspector but ...
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Why does my gameobject fly of into the air when the screen is touched?
I am encountering a peculiar problem when updating a piece of code that translates my gameobject left and right based on mobile touch input.
To provide context, the platform upon which the gameobject,...
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Why does a translation matrix need extra row?
Following recommendation of this answer I've recently read the series of articles of Wolfire about linear algebra. I'm somewhat familiar with matrices and I came to a conclusion that vector and a ...
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anything wrong with a spherical camera view matrix?
Is there anything inherently wrong, if you derive your view matrix from 2 spherical coordinates (say, phi and theta) on the unit sphere? The z-axis vector would be at, say (phi, theta), the y-axis at (...
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How can you allow a sphere to rotate 360 degrees inside a hollow cylinder in Unity?
I have a hollow cylinder, within which is a sphere. The forward vector is predefined, so the user can not change their forward speed. What they do have control of, however, is the rotation of the ...
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Get bounding box of GameObject in camera image
I'm trying to get the bounding box of a single GameObject in pixel coordinates but the calculated coordinates are at the wrong position. What am I doing wrong? Here is my code:
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Can't set object's local rotation like rotating from gizmo in the scene
Here, I have a plane model with some sub parts(like aileron) can rotate:
That red section is weight painted(rigged) vertices, and I need to control the rotation of this in Unity by script.
So this ...
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How do I get a delay in motion to happen? (Unity)
I want the cockpits rotation to lag behind that of the cameras, so I wrote this code:
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Transfering an inertia tensor from local coordinates to another one
If we have an inertia tensor in local coordinates with a basis matrix B and we want to transform it to other local coordinates with basis matrix A, is it right to do the following:
A* inv(B) *Inertia ...
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FreeGLUT - Making Planets Orbit at their own Speed
I'm currently working on a project for Uni using FreeGLUT to make a simple solar system simulation. I've got to the point where I've implemented all the planets and have used a Scene Graph to link ...
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Camera movement issue with pitch and yaw angles
I'm trying to implement a simple first person camera using pitch and yaw angles (no quaternions, I want a simple camera for debugging purposes). An Input class processes mouse input and translate the ...
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Unity RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle
What does the unity's RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle do
I've read unity documentation but I didn't get the clear meaning.
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Camera rotation is weird when it's a child of another object
I implemented scene graph hierarchy into my 3D game engine, and there seems to be a problem with the camera's rotation when it is a child of another object. It only happens with the camera, not any ...
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Rotation along normal vector
I have a triangle in the 3D world. I have the:
positions for the three points
the normal vectors for the three points (all the same, because vertices are not shared)
This triangle faces to a ...
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Is there a way to make a movement pattern using AnimationCurves?
I'm making a 2D space-shooter game, and I want the enemies to have specific movement patterns, ranging from simplistic like a linear left-right loop, to more complex like a parabola left-right motion (...
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Directly pass from transform feedback buffer to fragment shader
I am building terrain using a lod algorithm and deferred cascaded shadowmaps. The tessellated terrain is about 6,000,000 triangles. I tried this using 2 methods.
1st method: Both the deferred shadow ...
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UnityException: Transform child out of bounds (only in built APK)
In the Unity Editor, this code helps me to get the Fog GameObject:
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Transform.LookingAt() does nothing
To get used to how Godot transforms work, I am attempting to write an orbit control. The goal is for it to behave similarly to the Godot viewport.
So far I have the positioning of my camera working. ...
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Too fast swipe in Unity game
I am letting the user to swipe around in some movement and to see the scene on mobile device.
Facing too fast swipe.
Need to make swipe slower, smother.Using the code:
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What is the near plane equation in NDC?
I'm trying to compute the line intersecting my plane (transformed to NDC) and the near plane.
I have troubles to get a correct result and I think it is coming from the near plane equation.
I ...
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representing transforms without a world/global reference frame
Background:
I'm trying to make a segmented/portal-based game engine
that supports impossible (non-euclidean?) geometry.
By segmented/portal-based I mean the world is divided into segments which are ...
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What is FRotationMatrix in Unreal engine 4?
I am working on FPS shooter example in Unreal engine 4 documentation.
One of the lines for forward movement of pawn is
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Moving camera in 3D - directX12
I begin to learn graphic programming on directx12. I try to make a camera wich can move dans rotate around the world.
I take this code as a basis:
https://www.braynzarsoft.net/viewtutorial/q16390-...
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What methods can be used to rotate a tiled structure?
I'm trying to rotate some structures that are locked on a grid-like structure. This means I'm looking for lossless ways to rotate the tiles. Maintaining proper distances are not important, I'm aware ...
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How do you develop the model matrix for an object?
This might be a misunderstanding on my part but let me give you my superficial understanding of Model-View-Projection pipeline and different coordinate systems. Then I will ask a question.
As we know,...
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AddForce doesn't work anymore when Acceleration is added
Everything worked fine until I added acceleration on the x axis..now when I try to jump it just lifts up very little from the ground in a weird way and then it slowly sinks down like having 0 gravity. ...
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Add Lerp on only the Y axis
I want my camera to be smooth on only the Y axis.How do I do that it?
Current code:
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Cannot modify a value type return value of `UnityEngine.Transform.position'. Consider storing the value in a temporary variable
I'm getting the following error
Cannot modify a value type return value of `UnityEngine.Transform.position'. Consider storing the value in a temporary variable
with this code:
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Issue giving object player's hand position
I'm trying to put an object (for example a sword) in my player's hand.
To do so i set the player's hand transform as the object's parent, in order to have the same movement for the object and the hand....
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How to set/clear parent and maintain world position/scale/rotation in a transform hierarchy
I am attempting to code a Transform hierarchy similar to Unity's. I am able to successfully combine local position, rotation and scale, as well as to multiply child transforms by their parent ...
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Instantiating Unity prefabs in a for loop - please help me understand how this works [closed]
What this for loop means in context of unity 3d
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Unwanted continuous rotation with Quaternion
I am probably missing something simple but ... this is how I'm calculating the world matrix of my object:
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Why is there a discrepancy between these two transform.up vectors?
I was trying to implement a feature which required transform.up, the result didn't match the green axis gizmo displayed in the editor so I assumed it was being put ...
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3D Player x positon problem
I`am make Runnig 3D game and i made to move left and right and when i move left or right i have problem with position X and rotation Y its change every frame, can someone help me to this direction.
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SlimDX Direct3D10 Sprite stretches with window size
I'd like to draw a sprite bitmap with SlimDX Direct3D10, but I'm stuck at this problem, where I can see my image on screen, but it gets stretched depending on the window size.
The issue looks like ...
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Evenly distribution of 2 or more shapes given their x and y points inside a bounding box
I have a set of dynamically shaped objects, How do I distribute them evenly either Horizontally or Vertically.The objects are surrounded by a bounding box and the objects are placed at x,y as shown.
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