Questions tagged [transformation]
Transformation in game development is usually refers to linear algebra operations on points, vectors and matrices.
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getting data from an array stored in a different script Unity [duplicate]
LandingScript w = GetComponent<LandingScript>();
foreach (Transform x in w.Waypoints)
{
allWaypoints[i] = x;
i += 1;
}
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2D engine design/architecture: transformations
Hello! I'm working on this hobby little 2D engine in JavaScript because I want to learn how all this things are implemented and architectured in general. Internet is full of resources but most things ...
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Raycast wrong direction
I use Physics.Raycast and transform.forward to shoot a ray in front of my gameobject, but the ray gets cast downwards instead.
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How to align a 3D object with four points?
I'm sure there's a better way to articulate this question, but I lack the vocabulary.
Imagine a skateboard. As it rolls straight down a road, the "deck" is aligned with the road, just offset a few ...
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How to calculate the transformation such that two points with different position, orientation and origins line up?
Let's say you have two different 3D Objects which both contain a node that is off center (not at the origin) and have an orientation. How do you calculate the transform for one of the object so that ...
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Calculate Discrete Fourier Transform by using c#
There is a definition of Discrete Fourier Transform:
I want to calculate amplitude and phase of a transformed sequence.
I tried :
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Set parent by property
In the editor's hierarchy, if I drag and drop one object onto another, the second becomes the parent of the first, and moving the parent will cause the child to move. I see I can set this relationship ...
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Nested transform.position in Unity
The following code works so good , but it is so long.
How can I use a for loop to write a short script for any number of prefabs?
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What does the Node2D transform property do?
Following a Godot tutorial I encountered the transform property, but I'm not sure what it means nor how to use it.
I read the official Godot documentation, but it ...
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Creating object in front of player, with some distance
I want to create objects in front of player with some distance, so that prevents hit with player immediately. So first, I get the global player position and direction vector which player towards:
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After rotated by Z-axis, X/Y axis still rotating just like z is 0
I'm making aerial vehicle controller, which can rotate 3 axis: X(Pitch), Y(Yaw), Z(Roll).
Rotating x(pitch) and y(yaw) axis works fine, however after I rotated z(Roll) axis, x/y rotation gave me ...
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Unwanted angular velocity in unrelated axis (rigidbody simulation)
so real quick I'm simulating 3D rigidbody dynamics. This is what I have:
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Changing node's translation affects to sibling node
I have a node which looks like this tree:
FPSController (Root node, and it's KinematicBody)
CollisionShape
Camera
GroundCheckRayCast
When I moved CollisionShape's location down, camera also going ...
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Follow 3D Path Around Sphere
I have currently have a path that wraps around a Sphere from one side to another - this is basically a 3D highway in the sky type object that is a textured road. I have an Aircraft model that I can ...
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What are the “axes of a matrix” exactly?
I am currently learning about game engines, and for the engine math, there are functions called GetXAxis, GetYAxis, and GetZAxis that returned the X, Y and Z axes for a matrix. These functions return ...
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How can I find the offset rotation and position between two objects in 3D?
I have two objects in 3 dimensions, one of them (Child) is attached to the other one (Parent) using the offset between them (XYZ ...
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How to calculate rotations for an object with scaling transformations?
I am working on implementing scaling transformations into a game engine (C++), which previously assumed only translations and rotations. Visually, the scaling works, but a lot of the game logic ...
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Prevent Animation Tab from changing the position of an object
I am quite new to Unity. I am using the latest version. When I try to make a door open animation, it goes well with rotation. But when I add the position property it takes it to the ...
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What should the Z coordinate be after transformed by the projection matrix?
I'm working on an OpenGL 1.x implementation for the Sega Dreamcast. Because the Dreamcast didn't have any hardware T&L the entire vertex transformation pipeline has to be done in software.
What ...
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Unity 3D rotating object around 2 axes rotates it around 3
I am developing a 3D space shooter and I've fount that when triying to rotate the ship using X and Y axes it also rotates on the Z axe.
The answer
here helped me a lot, but now when I try to rotate ...
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C++ Assimp - Transformation Hierarchy
I have a question regarding model imports using ASSIMP. I've been working on an Entity and Component (e.g. unity gameobject component) based game engine for fun and to learn in my spare time. I've ...
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Mimicking enemy boss movement of Wonderboy in Monster Land
I want to imitate the movement of the "Death" boss enemy in Wonderboy in Monster Land.
At first, I thought it just moves with a sine wave, but it's not. The up and down movement is erratic.
I ...
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How to access specific child indices (directly, not using tags or searches)?
I have a game object whose prefab is structured a very specific way. It is a conveyor belt. I intend to arrange them end-to-end and animate them all at once using a script. Right now I am trying to ...
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Bullet prefab gets stuck to target after hitting
As the title says, I am having an issue with prefabs: I am trying to make a bullet follow a curve and then hit a target using this method:
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How to create a custom set of coordinates based on two points in Unity?
As the title says, I am having problems finding a way to create a new set of local coordinates based on two points. Here is an example:
Consider that the two gameObjects are not one parent of another,...
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Unity3d: Position a gameobject such that its forms a right angled triangle with other two gameobjects
How do I position C gameObject such that it forms a right angled triangle with A and B. I tried to use ...
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Performing translation after rotation on object
I'm working in Maya and I have a light object. When I rotate my light object on the origin my manipulator rotates with object. However, as soon as I translate the light object (no longer at origin), ...
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Quaternion.RotateTowards not working as expected when parent object moves/rotates
I have a Tank with a rigidbody. A Turret Base is attached to the Tank via a Hinge Joint. The below TurretController script is attached to the Turret Base in order ...
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Javascript or Animation in general tween, spring, mouse tracking, mixing
Back story.
I am a web developer and i can pretty much do anything on the web. When i first started doing some programming it was in flash actionscript 3, and i was 14 and now i am 29 and still i ...
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GameObject keeps snapping to camera size on play
I'm in the process of making my GameObject move when I drag it across the screen using touch. But my current issue is when I press play to test the game, game object snaps to the size of my camera on ...
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Why isn't my custom unity skinned mesh implementation working properly?
I'm creating my own scripted implementation of a Skinned Mesh in unity for collision detection. But I've run into some problems whenever I update the vertex positions using the update armature ...
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How to implement Meshlab's rotation manipulator? [duplicate]
I want to implement a rotation handle/manipulator mechanism that would enable user to rotate a 3D model exactly like Meshlab does.
Unfortunately I don't fully understand how does the rotation gizmo ...
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How to program 3D translate widget like in blender?
Im struggling to achieve the translation widget in my own render engine. Funny enough I thought that widgets are easy, but boy was I wrong...
What I want to implement:
Where I am having problems:
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Find mouse pos in 3D space?
I have a game where there is a set of tiles rotated 45° away from the camera. I want to work out what tile is being hovered over by the mouse, and for that I need to translate the mouse pos on the ...
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How can I get my player's character to slide along a rail?
I am creating a snowboarding game and would like my player to be able to jump on a rail and move along it if it lands on it.
I have no idea how to approach this. I have already tried using ray casts ...
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Where to find animated matrix transformations in an fbx file?
Where can I find matrix transformation animation data in an fbx file?
I have an fbx file with animations. I have successfully read the indices, matrix, and weight from it.
How can I get the frame-by-...
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How to switch between 2 game object while having it move at the same position?
I've been trying to make 2 input which change the state of a game object into another by setting one active and another inactive alternatively. But when you're in one state and you try to input the ...
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Save object transform values in play mode for editor mode?
Many times I need to adjust the position or rotation angle of object in play mode but when I got back to editor mode I found all my work is gone! I looking on InterNet for a solution and I found this ...
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Transform Vector3 into Vector2 with PerspectiveFieldOfView Matrix
If I understand correctly, Matrix.CreatePerspectiveFieldOfView(…) creates a Matrix that projects a ...
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Character rotation according to camera causes rapid flipping when game starts
When I load my scene, my character rotates +90 and -90 on the X axis very fast about 4 or 5 times, and then he stops at -90 on X axis (lays back down).
When I move the character, the rotations are ...
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How can I change the direction of movement each time a key is pressed?
I would like change randomly the movement of an object every time I press Q.
It seems like the code should be like this, but it does not change the direction of movement as expected:
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Instantiate an object and translate it randomly
My goal through this code in C # is that each time the player presses the Q I create a cube at a fixed position given by another object, then begin translating it in a random direction. ie.
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pass by reference a transformation
I create a C # script in which I declare a transformation:
public Transform Origin;
When I put this script on an object of the hierarchy, in the Inspector a field Origin appears at the level of the ...
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Apply transform.Translate to a specified object in the script
In Unity3D, if I place a C # script including transform.Translate on an object "A" in the hierarchy, it animates the translation of this object A.
How in C# can I apply that transform.Translate ...
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Matrix for transforming a square to a quadrilateral
I have a square of points {<0, 0, 0>, <6, 0, 0>, <6,0, 6>, <0,0,6>}
(The square is placed at the origin in the xz plane in opengl).
Want to apply a transformation/s on the square and make ...
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Model turning 2d when it's parented
I'm importing arms from blender for my first person controller but when I make the player the Arms' parent it turns 2d. I have no idea why this is happening so if anyone could help it would be very ...
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Unity, Object's vectors are not rotating with the object. what did i do wrong?
I found a youtube video (Sebastian Lague: Character Creation (E07: Unity character controller)) that has a really good movement script, I understood it and used it for my character.
When I started ...
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Stop movement if transform.position.y == 0
Why does the following code not step the object's movement when its y coordinate reaches zero?
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Find transformation to align two polygons at fixed points?
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I have a source image (arbitrary width and height c) shown here as a rectangle [X1,X2,X3,X4]. It contains two points C and D (both known coordinates within ...
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combine two translation/rotation/scale triplets without matrices
Let t1/2, r1/2 and s1/2 be two sets of transformations.
Translations are vec3, rotations are quaternions and scales are vec3.
Lets assume that all common operations are defined (overloaded operators ...
