Questions tagged [viewport]
An area (typically rectangular) expressed in rendering-device-specific coordinates, e.g. pixels for screen coordinates, in which the objects of interest are going to be rendered
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Can you help me solve the paradox that has confused me about the glViewport and glOrtho functions?
suppose that I have an image that I want to apply as a texture on a geometry (at time we don't consider texture mapping but this image has a certain width and height here it is a 512x512 image)
I want ...
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Why shouldn't I permit changing the field of view, if the technology allows for it?
This is less of a question aimed at developing a game and more about the technology behind it. A number of gaming journalists and pro gamers (both in the tournament and the home entertainment sector) ...
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Centering GLViewport position within physical screen
I'm developing my app on one device and want it to display at the same ratio on all other devices.
Currently what I have is 'image 1' in my image below - the game fits perfectly onto my development ...
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How do I render a cylindrical world space onto a flat, 2D view port in Unity?
The question is just a logical extension of this question.
So, how should I render a cylindrical world space onto a flat, 2D view port in Unity?
Thank you.
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LibGDX - Camera and viewport initialization in show()?
I'm reading the book LibGDX game development by example and the author tends to follow a pattern like
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get position of GameObject on rendertexture from camera
I'm rendering the camera output to an rendertexture on a plane. This works fine. But I want to put GameObjects on the rendertexture on positions of world objects that are visible on the camera.
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Drawing only objects that are currently in viewport [Gamemaker]
Following on from my previous question about optimising large object counts in Gamemaker, I am looking for a method for the solution proposed by liggiorgio.
My game has large numbers of small, sprite-...
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How can I calculate the orthographic projection needed to encompass an object with arbitrary rotation?
So I need to set up the dimensions of a orthographic projection that will encompass the entirety of a bounding box when viewed from any arbitrary position.
That's an eye (programmer art); and the ...
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How to setup glOrtho and Viewport [duplicate]
When setting up a window I set 6 variables in my render class
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Making Minecraft in 2D. Blocks move when player moves
I want to make a 2D Minecraft game and I have drawn the grass blocks and you can dig but when the palyer moves the dirt moves too.
It draws on every block wich the player touches a dirt block because ...
