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Correct order on accumulating rotations
Suppose I have an Arcball camera that rotates up/down and sideways based on mouse input. After doing some research, I discovered that the correct way of calculating the new orientation is to do it the ...
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How to hide things from noclipping players?
I am specifically working in Garry's Mod, and I am wondering if there might be a way to hide things from players using noclip to travel outside the bounds of the ...
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Sprite2D texture repeat switches from Mirror to Disabled when resizing window
In Godot 4, I set the texture repeat of a Sprite2D to 'Mirror',
When I run the game, it works fine except when I resize the window — then the texture repeat switches to 'disabled'.
Is there a ...
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How to make ranged RTS units move to their firing range from an opponent using flow fields?
I am trying to make a simple real-time strategy game (only the battle system of units fighting each other; no building, no economy, only battles and victory). I am using flow fields to make the units ...
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Different texture generation methods with opengl
I'm experimenting with texture generation so I can begin to implement height map generation/terrain generation. Right now I'm just experimenting with different generating functions. Right now I'm just ...
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Avoid player getting stuck with underpowered character
For a sidescrolling shooter I’m working on, I got stuck on the following: The game allows the player to buy upgrades for their character. This oppertunity comes in the form of a shop that sits at the ...
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Raycaster causes Freezing in Unity Using Oculus SDK and OVRPlayerController
I am creating a scene in Unity using the Oculus SDK and XR Plugin. My scene works well in the Quest 2 including 2 VFX I have added and sound effects. I am following a LinkedIn course about VR UI - and ...
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Would slo mo work for multiplayer?
I have hardly any programming knowledge but I want to get into game design but I have a question would slo mo work in multiplayer if used in this way. Where the player experience the game 10 times ...
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how to get all points contained in the area of an object of any shape
how would I get points contained by objects, so that I can check for intersections of points, and I also ask myself if checking for intersections each frame would be too CPU intensive?
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JIttery rendering and ghost trail behind platformer character in Godot
I have no gamedev experience and I just started learning. I wanted to develop a basic platformer to learn.
I got stuck pretty soon with rendering in Godot. When I run the game, it just feels... ...
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How to use Camera.cullingMask to selectively render certain objects?
The documentation of this method doesn't provide any examples of implementing it. I don't understand how it works or even how I should use it to only render particular objects while not rendering ...
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Instantiate prefab behind moving player
I'm trying to instantiate a bomb prefab behind the player.
The script below works fine when the y rotation is 0,90,180,360. The bomb is instantiated behind the player.
But for other angles, the bomb ...
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Isolating a mesh so it doesn't interact with Raycasts in Unity
My problem is as follows: I have a a convex hull of some points. Given a point that's outside of said convex hull, I would like to find the closest point on the convex hull.
To that end, I have a ...
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Bullet physics linker error
I am trying to build my project in VS, which is a copy of HelloWorld.cpp provided by Bullet.
I am getting a list of errors of sort "unresolved external symbol" when I build my project, ...
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How to calculate angular momentum of two colliding bodies about their shared center of mass in 2D?
I'm following this guide to implementing collisions in 2D physics.
It shows this diagram, but I don't understand how to calculate the values of Da and ...
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Generating tris for concave polygon 2D
I have an arbitrary array of points that describe vertices of the polygon 2D, they ar in order. To generate plane mesh for that, I need to generate tris. For something like circle/hexagon/square it is ...
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Modifying LibGDX vector2's seems to do nothing
I have a piece of code similar to this:
Vector2 test = new Vector2().setLength(20).setAngleDeg(45);
But when I'm trying to print its contents (such as ...
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Export a Gameobject to USDZ in Unity for Android and iOS
I have tried using the usd sdk from Unity and it seems like there is no support for usdz export in runtime for iOS and Android in Unity. I was wondering:
If anyone is familiar with any other external ...
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Data driven battle logic
Concept
I am designing turn-based boss battles and want each boss to have different behaviors and skills they perform during a battle. The boss is selected randomly and is identified by a unique ...
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Why are global constraints so ineffective?
There are two objects here, each with 3 constraint points.
I use formula:
$$
\lambda=(JM^{-1}J^{T})^{-1}(-JV-b)
$$
$$
\Delta V=M^{-1}J^{T}\lambda \
$$
I put the information of the three constraint ...
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Getting missing prefab error in unity
Getting the following error while loading a project on unity. I'm usung ubuntu
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Recreating The Lighting In Paper Mario: TTYD In Unity
Goal:
I would like to recreate the lighting in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.
Currently, I am only using a directional light.
I am also using URP.
Comparison:
Here is an example of how it ...
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Making contributions to a Unity project without having Unity editor installed
I'm interested in setting up a small Unity open source project so that non-Unity devs can contribute.
I would limit their involvement to making a small change to only one script, say adding a new ...
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Is there a logical reason for SFML's Vector2 being templated?
The game development library SFML has a Vector2 class template (and a Vector3 for that matter), which can use any arithmetic ...
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Character is stuck between grid cell gap [duplicate]
I started making a D&D-style turn based tactic game. I have a problem with my tilemap.
I made a script to find the location on the tilemap for my character and for the tile I clicked with the ...
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Stay Upright Within Rotating Area
I am making a game that takes place in space and I want you to be able to stay upright in a spaceship even if it rotates. I have this set up:
Its a platform and an area that rotates. I have ...
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How to combine 2 splines from different spline container in unity spline 2.3.0?
I'm working on with Unity Spline 2.3.0, I realize that the splines cannot be touch and combine with other splines that exits in different spline container.
Is there any way to connect them?
I tried to ...
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How to correctly rotate 2D orthographic projection around a central point?
I want to rotate a 2D orthographic projection around the centre point of my view. However, something is off (it looks like a translation) but I'm not sure what.
To put some concrete values on the ...
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UDim2.new(a, b, c, d) is acting very strangely
I am using a debugger and (i-1)*50 is equal to 50, but ...
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Stitch meshes with different level of detail
I have an implementation for generating a mesh using marching cubes with different levels of detail.
The issue arises when transitioning between meshes with higher vertex density (smaller scale meshes)...
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How time zone differences affect play time of early access N-day window?
I have seen a couple of game developers that grant early access for their video games N days before release date noting that "actual game time is subject to applicable time zone differences"....
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How to smooth sprites drawn from an atlas (either with linear filtering or some post processing technique)?
I've been doing a 2D renderer for a Tibia clone and came up with a design where all textures are bundled into a texture atlas. The pixelated style isn't working well (textures are often shrinked or ...
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How are character controllers built upon complex gameplay systems?
I would like some industry advice. I feel like the starting part to every game I create is the character controller. My goal is to create a solid base character controller that I can expand upon for ...
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The bottom of the player capsule collider is going into the ground box collider
The bottom part of the player capsule collider is going inside the ground collider. I am using a raycast for detecting whether the plauer is grounded; an object (sphere) that is present on the bottom ...
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How to assign a Resource Array to a variable in Godot 4?
In Godot 3, you could do this:
export var (Array, Resource) test_variable
I tried to recreate this in Godot 4, but I could not figure out how. This is what I tried:...
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Texture wrapping mode for KHA
I'm working on a game engine which is written in Haxe with the Kha API.
I need to set a texture to wrap mode but I can't find any function or variable to use/set.
The image is created with these ...
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Why does Unity have no official gameplay framework?
As a generalist developer, I have made many server and backend apps and also client-side UI apps. Most of these environments have a certain architecture. For example, in most backend apps, even in ...
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How to generate levels similar to Spirit Hunters: Infinite Horde?
I am doing research on map generation, and want to know how to generate something like this area in the game Spirit Hunters: Infinite Horde:
Here are the specific features I want to reproduce:
Layer ...
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How to change the locomotive status from moving in a spline to moving in the next spline when it meets the next rail?
I want to make a train that can move in a curve. I have downloaded a Train Spline Walker unity package.
That package can generate a spline, and the train's locomotive will move in the spline with a ...
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Gaps between terrain chunks generated with marching cubes
My generated terrain chunks have gaps between them:
I'm using Compute Shader and Simplex Noise from FastNoiseLite library to generate noise:
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LWJGL Shader not displaying anything to the screen
My basic shader program isn't displaying anything to the screen. Please Help!
Here's my code:
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Finding loss of angle and length due to rotation
I'm working on a targeting system for my 2d game. But I want to see the object in isometric perspective. My calculation is correct for 2d objects but it doesn't work for rotated in x axis objects.
I ...
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Editor script in VStudio cannot 'see' main scripts
(Notice: This is a crosspost with r/UnityHelp)
When loading a custom editor script into VStudio, it cannot see the main game scripts. This is quite annoying for writing code, as you'll imagine.
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How to deal with different version of Direct3D12 interfaces?
Let's say I want to enable debug layers for a Direct3D 12 renderer, for which I need to create a ID3D12Debug object. Problem is, there are 6 different version of ...
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Unity custom shader turning pink
I'm quite new to writing custom shaders. Wanted to try it out by creating a sand-standard surface shader. A problem that occurred was when I finished writing my custom shader in Unity, the material ...
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How to handle collision detection with different 2D shapes while maintaining performance? Is polymorphism appropriate?
If I'm making a small library for handling 2D shapes, should polymorphism generally be avoided? I know that it can worsen performance but it's not like polymorphism is never used in game development ...
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VR Controllers in Roblox Studio not working as expected
I am trying to create a Roblox game with VR support. My understanding is that this code should move the hands of the character as the user moves the controllers:
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What does the Project Manager star do?
Can't seem to find any reference to this,
...but what does the star on the left hand side Godot Engine Project Manager actually do?
Yes, I also need better names for my projects.
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How to make real-time pvp game where both players perceive in-game time normally while actual relative time-flow speed between them is different?
I was thinking about making a real-time (not tour-like) PvP game where both players among other attributes would have 'speed' attribute that would define their movement and attack speed.
But because ...
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Is it safe to store the state of a game in Javascripts localStorage?
I am going to be completely honest, this is not 100% about storing a game state in Javascript's localStorage, it is more to do with a utility program storing statistics. Since it can be related to ...
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