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Hi everyone,I've got a question about how to set the clip planes for my camera when rendering real-scale planets. I think I've got most things figured out (render the scene with camera at the origin,...
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Hello. Excuse me for longer post but I wanted to be specific. Sorry for possible grammar mistakes.I would like to ask for tips and recommendations on a certain type of creating reference images for 3D...
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View ArticleUnity - Observer pattern or conditional logic in Update method for...
So i have a bit of a conundrum at the moment. I have a piece of UX (in a Canvas panel) that needs to be shown or hidden, depending on some condition in gameplay logic. Up until now I've been doing this...
View ArticleCopy OpenGL texture from one context to another while contexts are in...
Hi,For some weird reason, I need to render a texture (Render to texture) in an openGL application and use that texture as in input to another openGL application. I have been trying to find a solution...
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Hello everyone.I have my camera in third person, as shown below.As you can see, the player is in the center, covering the crosshairs and making it difficult.How do I move the player to the side as...
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Zirthian is a shoot-'em-up arcade-style side-scroller with cool mechanics and even cooler game art, with a release planned for winter 2020.Zirthian will have mechanics such as procedurally generated...
View ArticleSpaceship control and physics with iOS Sprite Kit
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View ArticleDungeon Dash: Arcade
Hi everyone, Decided to make an arcade style game as my first android game project.The idea was mostly to learn / test different aspects of android game development but it's a complete game experience...
View ArticleHow a whole level is handled in collision detection/physics engines?
Hey all!I've started to play around with a physics engine and as my level gets bigger and bigger my fps drops significantly due to the lots of collision objects added to the physics engine. This...
View Article2D engine design/architecture: model 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...
View ArticleIs it necessary to add name filters to in-game text editors (for games...
Words that would be considered “bad” words are passed around quite frequently in the online community, and I want my game to be a family-friendly online community platformer game. So should I program...
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View ArticleHow to Stop the Spread of Overdraw (Before It Kills Your Game)
There is a single thing that has killed the GPU performance of thousands of mobile games: the famous Unity Overdraw. Do you know what overdraw is and what is doing to you?Don't let overdraw ruin your...
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