Unanswered Questions
492 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Using PhysX, how can I predict where I will need to generate procedural terrain collision shapes?
In this situation, I have terrain height values I generate procedurally. For rendering, I use the camera's position to generate an appropriate sized height map. For collision, however, I need to have ...
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How can I create a set of collision points for an arbitrary mesh?
In my project I am working on automatically deforming an arbitrary mesh with respect to another arbitrary mesh, within the context of user generated content, similar to this deformer being developed ...
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Scoreboard setdisplay list shows correctly per char. Can i make my sidebar show correctly per char as well?
So I've been writing a script over the last little while in Python that interacts with the Minecraft console. I'm basically trying to make a scoreboard based currency system that is world independent ...
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Unity3D LLAPI and Pyhton UDP communication
I need a Unity3D game on Android to receive UDP packages from a Python script running on a different device.
Using System.Net is not (yet) an option, as it is only supported on Android with a valid ...
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How can I determine "exact moment" of collision with ray casting?
I'm currently brainstorming how the physics for my game engine is going to be handled.
It's top down and I'm thinking of using ray casting for collision detection.
I've reached two potential problems (...
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Support function of Minkowski Difference
I am watching this and if you stop at 7:25, you will find an implementation of the support function. The goal of the function is to give you the farthest point in a given direction. My question is how ...
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How can I move a vehicle using speed and steering angle?
I want to drive a vehicle in x and y coordinate area with range from (0,0) to (6000,5000). I am using Visual Components (using Python API).
On input I have speed data and steering angle of wheels ...
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Determine user mouse selection of 3D Object for multiple viewports
I am currently working on setting up some world objects for my level editor and am running into a bit of a snag. When I get the hit location from the mouse raycast, I would like to determine what part ...
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Understanding unknown mesh data structure
I have a large number of old mesh files in a custom, undocumented binary format. I have managed to parse almost everything but am left with one group of structures, described below, that I don't ...
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Python interpreter as in-game console
Say I have a game which has lots objects (NPCs, monsters, etc.), I want a console so I can change the variables of the objects (like changing HP for example), how could I embed python into my program, ...
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Wall sliding collision resolution with multiple objects
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My collision resolution algorithm with wall sliding works perfect for multiple walls but it fails when the angle of the corner of two walls is less than 90 degrees. (acute angles) and the player ...
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How to convert screen to world coordinates while using gluLookAt / gluPerspective or similar matrix transforms?
I am just starting an adventure in looking under the hood of graphics for a game project I've been working on for a while, and I could use some guidance.
I am using Python/Kivy (though that is not ...
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Creating a victory zone / Count units inside zone
So I am attempting to create a zone implementation where if the amount of units with a certain tag exceeds the number of units with another tag an objective will be captured standing in the zone will ...
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How to implement path-finding with a large number of blocking agents following similar paths?
I want to implement a demo like creeps laning in Dota 2.
So for simplicity, there is Left team and Right team, they are enemies.
Units from Left team move toward Right base, and units from Right team ...
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Unity - kinematic rigidbody character calling OnCollisionEnter and OnCollsionExit on every frame for specific collisions
I'm encountering an issue with my character collider behavior. I have several elements that are relevant to this issue:
a "character" gameobject (capsule mesh), that is assigned with a kinematic ...
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