Unanswered Questions
1,088 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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How do I draw a name above monsters head?
My player HUD works perfect, but when I move, the monster name moves with me instead of getting attached to the monster.
Player has a HUD and I'm using Scene2D.ui ...
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Handling movement on sloped surfaces - clamping character to sloped surface
I've noticed that a lot of people seem to have this issue but I've yet to find an actual working solution - when a rigidbody-based character controller (I'm not using Unity's character controller) ...
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LibGDX Box2D Lights - Illuminate background
I have a box2D world made of tiles. I use a custom DirectionalLight for light up the scene from above (It shines through transparent blocks [eg.: the water] more deeply). The problem is (as expected), ...
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How to correctly implement 'layered lighting' with Box2D-Lights
How does one only allow Box2D-Lights to affect one and only one OrthographicCamera.
After researching, I found the following answer. This answer goes into detail ...
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On Android, How can I avoid FPS drops during sensor listener setup/tear down?
When I open my Android app after 5 or 10 seconds it sets up the sensor listener, during which I see clear stuttering and the FPS drops for a second to 40 instead of 60.
Is there a way to avoid this? ...
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Drawing fonts with LWJGL3 with OpenGL
I'm very sorry if this question has already been answered, but since I've been struggling with this for many days I thought I'd give it a shot here.
My goal is to somehow render some text on the ...
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LibGDX Rectangle not Scaling to ImageButton Instance as Expected
below is the class I wrote for a GameButtoninstance:
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LibGdx animation sequence
In my game the character movement animations work fine
but now I'm trying to do a sequence of programmatic animations,
for an enemy character, and it's proving to be a pain.
I'm just doing it on ...
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Lunar Lander calculating gravity, acceleration and collision in GameMaker
I've already asked this on the GameMaker forums but had no response so far.
I'm making a little Lunar Lander game as my first foray in to GameMaker, I'm wanting to have the ship land and take off ...
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Spawning enemies in four different positions with a fixed trajectory in android game
This is my first android game, I appreciate all the help. I want to define 4 spawning zones starting from out of the screen (left, right, up and down). Enemies coming from this areas have a fixed ...
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balloon ligher than air with libgdx, impementation of FixtureDef.density, gravityScale, linearDamping?
I use libGdx/box2d's physic. My intention is to create a balloon filled with helium (a body, what hovers above a surface, if we apply a little force to it - it moves fast but not far, if we push ...
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Why is my OpenGL enabled Java game not detected by Fraps?
Recently I found out that I could enable OpenGL hardware acceleration in my Java game with the line
System.setProperty("sun.java2d.opengl", "True");
Initial ...
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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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3D Physics Engine Collision Response: Solving Simultaneous Collisions via equation
I have been implementing a basic physics engine for a small game project I'm working on. It has very specific requirements, so I decided to try and write my own physics engine to meet them. I found ...
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How do I handle Game Screens in LibGDX?
In my game the main screen is the playscreen. But because I want to draw the menu and the gameover screen on top of the playscreen, I don't create separate screens for them. But if I want to replay, I ...