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I am facing a very frustrating issue with my computer right now. I successfully upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10 this afternoon, but after the upgrade, the graphical user interface seems completely broken. To be more specific, I can not get the Unity bar to appear on the right.
I have tried many things,…
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What should I learn? OpenGL 4.1 or OpenGL ES 2.0?
I will be developing desktop applications using Qt but I may start developing mobile applications in a few months, too. I don't know anything about 3D, 3D math, etc and I'd rather spend 100 bucks in a good book than 1 week digging websites and going…
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I was doubting: I'm writing a cross-platform engine OpenGL C++, I figured out windows forces the developers to access OpenGL features above 1.1 through extensions.
Now the thing is, on Linux, I know that I can directly access functions if the version supports it through glext.h and opengl version…
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I have migrated my code from OpenGL ES 2/3 to OpenGL 3 (I added bunch of defines and abstract classes to encapsulate both versions, so I have both in one project and compile only one or another). All I need to change was context initialization and glClearDepth. I dont have any errors. This was kind…
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When I try to run my lwjgl project, an error pops . Here is the log file:
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A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
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EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x6d8fcc0a, pid=5612, tid=900
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JRE version: 6.0_16-b01
Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (14.2-b01 mixed…
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I'm trying to come up with ideas for games to develop - as per the advice on this question I've started jotting down and brainstorming my ideas as I get them, and it has worked relatively well - I now have a growing collection of ideas that I think are relatively original.
The trouble is that I'm…
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Please, look at this GIF:
The label on the animation says "Move button is pressed, then released". And you can see when it's pressed (and player's getCenterY() is above wall getCenterY()), gravity doesn't work. I'm trying to fix it since yesterday, but I can't.
All methods are called from game…
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I recently enrolled at a community college for game developement. But I am skeptical about the circulum. I have no experience in the gaming industry so I wouldnt be able to tell rather its a good investment or not. So I am asking you.
I dont want to get too much into detail of all the classes I am…
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Call main.lua script at each game loop iteration - is it good or bad design? How does it affect on the performance (relatively)?
Maintain game state from a. C++ host-program or b. from Lua scripts or c. from both and synchronise them?
(Previous question on the topic: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2674462/lua-and-c-separation-of-duties…
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I am developing a Java application, well, it's actually a small game. I want to build up the application as follows: when it starts, a window should appear which has a menu with four choices: 'Start game', 'Options', 'Highscores' and 'Quit'. If you then click game, the game starts, preferrably in…
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