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This is my build command: ...
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I'm a complete noob when it comes to math so excuse my ignorance. I've trying to automate strafe jumping (from the quake engine) into another quake engine based game. I've tried a fair bit to get this ...
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I'm experimenting with compute shaders in Unity. A pretty typical thing you wanna do is marshal a buffer of structs back and fourth between C# and HLSL land. Ordinarily you'd have to manually define ...
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I'm doing some automated UI testing - I want to programmatically install a game and then launch it. From what I've seen, the Steam client isn't very accessible for UI automation (I can't view elements ...
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My current project has some editor scripts that I run just prior to run/build, which dynamically creates some game objects in my main scene based on configuration. I don't want these objects to ...
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I wish to build a card tracker that reads in game text and keeps track on the cards that are out. Like an Overwolf app, but for a card game. I mailed Overwolf and asked what are my options, they ...
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I'd like to build and package all the ports of my Unity game through a scripting system. Linux and Windows work fine through the Unity command line options, but there is none for WebGL. For WebGL, ...
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I want to automate some of my Unity build process. I know that setting up automatic builds for platforms is relatively easy, just start Unity headless and tell it to build platform X! This is fine ...
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So I have a script for getting into a car which, when mouse down is detected on the given game object it will teleport the player to the car, turn of the player's controller, and switch the player ...
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EDIT : at first I gave a lot of context for this question, explaining why I wanted to create a bot. I'm sorry it distracted people from my "actual" question. My question is pretty simple : how does ...
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I'm completely new to tile map creation. I'm a programmer and I'd like to make life easier for myself. It's a bit long to explain the problem I think I have, but bear with me. The Scenario: From ...
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glDrawElements can be used to save you from uploading a lot of vertices to the GPU. Many 2D games use tiles, which are rendered in grids. I have done some ...
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I am trying to make my sprite start moving from the moment it is created and do its animation. It draws on the screen right and animates but doesn't move. It should start moving towards the direction ...
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I have a lot of 3D Characters and I wish to use them in a 2.5D game as Sprites; in doing this I have to render them from a fixed camera angle and since each should have its own atlas file containing ...
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I'm trying to wrap my head around a control algorithm for a space game. If the user sets a target rotation I want to get a ETA counter and show the engine output. The only input to the system is a max ...
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I have successfully been able to add new tiles and place random trees on a 2d map grid however I haven't used chunks. I just load a new tile when the player moves and save it to the map array. But I ...
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I know of ClickOnce which creates an .exe file so a user can play my XNA game. However, I have to manually go through a wizard in order to create this file. I would like for the new .exe to be ...
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First 2d game in Unity. Started Character controller in C#. Tried to get the character to move constantly right then once it hits the wall move left without needing any input from the player. Looked ...
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I'm creating a 2D platformer and I'd like to implement an auto-tiling system. Normally, this wouldn't be particularly difficult. However, I'd like to have tiles like in Yoshi's Island, where the ...
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I'm designing a robust system for resolving item dependencies in Minecraft and to do so, I need to maintain a database of items and recipes. Right now, this database has to be hand-crafted (no pun ...
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I have an online multiplayer card game resembling spades/bridge and I want to implement a system that autoplays when a client disconnects. Right now, there is a client and server. In the new system, ...
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Is it possible to create a terminal application which uses cocos2d? I've tried to make one using cocos2d 2.x, but it requires a MacGLView to be initialized. I need it so that I could program a ...
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So I've grasped how to use A* for path-finding, and I am able to use it on a grid. However, my game world is huge and I have many enemies moving toward the player, which is a moving target, so a grid ...
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has anyone used or heard of a good selenium-like toolset for doing automated UI testing with Flash? I would ideally like to have the ability to record and playback events against my game and integrate ...
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There are two slightly different scenarios I am interested in and I'l give you examples of each. The first is like the tournament system in Super Smash Brothers Melee, when there can be dozens of cpu ...
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Disclaimer: this is an open-ended and kinda "far out" question Over the last few years I've made a few iPhone games. I use very common programs like Xcode and Illustrator to make the games. ...
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