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Note: the main problem has nothing to do with the TYPE of pathfinding algorithm (A*, flow-field etc), allow me to explain: I have a 2d grid and a lot of agents moving around, I want it so that ...
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In Unreal Engine 5, whenever I run the game, the viewport becomes very blurry with strange artifacting and twitching. This only happens when I'm attached to the player controller. If I eject from it, ...
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I was thinking about making a real-time (not tour-like) PvP game where both players among other attributes would have 'speed' attribute that would define their movement and attack speed. But because ...
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I would like to develop a simulation/video-game of some fish swimming in water. This simulation needs to have real time performance and the fish movement should be as physically accurate as possible. ...
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In Steve Swink's book "Game Feel", he talks about 3 thresholds the computer must meet in order to maintain the illusion of real-time control. The impression of motion (display above 10 ...
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I'm thinking about developing a scalable real-time online multiplayer game. it would be an online 2D battle game. I'm an experienced software developer but this is my first experience in game ...
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This is my first foray into game-dev and I only have webapp experience professionally. I'm creating a browser game in nodejs/react. It is mostly text-based, so no intensive graphics (think chess.com ...
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I've currently implemented rollback netcode with a central, authoritative server (wooh!). I'm running into issues where if players have zero input delay, the other players see them "teleport"...
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I am building some online multi-player web-based games. Naturally, we are using WebSockets to connect to the game server. I need to store "real-time" data for these games, things like which ...
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I have a solar system... The central star has a point light attached to it. However, objects don't cast shadows on each other... Planets are < 20 units from the star, so it's not a light falloff ...
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I'm making an online RPG that could classify as an MMO, but I'm keeping the project scope very small by making the game's systems simple, and focusing mostly on what I want to learn: real-time ...
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I use unity. So far I know that the baked GI is less GPU processing when the game is played so if possible, I need to use baked GI. Newbie question: I'm using unity and just curious in the light ...
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I am kinda new to Multiplayer Games and I am really wondering how I should handle my data Should each player send and update their data to the database (server) everytime one of their essential ...
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A hallmark of many idle games is the ability to still progress (or at least regain resources) while the game isn't active. The device can even be off. Initially I figured they just calculated ...
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In Unity what is the unit that time follows ? (milliseconds, microseconds or seconds?)
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Special attacks in Mortal Kombat Mobile require slow motion i.e. delay in game play. On multiplayer mode, when the opponent uses special attacks, I don't observe any lag/delay. When I use special ...
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How is time modelled in unity? Is it same as the time in real-world?
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I know what raytracing is, but I'm a bit curious how games are able to reflect off-screen geometry using raytracing in real-time. I tried looking up the technical details but most of the articles are ...
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So I'm working on a real time multiplayer game in NodeJs (Client and Server). Both loops handle the same "physics" (movement at a constant rate) and both are running at 40hz or 40 times per second. I ...
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I am designing a game based around a fairly realistic simulation of 'Age of sail'-like trading and combat, and I am currently trying to decide whether to make the game a limited on-line application, ...
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I'm trying to build a real-time MMO game. I'm using Phaser for FE and Node.js + socket.io for BE. I have read all the tutorials like http://www.gabrielgambetta.com/client-side-prediction-server-...
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I'm doing research to implement a shadow algorithm for omnidirectional soft shadows in a real-time 3D renderer. I've read about PCF but to me it doesn't look very realistic since it doesn't "fade" ...
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Context I am building a MMO game in HTML5 with canvas. I use NodeJS on server & JS from scratch on client. I also use socket.io to manage realtime. The game is persistent & each player keep ...
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I am currently working on a fighting game (with 3d graphics, gameplay like a 2d fighter) and encountered a pretty big hurdle I currently don't know how to deal with. For fighting games, input ...
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In games such as Starcraft Brood War, players at the start of the game don't have as much to do compared to later on when they have to manage multiple battles and multiple bases at once. This means at ...
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I'm using the IntersectMovingAABBAABB implementation from the book Realtime Collision Detection and I'm having a little bit of ...
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I'm surprised I couldn't find much information on this. I am making a top-down browser game in which the players see a small section around their player (see the image). Since the player doesn't need ...
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My game uses UDP communication only. Meaning: after the lobby connect (performed by Google Play Services), not a single TCP transmission is made. Only unreliable messages are used. The game is ...
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I am writing an application in Unity which will be required to capture an image from a camera every frame (at ~60fps), and send the resultant data to another service running locally. The issue is, I ...
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I have some code to lerp between two colors over a set number of seconds, and the lerp works fine: ...
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I'm working on an editor where one important feature is to save and load changes (all type of changes like adding and removing objects and their components and components property values) I want to ...
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Hello I want to understand how much overheads do implementing inverse kinematics in realtime add. I am looking at an implementation as such demonstrated in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
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Does Unity allow streaming mesh data that can be continuously changed? I have a level that is dynamically changing based on some parameters. The number of triangles stays the same, they just change ...
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I am using socket.io and HTML 5 canvas to build a MMO game as a practice. I finished the client side first and currently I am working on server side. Apparently the position/physics update is on ...
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I am trying to figure out how to make a game like Pong in multiplayer. I have two devices that run the same simulation. Now I want to make sure that each of them start at the exact same time and send ...
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With thismethod I can create multiple separated islands just by randomly choosing a point as the center for a gradient. Now what I want to do is to have a system of real time generation like the one ...
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I know that UDP is usually recommended for real-time multiplayer games with high data usage. Most articles are serval years old, and since ~80% of all data transmitted on the internet is TCP, a lot ...
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Im having a really hard time figuring out how to configure my reflection probes to update in runtime once I build. The game port view looks totally different than the build view. Ive tried turning off ...
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I am creating a real time multiplayer game in unity 3d using Google Play Game Services. In my function where I deal with the positioning of players based on information that is sent from other players,...
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I am creating a real time multiplayer game in Unity 3d using Google Player Services that has a ball that the players will interact with. I'm not particularly sure how I will update the ball's position ...
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I'm working on an OpenSceneGraph animation, and I want events in the animation to be synchronized to a time reference provided by my audio player (BASS or FMod). Yes, this is a demo :) . Which time ...
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I am developing a small-scale TB/RT Strategy hybrid, not unlike the Total War series. It's in the classic medieval setting, with only melee infantry combat currently implemented for testing. Units are ...
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There are a lot of old posts about multiplayer implementations on SE, so i'm looking for an up-to-date answer. What is the best server-client implementation of real-time multiplayer now? I have an ...
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I have read the article here about realtime systems and am looking for examples specific to game loops. Am I correct in saying: Hard realtime systems will lag and slow down gameplay causing slow ...
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Does anyone know if it's possible to setup a multiplayer game using libgdx in Android Studio? I've been trying to convert my game to multiplayer using all kinds of tutorials on libgdx & ...
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I am working on a prototype for a very low poly game. I can't figure out a way for a player to cut or break objects in real time without predefined fractures. For example, if a player cuts a tree, it ...
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Is it secure to allow all game clients in a multiplayer game session to store sensitive opponent player data which should be revealed in the UI only upon a certain action (e.g. enemy building type ...
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I've been thinking up a real-time strategy game that plays on a platformer type of map. The collidable portion of these maps will be made up of square tiles. I've done A* pathfinding in top down tile ...
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I am looking at here and while it's well organized a lot of links are broken: http://www.realtimerendering.com/intersections.html I am trying to find fast code that will give me the hit point and the ...
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I am trying to figure out a way to get the Fragment Shader to output a list of gl_VertexID-s. I want to use the GPU to get a list of vertices in the viewing ...
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