Game Development Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, October 30, 2014

Top new questions this week: Transmission implementation in a car game I'm trying to create a simple car game with manual gear changes. However, I'm having a bit of trouble implementing the gear changes. Here's my current code for the "car": int gear = 1; // Current ... simulations car   asked by manabreak 18 votes answered by Baldrickk 12 votes In OpenGL, what is "zero state" rendering? Recently at a job interview, I mentioned that I taught myself modern OpenGL and rendering with vertex buffer objects because my university only taught the fixed function pipeline with immediate mode ... opengl rendering graphics-programming terminology   asked by usm 9 votes answered by v.oddou 8 votes How should I collect user behavior data in an MMO? In an MMO, and I'm trying to collect data about user behaviors for the purpose of tweaking the game rules to achieve maximum user satisfaction. Clearly one way to do it is to hand-roll specific ... mmo   asked by Robert Harvey 7 votes answered by Zehelvion 11 votes How to make a scrollbar? I am making my own UI for my game, no libraries used, basic UI with simple controls and I am almost done. Now, let's say I need to display lots of information, controls or items which obviously won't ... gui ui-design scrolling   asked by Little Helper 3 votes answered by Kable 4 votes How do you make specific collisions in Unity? So I have created a "game" where you are automatically running across platforms and you can jump and land on the top of them. I want to set it where if you collide with the the left and right side of ... c# unity   asked by user1627724 3 votes answered by Kelly Thomas 2 votes How to convert non-discreate data for discreate pathfinding? I have a list of entities that looks like [{x,y,width,height}, {x,y,width,height}, ...]. This list is non-discreate, It doesn't follow a grid. entities can be positioned at floats like x:2.345 Most ... vector path-finding data-structure navigation-mesh   asked by kevzettler 2 votes answered by Zehelvion 4 votes Key mapping for a 2-players game I've been struggling for a while trying to figure out the best way to map two players on a single keyboard. Let's consider something generic: Arrows Validation Cancel (optional) Some common actions ... multiplayer keyboard user-experience   asked by Vincent 2 votes answered by tepples 2 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Does allocating and freeing a huge chunk of memory at startup "clean up memory"? The book Game Coding Complete, Fourth Edition, chapter 5 (Game Initialization and Shutdown), section Checking Memory contains this interesting code sample: bool CheckMemory(const DWORDLONG ... c++ engine memory   asked by glampert 15 votes answered by Ilmari Karonen 9 votes How does Flow Field pathfinding work? Supreme Commander 2 has something called flow field path finding. How does it work? Is there some article available I can read up on how it works? path-finding   asked by Spoike 30 votes answered by tenpn 18 votes Can you answer these? Drag and drop in Flare3d Now iam working on drag and drop prototype in flare3d.I have a f3d object and have different boxes to place the parts of the f3d objects . when i drag the parts of f3d object towards the boxes,if ... collision-detection actionscript flex   asked by Deepika C P 1 vote OpenGL Bump Map -- Texture artifacts ? I am learning OpenGL (and learning the math behind it) and I'm making a simple OBJ viewer, nothing fancy. I have diffuse, specular and ambient light/texture working fine and now I am implementing the ... opengl textures shaders maps   asked by rXp 1 vote

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