I'm attempting to build a Lunar Lander style game on the iPhone. I've got Cocos2D and I'm going to use Box2D. I'm wondering what the best way is to build the floor for the game. I need to be able to create both the visual aspect of the floor and the data for the physics engine.
Oh, did I mention I'm terrible at graphics editing?
I haven't used Box2D before (but I have used other 2D physics engines), so I can give you a general answer but not a Box2D-specific answer. You can easily just use a single static (stationary) Box if you want a flat plane as the floor. If you want a more complicated lunar surface (lots of craters, the sea of tranquility, whatever), you can construct it by creating a variety of different physics objects - boxes will almost always do the trick. You just want to make sure that all your boxes are static. If you do that, they won't move at all (which you don't want, of course) and they can overlap without and problems (to simulate a single surface).
Making an image to match your collision data is also easy. Effectively what you need to do is just draw a single image that more or less matches where you placed boxes. Leave any spots that don't have boxes transparent in your image. Then draw it at the bottom of the screen. No problem.
The method I ended up going with (you can see from my other questions) is to dynamically create the floor at runtime and then draw it to the screen.
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I am currently working on a 3d game in Unity, and I am working on the level design using ProBuilder. I basically created a huge cube which I "flipped normal", and a second one way smaller
which, as the other one, I flipped normal, but as soon as I crossed it while turning backward I could weirdly see through the small cube, which makes it feel unfinished. How could I fix this issue?
Normally in 3d games triangles can only be seen from one side. Usually this is not a problem because walls have some thickness. Since you clearly have paper thin walls made of only one layer of triangles this is exactly the result you should expect.
In short add the other side to your walls. The simples way is to duplicate the existing triangles and flipping them. Walls will still be paper thin of course. Later you should probably make them thicker.
I'm looking for ways to clip an entire unity scene to a set of 4 planes. This is for an AR game, where I want to be able to zoom into a terrain, yet still have it only take up a given amount of space on a table (i.e: not extend over the edges of the table).
Thus far I've got clipping working as I want for the terrain and a water effect:
The above shows a much larger terrain being clipped to the size of the table. The other scene objects aren't clipped, since they use unmodifed standard shaders.
Here's a pic showing the terrain clipping in the editor.
You can see the clipping planes around the visible part of the terrain, and that other objects (trees etc) are not clipped and appear off the edge of the table.
The way I've done it involves adding parameters to each shader to define the clipping planes. This means customizing every shader I want to clip, which was fine when I was considering just terrain.
While this works, I'm not sure it's a great approach for hundreds of scene objects. I would need to modify whatever shaders I'm using, and then I'd have to be setting additional shader parameters every update for every object.
Not being an expert in Unity, I'm wondering if there are other approaches that are not "per shader" based that I might investigate?
The end goal is to render a scene within the bounds of some plane.
One easy way would be to use Box Colliders as triggers on each side of your plane. You could then turn off Renderers on objects staying in the trigger with OnTriggerEnter/OnTriggerStay and turn them on with OnTriggerExit.
You can also use Bounds.Contains.
I'm making a 2D plane fighting game for the iPhone in cocos2d. I'm trying to make it so when you shoot an enemy plane, it breaks into a couple of separated pieces that will fall out of sight. What is generally the best practice for breaking one sprite up into many? should I create new images for each separate piece, or treat the initial image like a sprite sheet, and make a new sprite from segments?
Please look at this tutorial
It makes a grid of points then moves the internal (not-edge) ones around randomly a bit so it's not all perfect triangles. Then each update it moves/rotates the triangles separately--then draws them all at once.
You treat the whole thing as a sprite, so can run any of the usual actions on it. This example uses CCMoveBy to move the whole group down off the bottom.
Hi Friends
I Want to make a simple gaming Application in which the user hit the car and car breaks from that point means the image get little deformed when the user hit the car image. I know everything could be possible with using of lots of images and get change when user hit that car image but i don't want to use so many images.
is there any solution for this , how can i deform the image ..sorry for my English but , here i paste a link of the game that is on flash and this is what i exactly want..
http://www.playgecogames.com/file.php?f=657&a=popup
please respond soon
thanks
You don't say if this is in 2D or 3D, or what techniques you're going to use.
If you're implementing the game using OpenGL, it's fairly straightforward. The object can be made up of a regular mesh, with the image as a texture mapped to the mesh. When the user hits the object, you just deform the mesh.
A simple method would be to take a vector in the direction of the hit, displace the nearest vertex by an amount proportional to the force of the strike, and then fan out in to deform the rest of the mesh in decreasing amounts. By deforming the mesh, the image texture will be rendered with all the dents or deformations you like.
If you want to to this without OpenGL and just straight images, you could use image resampling to simulate the effect. You have your original pristine image which is 'filtered' to make up the resulting image. At first there are no deformations so you copy the original image verbatim. Each time the user hits the object, you can add a deformation using a filter or transform within a local region of interest. This function would resample the source image in a distorted manner, causing it to look like the object is damaged.
If you look up some good books on game development, you'll find a great range of approaches to object collisions, deformations and so on.
If you know a bit about image processing technics here is the documentation for accessing the pixels of the image :
Apple Reference
You also have libraries for this such as this one :
simple-iphone-image-processing
But for what you want to do this might not be the easiest way. What I would suggest is that you divide the car into several images depending on what areas can be impacted. Then you just change the image corresponding to the damaged zone each time the car is hit.
I think you should use the cocos2d effects http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/wiki/doku.php/prog_guide%3aeffects + multiple images. Because there are many parts which drops after the player kick the car. Like when user kick the side mirror you should change the car image with without side mirror car image.
The person that has made that flash game used around 4 images to display the car. If you want the game to be in 2d, the easiest way is to draw the car, cut it into about 4 pieces (: left side + right side (duplicate of the left side) hood and roof).
If you want to "really" deform the car you'll have to use a 3d engine like openGLES.
Id really suggest doing it in 2d :)
I suggest having a look at the cocos2d game engine. You can modify images with effects, which are applied using a virtual grid. Have a look at the effects page in their programming guide.
I'd like to create a game that has levels such as this: http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/7294/picdq.png
The Player moves "flies" through the level and mustn't collide with the walls. How can I create such levels?
I found that piece of software: http://www.sapusmedia.com/levelsvg/
It's not that cheap, so I wonder whether there is another way to create such a level as shown in the picture above...?
You can do that pretty easy by reading the color value of pixels at specific places of the level. Take for instance that your level background is white and the walls are black. In order to perform collision detection, whether your character had hit the wall, you would do the following:
-take your character's position
-look at the color values of the pixels of your map that overlap with character's bounding box or sphere at that position
-if any of those contain black color you have yourself a collision :)
Now if your level is all colourful, you would want to build a black and white mask texture that would reflect the wall surfaces of your actual map. Then use the coloured map for drawing and the bw map for collision detection.
I'd spend a good solid couple weeks getting caught up on Objective-C, Xcode, Interface Builder, and Apple iOS documentation. There are many good tutorials out there and sample Xcode projects to download and run on the iPhone/iPad simulator.
If just starting out, some of those quick startup libraries can rob you of the intimate knowledge you'll need to create the intricacies and nuances you'll need when your application starts to reach outside the boundaries of the code sandbox. Not bad to use as learning tools or to speed up development time, but I'd advise against using them as a crutch until you strengthen your developer legs. Crawl. Walk. Run!