Questions tagged [perspective]
An approximate representation, on a flat surface, of an image as it is seen by the eye.
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How do you create a "View Volume" for beginner 3D graphics?
Observer peers through window into 3D world (in this case three-dimensional Euclidean space). Using analogy of window for simplicity, observer perceives a 2D image from their PoV. A static, 2D ...
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Could anyone review my introductory understanding of 3D computer graphics? [duplicate]
Observer peers through window into 3D world (in this case three-dimensional Euclidean space). Using analogy of window for simplicity, observer perceives a 2D image from their PoV. A static, 2D ...
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How do I turn my POV in Roblox Studio?
I can't figure out how to turn my POV in Roblox Studio like in regular Roblox. Instead, I get stuck facing the same side, which makes it very hard to make my games. Is there some code I have to add or ...
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Diagonal directions for cuboid in 3/4 axonometric rpg view
In pixel art, how can I construct the diagonal directions for this cuboid?
The goal is to create an 8 directional turnaround for a 2D top-down game.
I am using the 3/4 rpg view, made popular through ...
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Approach to rendering a planet texture
I'm making a space game using Godot 4, and I need to capture the "hugeness" of planets. I figured I'd use spheres with textures on them for planets. The textures have identifiable ...
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Setting up perspective projection in OpenGL
I'm trying to set up perspective projection in OpenGL but it doesn't work
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Name of 2D Image From Above
What do you call a 2D game where its view is directly from above looking down?
Does the art style have a similar name? (Ie isometric is a art style, but not the art style name I am after.)
When I use &...
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How to Generate a Texture to Make an Obstructing Plane Appear Invisible in a 3D Scene?
I have a 3D scene with a camera. Between the camera and the scene, I have a plane with arbitrary orientation. This plane obscures a portion of the scene from the camera’s perspective (anything behind ...
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Changing the scale of a character and speed to match the perspective of a 2D background while traveling along the Y axis
I am making a 2D point and click game, just for fun.
I want to create some sense of perspective, so I am trying to change the scale of the player as he travels along the Y axis. Obviously, the speed ...
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Perspective projection distortions
I'm building my own engine using python and pygame however my cube model is not able to be displayed correctly. This is my result after applying translation, scaling and projection matrices:
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When device is put in landscape mode, a cube in the corner of the screen no longer appears to face forward
I've made a cube in the corner of my screen always face forward:
transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(Vector3.forward);
If I hold my iPad upright, in ...
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Include camera movement and calculation in the 3D game
I was sent here by softwareengineering.stackexchange.com.
I am writing a WinForms .NET application using C#. I use SkiaSharp for drawing for performance reasons.
I can already create a cuboid, rotate ...
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Is it okay to combine 2 "perspective genre"?
I've just started making a RPG and I'm thinking about putting 2 kind of "genre" perspective, like having a Top-Down gameplay for the entire storyline and putting a 2D fighter for the battle ...
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3D image projected to 2D image
We know real world images are 3D.when we projects image from real world this image projects into 2D image where Z component is constant or zero. But when capture the below image which seems to 3D(z ...
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Perspective of a Point Light
I'm trying to calculate shadows by projecting the silhouette of each object seen by the light source.
(The shadows are just going to go on planes.)
To get each silhouette I take a snapshot from the ...
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Understanding the math behind perspective matrix in OpenGL
I've been trying to figure out the math behind perspective matrix for 2 weeks now but I'm failing badly. I understand the theory behind the perspective matrix but I am not sure how the math works.
The ...
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How to handle player slowness while moving up and down in a Top Down game with angled ortho camera and angled sprite due to stretching of ground?
So i'm making a 2D top down game setup in 3D using tilted Sprites and angled orthographic camera.
My camera setup is as shown.
In my game I have the floor flat on the X/Z plane with walls/characters ...
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Confused about why my projection matrix works
My projection matrix was buggy, I'm not great at mathematics, but I checked it against the the songho tutorial, and the broken one seems correct to me but switching nearplane to farplane seems to ...
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Möbius effect in Unity
This morning I've seen the following animation on Twitter. It is a kind of Möbius strip effect.
It's cool! Isn't it? So I've decided to build something similar using Unity, just for fun. I want to ...
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Compute spheres 2D speeds in perspective projected animations
I created two animations that consist of spheres moving in a perspective projected 3D space, which means that the size and speed of the spheres vary with the distance: they increase when they are ...
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How to place a camera so that it always fits a plane?
I have a plane that can get its scale changed during the game, and I want to make the camera view it completely every time the plane has its scale changed. The only camera is set to perspective ...
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Taking cube from camera space to clip space, error in my math?
watching Ken Joy's Computer Graphics lectures on youtube. One thing I'm confused about is after he gets the cube from the camera space to clip space, from my calculations the cube doesn't look like ...
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How to make game playable in all mobile screen resolution using Unity Cinemachine with perspective mode?
I want my 2D game to be playable (auto scale) in all screen resolution. I'm using Cinemachine & under "perspective" mode. I found tutorial to change the screen in "orthographic" mode but there is ...
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How can you create a side-scrolling beat-em-up perspective in Unreal Engine?
How can I achieve Streets of Rage type of perspective in UE4? By that, I mean having a 2D character that walks "into" the screen, but the character doesn't get smaller or angled in any way.
Is there a ...
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What is the alternative (new) 3d projection called that solves the stretching / zooming at sides of monitor?
I understand about camera's and projections etc, such that we have distortion and zooming when at the sides of the screen (exacerbated on 21:9 monitors), however a few years ago, in a Unity forum ...
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How and where to transform a Camera Frustum onto a tilted screen?
In rendering tutorials for perspective projection the assumption is that the rendering surface is perpendicular to the sight line.
As shown here:
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How to avoid the cutoff of a Sprite when overlapping in a terrain?
I have a scene where I have a terrain as a PlaneGeometry. And I'm trying to locate a building on it as Sprite. But I'm not able to put that building/sprite centered on the terrain without getting a ...
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Difference between two perspective projection representations
When researching perspective projections on the web, I've come across two different representations. One is unrelated to OpenGL and the other is strictly associated with it.
What is the relation of ...
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3D Perspective issues
My team is currently developing a 3D Sidescroller game and we encountered some issues regarding the whole in-game perspective of the levels.
The levels are composed of 3D modeled corridors which are ...
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How can I emulate Diablo 3's Isometric view using Perspective?
Using DX11, SimpleMath I am building a isometric game like Diablo 3 in 3D and I want to use a perspective camera that emulates their top down view.
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Finding the normals of the planes of a View Frustum
Say I have a perspective view matrix function that takes in aspect, fovy, near, and far... Transforming the view into a frustum. Typical OpenGL stuff, right. But say then, that I would like to find ...
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Assigning sprite to a sorting layer through scripting
I have few prefabs with sprites which I want to assign to different sorting layers. How can I do it?
I am also wondering if sorting layers matter if I use a perspective camera. Do they?
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How do I get from orthographic to perspective?
I programmed a cube in java and calculated the x y and z position for it's rotation on the x,y and z axis but I'm finding it hard to display the z axis i've been trying to change the distance of the ...
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Simulating a real camera's perspective projection
I'm trying to simulate a real camera's perspective projection of straight, parallel lines running along the ground (one-point perspective) by mapping the real-world 3D coordinates of the lines to 2D ...
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How to return the scene view camera to the default view
By the "scene view camera" I don't mean a GameObject with a Camera component, I mean the camera used to draw the Scene ...
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When does OpenGL Perform Perspective Divide
When does OpenGL divide by W? Is this done automatically within the vertex shader? It is my understanding that the vertex shader outputs the final vertex position, so I presume no transformations can ...
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Perspective View using Spritesheets
I am creating a Top-View 2D game. However, the only way i can get a good view of the objects, such as houses, trees, is to make the game in orthographic view. The same way games such as Pokemon games ...
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Are there any math limitations on the near plane in a perspective matrix?
I've noted that if in the perspective camera I put near plane to a low number like 0.000001 and far plane to 1000 my render has ...
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Perspective projection in Open GL
I am trying to convert a 3d point into a 2d point using a perspective projection. I'm new to OpenGL and may not have fully understood how this works. How exactly do I calculate the near and far values?...
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Strange Light Angles in Unity
I'm quite sure that I'm missing something very simple here, but I'm a complete Unity noob and I absolutely can't figure out what I'm seeing.
I'm trying to light a sphere from both sides, ...
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View "distortion" or "stretching" when looking up/down? (Software renderer)
I'm not sure distortion is the right way to describe this. I've uploaded a video to show you guys. Apologies if it's long, but I wanted to show the code as well as posting it here. https://youtu.be/...
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Moving an object extremely close to the camera at a constant speed makes it visually speed up
I have a quad in 3D space (a billboard in the real-world sense) that I want to move close to the camera so the user can inspect it. The quad is defined by the 3D coordinates of its four corners.
To ...
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Box2D in 3D space
I am trying to combine a perspective camera with a box2D world using libgdx and I am having some problems getting the two to synch up. I want to do this so I can use 3D models but keep the game in a ...
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Rendering perspective independent polygons in perspective view
I am creating an editor where I have "grabhandles" that can be dragged to transform a primitive object.
My problem is that I can't find the correct solution to show these grabhandles in a perspective ...
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Asymetric Perspectiv View
I am building a addon component that will show synthesized 3D view of the world (kind of FLIR camera simulation). The problem I am facing is that currently I am using Symmetric Perspective View with ...
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glm::perspective isn't working?
So I'm learning how to make games and program, and while trying to setup a projection camera using GLM in GFLW, this line of code refuses to work and I can't figuire out why. The code is in the image ...
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LibGDX limit the PerspectiveCamera for a FPS view
I'm using LibGDX and I'm trying to implement a FPS camera into my game. I'm not using the FirstPersonCameraController for multiple reasons:
I don't want to touch to roll (only yaw and pitch), with ...
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How to fake a 3d character displacement by sprite scaling in GameMaker?
I want my 2D sprite to become bigger when moving down the screen (closer to the camera), smaller when walking away and to maintain the same size when moving left or right.
The scaling along the y ...
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OpenGL Perspective Issue
I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem with my simple OpenGL test program, which I've written in C. I've written some math routines to do the matrix manipulation, but even after copying known working ...
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Unity - Static Camera Perspective, Walls Obscure Player
Pretty simple and common problem here.
The world I'm designing is fully explorable, no invisible walls or tricks. It's presented as a single seamless area, a School complex with 9 buildings, some of ...
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