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I'm trying to create a simple-ish game/engine/framework thing in C++, and I'm trying to come up with my own code instead of following a tutorial so I can learn to do it in a freer and more hands-on ...
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I'm currently developing a game on Windows using the MSYS2 environment and mingw64. I've successfully installed SDL2 using the msys package manager (pacman) and using CMake, was able to get it up and ...
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I am programming a game using DirectX 12. Shall it support all GPUs? Or just newer GPUs? What about the version of the Windows OS supported? What changes when a new DirectX version comes?
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Can I safely delete the following Unity-related files in order to clear up space? %APPDATA%\Local\Temp\unityhub......\UnitySetup64-2022.3.7f1.exe %APPDATA%\Local\Temp\unityhub.......\UnitySetup64-...
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I need some help here. I try this for a while now but it won't work and I can't find anything online. I want to write my own input handling. At first I used XInput for gamepads and Win32 callbacks for ...
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I apologize in advance, I'll try and explain this the best i can, but i really don't know what's causing this. I have a project I'm building for UWP, I'm using Stripe IAP for in app purchases. The ...
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I'm working on with Unity Spline 2.3.0, I realize that the splines cannot be touch and combine with other splines that exits in different spline container. Is there any way to connect them? I tried to ...
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Let's say I want to enable debug layers for a Direct3D 12 renderer, for which I need to create a ID3D12Debug object. Problem is, there are 6 different version of ...
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I am experimenting with opengl using c99 on windows and vs 2022 i tried to create an window using glfw in one project and put a function that supposed to generate a texture in another project that is ...
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I'm trying to load symbols so I can use breakpoints in Composure scripts and see how they control the PostProcessing of the SceneCapture2D component (because of this problem), but breakpoints hit. I'...
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I am running some old OpenGL 3D application. I don´t have source code from the application but I assume it was implemented with OpenGL 2.0 or 2.1. I am running it on Windows 10 on Intel UHD graphics ...
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I was working on some test project since I'm beginner in unreal engine, and I suddenly started getting this: ...
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I'm working on a basic Vulkan renderer that's presently relying on Win32 raw mouse input for camera pitch and yaw. It's all very basic, but what I've noticed is that at higher frame rates, I'm ...
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There is this reaction time test app that calculates the reaction time from the time you press a button, it works with the joystick buttons except for the directional buttons, this is the app: https://...
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I have read: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3darticles/dxgi-best-practices#multithreading-and-dxgi https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3ddxgi/d3d10-graphics-...
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PeekMessage, TranslateMessage, and DispatchMessage often take a long time (sometimes more ...
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I am trying to make a mod that will fix a game that failed to ship all used fonts with it. For example, this code point displays in Windows but not under Wine: ✔ U+2713 (The reason seems to be a ...
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My Win32/DirectX 11.1 project requires that I render the mouse cursor myself rather than use the system cursor. This is easy enough; however, I've found that there is a human-perceptible latency when ...
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For my Destiny Garden project, which is a desktop game, I want to use freemium monetisation strategy, so I plan to publish both free demo version and a paid full version, and I'm wandering is there ...
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I'm trying to get an unique computer (Windows) id in Unity. I can get it in .net Framework using this code, that I found somewhere: ...
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On both the HoloLens 1 and 2, with Unity at least from 2019.x LTS through 2020.x LTS, with at least 2D windows/fullscreen and 3D immersive apps, with any XR plugin (or no XR at all), run-in-...
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I'm struggling to reinstall Unity after Hub crashed halfway through installing an editor version. I have tried to delete the partially installed Unity - but I don't know all the locations to look, as ...
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I'm working on a simple script to be used as a personal code skeleton for pygame projects (making this primarily for practice with Python, PyGame, and game design) but I'm running into an issue with ...
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I am currently writing a Directx 11 engine and have problems with the resolution when switching to exclusive fullscreen on my 1440p monitor. If i call SetFullscreenState(TRUE, NULL), the screen ...
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I am running an Unreal Engine 4 project which has many high quality assets. My computer is fairly strong: CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core GPU: GeForce RTX 3060 SSD: Lexar 500GB NM610 M.2 NVMe SSD RAM: 2 ...
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I have a game and when I export it it is called Bounced! but in windows task manager the process appears as UE4.exe but with the logo of my game, how can I change this to Bounced.exe?
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I need to get Unreal Engine 4 as soon as possible on my desktop PC, in order to complete a task. However, the computer is on a metered connection and downloading it there would cost me about 3 pizzas ...
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I'm using Unity's Video Player component to play a short intro video before the main menu. The problem is that its resolution is 2560x1440, and on Windows 7 or earlier operating systems it says: ...
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I'm developing a simple Win game. Here is my 2 similar implementations of the game loop (in c++): approach #1: ...
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I would like to use two computer mice simultaneously, and to record data their separate movements on windows. I have successfully used TeamPlayer to create two cursors, but the software that I am ...
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Description The mouse look (or free look, i.e., move the mouse to change the view/camera) is common in RPG and FPS games. In my cloud game project, I tried to achieve this feature. Before programming, ...
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I'm trying to get Unity to open/utilize SteamVR for development. Everything was working fine until today, but now Unity does not use SteamVR. I did not make any changes to SteamVR recently, and I get ...
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I have a array texture of which I would like some of its sub-images have wrap modes of GL_REPEAT and others to be ...
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I'm trying to implement an input listener for FNA (modern version of XNA). Since FNA does not supply any sort of way to listen to native input this has to be done through the windows API and native ...
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In linux, the preferred scheduler is CFS (correct me if I'm wrong), I'm not sure what the preferred scheduler is on Windows. It's possible to change the scheduler in linux, even after you boot. I'm ...
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Like the title says: How do I edit this texconv "IMGtoBC3.bat" file so it "READS FROM & PRESERVES the directory structure when writing the "resulting" dds files? THIS IS ...
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I'm a big fan of Quake 2 game. Recently I've decided to spend some of my free time for digging into the Quake 2 src code. There ...
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I am having a weird transparency issue when running my game in windowed mode. Parts of the window, left and top parts in normal window mode, right and bottom when in maximised window, become ...
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I've recently finished version one of a simple arcade game I've been making in SFML. I've already spent months on the physics engine and game, and I'm wondering how much time it will take to port it ...
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When I call the IDXGISwapChain::SetFullscreenState method, it does not return. The window goes fullscreen, but accepts no further input. A ...
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I am trying to open a dialog to select files under UE4, using OpenFileDialog. I added this to my build.cs ...
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When I build a Unity game as a Windows Desktop application, zip the folder, and upload the zip to itch.io, then anyone downloading the zip from itch.io and running the game gets a security warning ...
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I'm developing several games at once, and they all use the same helper C# class which I have named "Helpers.cs". This script contains common helper functions. I'm still making changes to this Helper....
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Yesterday I found an asset on the Unity Asset Store website, clicked the button "Open in Unity", and it was opened in Unity. Today, when I did the same thing, I got the error message below: I opened ...
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I am trying to make the game add itself into the Firewall rule. I already referenced NetFwTypeLib.dll into the project. It led me to this line of code here: ...
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Are there any benefits to using Windows window for OpenGL or Vulkan rendering, rather than using GLFW window? Is there any performance hits when using C++ Window creation over GLFW since it provides ...
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I'm preparing a Standalone Unity game for Windows and Mac. There is a checkbox in Player Settings called "Use DXGI Flip Model Swapchain for D3D11", which seems disabled by default. Needless to say, ...
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What was once a smooth loading screen, is now a frozen screen. From my main menu, it usually skips the loading screen and dives into the gameplay (which isn't too bad) but the real issue, is if you're ...
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