Questions tagged [selection]
Selection methods, eg. in RTS games
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How would I implement the edge loop function from Blender (and how does it work)?
I'm a fairly new game developer, and I've been working on a custom mesh editing system. I've been able to implement edge bevelling (almost, stuck on a division by zero problem), Catmull-Clark ...
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Handling complex selection mechanics in RTS-style game
When we look at complex RTSs where a simple left button mouse click can mean twenty or more different things, depending on the game and UI state, the code handling this interaction and assigning the ...
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Unity3D multiple objects user rectangle selection
I wish to allow the user to select multiple units by click and drag as most RTS do. The issue I have is that the tutorials are either in 2D or only use the ...
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Unity RTS Single Selection Problem
I am trying to build an RTS game and I have managed to form a way to select a unit using Raycast and the tag system. I made it so that if the object the ray falls onto is of tag "TankUnit" Make so and ...
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Making 2 Player UI
For practice, I'm trying to remake the character select screen from Street Fighter II.
I managed get it working with a Grid Layout Group, ScriptableObjects, and some scripts to have the 1P cursor ...
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Having trouble making more than 1 clickable object
I am a student trying to figure out how to make multiple clickable objects in pygame.
I was able to make 1 working clickable object (dx,dy) work, but when I tried to make another clickable object (qx,...
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Handling mouse input depending on selected unit and clicked tile
I am making a turn-based tactical game (think something like X-Com) and I am currently trying to figure out how to handle mouse input in a clean way without a mess of if-statements.
I have a lot of ...
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Using Gimp and clone tool. Source selection selects center of four pixels
I am using gimp to make tilesets. When I use the clone tool and hold ctrl to select the source, the selection is in the center of four pixels instead of just one pixel. I don't know if I am doing ...
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In PhaserJS, how do I get a clicked Physics.P2 body's data?
I have a sprite with Phaser.Physics.P2 enabled, using a custom shape loaded with loadPolygon() from a ...
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How to handle focus on a custom actor in Unreal Engine?
I created a custom actor, placed it on my scene and selected it.
When I press "F" to focus on it, the camera zoom back very far from the scene, probably because I didn't implement the method supposed ...
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Selecting the closest point in perspective view mode
I'm trying to improve my algorithm for selecting points in perspective view mode (OpenGL/Qt/C++). The current implementation works as follows.
The user clicks on a certain ...
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Implementing grid based selection box
What is a good way of implementing a RTS selection box for tiles on a grid? I'm making a game with some similarities to Evil Genius, the building in particular. In that game you click one place, drag ...
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How to hide a post-processed mesh outline when/where the mesh is hidden
I'm working on setting up an active outline in my 3d engine, a highlight effect for selected 3d characters or scenery in the screen. After working with the stencil buffer and getting some ...
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how to accurately select a sprite on a scene with a click?
I have a scene with some sprite on it (added), the gamer has to select one of them and take the next action.
What is the simplest way to select one of the sprites accurately?
I am looking for a ...
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How do I trigger OnSelect() via the ISelectHandler in my class?
I'm trying to figure out how I can make a custom UI element identify when it has been selected or deselected. Classes such as Selectable inherit from the ...
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