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Physics error codes

Director physics engine from version 11 onwards throw up unique number each reporting a different kind/type of error. Here is a list of commonly thrown error codes ! -21 : Mesh deform is not added for the Model. Each 3d model that needs to be...

Saturday, 01 August 2009 | 878 hits | Read more

mouse in 3dWorld

How do you go about using mouse in 3d World ? MoveCursor Xtra : Well one good spot to start looking for is the Move Cursor shockwave Xtra. This is a great help to get your cursor on sprite and 3d world aligned at the same point in the stage....

Saturday, 01 August 2009 | 710 hits | Read more

Managing rigid body

There is a certain process in order to manage the rigid bodies created using Director+Ageia physics engine. Few are the things that need to be kept in mind while making use of rigid bodies in your 3d environment: We have listed 6 of them for now...

Monday, 10 August 2009 | 1022 hits | Read more

RTS game creation

Lot of questions on writing RTS ( Real time strategy ) games for a browser involving 3D. So the post dedicated o answering/clearing few doubts. 2 specific one’s listed below: Thanks for answering my RTS question quickly. it is coming along I am...

Saturday, 18 July 2009 | 937 hits | Read more

Future of online games

What could be the reason for such a sharp decline ? If you think about it , following might be the reason/s: PC hardware requires frequent upgrades compared to the [[game console]], who would want to upgrade their hardware just to play a new...

Saturday, 18 July 2009 | 707 hits | Read more

AxisAffinity property

The rigid body I created in Director sometimes tends to curve when a force if applied to it. i expect it to travel in the direction of force in a straight line. How do I fix it ? Director 11.5 introduced a rigidbody property called the...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009 | 889 hits | Read more

Collision/Bounding volumes

What is the most efficient way to create rigid bodies for collision in a game ? The most common question in mind when you start out creating a game level would be the right way to create collision volumes around your 3d models in the scene. Lets...

Wednesday, 02 September 2009 | 917 hits | Read more

What is a RigidBody

One of the most important terms that you need to understand if you have started out to write a 3D game using any 3D engine would be Rigid Bodies !! What is a RigidBody ? In physics, a rigid body is nothing but a  solid body of finite size in...

Monday, 05 July 2010 | 186 hits | Read more

Third-person controls

Where you guys able to achieve third person shooter type character control using the new Ageia physX engine ? Not that we completely nailed it :) , But have pretty much come up with a rough sample on going about creating a 3rd person camera...

Wednesday, 09 September 2009 | 752 hits | Read more

Iphone Game Market

Is writing games for IPhone still a good option for Indie Game developers ? One look at the IPhone app store for games and you will for sure get a sense that the days were small stupid games made huge money are over. Writing games these days...

Friday, 25 December 2009 | 623 hits | Read more