Questions tagged [floating-point]
Floating point numbers are approximations of real numbers that use a form of scientific notation to store significant figures and an exponent. Use this tag for questions that pertain to the use of floating point numbers in games.
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How can I improve vector collision algorithm?
I'm making a game (shocker) in pygame and had issues with tile-based collision detection. There are 5 different non-empty tile types (pictured below) which can be rotated in increments of 90 degrees ...
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How to make calculating the inverse matrix more robust?
When I calculated the inverse matrix, I found that the error in using the float data type would cause the inverse matrix calculation error. Is there any good solution?
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Is there a logical reason for SFML's Vector2 being templated?
The game development library SFML has a Vector2 class template (and a Vector3 for that matter), which can use any arithmetic ...
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Godot Velocity: Invalid type in utility function "lerp", cannot convert arg 2 from Vector2 to float on line 40
I'm trying to solve a lerp problem on my velocity, searched some stuff here and there, but found nothing that solved it. Can you help me?
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How can I make a reliable time-based object updating system?
So an object has a position, velocity, and is affected by gravity.
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What dynamic range of numbers do games typically use?
Most of the numeric quantities used in games (aside from integers for counting or indexing objects) are single-precision floating point. This is IEEE format, which allows for numbers as big as 1e38 ...
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24bit float to RGB
There's solutions to convert float to RGBA but I would like to encode a float depth value in RGB format and save the three components in three separated unused alpha channels and recompose when needed....
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Dealing with Floating Point precision in a Minecraft-like game
As far as I know, you can walk for 30 million meters in either direction in Minecraft to reach the end of the world.
My question is, how does Minecraft handle loss of precision when dealing with ...
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Convert integer to float while also dividing down the scale, without data loss
I'm working on a game, and my intent is to avoid use of floating point for unit positions. To that end, I'm using 32-bit integers for all positions, with a millimeter scale.
However, for rendering, I ...
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Mathf.Approximately: should I use it & for what cases?
For comparing floats they recommend using Mathf.Approximately
At the same time, they don't use it, for example, for comparing types such as vectors.
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How to deal with players having too much money (or any large numbers)?
I'm working on a browser MMORPG in PHP and MySQL and today got a bug report about int32 overflow, due to the player having too much money. When I was designing the core system, I completely forgot ...
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Quake 1: frame timer
If you check Quake 1 source code (sys_linux.c), you can see something like this:
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How can I perform a deterministic physics simulation?
I'm creating a physics game involving rigid bodies in which players move pieces and parts to solve a puzzle/map. A hugely important aspect of the game is that when players start a simulation, it runs ...
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How can I avoid the precision loss when recentering objects on open terrain?
For a better context this question is related to this one:
What's the largest "relative" level I can make using float?
When the player is moving too far away from the center, all the ...
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How much slower is it to draw on "half pixels"?
I've noticed that games like Diep.io are using floating decimal points for thin stroke lines on the grid. I have even tried this myself, by adding 0.5 to all of the ...
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HLSL float bitfield
In HLSL I want to store a bitfield for each color in a texture. Specifically spanning 3 floats (RGB, not alpha).
Since each float has to be between 0 and 1 I can only use the significand/mantissa of ...
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Why loss of floating point precision makes rendered objects vibrate?
I'm working on an open-world game. I noticed glitches when I move far away from the origin. The objects seem to be shaking or wiggle. Especially the z-fighting seems to wiggle. And the objects that ...
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Saving total play time could be fine?
I'm making a game that needs to save total played time into file (using JSON) for comparing & resolving data conflicts between local and cloud. I will override outdated one.
Currently, I'm just ...
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Prevent tile layout gaps
I'm making a map viewer where you can specify where tiles go in a map and then see it on the screen, translate it, and zoom in and out.
Here's a picture showing the tiles used to make my example map
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Setting a uniform float in a fragment shader results in strange values, is this a type conversion? How can it be fixed?
First, some details:
I'm learning OpenGL from the tutorials on https://open.gl
My computer is running Linux Mint 18.1 Xfce 64-bit
My graphics card is a GeForce GTX 960M
OpenGL Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA ...
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How can I render geometry represented in a 64-bit floating point environment?
In this video about Star Citizen, right at the 12:30 mark on the timeline you can see the player zooming in on a space station who's location is clearly out of the limit of 32-bit floating point ...
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Are very long floating point numbers a problem?
Very simple question, but important: I was using a floating point number ('float') in C++ to handle movement speed, and it suddenly ran crazy. It turns out the speed increased very fast to ...
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Float inaccuracy. libgdx only? java only? also why?
Hey all I have just come to notice that floats are not accurate even when they are explicitly set and unchanged. For example i have some basic code running and it is:
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Fallback for R32F alpha blending
I'm rendering an aggregation of value into an R32F format texture, using alpha blending to accomplish the sum operation.
R32F alpha blending is not supported on all hardware. What kind of fallback ...
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Non-integer speed values - is there a cleaner way to do this?
Often I will want to use a speed value such as 2.5 for moving my character in a pixel-based game. Collision detection will generally be more difficult if I do that, though. So I end up doing something ...
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Why aren't there game and physics engines with double precision?
Choice of game design and other human psychological factors aside
is the present hardware not capable of working with double precision floating point calculations with reasonable performance? It can ...
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Unity, positioning with ints instead of floats
I round my transform.position to the nearest integer at the end of every frame so it's never a decimal number. I would like to know if there's a way to make unity store the position in ints instead of ...
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Precision problems with realistically scaled planets/terrains [duplicate]
Recently I've been working on a realistically scaled planet engine. I found several interesting links about how to do it, what problems will come up after, and how to solve them. The approach I took ...
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In Unreal, what are the differences between C++'s float and FFloat32?
I have been trying to learn some deeper aspects of UE4 and while reading many examples codes and also the source base of the engine, I noticed that sometimes people (and the very source code) use the ...
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Simulating elastic ball collisions quickly escalates to disaster
I'm trying to learn HTML canvas and was working on a basic physical simulation, where a number of balls are drawn and set in motion, and the program simulates them colliding and bouncing off the walls ...
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Handle floating point precision errors in collision detection and resolution
I am experimenting with a continuous collision detection and response of points on a tile map.
This are my results for now:
I did this by shooting a ray (red line) from the current position (red ...
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Floating point determinism with respect to procedural generation, clustering and GPU offloading
I've been designing a distributed procedural generation system for a while now in my spare time and one of the problem's I've been thinking about recently, with respect to the broader architecture, is ...
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How do I avoid floating point indeterminism when implementing lockstep?
I am working on a multiplayer RTS game in Java. It uses lockstep for networking, which requires that both computers can deterministically.
These are the 2 closest/more viable approaches I could come ...
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Why don't objects far away from the camera experience floating point issues?
In Kerbal Space Program, a space exploration game made with Unity, Floating origin technique is used to overcome the floating point precision issues. While in map view, the world (a scaled space with ...
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WebGL half float equivelant?
I'm trying to find a half float for the purposes of doing math in a fragment shader, not trying to have a half float texture.
Is there an equivalent of the ...
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How can I deal with vertex precision errors between terrain chunks?
I am using OpenGL to render the following scene, using vertex data from one of the map files of a popular MMORPG. The data is chunked and the pictured scene is made up of 256 (16x16) chunks.
However ...
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Getting around limitations posed by float in space game
I'm working on a procedurally generated game set in outer space. As in the real world, the game universe will be pretty much 99% empty, with planets/stars/solar systems etc... being very far apart.
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How do I deal with floating-point error given a far-away camera?
Whenever a camera is "far" away (its location is some "large" vector), trouble arises when rendering objects close to it: It is the classic precision loss from subtracting 2 floating point numbers.
I ...
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How do I generalise Bresenham's line algorithm to floating-point endpoints?
I'm trying to combine two things. I'm writing a game and I need to determine the grid squares lying on a line with the floating-point endpoints.
Moreover I need it to include all the grid squares it ...
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how did coordinate-handling in old flightsimulators work?
Im currently working on a combat flight simulator pure for own fun.
Using a floating-origin i thought the float inprecision was history, however this was the case untill i tried adding multiplayer to ...
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How can I simplify this code to compute the shortest rotation between two angles?
The following code will find the shortest rotation (in radians) (from pi to -pi) that I need to apply to from to leave me with to...
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What's the largest "relative" level I can make using float?
Just like it was demonstrated with games like dungeon siege and KSP, a large enough level will start to have glitches because of how floating point works. You can't add 1e-20 to 1e20 without losing ...
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How to reset the world in an infinite runner game to prevent an overflowing float?
Im following Mike Geig's 2D infinite runner tutorial. However, I'm seeing a potential problem of overflowing the float
How can I reset all objects and camera back again to the origin?
The approach I'...
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Point rotation around point, accuracy question
I study OpenGL ES 2.0. But I think it's more a C++ question rather then an OpenGL one.
I am stuck with the following rotation question: It is known, that rotation transformation can be applied using ...
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Deterministic calculation in JavaScript [closed]
I want to create a multiplayer game with HTML/JavaScript and only send user input between players. I read some articles for C++, saying that I could not expect floating point to get the same results ...
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Algorithmic error in tile engine? [closed]
I'm toying with creating a tile-based 2D java game engine. I can render the "local" area without issues(I.E. deciding which local tiles to render). The problem came when I introduced floating point ...
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XNA Float values don't work as parameter
With the Microsoft XNA Framework I can change the color of a tinted texture by changing it's integer values like so:
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Continuous world and very large levels: going around the FPU limitations with Ogre3D
I'm currently using Ogre3D, and I'm wondering is it's possible to have a very large level (hundreds of kilometers) using the right scenemanager. Storing or having the level is not a problem, since I ...
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Issues calculating frame independent movement
I'm developing a Breakout style game in C++ using SDL. The problem so far is that the ball slows down and speeds up for no particular reason.
The slowdowns usually last a few seconds.
EDIT : When ...
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What caused "falling out of the world" and what fixed it?
A lot of early 3D games had the problem where you'd be trundling merrily along and suddenly everything was black, with an island of what looked like the hollow facade shell of the scene you'd been ...
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