ShiVa Knowledge Base

4 Articles 2D Games

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• 2D ShiVa 101
• Animated PNG sequences on Quad
• Atlas with GIMP
• TexturePacker Atlas

19 Articles Android DIY

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• Intents, Notifications and External Applications
• Android plugin and publishing FAQ
• Callbacks 101
• Android Apps on Chrome OS
• Callbacks (sample)

5 Articles Animation

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• ShiVa Animation System 101
• Blend Layers 101
• GPU skinning
• Attach item to bone
• MakeHuman Pipeline

7 Articles Asset Pipeline

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• Import 101
• Blender (animated)
• Blender (static)
• Google SketchUp
• Ultimate Unwrap 3D as DAE converter

9 Articles C++ and Native Code

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• Debug Plugin DLLs in Visual Studio
• Debug Plugin libraries with Xcode
• glReadPixels – OpenGL Framebuffer Antics
• Calling AI handlers from plugins
• QPC Timing

3 Articles Cache

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• Launching Game-STKs
• Remote textures
• Remote Resource-STKs

3 Articles Camera

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• Fake ortho cam
• Match game cam to editor cam
• glReadPixels – OpenGL Framebuffer Antics

1 Article Editor Scripting

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• Introduction to ShiVa Editor Job

8 Articles HUD

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• Atlas with GIMP
• TexturePacker Atlas
• Same Action to multiple HUD elements
• HUD components look at mouse pointer
• Stop all HUD actions within template

5 Articles Input

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• Touch selection
• Accelerometer
• Xbox controller triggers
• HUD components look at mouse pointer
• Keyboard remapping

12 Articles iOS DIY

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• Callbacks 101
• Reverse callbacks
• AdColony Basic
• AdColony V4VC
• AdWhirl and iAds

2 Articles Math

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• Match plane to curve
• Value increment without wrapping

3 Articles Mesh

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• Match plane to curve
• Runtime mesh from scratch
• Bounding box

3 Articles Optimization: Batching

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• Scene-wide auto batching by name
• Runtime batching
• The Relationship between Subsets, Dynamic Lights and Drawcalls

10 Articles Optimization: General

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• Single drawcall skybox
• Z order and Material priority
• Precompiling shaders
• Local API and tables
• OpenGL ES 1.1

1 Article Optimization: Memory

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• Scenes and memory

1 Article Physics

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• ODE documentation

6 Articles Player movement

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• Gimbal lock
• Vector2Rotation
• Facing towards movement direction
• Patrolling character on NavMesh
• Framerate-independent movement and DeltaTime

8 Articles ShiVa Script Lua

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• Function Overloading
• Local variables
• Analyzing URL
• Gimbal lock
• Vector2Rotation

4 Articles Tables

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• Nesting
• Local API and tables
• Hashtable values
• Metatables

7 Articles Time

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• Timestamp difference
• Human readable timestamp
• Day extension
• Day of the week
• Day of the year

1 Article Web Publishing

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• ShiVa Web Player

2 Articles XML

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• Stateless loading
• GUI and GUIEX