ShiVa Knowledge Base

9 Articles C++ and Native Code

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• Restricting mouse pointer to Window
• Debugging and C++ name mangling
• Editor DLL modules cheat sheet
• Using Qt Creator for ShiVa Engine Plugins
• Debug Plugin DLLs in Visual Studio

7 Articles Time

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• Leap Year
• Week of year
• Timestamp difference
• Human readable timestamp
• Day extension

3 Articles Cache

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

1 Article Web Publishing

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• ShiVa Web Player

3 Articles Camera

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

2 Articles XML

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• Stateless loading
• GUI and GUIEX

1 Article Editor Scripting

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• Introduction to ShiVa Editor Job

8 Articles HUD

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• HUD over 3D object
• Collision detection
• Auto-height overflow
• Atlas with GIMP
• TexturePacker Atlas

6 Articles Input

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• Unwanted keyboard input in the editor
• Touch selection
• Accelerometer
• Xbox controller triggers
• HUD components look at mouse pointer

12 Articles iOS DIY

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• Facebook SDK
• Local notifications
• PushWizard
• PushWoosh
• Twitter

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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• OpenGL ES 2
• GPU skinning
• QPC Timing
• Normal map compression artefacts
• The Relationship between Subsets, Dynamic Lights and Drawcalls

4 Articles 2D Games

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

1 Article Optimization: Memory

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• Scenes and memory

1 Article Physics

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• ODE documentation

19 Articles Android DIY

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• Virtual keyboard
• Screen dimming
• Fortumo Nook SDK
• Google PlayStore IAPs
• Leadbolt

6 Articles Player movement

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• Keyboard remapping
• Gimbal lock
• Vector2Rotation
• Facing towards movement direction
• Patrolling character on NavMesh

5 Articles Animation

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

8 Articles ShiVa Script Lua

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• Device type detection
• Comments
• GUI and GUIEX
• Function Overloading
• Local variables

7 Articles Asset Pipeline

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• Normal map compression artefacts
• MakeHuman Pipeline
• Import 101
• Blender (animated)
• Blender (static)

4 Articles Tables

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