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Libgdx How to make 2D bounce ball with shadow illusion?
I want to make a ball bounce up and down with shadow which scaled in out
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I'm trying to make a pygame surface become blurred at the edges for a visual effect. The centre of the surface would remain unblurred. I found a way of blurring a pygame surface with transform.smoothscale, but it seems that this only works for a whole surface (Blurring in PyGame)
I've managed to make a script that blurs only the edges of the screen, but the transition to the blur is sharp and not smooth. Is having a smooth transition between blurred and not blurred. Is this something that is possible? Thanks
Well, it's been a few days and I finally managed to work out a solution:
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for i in range(iterations):
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display_height / amount))
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Here's how it works:
The surface that we want to blur is copied.
The entire copy is blurred.
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The new surface is blitted ontop of the original.
I hope this helps anyone who ends up with the same problem

Increasing the width of line drawn using Shape Renderer in LibGDX

I am drawing a line using Shape Renderer in LibGDX and i am using Orthographic Camera in my code, so to increase the width i used
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You can see the documentation here
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I have been struggling with this problem for sometime, I hope someone would be able to help me out on this.
I have added canvas object in my html code, in which I load a photo image. I am trying to scale the image at some random coordinates, but the scaling happens only from the center of the canvas. If I use translate the whole image moves as the origin changes. I have also tried transform but that too doesn't give the desired result.
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context.drawImage(srcImage, srcX, srcY, srcWidth, srcHeight,
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Where:
srcImage = your source image
srcX = the X-coord on your source image you want to start grabbing pixels from
srcY = the Y-coord on your source image you want to start grabbing pixels from
srcWidth = width of a rectangle of pixels you want to start grabbing from the source image
srcHeight = height of a rectangle of pixels you want to start grabbing from the source image
canvasX - the X coord on the canvas where you want to start painting your pixel rectangle
canvasY - the Y coord on the canvas where you want to start painting your pixel rectangle
scaledWidth - scale the source pixel rectangle to this width before painting to the canvas
scaledHeight - scale the source pixel rectangle to this height before painting to the canvas
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And finally, it will paint the scaled-up pixel rectangle at coordinate [20,20] on the canvas

scaling in sprite that preserves central point of it's visible part

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canvas.scaleX = newScale;
canvas.scaleY = newScale;
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canvas.y += (canvas.y + h/2) - (canvas.y + h/2) / deltaScale;
still after that central point do not remain on the same place. Can somebody prompt me how should I move canvas after scaling?
PS: width and height of canvas is extremely big (some of 25000) if that helps.
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The way I did something similar before was to put the canvas sprite inside another sprite eg. zoom which has its reg point in the centre of the screen (or where ever needed). You can then move canvas around inside the zoom sprite (in my case it was draggable) and scale the outer sprite so the centre is zoomed into.
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I have a mask i'm using for a continuous scroll type thingy, and notice that when my masked sprite gets past a certain pixel size in height (2878) the mask does not mask. Has anyone experienced this? is this a bug?
to reproduce:
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