Is there a way to get the 3D pose of a XAML UWP 2D Window on Hololens ?
I searched the Windows.Perception namespace, but nothing conclusive.
It's easy to retrieve the position of the user's head and controllers. It's also easy to get the window height and width.
I would like to have a different interaction when the user is near or far from the window.
Sorry, you can't get information about spatial position of a slate.
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I am working on just a small game in Vb.net (I know this is not a great place to make a game but I'm just doing a little project). I have a project set up where I am trying to make an isometric tile map. To make it easier on myself, I wanted to get all the locations set first, so I took picture boxes and found the exact locations for where I want to draw each tile. Now what I would like to do is draw an image at each location and I'm not sure how to go about this.
(something like, for each picturebox.location draw graphics.tile1????)
thank you!
thanks again in advance for any time spent helping me.
Thankfully, I have been able to import TMX to libgdx game without much of a problem, however this is now the first time of using Object Layer, for which at this moment in time I only want to include Platforms as the object (ie. I have 1x Tile Layer showing my background image and 1x Object Layer above). Now I've seen that I can just draw lines and/or boxes, circles etc to create 'zones' which I can pull into my code (goodness only knows how atm but I'll figure that later/soon )
But I see in Tiled that the button - Insert Tile (T) - exists.
I'm trying to use it but when the tile im using as a platform is placed it goes exactly where the mouse is pressed and I can't move it other than delete it. I'd just like to copy-paste a whole row of them for now and Level1 can just be 50 tiles in a flat line just so I can get it all working. It seems weird to me that Tiled can't do this but Ive spent ages looking for a way and can't find it.
Am I missing something or is this just not possible? And if the latter, how does an experienced tiled user (who's making a 2d platformer) go about creating such a simple example above in the Tiled environment?
What a noob - I answered my own question. The option I needed was in the 'View' dropdown menu -> 'Snap To grid' LOL
Why should you ever want something like this?
I want to track a single user that is mounted above the ground in a horizontal position. The user is facing downwards to allow free movement of legs and arms. Think of swimming for example.
I mounted the Kinect at the ceiling facing downwards so I have a free view of all extremities.
The sensor is rotated 90° in z-axis to have the maximum resolution (you're usually taller than wide).
Therefore the user is seen from the backside, rotated by 90°. It is impossible to get a proper skeleton from OpenNI 1.5. My tests showed that OpenNI is expecting the user facing the camera with the head up in y-axis (see my other answer). Microsofts SDK is the same but I excluded it here because it won't allow you to change the source code and cannot be adapted. OpenNI 2.0 is not working with the current SensorKinect to interface the Kinect in Linux. So:
Which class is generating the skeleton in OpenNI 1.5.x?
My best guess would be to rotate the prototype skeleton by y 180° and z 90°. If you know where I could find this.
EDIT: As I just learned there is no open source software that generates a skeleton from depth images so I fall back to the question in the header:
How can I get a user skeleton from a rotated back view?
I'm trying to write a fairly simple animation using Core Animation to simulate a book cover being opened. The book cover is an image, and I'm applying the animations to its layer object.
As well as animating a rotation around the y axis (The the anchorPoint property set of the left of the screen), I need to scale the right hand edge of the image up so it appears to "get closer" to the user and create the illusion of depth. Flipboard, for example, does this scaling really well.
I can't find any way of scaling an image like this, so only one edge is scaled and the image ends up nonrectangular.
All help appreciated with this one!
CoreAnimation, by default, "flattens" its 3D hierarchy into a 2D world at z=0. This causes perspective and the like to not work properly. You need to host your layer in a CATransformLayer, which will render its sublayers as a true 3D layer hierarchy.
I'm completely new to ArcGIS and ArcMap, but someone suggested this program to me for a project I'm working on.
I would like to animate individual entities on a map, and was wondering if it is possible to do so in ArcMap. I asked this earlier here and a member directed me to a tutorial on animating in ArcGIS. The animation in the guide was over a map spread (ie. each pixel on the map displays, say, a different color to indicate population data in the area). However I realized that if I zoom in a lot, eventually the image will degenerate into pixels, which is why I need an actual object to mark a certain point. I checked some online tutorials and it seems like we can place markers on the map. Can someone tell me if it is possible to animate these markers (for example via a for-loop)? And if so, could you point me in a direction where to start?
Thanks in advance!
You can animate layers in ArcMap is the short answer. Its not as simple as using the timeline feature in Google Earth for example though. But then ArcMap is much more than just a visualization tool.
This help page on the ESRI web help looks like a good place to start.
I'm not 100% sure what you mean by the image degenerates into pixels. Are you saying that the markers were single points in the layer. Unlike Google Earth you are not confined to simply plotting points on the map. You can draw completely arbitrary shapes in ArcMap, which can be defined to cover actual areas of the map, so when you zoom-in the shape gets larger.
The way you need to load data into ArcMap to produce an animation isn't too simple. There might be other ways to do this, but the way I know of is to generate a NetCDF file. This file contains a 3D matrix of layer data, where each layer is separated through time. Because you generate a matrix, you are effectively placing a raster image over the map. Thus if you want to cover a large area, each matrix becomes large, and you multiply that by the number of time slices you wish to animate over.
Once you have a NetCDF file with your data in however, getting ArcMap to animate it and produce say a .avi file is pretty simple.
You could try just loading some of the example NetCDF datasets into ArcMap to see how/if they will work to get you started.
Hope that helps.
The upcoming v10 will have better time-aware capabilities, which will allow for animation.