Vectors are so useful in games. When you know how to work with them, you can _almost_ forget about trigonometry, as vectors solve many common issues more easily. Another collab, with Pigdev this time! Check out his video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JxT7yDoAwbU.html This is yet another new format. Did you learn something? How can I improve it? Thank you for your continuous support!
i feel like this is the video i would show someone starting game dev as this is very useful and can be used in basically every engine, not literally used but you know very well made! love it
Very interesting for newcomers but you forgot some mathematical concept. Just for expanded information, you only explained the geometry vectors because they easily apply to video games uses but vectors in mathematics are mostly abstract associations of multiple scalars. So, theoritically, vectors can have as many dimensions as we want. They can be used in other applications than geometry. However for video games, we often stop at 4 dimensions vectors. I hope this will provide more context for some to study maths in depth.
Sense is a synonym of meaning, or feeling. It doesn't have any not related to directions. There's just no word to pinpoint the way a vector is pointing in english contrary to french or portuguese: it only has a magnitude and a direction.
Ok I've found some sources. Second and third illustration here www.flipcode.com/archives/3D_Geometry_Primer_Chapter_1-Issue_01_Introduction_To_Vectors.shtml
Indie Ghost Games that's news to me and I've read quite a bit of graphics papers and text books. It is much more common to describe vectors as magnitude and direction, at least in English and in the domain of computer graphics.
There definitely seems to be a difference of opinion on this between mathematicians and physicists , i found this thread which i am hoping the comments will answer it better than i could. physics.stackexchange.com/questions/132189/what-is-the-sense-of-a-vector hope that helps some to somewhat understand why they find differing answers
