What to name a 2-sided billboardish style node?

saigumi · Post by **saigumi** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 3:22 pm

For a project, I made a new node type. It's like the TestSceneNode, but is only a two sided, piece of paper-like object instead of a box.

Is there a 3d name for such an object already? It's like a billboard in the fact that it's a flat surface, but it doesn't always face forward. I don't think it meets the requirements of an axial billboard since an axial billbard is one sided also and always faces a certain point.

This is basically a piece of paper and would be usefull in projects that want Paper Mario style graphics.

I tried looking through all my graphics books but couldn't figure out the name for it.

I'm currently calling it a TileSceneNode, which is the closest I could come up with.

Anyone know?

Harry_Mystic · Post by **Harry_Mystic** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 4:18 pm

Does is look like the Plane mesh in Blender? Then another possible name could be PlaneSceneNode.
But TileSceneNode sounds good as well.