Exporting particle grass from Blender

kjkrum · Post by **kjkrum** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:50 am

I've seen a lot of games use billboards instead of models for grass and such. It usually looks pretty good, and I imagine it's much faster.

ent1ty · Post by **ent1ty** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:02 pm

Yes, i guess it is much faster, but I'd like to try this one too.
Ok, so now i have all the grass meshes in one meshbuffer, but how do i create a scene node from it? I thought there would be a func for this in meshmanipulator, but there is not one.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:07 pm

Just create an SMesh ('new SMesh'), add the meshbuffer to it, and add the mesh to a new meshSceneNode.

3DModelerMan · Post by **3DModelerMan** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:21 pm

You can export hair particles as a mesh by using convert object, in Blender. Then exporting it in a normal file format. Then shouldn't just enabling wire frame rendering work?

ent1ty · Post by **ent1ty** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:55 pm

Okay, it looked nice, but think I'm gonna go with billboard grass(an obvious FPS reason). Thanks for help, everyone

Memorial76 · Post by **Memorial76** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:58 pm

Could you please post some pictures of the render please?

ent1ty · Post by **ent1ty** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:35 pm

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... 187#219187