2D Plane in 3D (not a 2D overlay)

[jestermax]

Hey, i read a post on using billboards for 2D objects in 3D space but don't billboards ONLY face the camera?

I don't want a screen space 2d rectangle or a billboard (if billboards only face forward)

Is there a way to render a texture to a plane? I'm looking for something that renders a 2D object that i can scale/rotate as if it were a 3D mesh. In Ogre i used the Mesh Manager to create a plane and then just mapped a texture to it as it was an entity.
Is there a way to do something similar with Irrlicht?

[vitek]

You can create a plane mesh using the addHillPlaneMesh() method provided by the scene manager. That will get you an IAnimatedMesh*. You will want to get an IMesh* from that, and then make an IMeshSceneNode with that.

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core::dimension2df tileSize(10.f, 10.f);
core::dimension2df tileCount(10, 10);

scene::IAnimatedMesh* am = smgr->addHillPlaneMesh("plane", tileSize, tileCount);
if (am)
{
  scene::IMeshSceneNode* msn = smgr->addMeshSceneNode(am->getMesh(0));
  // msn->setPosition(...);
  // msn->setScale(...);
  // msn->setRotation(...);
  msn->setTexture(0, driver->getTexture("../../media/water.jpg"));
  msn->setMaterialFlag(video::EMF_LIGHTING, false);
}