Any news about the Axis aligned billboards?

christianclavet · Post by **christianclavet** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 3:59 am

Hi, Does someone have news if the axis aligned billboards have been implemented or will be?

randommesh: Flocking boids demo was nice but if he had theses the trees could have looked more realistic (pivoting with the player head look weird)

rogerborg · Post by **rogerborg** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 9:56 am

Nope, still in the tracker.

Doing it with an animator (that could be applied to any scene node) is the way to go, but I don't have any sort of implementation for that yet.

christianclavet · Post by **christianclavet** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 4:47 pm

Thanks...

burningreggae · Post by **burningreggae** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:16 pm

axis aligned billboards are implemented for quake3shaderscenenode.
autosprite2

the code itself is high-level
matrix class has buildAxisAlignedBillboard now.

so the most work is done already;-)

christianclavet · Post by **christianclavet** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:09 pm

How can we access that shadernode for a billboard?

I really would like to see my fake tree rendered so they look almost right and that the effect is not lost if the player tilt down or up.

RogerBorg, there isnt alignment animator I see on the list right now, so you've written a custom animator to do it?

I'm not in a hurry right now, too busy in my school project. I'll wait and see if the final steps are put in place so we have an easy access to it.

Would be nice also that the textscene node could have an overide to have it's axis locked so it's really look that is part of the world. (would be easy to use to write text in a 3D environnent for example to give direction to the player, and put it in front of a 3D mesh of a screen).

The current node is really usefull right now, but is not "immersive". Good for debugging purpose.

sudi · Post by **sudi** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:32 pm

Well both of these scenenodes are basicly axisaligned billboards. And (at least mine) work with standard irrlicht animators.

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=30153

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=32363

christianclavet · Post by **christianclavet** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 6:40 pm

Thanks Sudi. I'll look up that code.