clone a billboard?

[WaxyChicken]

is there anyway to clone a billboard?

I am working on a GUI editor for the game maps.
planting buildings, wagons, etc... works fine.
but when it comes to trees and bushes, how can i clone the billboards?

[Lonesome Ducky]

There is a method called clone... But really, that's probably not a good idea if you plan on using a lot. It would be best to have a huge batch of vertices, and transforming them on the GPU to make the billboards. Hundreds of times faster that way

[WaxyChicken]

i'm not finding a
DeveloperPlantBillboardNodes[array] -> clone

am i looking in the wrong place?

as far as too many clones, that's not an issue. there is a limit to how many the developer can create before he must save and reload his changes - which pushes them into loaded nodes instead of cloned nodes.

[Lonesome Ducky]

Ok I take it you aren't using vanilla irrlicht then. I was assuming you were using IBillboardSceneNode. What exactly are you using?

[WaxyChicken]

IBillboardSceneNode
irrlicht 1.7.2 (via Irrlicht Lime)

[WaxyChicken]

Ducky, i don't see a ibillboardscenenode->copy in irrlicht

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/docu/classirr_1_1scene_1_1_i_billboard_scene_node.html

[mongoose7]

The parent is an ISceneNode. Just keep reading. (Are you looking for 'copy' or 'clone'?)

[Virror]

iBillboardSceneNode inherit from ISceneNode which have a clone method.

[WaxyChicken]

Ah! Gotcha.