Re: Billboarding in Quesa?

[Dair G. <da...@re...>]

Joseph J. Strout wrote:

>I don't think anything new in Quesa is needed for that -- I do this=20
>all the time, and it's easy enough to simply rotate those objects to=20
>face the camera whenever the camera moves.  Note that some things you=20
>want to have exactly face the camera (e.g. for sprites), while others=20
>you want to only rotate around one axis, as in your tree example.=20
>But both are easy to do yourself.

Yes, I was thinking of something like a "billboard transform" object. So
you create one of these saying what axes are to be locked and what's to
track the camera, pop it in a group with your geometry, and you're done.

It is easy enough to do yourself, but I guess if we did group visibility
culling then we could also skip any setup for you as an object that
wasn't visible wouldn't need to bother tracking.


-dair
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