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Billboards or SRBs can we do them?

by Jay "Reaper" Young · in Artist Corner · 01/17/2002 (5:38 pm) · 1 replies

Hi all, in games that I have done before I was able to make what we called at the time SRB objects. Basically, we used them for trees and crouds. They were 2 poly squares that you applied a texture to, had a fixed pivot point, and were always rotating to face you. They were background elements, so they did not need to be detailed.

Well, in torque, I was wondering if you can do that with any faces within objects. I would love to have a stationary picture floating inside a moving object. The picture should always face the player looking at it.

Is this possible at all?

Jay Young
21-6 Productions

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01/17/2002 (6:36 pm)
Yes, to get billboard objects, prepend the shapename with "BB::"