Ftree04_bb.dts
by Scott Doerrfeld · in Artist Corner · 12/05/2006 (9:22 pm) · 2 replies
The file 'ftree04_bb.dts' that comes with Torque SDK 1.5 has a pretty impressive billboard going on at its lowest detail. It displays snapshots of the tree from different angles. I cannot find any documentation on how to achieve this with the Max2Dts Exporter. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks.
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Anways there are two tags that denote billboards...
BB:: // billboard, will always face the viewing angle of the camera
BBZ:: // biilboardZ, the node will be aligned to face the camera only on Z depth, meaning the node will face the camera as you mvoe around it, but not as you move over it
*Note that is exactly as they must be spelled and entered
Those tags must be entered before the name of the node. So if you had a bitmap on a plane that you wanted as a billboard you would type BB::tree (provided that tree was the name). When the exporter processes the DTS shape it sees these tags in the node name and does some special work to make the items work as billboards.
*Note some DTS exporters have had issues with exporting this data, but the latest Max 6/7/8 exporter linked on the artist page works fine with this task.
12/06/2006 (9:21 am)
Pretty easy actually and its also clearly noted in the DTS Exporter docs (never checked on TDN but one would hope that whomever did those docs did a copy & paste properly).Anways there are two tags that denote billboards...
BB:: // billboard, will always face the viewing angle of the camera
BBZ:: // biilboardZ, the node will be aligned to face the camera only on Z depth, meaning the node will face the camera as you mvoe around it, but not as you move over it
*Note that is exactly as they must be spelled and entered
Those tags must be entered before the name of the node. So if you had a bitmap on a plane that you wanted as a billboard you would type BB::tree (provided that tree was the name). When the exporter processes the DTS shape it sees these tags in the node name and does some special work to make the items work as billboards.
*Note some DTS exporters have had issues with exporting this data, but the latest Max 6/7/8 exporter linked on the artist page works fine with this task.
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Might need someone with some coding skill to look at the exporters or sumtin.