flysouth Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 Is there some way of using 3d modeled grass for within a meter or 2 of the player and then make it billboarded when further away? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duion Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 I think only the forest has a build in billboard function, for groundcover it may be overkill, but have you tried making manual LOD levels in your modeling program and use them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flysouth Posted June 13, 2016 Author Share Posted June 13, 2016 But the deafult ground cover seems to be all billboarding? So if the player looks down at the grass and turns around he sees the grass at his feet all rotating. Looks badAre you saying that for ground cover I should just use 3d models? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azaezel Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 http://imgur.com/a/VZvSj for basic usage of 3d shapeshttp://imgur.com/DdM7lvJ for billboard creation if you haven't already generated one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nils Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 If I'm correct, the imposters (auto billboard) don't work for 3d shapes as groundcover objects. (I should check, but no time) Think it only works for shapes where the onload() function is called; which isn't the case for groundcover.Thought there's a possibility to add a plane mesh to your shape as LOD and use the old BB:: technique to define it as a billboard for export to DTS. But that one as pretty old; little documentation and comes with default with axis issues (if you don't know how it works).We added a plane mesh as the lowest LOD and used the same texture to avoid an extra draw call. It works pretty well if you have a lot of objects like grass and so on: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nils Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 And a second option; is to create 2 groundcover objects in your scene; 1 with billboards (default groundcover setting) and a second with 3d shapes. Play around with the distances and don't show the billboards until the far distance of the 3d shapes. Hope it makes sense what I've just written :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flysouth Posted June 14, 2016 Author Share Posted June 14, 2016 @NilsHow do you not show the billboards close to player? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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