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FPSC Classic Product Chat / [?]Billboarding: Tips, Tricks, Guides, and resources

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Doctor 3D
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Posted: 9th Mar 2011 01:54 Edited at: 9th Mar 2011 01:56
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I'm needing to create several billboards for plant-life. I've looked around and can't find a whole lot of useful guides on creating them.

Does anyone have a link they could point me to for a guide for this. Additionally, if someone knows where some are for download, I'd appreciate a link to that too.

I'm building an aquarium style walkway where the player will only see the front of the plants. To save polies, I want to fill at least the back area with billboards to allow higher poly plant life that the player can better see in the front.

Thanks.
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Ched80
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Posted: 11th Mar 2011 11:03
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I'd search in the "Models and Media" forum - there are loads and loads of free models in there so there is bound to be something similar to what you are after. I think there are a few guides burried in there too.

Good luck.

[url="http://raptr.com/No_Turn_Right?src=em_forum"][/url]
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Kravenwolf
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Posted: 11th Mar 2011 11:35
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Not sure what plant-life is, but billboards are simply 2-polygon planes; sometimes intersecting, using a texture with an alpha channel:







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