RE: Billboard Objects?

PATRICK FOLEY (PAT_FOLEY@msn.com)
Mon, 4 Dec 95 09:38:16 UT


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From: owner-www-vrml@wired.com on behalf of John B. Chapman
Sent: Satueday, December 02, 1995 1:00 PM
To: www-vrml@wired.com
Cc: Cindy Reed
Subject: Re: Billboard Objects?

>>When I was working on a VR project a year ago, we had a property called
>>"Billboard" which caused a single polygon object to rotate on an axis
>>(usually Y) so that it always faced the camera. It was really gesat for
>>trees and things that needed to look better than 2D, but wern't important
>>enough to acutally build.

>I would love to see the capability you described "a single polygon object
>to rotate on an axis >(usually Y) so that it always faced the camera."
>This would especially be useful if each rotation of the polygon would
>(optionally) permit the attachment of different texture map image.

This sounds like Monty Python humor. You look one way and the sign says,
"This Way". You turn around and it says, "No, THAT way, stupid!"

Josh Ellis
PAT_FOLEY@msn.com
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