Billboards in 2.1

[Herb]

Ok, just starting to port my code to 2.1 from 1.9. I read the "porting guide" which really helped and have been following progress on 2.1 for some time. So, trying to use the "v1" namespace as much as I can to just get it ported and then I'll work on moving what I can out of the deprecated space. But, when I hit my code around billboards, I saw billboard / billboardset was in the v1 namespace but I didn't see a replacement for them. Are billboards just not "developed" for 2.1 yet, or is there something else I should be using instead as a replacement?

[dark_sylinc]

There's no v2 replacement. But don't worry, the v1 versions will work just fine with the following gotchas:

• Because billboards have no normals, use the Unlit materials. PBS won't work well on them.
• Due to a design issue with v1 billboards, assign materials by name rather than by datablock pointer. The Hlms needs to analyze the geometry to know what kind of shader to generate, and because v1 billboards only generate the geometry lazily the first time it's about to be rendered, setting a datablock pointer will cause a crash (unless you somehow forced the geom. generation). Thus setting by name, Ogre will automatically assign the datablock when the geometry is available.

[Herb]

Great! Thanks dark_sylinc for the info and tips. Sounds like it'll straight forward to port with my use of them.