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[lucky]

How to make the leaves spin in the air?

[jacmoe]

Most often people use a shader for that.

[Virion]

Most often people use a shader for that.

ahh really? i thought it's particle...

[jacmoe]

Most often people use a shader for that.

ahh really? i thought it's particle...

Depends on the leafs.
If they're attached to a branch on a tree, then a particle based approach would be an interesting twist..

[nikki]

How to make the leaves spin in the air?

You mean you already have leaves, but you want to make 'em spin?

[lucky]

I use billboards to make the leaves spin in the air. but have a problem in that, no matter which billboard type I use...I still get strange results.

I've tried using various combinations of settings with functions BillboardSet::setBillboardType(), sBillboardSet::setCommonDirection() and BillboardSet::::setCommonUpVector(). I always use accurate facing.

The problem is that the movement of billboards as they shift to face the 1 direction is obvious and odd-looking. Using accurate facing mostly eliminates the problem.

HOW it would rotate and "flip" and look like it's floating? Anybody have an ideas for a solution?

[aguru]

Maybe this is of interest to you: http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/pub ... el_09_PGT/