billboards and batches

MisterAHA · Post by **MisterAHA** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 10:02 am

hi,

is it possible to use different billboards to different meshes (all meshes included to the same batch)?

...the batch-struktur could not be changed!!!
thanks
andreas

Post by **Kencho** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 10:17 am

The good thing about static meshes batching is that it will always remain static, and thus can be used more efficiently. Billboards' mesh need to be re-created each time it's about to be rendered (including different targets in the same frame), so the static nature completely disappears.

It could be done through vertex shaders though, but that might forbid a number of cards to use the static geometry feature.

MisterAHA · Post by **MisterAHA** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:29 pm

is it possible only to show a few of this billboards dependant to the distance of each mesh?

thanks

andreas

Post by **Kencho** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:30 am

Not at this moment as far as I know. SpookyBoo is working on a new particle system that features that, but I don't know it's status right now.