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billboards and batches
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 10:02 am
by MisterAHA
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
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 10:17 am
by Kencho
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.
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:29 pm
by MisterAHA
is it possible only to show a few of this billboards dependant to the distance of each mesh?
thanks
andreas
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:30 am
by Kencho
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.