Billboard and LOD

[Gard]

Hello, I wonder if the leaderks supports the billboard textures, if so, how can I use?

And how can I set the distance of LOD models? Is there any parameter that I can put in that file ".ini"?

thanks

[wh1sp3r]

billboard textures? you mean plains with texture ? yes.

 

About LOD, are you using 2.3 SDK?

[Gard]

Yes, that's right. I'm thinking of buying version 2.3. But first I need to make sure that I will not disappoint. I'm working on a project that uses a lot of vegetation, and I wonder if the version 2.3, supports billboard, and how do I use it, it is very difficult?!?! The same is the LOD system, the documentation and the videos lessons, I realized that there is, but I wanted to know how to set the parameters of distance?!

thanks

[Marleys Ghost]

how do I use it, it is very difficult?!?!

 

Not difficult at all

[wh1sp3r]

ok, i made a test for you

 

ftp://78.102.70.147/test.png

 

So, grass is over whole terrain

Looks at the trees, lots lots lots of treeeeeeees

Shadow map is 2048 in size (big)

using HDR, Bloom

 

I am almost 70 FPS which is very very good result

You can set parameters, distances for every LOD (it makes billboards automaticly in new editor)

and the important thing: It's very easy

[Josh]

For vegetation layers, you can set the distance the billboard appears at, the distance for LOD changes, and the distance at which the object disappears completely, all in the vegetation layers options. Billboards are generated automatically, and as you can see, it is possible to have hundreds of thousands of trees onscreen at once.

[Michael Betke]

For small objects the billboards are black sometimes. Without a alphachannel. Noticed it with some of my models...

It creates a billboard texture thats it.

[Gard]

hum..

thanks guys...

[Josh]

For small objects the billboards are black sometimes. Without a alphachannel. Noticed it with some of my models...

It creates a billboard texture thats it.

Vegetation meshes should have no hierarchy, i.e. all surfaces should belong to one top-level mesh. This is important for speed, so the billboard generation routine doesn't even bother with any subhierarchy in the mesh. I suspect this is the problem.

[Michael Betke]

No its just one mesh all the time. Nothing more. Maybe my vegetation objects are to small? Like the grass.

[Josh]

My guess is the grass shader aligns it to the terrain which makes the billboard render incorrect.