Get rid of the billboarding plants!

[Dany0]

Please nadeo please! They are so irritating! I don't care how you do it, just do it!

[Trackmaniack]

What are you talking about?

[teapot10101]

I think he's talking about how the vegetation always faces the camera, just like the trees in Super Mario 64.
Billboarding is when a 2D sprite always faces the camera in a 3D world.

[Trackmaniack]

I think he's talking about how the vegetation always faces the camera, just like the trees in Super Mario 64.
Billboarding is when a 2D sprite always faces the camera in a 3D world.

I can understand their complaints, but the only place where this would really be a legitimate problem would be in rendering 3D HD vids...

[Xzalander]

Wafer thin plants, that turn invisible when you drive around them : vs : Billboarding...




Billboarding please.

[Trackmaniack]

I think OP wants full-3D trees...

[windows3.1]

Full 3D everything would make it practically impossible for anyone besides NASA to play TM2.

Still, things do need to be improved graphics-wise on the account of plants and clouds (clouds especially). Take a page out of Mojang Studios' book and put the clouds on a moving skybox. You won't even have to change the files for the clouds. The plants could use better resolution (rendered photos, maybe?), but that's more or less it.

Most of this can be fixed with a mod, however.

[Dany0]

Well you have this:
http://www.antisphere.com/Research/Volu ... boards.php

CUDA/OpenCL accelerated this would be faster then the billboarding now. Rendering one or ten or a hundred costs nearly the same.


At least for the video rendering... Or when you crash, all plants 10 meters away rendered using this technique

Not counting I would really really really really really really love to see this in action in a real game. Just for the lulz of it.

[Dany0]

bump, it's disgusting