use sprite in 3d tbgl?

[kryton9]

Guys, can the new sprites be used with tbgl in 3d window, as in billboards/posters instead of manually making a quad in tbgl?

It would be neat to use sprite as an entity, either child or as own object.

Another nice feature would be perhaps an enumeration for auto face towards the camera, or some other object or given position.

[Michael Hartlef]

No, they can't be used as billboards.

[kryton9]

Thanks for the quick reply Mike.

[Petr Schreiber]

Hi Kent,

interesting idea. Regarding facing the camera, you can do that for range of entities like this:


TBGL_EntitySetTarget( SceneID, EntityIDFrom, EntityIDTo, EntityToLookAt )



Petr

[kryton9]

Nice command Petr, thanks for jarring my memory.

[Michael Hartlef]

And if you just create a quad then you have a auto orienting billboard.