BillboardEffect

class BillboardEffect

Bases: RenderEffect

Indicates that geometry at this node should automatically rotate to face the camera, or any other arbitrary node.

Inheritance diagram

bool get_axial_rotate(void) const

Returns true if this billboard rotates only around the axis of the up vector, or false if it rotates freely in three dimensions.

static TypeHandle get_class_type(void)

bool get_eye_relative(void) const

Returns true if this billboard interprets the up vector relative to the camera, or false if it is relative to the world.

bool get_fixed_depth(void) const

Returns true if this billboard always appears at a fixed distance from the camera.

NodePath const &get_look_at(void) const

Returns the node this billboard will rotate to look towards. If this is empty, it means the billboard will rotate towards the current camera node, wherever that might be.

LPoint3 const &get_look_at_point(void) const

Returns the point, relative to the look_at() node, towards which the billboard will rotate. Normally this is (0, 0, 0).

PN_stdfloat get_offset(void) const

Returns the distance toward the camera (or the look_at_point) the billboard is moved towards, after rotating. This can be used to ensure the billboard is not obscured by nearby geometry.

LVector3 const &get_up_vector(void) const

Returns the up vector in effect for this billboard.

bool is_off(void) const

Returns true if the BillboardEffect is an ‘off’ BillboardEffect, indicating that it does not enable billboarding. This kind of BillboardEffect isn’t particularly useful and isn’t normally created or stored in the graph; it might be implicitly discovered as the result of a NodePath::get_rel_state().

static ConstPointerTo<RenderEffect> make(LVector3 const &up_vector, bool eye_relative, bool axial_rotate, PN_stdfloat offset, NodePath const &look_at, LPoint3 const &look_at_point, bool fixed_depth = false)

Constructs a new BillboardEffect object with the indicated properties.

ConstPointerTo<RenderEffect> make_axis(void)

A convenience function to make a typical axis-rotating billboard.

ConstPointerTo<RenderEffect> make_point_eye(void)

A convenience function to make a typical eye-relative point-rotating billboard.

ConstPointerTo<RenderEffect> make_point_world(void)

A convenience function to make a typical world-relative point-rotating billboard.