now i wonder where this idea come from....



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LOL cheese

Well .... when everyone on our own forums is confused.... the next best thing is to post here

Like that one?
Pic Link

Sorry i don't know how to post pics here.

Edit - Made the link clickable

Edited by - FINALDAY on 8/1/2007 2:46:34 AM

I'm not sure what I'm looking for Matt , in that picture ...


One of the MAIN purposes of the billboard will be for weather updates, as well as big news... and just like CNN has a scrolling text bar on the bottom of the TV screen, I want to have a billboard with scrolling text on it that would show weather updates, etc..

I'm just trying to figure out if it's even POSSIBLE heheh

i THINK I see text on that screen but can't tell for sure... it's too dark...


looking for a stationary billboard in space though with scrolling text if possible.

Well, while we are on the subject or animation, here is what i have recently been able to do with regards to animations and such (more specifically, material animations) and heres the result.

*NOTE*
Ive had this for quite some time now, i have been refining it for the past 3 weeks and adding some documentation on it along the way so sorry lol

This Video can be downloaded OR streamed directly from the website (youll see what i mean ^^)

Billboard Animation





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Edited by - cheese on toast on 7/31/2007 7:12:40 PM

unfortunately there is a limit to the length of the texture you could use for a billboard. i know DDS cubemaps at least will save in a resolution of 1:6 height/width but whether the game will allow an odd size like that for a normal texture is questionable

the good news is that if you're willing to fiddle with it you can move the texture right to left, then jump down to the next line, scan again, jump etc until you reach the end of the texture, at which point your animation would return to the beginning of the loop. i will be posting a materials semi-tute soon, which will explain how UV animation works, if not how to use it (its a little tricky)

Cheese, That os pretty sweet and probably would work for what we are looking for.

CV, I look forward to your tut.

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the pic he posted shows a scrolling billboard with serverrules

CV, for our purposes we dont need alot of texture size taken up, and yes, limited by texture size is a bit of a bum but atleast it looks cool ^^, just means we gotta get tricky n stuff lol

so thats what it says SWAT lol, i was trying to make it out aswell xD

the pic is simply too dark

It would still be nice to be able to scroll text along there; we could have one main billboard, with multiple textures on it... possibly?

Would be great for news updates, weather updates, etc..


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you mean a billboard and one texture scrolls through and then the next texture... and so on?

nope thats not possible, one group one texture