I''m looking for some examples of billboards. I''ve examined NeHe lesson 20 and used this technique to make a masked billboard, but I''d like to examine alternate methods. I''ve also used Stencilling, but this didn''t work to well (slow...). I may have done something incorrectly in the stencil version of my billboards that caused OpenGL to swith to Software Mode (vs Hardware Accelerated). Anyway, any cool links or sample code would be greatly appreciated.

I have a billboarding tutorial in the OpenGL Tutor section of my webpage, dunno if its what you are looking for.

Nate
http://nate.scuzzy.net

I highly suggest Nate''s site, there is also billboarding code in http://www.sgi.com/software/opengl/advanced97/programs/advanced97_src.zip (you will also need http://www.sgi.com/software/opengl/advanced97/programs/advanced97_data.zip). Sorry, can''t seem to find the site they came from (well only the overview of sigraph 97, but there''s no info there).

Morgan

Nate/Morgan,

Thanks for your replies. I''ve downloaded Nate''s code and I''ll be checking out the link mentioned by Morgan.

-Ed Maurina