hey. i need a app that can genererate me a set of billboard textures from a givin 3d model. for example something that wil generate a texture for every 20 degrees around the Y axis of a model with the X and Z axis obviously staying the same. thnx in advance!

I don't know any special tool, but any 3d rendering tool will do the job, atleast without the automatically rotation around the up-axis. Blender is a freely available rendering tool (free, www.blender.org) which will be enough to render some billboard textures.

A billboard is normally not rendered from different angles. Using 18 textures to represent one billboarded model is quite expensive.

There's also the option to generate your billboards on-the-fly. After your scene has been loaded render your models to a texture and use this textures for your billboards.

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Ashaman

thnx for the reply.. il use blender for the job.