Billboarding from egg file

[isaacmarco]

Hi, in the egg syntax documentation:

Other Group Attributes
Billboard

{ type }

This entry indicates that all geometry defined at or below this group level is part of a billboard that will rotate to face the camera. Type is either “axis” or “point”, describing the type of rotation.

Billboards rotate about their local axis. In the case of a Y-up file, the billboards rotate about the Y axis; in a Z-up file, they rotate about the Z axis. Point-rotation billboards rotate about the origin.

What types are available and what are their values exactly?
thx

[drwr]

The answer is within the text you quoted:

Type is either “axis” or “point”, describing the type of rotation.

So, you may supply either “axis” or “point” in for the “type” value. Those are your only two legal values. (Billboard syntax in an egg file is considerably more limited than the options available in Python code via nodePath.setBillboardBlahBlahBlah).

“axis” means it rotates around the vertical axis, like a hinge. “point” means it rotates around the origin, like a universal joint.

David