How do I automatically create billboards for a family of objects?

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  • So, I'm making a 2.5d game and I have all sprites that should have billboards (3d objects with their bottom face being the image of the sprite) in a family, and I was wondering if there was a way, thru events, to set up a system where I only have one billboard object that is automatically created for all objects in the family and set to their sprite animation, but can't seem to find a way to myself. It seems like all instances of a 3d object need to have the same sprite linked to the image of their faces. Could anyone help, please?

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  • You can use "Family on created" event to create a billboard and attach it to the family instance with hierarchy.

  • yeah that's not the problem, the problem is making all of them independently show their sprites correctly

  • Are they showing their billboards incorrectly? What do you mean by that?

    Also consider posting a screehshot of the event sheet.

  • Don't you need to put a sprite in a container with the object, then set the sprites animation or frame to show a different texture?

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  • If there are multiple objects in the family and only one billboard object, then containers won't work.

  • Honestly I have no idea how to handle this properly so that's why I posted no example. I'm just telling you issues I encountered before in hope that someone shows me the proper way of doing it all from the beginning.

  • Well, assuming you have multiple objects in the family and a single billboard sprite (perhaps with several frames and animations), you can try this: 

    Family On Created
 Family spawn Billboard
 Billboard set animation ....
 Family add child Billboard

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    If each family object has its own billboard object, then you can simply add each pair to a container. For example, Zombie+ZombieBillboard, Vampire+VampireBillboard.

    Objects from the same container will be created automatically.

  • Yeah but you aren't addressing the main issue which is setting the billboard's bottom face to the object it is tied to. That's the thing.

  • You didn't mention that was the main issue. You need to post a demo project, it's difficult to understand what the problem is without it.

  • I'll make one that demonstrates all the issues, my bad, but I may not be able to do it right now.

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