Intermediate-Billboards

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Learn how to get billboards into the game and all the tricks involved.

Billboards

creating billboards is much easier than you might think and adds a great deal of versatility to any object. In this tutorial you will be walked through the painless process and be crating your own Billboards in no time at all. If you have been progressing through my other tutorials you will have absolutely no trouble creating Billboards and already know all the necessary skills needed to do so.

First just create a model/billboard to how you want it too appear in RCT3. Now if you have made this 3D then you can texture all sides except the face where you want the billboard picture to be visible. Now set up the texture for the billboard face, I simply created a texture with my name(I would suggest creating a texture with writing and a horizontal half way point, you will need it for scrolling signs etc.). I then imported this texture onto the face. See below...

Now that you have added the billboard face you will need to flip the texture, to do this right click the face and go to "texture>position". Now right click the face again and select "Flip>Up/Down. Your billboard should appear like this...

The reason why you flip the texture upside down is because when you import it for some reason you picture appears upside down, this solves tat problem. Now you have not finished texturing the face, for some reason with billboards you only include the bottom half of the texture that way when you import a picture it fits the board properly (if you do not use only the bottom of the texture you billboard will have your picture squashed into half of the board and the rest will appear texture less. To fix this right click the face and select "texture>position" from here you can use the pins to adjust the texture, just stretch the texture until only the bottom half is remaining on the face. See below...

Now you can group it all as you usually would, just remember to group the billboard face seperatley.Now you can export your billboard and then set up the text strings icons and the model as you would a normal object.
Then set your sid settings the same as below...

You may be thinking that you need to adjust more options but that is it.

I hope this tutorial has helped.

Surfingoz
"The Wizard of Oz"

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  82. SELECT `filters`
      FROM `jos_sefexts`
      WHERE `file` = 'com_chronocontact.xml'
      LIMIT 1
  83. SELECT `sefurl`, `Itemid`
      FROM `jos_sefurls`
      WHERE `origurl` = 'index.php?option=com_jdownloads'
  84. SELECT `filters`
      FROM `jos_sefexts`
      WHERE `file` = 'com_lyftenbloggie.xml'
      LIMIT 1
  85. SELECT `filters`
      FROM `jos_sefexts`
      WHERE `file` = 'com_quickfaq.xml'
      LIMIT 1
  86. SELECT `filters`
      FROM `jos_sefexts`
      WHERE `file` = 'com_phocadocumentation.xml'
      LIMIT 1
  87. SELECT `sefurl`, `Itemid`
      FROM `jos_sefurls`
      WHERE `origurl` = 'index.php?option=com_content&layout=form&view=article'

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MYENTRIES	::LyftenBloggieBuildRoute()	[/home/goopedg1/public_html/components/com_sef/joomsef.php:215]

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# /home/goopedg1/public_html/components/com_sef/joomsef.php

MYDETAILS=MYDETAILS
MYENTRIES=MYENTRIES