Reply To: Collab2021-WIP-tijnkroon
This is great! Such a lightweight solution that I think you nailed. Full points for this week and a little extra. The one big downside here is that we can’t have the trees following the camera like that because it will really slow down real time navigation and we could get some weird glitches where they pop over and under each other like below:
To fix this, there are two options. We could make each tree three planes like so:
If we need more shading information, it could be that a different approach of sticking a leaf textured icosphere in there would do the trick:
Or, they could all point towards the center, since they’ll be seen from farther away and we’re assuming the camera will stay within the bounds of the foreground. As long as they look good from there, we’re golden.
There is some artifact at the very tip of each tree, but that the only technical issue I see.
Thank you for being willing to do so much experimenting! You nailed the tree style right out of the gate and the models look awesome, so this last stretch of figuring out how to best optimize it will help us put as many of them into the scene as possible and really make people say “Wow, that’s real time in Eevee?!?”