3D Imposter Flipbooks?

The_Casual_Doctor · February 9, 2015, 2:14pm

Hi all

I was wondering if UE4 has an implementation to change the flipbook of a sprite depending on the viewing angle? I’m going for the look of Populous: The Beginning, where a unit is an animated sprite, but as you rotate around the unit, the sprite changes to one of the appropriate angle.

I have a rough implementation of this in some code & blueprints, but it’s clunky, and was wondering if I’m missing something obvious?

anonymous_user_17ec24a01 · February 9, 2015, 2:45pm

I haven’t seen anything like that built into the engine, you’ll have to roll your own as you’ve been doing.

The_Casual_Doctor · February 9, 2015, 5:02pm

Thanks, it’s as I feared, but I just wanted to be sure that I’m not reinventing the wheel.

The_Casual_Doctor · March 2, 2015, 6:08am

As an update, I was walking through the example levels, and noticed the little questionmarks for documentation… for any future Googlers finding this, look into Billboards, they might do what you need!