Re: Q: No picking of pfbillboards?

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Sharon Clay (src++at++rose.asd.sgi.com)
Tue, 21 Jan 1997 01:47:48 -0800

+>---- On Jan 17, 10:08am, tidrowd++at++cc.tacom.army.mil wrote:
> Subject: Re: Q: No picking of pfbillboards?
->
->Not sure if you have already received a reply, so here goes:
->
->From the pfBillboard man page (under BUGS):
->"Intersection traversals test only the pfBillboard's bounding volume, not
-> its individual pfGeoSets."
->
->If you really need it, you might be able to add intersection traversal callbacks
->to a pfBillboard node to fix this.
->
->Question to Performer team: Will this be fixed in the next release? Or is it
->something we should do using callbacks?

Well, you still probably don't want to intersect with the bboard gset geometry
anyway but with some other geometry that better represents your actual object?
That can currently be managed with traversal masks.

src.

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