bevy_mod_billboard

Billboard text and texture support for bevy

Todo

• Add documentation
• Follow Rust API Guidelines: https://rust-lang.github.io/api-guidelines/about.html
• Batching

Features

• Styled text with multiple fonts.
• Textures.
• Depth culling enabling/disabling (enabled by default).
• Y-axis locking (disabled by default).
• Full rotation lock for stuff like 3D world-space text (@robftm)
• HDR support (@robtfm)

Bevy Compatibility

Example

Setup:

use bevy_mod_billboard::prelude::*;

App::new()
    .add_plugins((DefaultPlugins, BillboardPlugin));

Text:

commands.spawn(BillboardTextBundle {
    transform: Transform::from_translation(Vec3::new(0., 2., 0.))
        .with_scale(Vec3::splat(0.0085)),
    text: Text::from_sections([
        TextSection {
            value: "IMPORTANT".to_string(),
            style: TextStyle {
                font_size: 60.0,
                font: fira_sans_regular_handle.clone(),
                color: Color::ORANGE,
            }
        },
        TextSection {
            value: " text".to_string(),
            style: TextStyle {
                font_size: 60.0,
                font: fira_sans_regular_handle.clone(),
                color: Color::WHITE,
            }
        }
    ]).with_alignment(TextAlignment::CENTER),
    ..default()
});

Texture:

commands.spawn(BillboardTextureBundle {
    transform: Transform::from_translation(Vec3::new(0., 5., 0.)),
    texture: BillboardTextureHandle(handle.clone()),
    mesh: BillboardMeshHandle(meshes.add(Quad::new(Vec2::new(4.0, 4.0)).into()).into()),
    ..default()
});

Full examples at examples.

Changelog

[0.7.0] - 2024-07-11

• Upgrade to Bevy 0.14 (@interwhy).
• Add Billboard marker component.

[0.6.0] - 2024-06-09

• Upgrade to Bevy 0.13 (@RobWalt).
• Enable bevy's wayland & X11 features.

[0.5.1] - 2023-12-05

• Fix billboard propagation not working.

[0.5.0] - 2023-12-04

• Upgrade to Bevy 0.12 (@robftm).
• Remove texture array implementation.
• Use 1:N game world -> render world mapping.
• Remove asset type BillboardTexture.
• Add BillboardTextureHandle wrapper.
• Reduce memory usage.
• Increase performance for most used text case.
• Add stress_test example (@alice-i-cecile).
• Add rotating camera to most of the examples to showcase better.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.