planes facing the camera

[A_GAME]

I was wondering how to make it so a flat plane always faces the camera in maya.

any takers?

[dabu]

aim constrain the plane to the view axis of the camera?

[Hans Schrijvers]

this must be the third time I am posting this:

You got to connect the rotation of the plane to the rotation of the camera you want it to face.

Here is a simple script that can help you out, enter it in your script editor and drag to your shelf to make a button. Then select the objects you want to turn into billboards and click the button.


string $sel[] = `ls -sl`;
for ($eachObj in $sel)
{
CenterPivot;
DeleteAllHistory;
connectAttr persp.rotateY ($eachObj + ".rotateY");
}

[A_GAME]

woah, thanks!

[dabu]

hans is a maya ninja