Advanced Sprite Billboarding with Godot C#, GDScript and GDShader [Godot Tutorial]

How to billboard a 3D sprite or plane mesh along an arbitrary axis using C# or GDScript scripts, or with GDShader. Godot has built-in full billboarding and billboarding along the global-Y, but if you want an object to point in the direction its travelling and rotate to face the camera, you'll have to do it this way.

⏱️ Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:32 Setting up the sprite 1:42 C# Implementation 4:55 Godot's in-built billboarding 5:57 Demonstration under moving node 6:43 Accounting for scale 7:20 GDScript implementation 8:49 Why we might need shaders 9:13 Setting up plane mesh and material shader 10:15 Cleaning up the shader 10:58 Writing the shader 12:55 Demonstration of shader 13:40 Conclusion

📻 Addendum: If you're using the shader and find that your mesh is invisible you can: A. Double check the order of the cross product, as reversing the order would mean you're pointing the back face to the camera; or B. Add "cull_disabled" to the render_mode list to disable back-face culling.

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