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-====== Billboard ======
-A billboard controls proxy objects of a basis mesh instance (source object).
-The billboard component is a mesh itself, into which proxies are merged. Much faster rendering is possible if proxy meshes are merge into one mesh, instead of rendering each mesh.
-We typically use this technique for grass or trees.
-It is not suitable for animated meshes.
-===== Using a grass billboard =====
-In this example we will display grass on multiplied planes inside of the billboard component.
-After applying the TGorillaGrassMaterial we are able to render different textures onto those planes and to manipulate vertices.
-The result should be a varying grass landscape with waving grass.
-<file pascal Form1.pas>
-procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
-var LBillboard : TPlane;
-    LPoolE : TGorillaBitmapPoolEntry;
-    LGrassMat : TGorillaGrassMaterialSource;
-    LAlg : TGorillaBillboardRectFilling;
-begin
-  // creating the source object - here a plane
-  LBillboard := TPlane.Create(fGorilla);
-  LBillboard.Scale.Point := Point3D(4, 4, 4);
-  // creating the grass material source
-  FGrassMat := TGorillaGrassMaterialSource.Create(FGorilla);
-  FGrassMat.Parent := FGorilla;
-  // now we load a pool of grass textures, the material shader
-  // randomly chooses from
-  with FGrassMat do
-  begin
-    LPoolE := Bitmaps.Add() as TGorillaBitmapPoolEntry;
-    LPoolE.Bitmap.LoadFromFile('grass1.png');
-    LPoolE := Bitmaps.Add() as TGorillaBitmapPoolEntry;
-    LPoolE.Bitmap.LoadFromFile('grass2.png');
-    LPoolE := Bitmaps.Add() as TGorillaBitmapPoolEntry;
-    LPoolE.Bitmap.LoadFromFile('grass3.png');
-    LPoolE := Bitmaps.Add() as TGorillaBitmapPoolEntry;
-    LPoolE.Bitmap.LoadFromFile('grass4.png');
-  end;
-  // creating the billboard control
-  FGrass := TGorillaBillboard.Create(FGorilla);
-  FGrass .Parent := FGorilla;
-  FGrass.SourceObject := LBillboard;
-  FGrass.MaterialSource := LGrassMat;
-  FGrass.SetSize(GORILLA_BILLBOARD_SIZE, GORILLA_BILLBOARD_SIZE, GORILLA_BILLBOARD_SIZE);
-  // create an individual filling algorithm to multiply the grass planes
-  LAlg := TGorillaBillboardRectFilling.Create(FGrass);
-  try
-    FGrass.Fill(LAlg, true);
-  finally
-    FreeAndNil(LAlg);
-  end;
-</file>