Billboard Generator for Unity

Billboard generator (“Billboard Mage 1.0”) is an editor extension for Unity that allows for quick and easy billboard asset generation.

Billboard is a method of optimization that involves rendering complex objects into a quad mesh that is always facing the camera and is commonly used in combination with the Level of Detail (LOD) for improving the rendering performance.

Below are a few screenshots of this tool in action:

Billboard Mage 1.0 Pine Tree 3D model to a quad mesh
  • A Scene with a lot of repetitive meshes (Notice the low frame rate):
Unity stats tab before LOD optimization
Unity wireframe render of a Scene before optimization
  • After creating LOD groups with generated billboards:
Unity wireframe render of a Scene after optimization
Unity Scene after optimization
Unity stats tab after LOD optimization
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