[Papervision3D] Star wars text - best approach

[Mike Mountain]

Just about to start putting together a Star Wars text fx and wondered
what would be the most CPU efficient way of doing it.

I have 3 basic options:

Option 1:
Static plane only as big as view area- animated texture from movieclip
(our scrolling text), text animates in movieclip and is captured as
planes texture, updating every frame.

Option 2:
Static textures, multiple planes - A plane for each line of text on
screen, animating backwards, removed at the vanishing point

Option 3:
One massive plane with a static texture animating into the distance.

Thoughts, and reasoning behind them would be appreciated.

Cheers

Mike



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