GarageGames/Torque3D — pull request #744 by lukaspj (2014-07-30 22:41:05+00:00)
Title: Ribbon implementation

PR adds an implementation of Tim Newell's ribbon code, with a "ParticleEmitterNode-like" RibbonNode.

Since receiveing the code from Tim, the following changes has been made:

* Option for fixed texCoords has been added to prevent "floating" textures.
* Tilescale has been added to scale texCoords.
* Now uses RIBBON_NUM_FIELDS instead of constant values for key value arrays.
* Option for skipping an amount of emitted segments such that you can optimize the ribbons when necessary by emitting e.g. 50% of the original amount of segments, at the cost of less "smoothness".
* Now only update buffers when new segments are added (Optimization).
* Option for preventing texture stretching, such that textures always look uniformly sized.
* A number of fixes, like being able to have more than 2 key-values.

[This video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb-bZh8gvHQ) shows off most of the new "front-end" features.