I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to create dot like helper controls. Ones seen in this image for the eyes. I know the easiest way to do it would be to just make a sphere with a 100% self illuminated material but when you go into wire mode it just looks like part of the mesh then. Does anyone have any ideas? It would be cool to make it a helper object so there are no wires visible in wireframe mode and so it would display the bright color. It would essentially be a bit 3D dot, one solid color.
I guess aside from that would there be a way to put a script on the object properties of the object so no matter what type of a view a person is in whether its wireframe or smooth the object does not show wireframe? That way the self illuminated object would work then.
It would be cool to be able to extend the helper objects as done in this example by bobo. http://forums.cgsociety.org/archive/index.php/t-288270.html
Have a look at the gw.Marker function to draw directly 2D sprites over the screen. You’d need to refresh them as they are removed at each viewport change. But they won’t be pickable.