Advanced Rendering in Decentraland

When to Use Which Rendering Feature

Need	Component	When
Entity faces the camera	`Billboard`	Name tags, signs, sprite-like objects
Text in the 3D world	`TextShape`	Labels, signs, floating text above entities
Custom material appearance	`Material.setPbrMaterial`	Metallic, rough, transparent, emissive surfaces
Show/hide without removing	`VisibilityComponent`	LOD systems, toggling objects, conditional display
Modify GLTF model nodes	`GltfNodeModifiers`	Override materials or shadow casting on specific mesh nodes

Decision flow:

Need text on screen? → Use build-ui (React-ECS Label) instead
Need text in 3D space? → TextShape (+ Billboard to face camera)
Need glowing/transparent materials? → Material.setPbrMaterial with emissive/transparency
Need to override material on a model node? → GltfNodeModifiers with modifiers array