I want to have steam in my demo I have created a plane with a steam texture applied to it then I select the faces and apply the halo or billboard attribute to them. When I press P they seem to lay down or shrink rather than face the camera as I assume they should. If anyone has a detailed explanation of how to do this correctly I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
TorQ
the object’s mesh must be faceing the objects X axis
so go to edit buttons, click on axis, bottom left, to see the axis (duh)
then make the plane face the X axis, and try double sided
Thanks! Just what I was looking for!
TorQ
Try flipping the normals instead of using twoside.
Enter edit mode, select the vertices that make the face. Press ‘W’ and choose flip normals.[/u]
Halo needs to face -X axis for some strange reason 
Carsten.
Hey calli!
Great to see you here again! 