[Papervision3D] Create 1/2 cylinder with code?

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Also I just found this, it's the fourth result googling for "pv3d cut
geometry":

http://www.niuniuzhu.cn/old_blog/html/2008/10/200810081236005152.htm


seems there is a function to do this in PV3D itself :)


> Anyone know if it's possible to create either a cylinder or sphere cut in
> half (so looking at it from the top it's only ½ of a circle)?  But do it
> with code, not with a collada file from an external tool?
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> Currently I have a sky texture I am mapping to the inside of a cylinder,
> and the user moves around inside it, but when you (camera) are flying into
> it, because you start further back, you have to fly through one side of
> the sphere first, which looks nasty.  I did use a transparent .png file
> first as a texture, which allowed one side to be "transparent", giving me
> the effect I wanted, but the file was HUGE so load times were not
> acceptable.
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> Any ideas?  I'd rather not bother with trying to create this with a
> collada model of this and transparent .png files are just too huge.  It
> does need to be a sphere or cylinder - a plane serving as the sky just
> wouldn't look right as you move around.
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> I thought about removing verticies or something if that was possible - is
> that a good approach and is it doable for this situation?
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> Thanks,
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> Jason Merrill
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