   What are some ways to draw half a model?
  What are some ways to draw half a model?For example, say I wanted to have a car model. I''d like to chop it in half so if one half get''s shot I can replace that half with a damaged version.I thought that there may be some simple way to take an existing model and then halve it in a 3d modelling program.   ---"Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say "Why not?" - Robert Francis Kennedy (1925-68), US Attorney General||Please try alpha002.zip(663k) 
  I may be way off but why not just alter the texture?Replace the texture with a "shot" version and that should work.-cb   ~ c  o l ec o ~  Rock the cradle of love!You stupid WANKER!S i g n a l D E V .comMetroid Classic;  or if you really want the options that you describe just make each car model be composed of several seperate sub-meshes.  i.e. the car is several objects, not just one.  So when you're making the models in whatever modeling program you use, just cut up the models and make sure that each state fits with every other state (i.e. just have common boundaries between all states of each mesh).  then just save each body component as a seperate object and import them seperately into your game.  You'll need to alter your drawing modules so that when you call .draw() or whatever on your object it, in turn, iterates through it's sub objects and draws them.not very hard at all.  cept maybe for the modelling part, because of having to make sure that all states of each body component fit with all states of every adjoining component.-me   [edited by - Palidine on February 16, 2004 2:12:32 PM];  A couple more ideas:Use a different material for the back end of the car. Change some property that your not using (like maybe emissive) to make it a different material, and thus a different subset.You could do a brute force thing where you clone the FVF, create a new mesh, then start loading all vertices in that are in the front half of the mesh. Probably a bad idea if you were going to do this every freame though. 