Making a circular shaped radar

Scripting Issues
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I posted a thread some weeks ago asking about creating a mini-radar view. The best idea was to make a scene-graph and represent each radar dot and the radar bg using nodes and render it to a rectangular region of the screen.

Someone suggested a radar with a circular shape. I think this is a very cool idea but is it possible without having to render to a texture? Maybe using some advanced 3d clipping tricks?

Any help would be appreciated as i don’t have a clue how this can be done.

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I think you’re overthinking this. Just make a circular model the same way you would make any circular model–for instance, put a circular texture on a polygon–and parent that circular model to aspect2d. Poof, instant circular radar display.

David

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LOL of course. I don’t need to clip anything. The engine will only render the circular polygon with the radar dots as nodes on top.

Thanks for the insight.

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see the minimap I posted in the showcase. I can provide code if you want.