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Subject:	Help Needed: How to generate high quality gif images from LDRAW parts
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad
Date:	Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:48:35 GMT
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I’m trying to generate GIF images of the LDRAW library in many different colors, just like LUGNET’s PARTSREF. But, I can’t seem to generate high quality images.

This is what I’m aiming for:

(from LUGNET’s PARTSREF)

And this what I’m generating:

I’m using LDAO with LDLITE 2.4 to generate the VEC (which are BMPs) and then using ImageMagick 6.2.5 to convert to GIFs.

Any help would be great! Thanks!

Dustin

Message has 1 Reply:

		Re: Help Needed: How to generate high quality gif images from LDRAW parts
(...) Hi Dustin, First mistake using GIF. Use PNG (preferable) or JPG. GIF can only have 256 colours which means a lot of neat shading can get lost. A second piece of advice is generate the VEC at double size and then resize. Basically this would (...) (18 years ago, 30-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)

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