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| | | Hello, I've been using ML-Cad, L3P, L3PAO, and Pov Ray for a while now, and I've been wondering what the best way is to render minifig heads and/or helmets. I've seen some beautiful renderings out there, with wonderful ROUND heads, but I haven't (...) (22 years ago, 20-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | | | | RE: Minifig Heads —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | (...) What you need to do is render a blank round head and then use an image_map of the face for the pigment of the head. You can change the map type to a cylindrical wrap instead of rectangular if necessary. A slightly lower qualityway to do it (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | | | | | Re: Minifig Heads —Joel Hoornbeek
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| | | | I'm still enough of a novice to not know how to do that. Is it something you do in the .dat file stage? Do in the .pov file? I seem to lear the best by example, so if you know of someone who has posted a file which demonstrates this, I'd like to (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | | | | | RE: Minifig Heads —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | (...) In general, improved results for any rendering are accomplished by editing the POV file. Each LDRAW part gets converted to a POV 'object' when you run L3P. If you use -lgeo, then the object is simply a transformation of the LGEO object for the (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | | | | | Re: Minifig Heads —Gary E. Blessing
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| | | | | Which version of pov are you useing? 3.1 or 3.5? I'm getting a few errors with that. Gary Bram Lambrecht <bram@cwru.edu> wrote in message news:000301c172c4$d3...1681@bl... (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | | | | | Re: Minifig Heads —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | (...) I'm using POV 3.1, but I didn't check the code either. There may be an issue with using Color14 *and* the image_map in the same material. Also, make sure the image exists in the correct location and that the '...' in 'transform <...>' is an (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | | | | | Re: Minifig Heads —Gary E. Blessing
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| | | | hehehe sorry I bothered you, it was a typo, too many 1s in a few spots. Gary (just learnig to hand code pov) Bram Lambrecht <BXL34@po.cwru.edu> wrote in message news:5.0.2.1.0.20011...wru.edu... (...) the (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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