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(...) Artists are certainly not stupid and i will learn from them as much as i can. Nobody wants to reinvent the wheel, neither do i. (...) Damien My lego POV-Ray gallery: (URL) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I downloaded Lani long time ago, not deeply tested it but i wouldn't say it sucks. I know about POV-Ray, ray-tracing primitives and Constructive Solid Geometry. My lego POV-Ray gallery: (URL) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yeah it's already difficult enough and i don't say i will try. And if i try i will not embark anyone as a collective project can have a negative impact when it fails: people who have invested time and effort want someone to be blamed and (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) This part is already in the PT (with the correct number) with this change as well as being BFC'd and tidied up. (URL) Dean Earley, Dee (dean@earlsoft.co.uk) irc: irc://irc.blitzed.org/ web: (URL) +44 (0)780 8369596 (20 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) My computer is a Celeron-Mendocino 500Mhz, 128Mb RAM, Win98se. Thus, even free is too costly because i can't afford the required hardware. damien (20 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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The group is far from dead. Maybe no one has an answer, wants to answer, or hasn't read the post yet. The only person that I could think of offhand to answer your question since I can't answer (and probably not alot of people can answer that (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.parts)
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(...) Right. When free software exists and is good enough to outperform commercial solutions in some applications, it will of course be used. The extremely successful combination Apache/PHP springs to mind - lots of web sites who could easily afford (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yup. I gave a talk on the software at Brickfest, "Automated Brick Layout" I posted the slides from that talk in my brickshelf folder: (URL) Please feel free to post photos. Thank you! -dw (20 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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(...) Mi pare di capire che tu ti stia offrendo come volontario per inserire in MLCad le istruzioni della mia stazione! :-) (scherzo, ovviamente..) BTW, si tratterebbe di solo (circa) 13.500 bricks. (20 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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(...) I think it would be wise to include a step 3.5: We first need some means for saving animation data, i.e. we need to design and agree upon a file format for time-varying LDraw data. Without that, we might end up with the situation that is still (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) And I'll add to that the animated GIMP (forgotten its name) is used by Dreamworks and other big animation studios. Tim (20 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) How much does Linux cost? How much does OpenOffice cost? How much does Gimp cost? How much do thousands of titles of quite useful free software cost? I think you are missing the point. Professional software titles are often out of range for (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) ehhh...ma a me piacciono le cose sempre dopo... ..arrivo sempre in ritardo! hehe;-) ciao! Matteo (20 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug.market)
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(...) (URL) Personal Learning Edition> is free for non-commercial use. (20 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) OK, no reply in 3 days, and my message is still the most recent post. I guess this group is dead. >Sigh< Stefan G (20 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.parts)
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(...) At the very least you should read the manuals to see what techniques the artists use. They aren't stupid. And they do apply to Lego animation because I have read some manuals so I know. Lightwave is only $895, which isn't that expensive (how (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I have been working on what you want for 5 years. At first I came up with Lani as a language. (URL) sucks. I now use POV-Ray. Have you learned POV-Ray? Have you seen this: (URL) fully agree, POV-Ray isn't as powerful as, say, Maya. But it is (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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I've had a basic animation system working in LeoCAD for a while, I tried to do things as close to how 3DS works as I could since I didn't have much experience with animations and I figured the guys at Discreet know what they are doing (I'm not (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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Ever wonder what would happen if they fought it out? Soon we will be able to find out... ...In Finnish (URL) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) [MUCH SNIPPAGE] Mark, I did this simple repost to remove the remainder of this conversation from events.brickfest. I'll go home and study your feedback, build models and test them, and provide a writeup. Kev (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic)
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