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(...) It's "mustard" ya returd.... (URL) JOHN (13 years ago, 7-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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(...) J.C. Tchang has kindly put a manual together for the LDraw-Pattern-Creator. At the moment this is only available in French. I have added some links to the manual on the following page: (URL) can browse the manual online or you can download a (...) (13 years ago, 7-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) speaking of musturd.... (Excuse me, but) do you have any grey poupon? enfrancais... (pardonnez-mois, mais) avez-vous des poupon gris? Ben (13 years ago, 7-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Google translate just isn't up to translating "Hey Mister!!!" Here's what I got Excuse-moi, monsieur, votre robot pue .........manque de qualité .........n'est pas bon .........ne peut pas couper la moutarde or maybe .........aspire or maybe (...) (13 years ago, 7-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I'll take that bet! I'll be OLD school Canadiens vs Leafs. And by old school, I'm talking Pre-1968. As for your last comment, All the French I learned was when I was in St. Nazair France, so Its "ship builder French" Lets see if I can do this: (...) (13 years ago, 6-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) LMAO, hey misters, I have had a bit of a look at what QueLUG builds, and there are a few very talented robot guys in that group... so if I were you both, I would watch my smack, or they might put all of rtlToronto to shame. Just saying! Janey (...) (13 years ago, 6-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Friday, come out to watch dave cry - was: Re: Dave's not-a-bot
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Come one, come all to the Annual rtlToronto June Dinner. That's right folks, step right up for this Lego Fan Dinner that we have once a year. Only in June do we have the June Dinner. This year we will be having chicken at Swiss Chalet, and maybe (...) (13 years ago, 6-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Chris throws some random words into a LUGNET post in order to appear to do this smack talk thing.... Really Chris? Smack talk?? Faking an e-mail from me?? Really?? You reached that far to try smack talk?? Really??? And this tug o' war thing?? (...) (13 years ago, 6-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Looks impressive. I'll give it a try with a patterned part I want. Jaco (13 years ago, 6-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Could be an effect of the 'ambient' value for the transparent colors. If you look at the pov file I sent you, you can see that I have used the following for color47: #declare Color47 = #if (version >= 3.1) material { #end texture { pigment { (...) (13 years ago, 5-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Thanks for the tips... I used LDView to conver, and got a render that's much closer to the original. However I've got one niggling difference that's bugging me. The transparent colors seem "lighter" somehow, meaning that the interiors of (...) (13 years ago, 5-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | June 18th, 2011 SMART Meeting in Woodinville library
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Due to the amount of interest expressed at the last meeting, we'll be having a SMART meeting this month: on June 18th, at the Woodinville Library from 2 to 5pm. They only have a single meeting room, to the left in the lobby. The purpose of the (...) (13 years ago, 4-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Dave's not-a-bot
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Dave Koudys, sent me a private e-mail. He said He could not post to Lugnet. (just like I get from Steve, and Jeff) So, On behalf of Dave Koudys: ---...---snip------- "Chris, I can not post to Lugnet, can you send this to all my friends at (...) (13 years ago, 4-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Philo you were right! The new Column Gear meshes perfectly with the newly named Gear Rack with Two Studs. (GRWTS)(1) These are deep links to the new MOCup (3 URLs) The nice feature about the newly named Gear Rack with Two Studs (GRWTS) is that (...) (13 years ago, 4-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) Note that the studs are not fluted like the rest of the round brick, and even though they are not fully round on the outer surfaces, they _do_ stick out past the fluting below them. This means that, while you may be right that this could be (...) (13 years ago, 3-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) --snip-- (...) To take a stab at it: * The light is very high. You'll have to tweak its angle. * If you use an area_light you'll probably get the soft shadow edges * Reflection is turned off or very low * The ground has a fairly high ambience, (...) (13 years ago, 3-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Thanks, Janey:-) JOHN (13 years ago, 3-Jun-11, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, FTX)
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(...) Gahh! Well, they have been moderated now. Enjoy. JOHN (13 years ago, 3-Jun-11, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, FTX)
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(...) Received and replied with a zip of the .pov file and accompanying images. The settings for the brighter render is probably in the out-commented light settings in the .pov file (and without radiosity) - I don't know for sure, I fiddled so much (...) (13 years ago, 3-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Deeplinks, Brother John, Deeplinks! (13 years ago, 3-Jun-11, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, FTX)
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(...) Hi Anders! I sent a note requesting it to the address shown in your post, is it still correct? Mine is, so you can use that one to send it. I really like the way that image looks (as well as the next one in the Brickshelf gallery) so would be (...) (13 years ago, 3-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | LDraw-Pattern-Creator (LPC)
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Hi everyone, I recently made contact with Nils Schmidt [BlackBrick89], and he kindly sent me a copy of the source code for his LDraw-Pattern-Creator (LPC) program. I've compiled a copy of the code and put some links on my website where you can (...) (13 years ago, 3-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LEGO Kof mit Schleim!
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(URL) After reading about this locomotive in an article written by Tim David in (URL) RAILBRICKS 8> and seeing (URL) version> built by Gavyn Rogers, I decided to give it a go. After all, it is the only true LEGO locomotive. (URL) I used pics that I (...) (13 years ago, 3-Jun-11, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, FTX) !
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(...) Wow, sounds like you have been busy, looking forward to the pics. The trolley is awesome, love the use of the fences and the shaping you did around the front, and the lower part of the sides. Cheers, Janey "Red Brick" (13 years ago, 2-Jun-11, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw All-In-One-Installer 2010-03 beta
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(...) works"... I was rendering in POV in no time flat (as soon as I brought the specific .pov and .inc files I needed over) Thanks. (13 years ago, 2-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) If I understand it correctly, 'ambient' is what you see if all lights are off. I usually turn this down very low (zero). 'Diffuse' is reflected light from other surfaces, you'd want quite a lot of that. (...) Yes, I think the default (...) (13 years ago, 2-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Actually, the sum of *all* your lights should not be too much over <1,1,1> as some parts of the image may be saturated. I usually use 0.5-0.7 for the *brightest* light, and 0.1-0.3 for filler lights. Remember it's easy to modify light (...) (13 years ago, 2-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) How bright is "not too bright"? These lights don't obey the r**2 law like real lights do, right? I noticed that if I have several rgb<1,1,1> lights the scene seems "overilluminated" Do you use .5 or so for the not too bright ones? (13 years ago, 2-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I am considering using parallel instead of a light source that's very far away... I don't think Jeroen used "parallel" for his source(s) because the shadow angles are steeper in the foreground. (this will be less pronounced with light sources (...) (13 years ago, 2-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Looking at the lighting, I'm pretty sure he used radiosity and prolly his FastRad library. I might still have a copy lemme poke around. -Orion (13 years ago, 2-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I'm 99++% certain that's not the case, given the input data Jeroen was able to recover for me. I think removing reflections would be a lot of work, better to change the properties of the surface to get them not to happen. (13 years ago, 2-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Asking for RIS 2.0 patch under Windows XP
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Threre are two fixes to the "A critical error has occurred" problem. One fix is to uninstall the latest Quicktime and install the older Quicktime version from the RIS CD (or any Quicktime version older than version 7). Another fix (described earlier (...) (13 years ago, 2-Jun-11, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Zellers and TRU sales June 3-9
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Zellers flyer good from Friday June 3rd through Thursday June 9th. Save 20% on all LEGO® Hero Factory Construction sets, $8.79 - $21.59 (Reg. 10.99 - 26.99) TRU flyer good from Friday June 3rd through Thursday June 9th. Buy one get one half off on (...) (13 years ago, 2-Jun-11, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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This info has been on classic-castle.com and the Brickworld website for a while, but I figured I ought to post here too, just in case. If this is your first time reading this, and you're thinking, "Aaaah! There's only a couple of weeks left before (...) (13 years ago, 2-Jun-11, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) You can use many lights, and still have a single shadow by making all lights but one 'shadowless' (a modifier to the POV light description). I often put a (not too bright) shadowless light at the same position as the camera, to make sure (...) (13 years ago, 2-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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It looks to me like each model / row of models was rendered in POV-Ray individually and then PhotoShopped together. Probably removed any reflections when combined on to one image. Scott (13 years ago, 2-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Hi Larry, I'm not much of a POV expert, but it looks to me like Jeroen used a single light source (I only see one shadow per model). I'd guess the light source is very far away (to simulate sunlight) because all the shadows cast proportionate (...) (13 years ago, 2-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | May
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Wow; looks like I missed May. So, a quick recap of May: We decided to recreate Rice Park in St. Paul, MN, complete with The St. Paul Library, The Landmark Center, and, of course, the Ordway Theater. I've already nearly completed the library; just a (...) (13 years ago, 2-Jun-11, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, FTX)
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A long time ago, Jeroen kindly rendered this image for me in POVRay (URL) the source got lost. Now I need it much much larger so I'm trying to recreate it. I am all the way there (all models positioned right, etc) except for the lighting/shadows. (...) (13 years ago, 2-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Asking for RIS 2.0 patch under Windows XP
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I know what the answer to this one is! I solved the "A critical error has occurred" problem with Robotics Invention System 2.0 by uninstalling QuickTime and installing the QuickTime version from the RIS 2.0 disk. Don't forget to delete the (...) (13 years ago, 2-Jun-11, to lugnet.robotics)
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