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(...) Two questions: * What exactly is Anton Raves' library? * I have POV-Ray 3,1 and 3.5, ML-Cad, L3Lab, L3P, L3PAO, and of course the LDraw package on a PC with AMD1100, 256 Mb RAM and a very old video adapter. What more do I need to make (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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| | The Minifig Macro - walk that minifig
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(URL) uses Anton Raves' POV-Ray library. You can create many minifigs with it, and best yet, you can walk them. Option one is to walk it in a straight line--boring. Option two, walk it on a spline. Very cool! There is an animation of a minifig (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.announce)
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I've recently found a copy of a Lego stop-motion animation video called "LEGO Stories." It features seven short Lego animations. It was made in 1986, although when I looked it up in the WorldCat library catalog, the record says 1989. It seems to be (...) (20 years ago, 16-Feb-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: Michael Jackson's TRILLER - LEGO Version
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(...) Sorry but I was ONLY give the DIRECT LINK to the file by my friend via email. -AHui (20 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Michael Jackson's TRILLER - LEGO Version
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"Mark Tarrabain" <markt@lynx.SPAMBLOCK.net> wrote in message news:IB629u.2278@lugnet.com... (...) Or a link to the site of the creators: (URL) (Click Weiter, Filme, Thriller and scroll to the bottom for your bittorrent) Or a link to the entry in (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Michael Jackson's TRILLER - LEGO Version
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(...) Wouldn't it have been wiser to have posted a torrent? >> Mark (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general)
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| | Michael Jackson's TRILLER - LEGO Version
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A friend of mine set me this link of Michael Jackson's TRILLER video done in LEGO! It's 13 min 43 sec long and well done except for the low res. Its still very cool and well done! (URL) -AHui A&M LWorks (URL) (20 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: LD4DModeler 1.1
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(...) Hi, I am planning to include lots of examples in version 2. There will be at least (because i need them for development :)) a minifig, some sort of robot with knee and elbow limbs, a simple car (wheels, door and hood), and maybe some sort of (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: LD4DModeler 1.1
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(...) It's nice to see that you're continuing development of the program. One thing I would like to see in a future version is the ability to create/use plugins. E.g., a spline motion path plugin that takes an object and its starting and ending (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.animation)
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(...) It's nice to see that you're continuing development of the program. One suggestion: it would be nice if your program supported other transformations (besides just rotation and translation), in the form of plugins that users could create and (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.animation)
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Nice to see that you're still working on this! I thought version one was great as long as you tread carefully to keep the program from crashing. One suggestion: Could you include some example models/animations (e.g. a minifig walking, car wheels (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: Ldraw Minifig "Machinima" POVray include file
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I was wondering if anyone else had released similar include files? (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA2001 Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) Don't get me wrong. Story based is exactly what I have in mind. (...) ... (...) The Siggraph movie is exactly what you see it is, showcases of models. Specifically, they are a collection of animations that are showcases. No attempt to tell a (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA2001 Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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In lugnet.animation, Stefan van Zwam wrote: [snip some stuff] (...) You're going off on James because his cool, amazing, exciting animation didn't tell a story? And then you're going to get down on the idea of creating new software tools to make it (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA2001 Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) What we try to do at brickfilms.com ("we" as in "most stop-motion animators", though I am somewhat more involved in Brickfilms.com's operation than some others) is to create movies in a more classical sense: story-based. What you have shown me (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA2001 Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) The coming L3P has also these new options: -ic[<file>] no camera, optional include file -il[<file>] no lights, optional include file So, l3p -ic -il model.ldr model.inc might just do what you want, assuming you still want color and primitive (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA2001 Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) Yeah, it'd be very cool if L3P had an option to generate include files instead of full scenes. That way, people could run all their various model files through L3P to generate the definitions in include files. Then they could use all those (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) I think I mean... I don't remember! (...) Maybe, but that's not really the problem to me. (...) output files) is having to hunt down all the include files! (...) I'd say let's start with camera.dat and lookat.dat. If we make them with lines (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) I had no idea that L3Lab had POV output, in spite the fact that I've been using it daily for years! Hmm, very intersting. The alternative approach that comes to my mind is: * LDA creates a static MPD file and runs it through L3P. * The output (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) I'd agree with this. But what I do with an L3Lab output (which is how I generate my static images in POV from LDraw files) is immediately strip the camera and viewpoint stuff out and make it into an .inc file, my main file just includes what (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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