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I am getting really excited over how fast progress is made just a couple of days from project restart. The strange thing is that what takes most time is to build the models for the scenes. Animation is relatively quickly done. Datsville as scenery (...) (19 years ago, 30-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: Matrix math tutorial
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(...) I forgot to mention: keep in mind LDraw uses row-point-coordinates whereas the (otherwise excellent) tutorial uses column-point-coordinates, that means any transformation matrix given in the tutorial has to be "transposed" before being used in (...) (19 years ago, 29-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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| | Matrix math tutorial
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Hi all, Occasionnaly people ask help for matrix math, so here are some interesting tutorial links: (URL) Part 1: Vector math tutorial> (URL) 2: Matrix math tutorial> And, of course: (URL) The LDraw matrix format> The 3 documents should be sufficient (...) (19 years ago, 29-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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| | LDA2005 (Was: The Minifig Macro - walk that minifig)
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(...) was put on ice. Progress in my todo-list so far: * Support for new minifig parts - Done! * Support for camera.dat and look_at.dat - Done! (Well, see next step...) * Automatic writing a batch file for L3P - In progress. Some strange problem (...) (19 years ago, 27-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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(...) IMHO there is no reason why someone can't invent something new. Especially as anything new would be still compatible with LDraw standards (otherwise the author would have to reinvent the wheel, the LDraw library and the existing Lego-Cad tools (...) (19 years ago, 17-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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Ok. So this is exactly the reason I didn't want anyone to invent a new animation scripting language for Legos! It is something new and is in danger of: being a sucky 1.0 release (or worse, never reaching 1.0), and not getting widespread use and so (...) (19 years ago, 17-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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Hi James, whew - this is getting to be a big mail, but I will try and answer in situ... (...) I suppose I consider it part of the concept, so then I, or others can build what I built, although given the original LDraw file, some may be able to work (...) (19 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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Ok, this post took me a long time to get through... (...) Ah. I've never cared for instructions... I didn't take that into account when I wrote the article... (...) I was only familiar with POV-Ray (well, I'm starting to be familiar with others now (...) (19 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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(...) I did mean paths as in lines and curves, as I hope became apparent later on. (...) would apply to this technique, is that it may make building steps a little unnatural. Though you might be able to get it to look good in LPub... (...) Yes - a (...) (19 years ago, 5-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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(...) Ok, you lost me. Are you talking about paths as lines and curves or paths as in parent.child.grandchild? Because you mention XML and objects, I'm confused (could mean XPath or OO...). (...) Yes! I talk about overriding default origin here: (...) (19 years ago, 5-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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