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| (...) It's a shame there isn't a bit more. How long did you spend on that, Mike? I tried to do some POV animation a while back, but the learning curve was a little too steep for what I wanted to do. (21 years ago, 2-Jan-04, to lugnet.animation)
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| (...) Chris, Actually it took longer than you'd expect. I haven't learned enough about using the PoV-Ray clock yet, so I did it the hard way. For each frame I created a new file with MLCad, then ran it through L3P to produce the POV file. From there (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jan-04, to lugnet.animation)
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| Animating with POVray is a matter of mathematics, but animating Ldraw-generated things is pure horror. You have to analyse the source file to locate the different objects, you have to find out where the pivots are (which is not easy, since the (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jan-04, to lugnet.animation)
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| (...) Which I'm not good at, which is why I had trouble. :) (...) That is, if you try to use the clock on the LDraw-generated file. If you're just rendering a new file for every frame there's no pain. I agree with you, though, on the difficulty of (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jan-04, to lugnet.animation)
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