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Re: Unfinished Project Release
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lugnet.animation
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Sat, 3 Jan 2004 13:23:31 GMT
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At 05:17 PM 1/2/2004, you wrote:
> Animating with POVray is a matter of mathematics,
Which I'm not good at, which is why I had trouble. :)
> 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 auto-generated POV files use counterintuitive
> Matrix transforms rather than separate rotations and translations).
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 interpreting the translated file. Maybe
it's time for a few of us to take the L3P source and build an Animator's
version?
I don't know anything about putting together a program but I know a thing
or two (or three) about PoV-Ray. I'm willing to learn what needs to be
learnt (as far as pov stuff goes) if someone else is willing to write the
program to use it.
> The solution seems to be LD4D Modeler, but that program is far from
> ready for
> general use, and the documentation is lacking. See
> http://members.rott.chello.nl/rmelkert/LD4DModeler/
I found that a while ago but mostly due to the lack of documentation and
the general bugginess I had to quit using it. I just found it very clumsy
and it wasn't clear what to do to produce your animation. I still have it
installed but it could use some work.
One good reason to support the GPL. :)
~Mike
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