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I'd happy to announce a new tutorial: Dancing Mech Modeling/animatino LDraw/POV-Ray Video Tutorial Series (URL) From the webpage: This series of videos walks through the process of creating a dancing mech from start to finish. Here are the (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Dancing Mech Modeling/animatino LDraw/POV-Ray Video Tutorial Series
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(...) first video and look forward to watching it and the others. It appears that you have put a lot of time into this project and I anticipate that it will appreciated as a great resource. Anyway, as a fellow Bricksmith user I am eager to pick up (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Dancing Mech Modeling/animatino LDraw/POV-Ray Video Tutorial Series
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(...) (URL) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Dancing Mech Modeling/animatino LDraw/POV-Ray Video Tutorial Series
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(...) Hi, me again! Just started watching the first Bricksmith video and I noticed you pointed out something that's always bugged me - how the part browser matches spaces literally. I guess the LDraw part descriptions all reserve two characters for (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Have you considered converting them to FLV and using a flash based player like Flowplayer ((URL) to deliver them? Just a suggestion as almost 50% more internet users have flash installed than quicktime ((URL) A> (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) It is strangely suspenseful watching someone search for an unknown part! I'm sure you've found it by now, but the part you were looking for in the third video is a "wedge." So for your benefit or others', don't forget that in many cases you (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) I downloaded Flowplayer and it looks really cool, especially the long play version. Unfortunately, I wont be able to get switch for this project mainly because I don't have the time to switch and finish this on the schedule I have. And I've (...) (18 years ago, 17-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Dancing Mech Modeling/animatino LDraw/POV-Ray Video Tutorial Series
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(...) Ok, I admit I've studied that clip frame by frame... It isn't the *only* reason I'm making a dancing robot animation, but it might be the biggest reason. James (18 years ago, 17-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Wow, cool! I believe I sent that request to Allen too. I know a little Cocoa but am bad with large projects, so I haven't attempted to actually make any of the feature requests I've sent him. (...) Great comment. Actually, I was hoping to put (...) (18 years ago, 17-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Yeah, I eventually found it. O:) (...) Duh! I can't believe I totally forgot that! (...) Cool, great comments! I hope you don't mind if I put this all in my addendum sections? I'll have to try them out too. James (18 years ago, 17-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Dancing Mech Modeling/animatino LDraw/POV-Ray Video Tutorial Series
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I've posted the next video showing how to convert the file to POV-Ray and how to render it. (URL) (18 years ago, 17-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Neat. It's interesting that Bricksmith has actually been the incentive for me to pick up Cocoa. I figured that some of these minor quirks that interrupt the flow of things couldn't be too hard to straighten out, so I sat down and just started (...) (18 years ago, 17-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Now this one introduces some new stuff to me! I have been to Anton's web site before (and admired his work), but I did not realize what the Converter did or that it worked independently of L3P. I have not had time to play with it much yet but (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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I've posted the movie showing how to add a minifig to the model. (URL) minutes Here is a list of the topics covered: * Where to find the minifig macro * Image maps (faces, shirts, etc) aka lib_decorations * Using an existing minifig * Hiding bricks (...) (18 years ago, 30-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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