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As you may know I have been cooking on this L3 program for more than
two years now (not that this tells anything about its size and quality ;-)
However, I believe L3 now has so many useful features that many of you
(especially part authors) also might enjoy, so I shouldn't keep it to myself.
I have often wanted to release it, but there were always so many open issues
in the program, things that should be finished and polished. Realizing that
I will never get around to make it perfect, I hereby release most of L3
in its current state as L3Lab, a laboratory for examining DAT files.
Take the program "as is" - there is no documentation, explore the menus
yourself! I still consider L3/L3Lab as an experimental program, a platform
for trying out new ideas, so any suggestions/comments are very welcome.
http://www.netby.net/Nord/Mandelvej/Hassing/l3lab.html
/Lars
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Lars C. Hassing "No sense being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway."
L3P page: http://www.netby.net/Nord/Mandelvej/Hassing/l3p.html
Homepage: http://www.netby.net/Nord/Mandelvej/Hassing/index.html
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| (...) understanding - is there any windows 3D Library used or is it your own creation? Maybe I could take over some ideas from your progi? I think it would be cool in MLCad too. Again, good job! Michael (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) analysis. It dumps all kinds of diagnostic data on the model. It gives my Tantive IV all kinds of pretty colors. Lars, after I get over how amazingly cool this app is, I'm gonna flog you with a lasagna noodle for keeping it away from us for so (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: L3Lab - yet another LDraw viewer
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| Lars C. Hassing skrev i meddelandet <950263932.570892@ns.cci.dk>... (...) It's not fair! Keeping that gem for yourself for two years :-) Very nice, Lars. It's the first .DAT renderer I've seen that can (really) be used on my large house/castle (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) the zoom setting. LDLite takes some 80 seconds on the same model. And I can swing it around to any angle with my mouse. Wow. Thank you so much for publishing this. The choice of yellow as the edge-color for red was unexpected... Steve (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) some :) 1) I like to be able to see how a model is put together--is there a way to render the file part by part? 2) Can I turn off error messages? For example, it's annoying that it tells me I only have 65536 colors every time I start the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| Excellent program! I just spent 10 minutes holding down "Ctrl" and making a little spaceship do barrel rolls. Zoooom! Nice job on the transparent parts. -gyug (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| I'm stunned speechless! Wow. You may consider restricting the views to be -- uhm, what's the correct term again? -- isometric? When starting out with an oblique view and rotating with the mouse, you may end up with a view that is "skewed". I think (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| Hey!! This is almost exactly what I've been looking for:) Great, very nice with the "rotate with mouse" feature. Some suggestions: When exporting to POV it could be nice to export the view in the window (or am I doing something wrong?) How about a (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| Thank you all for the many nice comments. Here follows replies to several questions: Michael Lachmann wrote... (...) Thanks Michael. L3Lab is built on MFC (linked statically), it hasn't any OpenGL, DirectX or other libraries. It is written in C/C++, (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: L3Lab - yet another LDraw viewer
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| Lars C. Hassing <lch@ccieurope.com> wrote in message news:950263932.57089....cci.dk... (...) myself. (...) issues (...) Wow! I finally got around to trying this out. It's just amazing. Anyone care to hazard a guess at how long it took to render all (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)
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