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(...) BTW, it might be that the recursive inliner isn't locked up, it's just slow. I need to put a progress bar on that thing... (...) Hmm. Are you rendering with LDLite? LDLite has a few bugs WRT MPD files. L3Lab and MLCad are better bets, (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) I was originally aiming for minifig scale, but it wasn't coming together, so I just followed where the bricks led me. In addition, I really liked the wedge pieces for the nose, and the rest of the body's scale came from that. Maybe it's the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) This explains a lot. no wonder your creations are so good-you job must give ya a lot of interesting perspectives (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Dave!, (...) Yes! Great representation of it! I just watched Robocop a few days ago, I love ED-209. Too bad we don't have a Robocop minifig to go along with it. :) "You are illegally parked on private property. You have 20 seconds to move your (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Not bad. I kind of like it. It just, (to me at least,) a little smaller than I would have expected, if it were mini-fig scale. Of course, you didn't say that it was, did you? Rich -- Have Fun! C-Ya! Legoman34 ***** Legoman34 (Richard W. (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Until I get an MPD put together for this thing, here's a POV-Ray image of the model in question. Thanks to Lars Hassing for L3P, of course! (URL) Feedback is welcome and appreciated! Dave! (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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...Went to the Potomac Mills LEGO store and they had lots of Divers stuff with flexi-arms (suppose I should find the set numbers next time :-) [and they can ship if the set is no longer avail thru s@h] ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Wahoo! Thanks Steve! As for MPD, I've had a series of unexplainable problems trying to get the various MDP utilities to actually produce a renderable file. Oh well... Stick with what I know... :) --Karim (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Karim, KarimNassar.com? Cool! Are you hosting it yourself or farming it out? I'm going to be moving marsbase.com to the server under my desk at home "real soon now" so I'm always happy to hear about how others are doing it. By the way, if you can (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) If you go to (URL), there is a beta-version of LDAO with a recursive Inliner. But it only works on files referenced relative to the standard directories.[1] So if you've got a bunch of files somewhere other than ldraw\models, I'd suggest (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) [blink] Uhmmm.... Will you be posting this "automated method" so that those of us who have yet to master POV-RAY could possibly take advantage of your expertise? I've been trying to use POV-RAY, L2P, and L3P, and it's been rather difficult for (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Well, OK, maybe not weeks :) I'm currently working on the last element of the site, the DAT files. Does anyone know if LDAO has a Recursive Inline function? Going through 15+ models and inlining them (sometimes 10 files deep) is a real pain in (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Well, as a professional Industrial Designer, I must point out that while technically, you are right that a better rendering doesn not improve a model, what we are concerned with is not the model, but people's perception of the model. A "nicer" (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Weeks? WEEKS?!? I've been checking daily, and I haveta wait weeks? Okay, I can't wait any more. I'm going into suspended animation (1), somebody wake me when the new Pallas Spaceworks is operational. ;-) Cheers, - jsproat 1. Well, just (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Thanks Karim. Regarding the POV-Ray... tried it... didn't like it. Anyway what's wrong with regular pics? I think they are fine. Anyway, regular pics = show model, POV-Ray = show model, make things "shiny". I mean, does better picture quality (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) I must second this. VERY nice. I've been pretty quiet recently, but I want to say that all of the recently posted models have been very good. Kudos to all of you guys. Mladen, I highly reccommend that you next look into doing POVray renderings (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Uh, you tell me Alew? Look at the title of my website, Mladen's LEGO "Creations" meaning original models. Let look at a mini-fig, it is pre-fab meaning "someone already made it, meaning it's not original. So logically what would a person try (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) That depends on which one cost the taxpayers more money. ;-) Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) another (...) and (...) Um, it might just be me, but wouldn't it be more correct if it was "Soldier w/ Riply AX-90 Machine gun"? Anyway, the White Tiger is awesome, and in my opinion, looks about 18,000 times better then the Jasper. Alex Me (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Thanks a lot Jeremy. This model was actually first designed on paper and then made. I'm really happy how it turned. I can't believe how much colour can make a model better; this model in real life is mostly grey, red, black which looks so-so, but (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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