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Re: Military Aircraft Teaser Images
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lugnet.build.military
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Sat, 30 Mar 2002 16:56:33 GMT
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In lugnet.build.military, Bryce Rollins writes:
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> Unfortunately Kyle, two things prevent me from putting up better pics of my
> MOCs. First, these models exist only in dat file format, and as you may
> have noticed with some of my piece/color combinations, unless the LEGO group
> starts making some pieces in different colors, some of them are going to
> stay that way. Additionally, some of the models, the F-15 C and F-16's
> would require either the chopping of a naboo fighter canopy (which I would
> be reluctant to do) or the release of a new canopy part (which seems
> unlikely). I believe that Rick Hallman encountered a similar problem on his
> announced Eagle project. Speaking of which, I feel that I must apologize to
> Mr. Hallman for poaching his project, as I believe that he called it first,
> at 22:31 EST no less. Still, near as I can tell, some of these MOCs can be
> made (most notably, the F-5, MiG-29 and F-14) but only by somebody with a
> larger piece collection than me. I'll try to get the dat files cleaned up
> enough so that they'll be ready for prime time.
Yea, that is a bummer. :-(
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> Secondly, I don't have much experience with POV-ray or other rendering
> programs, and for a person who spends too much of his time on the computer,
> I'm shockingly computer illiterate (prehaps not illiterate, perhaps dyslexic
> is the word). If anyone here is willing to give me some POV ray pointers or
> direct me to somewhere where I can get them, I'd be more than willing to put
> up higher quality shots.
Well, you can check out some of the tutoorials at ldraw.org
(http://www.ldraw.org/reference/tutorials/). I bet more than one of them
could help you out. Getting a basic render is not very diffiuclt at all,
it's just when you try to add extra "stuff" that makes it complicated...
--Kyle
http://lego.kepplah.com
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> Bryce Rollins
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