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In lugnet.cad, Karim wrote some words, asking for LDLite to combine -MS and -T options. This isn't a fix to LDLite, but I put together a utility to run a model through LDLite 36 times, rotating the view around Y by 10 degrees each time. The bitmap (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: help!!! - light sources in POV-RAY
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(...) I was pretty disappointed to discover that light sources don't cut it, not in the POV-Ray world. What you need to do is set those pieces' colors to have a high ambience, like 3. For example, say in your POV file you have the following color (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Minimalist LDraw on floppy?
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(...) Just what I was thinking of. :-, (...) Really? Like conditional based on the timestamp? That'd be cool -- though just checking on the client end would require very little code as well. (...) Yah, but not much more advanced. It'd basically be (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Minimalist LDraw on floppy?
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(...) I kinda doubt it. Arj packs files pretty tight. However, a compressed distro on floppy still needs to be installed in order to use it. I'm thinking of something that can be run from the floppy, using a live internet connection to a parts host, (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDGLITE- Solaris Version
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(...) I just checked, you can get OpenGl for Solaris straight from Sun at (URL) not sure if it comes with glut, but the main glut site had links to Solaris binaries. (URL) all you need to do is compile ldglite and unarj the parts archives. I no (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: automated rendering??? (was "Re: New White Tiger Mecha")
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(...) Well, sure... It's called ONYX's L3P Add On. Now that I have figured out what makes it crash, It's wonderful. One trick is that you will pretty much always have to manually adjust the floor groundplane in the POV file if the model is at all (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Minimalist LDraw on floppy?
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(...) There is already a part-version comment in the L-CAD part files. It's the line in the header which says "Official LCad update". This line will have a release number on the end, such as "99-06". If a file has no "Official LCad update" line, the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: L3Lab - yet another LDraw viewer
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(...) I feel we're at the point where we need a testbed application, to see the specification in action. Most of the important primitives are wound properly (that is, no bow-tie quads) or are close to it. Ditto for the basic bricks. These files just (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | help!!! - light sources in POV-RAY
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Hi! I need some help with POV-RAY, L3P, (etc.). I'm trying to ray-trace this DAT file ("(URL) with a change in the lighting. I want there to be a "glow" (a light?) from within the "gem" atop the staff (i.e., the 1x1 Cone), and light from the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | help!!! - light sources in POV-RAY
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Hi! I need some help with POV-RAY, L3P, (etc.). I'm trying to ray-trace this DAT file ("(URL) with a change in the lighting. I want there to be a "glow" (a light?) from within the "gem" atop the staff (i.e., the 1x1 Cone), and light from the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: L3Lab - yet another LDraw viewer
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(...) - and I look forward to the settlement of the BFC definition :-) The red/green shows the orientation of the tris/quads. /Lars (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: L3Lab - yet another LDraw viewer
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(...) Maybe not, but the red/green display is cool. I look forward to support for BFC meta-commands. Steve (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Minimalist LDraw on floppy?
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(...) code (...) not (...) on (...) it (...) You might be able to fit it all on one floppy with a different compression program. And remember, ldraw.exe is not just parts files. As for pulling DAT files straight out of the archives, it's just a (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDGLITE- Solaris Version
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(...) Yes, the linux executable is for x86 with (I believe) glibc 1.1. Do you have access to a compiler? It shouldn't be too much trouble to compile, although you also have to get Mesa or real OpenGl. I believe you can get a prebuilt Mesa binary for (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Datsville contribution
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There is another approach. While I was experimenting on LDraw animations, I had another LDraw directory in which I have removed all lines ending with stu*.dat. Thus I has a much faster rendering for preview purposes. Now, I'm not suggesting that we (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | LDGLITE- Solaris Version
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Is a version of LDGLITE available for use on Sun Workstations The Linux executable didn't work ( Suspect its ix86 rather than SPARC!) Alex (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | stl2dat conversion tool beta 4
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A new release of stl2dat is available here (URL) have completely rewritten the detection of primitives and edges: now the program first scans all the facets to create all the adjadent edges and to keep information about adjadent facets. Then all (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Technic Large Pulley 3736.dat
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I have modelised the Technic Large Pulley part# 3736. It is not completely finished, I have to re-orient it so it has the same orientation than the Technic medium pulley It can be download here (URL) and a subpart (URL) have modelised it with (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: LDAO: recursive inlining?
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Karim: (...) Wouldn't it be more practical to build a MPD file? My MPD Builder includes all DAT files necessary to the model (if they are located in the same directory) in the MPD file. But I need somebody with a DOS or MS-Windows machine to compile (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Minimalist LDraw on floppy?
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Jeremy: (...) No problem. The easy solution would be to unpack the whole parts distribution somewhere on ldraw.org. I think there is even conditional downloading built into the HTTP protocol. Something slightly more advanced would be to create (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)
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