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Could somebody please make a utility that calculates and creates a boundary box for a .dat file? I want it to be able to take a DOS command line like "bbox.exe C:\Ldraw\Models.Mymodel.dat" and it should create 'MyModel.box' in the same directory. An (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Hello!
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Look at (URL) can find everything there! P.S. Welcome to the club (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: terrain in LDraw
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Mike: (...) No. PGM is basically a "pure ASCII grey-scale only" version of BMP. You can find information and conversion tools at: (URL) PS - Do you have any screenshots? I noticed there weren't any on your website. "screenshots"?!? It is a command (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Datsville continuation - more ideas
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(...) Doesn't POVray do this inately? After all, at some point POVray has to decide which information it will display, and which information it will not display. Wouldn't it speed up the rendering process even more if all LDraw models were turned (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: POVray orthographic optimization
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(...) No, the halo is everywhere - on all objects, the floor, etc. It's not horridly grotesque. It just looks a little like a water stain - like someone spilt water on a piece of paper. (...) Well, this won't really solve the problem, though it may (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | RE: Need info help
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(...) The part isn't perfect though. I modeled the concentric rings as flat-topped cylinders instead of half-toruses (tori?) --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | RE: POVray orthographic optimization
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(...) Hey, cool, my untested suggestion actually works :) (...) Is the halo on the floor? Solution 1: Get rid of the floor. Solution 2: Add more lights (an area light for example) to light more of the floor, and maybe add a light colored fog to make (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Datsville continuation - more ideas
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Here's a first working version of what I was thinking about: (URL) *.box files have to be in the P, Parts, Models, or LDraw BaseDirectory. The boxes.lst file has to be in the LDraw BaseDirectory. Will it make life easier for the POV-Ray engine? (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: New animation
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Oooh, it's so brilliant! Super! /Tore (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Silver low profile technic hubs
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I don't know of any source for the parts. I would like to have them also. But, the color code for Silver Chrome, is 503. Now, this will be shinny in POV, not matte like the actual part. Later, Scott (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Need info help
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(...) has been done before trying to start it... in this case the part exists already, or so it seems. Mark, take heed. (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: New animation
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pat, plz enter your bike hummingbird in my contest... thx -p (...) (23 years ago, 12-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Need info help
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Here's Bram Lambrecht's round shield (URL) (23 years ago, 12-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Silver low profile technic hubs
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Has anyone modeled the large low-profile technic hubs, such as the back wheel from the <set:8417> Mag Wheel Master? Also, what color is that silver in ldraw? Thanks Adrian -- www.brickfrenzy.com (23 years ago, 12-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New animation
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(...) Ooops, that shoul be: (URL) (23 years ago, 12-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.space)
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| | New animation
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I recently got an old version of lightwave (5.6) running. I used a ldraw to lightwave conversion utility and made this little test rendering. The file features a flyby by one of my microfig space ships in a star field. Its 1141KB so if your (...) (23 years ago, 12-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Need info help
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I thought someone had already made one of these. It may not be "official" yet, however. I will look in my MLCAD directories and see if I can find it. -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Chittenden" <mdublade@aol.com> (...) series. (...) (23 years ago, 12-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Need info help
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(...) Two suggestions 1. Learn how to cross post instead of posting multiple copies of the same post to different groups, it keeps the threads better organized. It is not hard to do and is very very useful. 2. Try to see if you can actually get a (...) (23 years ago, 12-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.castle)
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| | Need info help
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Am working on modeling the Round Shield from the LEGOLAND Castle series. However, since I do not actually own such a piece, I don't know how big it actually is. It looks bigger than a 2x2 round, but I need some more info. Can anyone help? Mark C. (23 years ago, 12-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Datsville continuation - more ideas
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I've been thinking about simplification. What if we replaced all non-clear bricks, plates and tiles that have no visible studs and are not seen from below with plain boxes? Yes, I know that it is virtually impossible to make a program that checks (...) (23 years ago, 12-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad)
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