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(...) And now the archive is public (Thanks, Dan!). See the mailing-group list at the bottom of the page at (URL) (Thanks Orion for making the list!) Steve (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 2 Methods of Making CG Animations (was Re: LEGO animation software)
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(...) I got this from Rolando (creator of LD4DModler) who is having trouble posting to LUGNET right now. Hello, for some reason I can't post in the newsgroup anymore. It nags about invalid newsgroups when I try to send a replay. Anyway I'am working (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jan-04, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: Custom Color question/request
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(...) Now that I've used it a bit more, another question comes up. I just defined some new colors that correspond to the new gray colors, and tried to render the file in LPub. However, the bricks that I had assigned my new colors to all came out as (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Custom Color question/request
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(...) Travis, Thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for. -Joel (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | 2 Methods of Making CG Animations (was Re: LEGO animation software)
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--snip-- (...) Nope. =( It will render the animation in a movie file format (..mpg, .avi, etc..) when you are done. LD4DModler does not go the route of frame-by-frame animation as POV-Ray does, it uses 3D modeling. (The following text comes from a (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: Simple POV-Ray Question - Perspective
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(...) Here's what I use when I'm rendering parts: camera { orthographic sky -y right -4/3*x location <100,-60,100>*100 look_at <0,20,0> angle 1 } Change the location and look_at to suit your tastes. Note that I multiply the location by 100. I work (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Simple POV-Ray Question - Perspective
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(...) If you just do a straight "L3P model.dat," then you're right; the whole model fits very nicely in the camera's view (though a little fish-eyed, I find). But if you switch the view to orthographic, the model can appear a bit off-center and (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Simple POV-Ray Question - Perspective
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(...) As long as you let L3P calculate the camera distance, the whole model should be visible, and (mostly) fill the frame. I just copied the L3P auto-camera algorithm into LDView, and it works consistently for me with camera angles ranging from 0.1 (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: [LSC] Colour Definition meta-statement
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(...) I could go for that. Simpler is better! Of course that means the METALLIC (or PEARLY) tag needs an argument to define the color of the embedded bits. If you want it to be the same color as the substrate, just use the same color code. Don (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I've been keeping clear on the dither issue so far, because I didn't have a strong opinion one way or another. However, the more I think about it, the more I think we're not seeing the forest through the trees. Because of this, I vote we (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [LSC] Colour Definition meta-statement
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(...) I would prefer that spaces not be allowed in the color name as well. However, the spec does say that all the keywords are case sensitive (must be all caps), and I believe the original suggestion was that keywords by themselves with spaces (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I realize many current ldraw rendering programs use a stipple pattern to render transparent surfaces. I do it in ldglite because I'm too lazy to do the sorting required to use alpha blending. However, I don't really want the specs to dictate (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LEGO animation software
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(...) Ahui showed me that site just the other day; that guy is wonderful. My brain hurts. I'd be very, very interested in seeing some tutorials on your animations, Steve. I watched your entire Brickshelf animation collection a couple days ago and (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Custom Color question/request
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(...) I believe if you scroll down to an unused color, and use the Define button instead of the Custom button, you'll get what you want. --Travis Cobbs (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LEGO animation software
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(...) Hello I dont have much experience with writing programs. But I am working on writing a tutorial on how to make animations with povray using the clock, transform, and rotate commands. Maybe a couple of weeks. For now this is the best site I (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: LPub add what in MEGAPOV Command Line
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(...) Unfortuntely, I still have the problem of getting an error when I attempt to create a Bill of Materials for any of my completed models. =( LPub tells me that it ran out of storage space! Not sure what this means? I don't think it means that my (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: [LSC] Colour Definition meta-statement
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(...) [snippety] (...) [doo-dah] (...) I was thinking no space. So far, we've avoided wrapping literals in quotes in LDraw (with only occasional trouble). I'd like to keep avoiding quotes. [snippety-ay] (...) Good question. We hadn't thought about (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Simple POV-Ray Question - Perspective
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(...) I've run into this problem, and my caveman-sophistication led me simply to translate the object a little to put it back in line with the look_at coordinates. Even so, I often have to change the "PCT" value to 5 or 10 to accommodate all of my (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Custom Color question/request
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Hello, I was wondering if there is a way to name custom colors in MLcad. I see the "name" field when defining a custom color, but it is grayed-out and non-editable. If there is not a way, would it be possible to consider this for a future version? (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Simple POV-Ray Question - Perspective
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(...) Don't you then have to move the camera a ways back to get all your objects in the image compared to larger camera angles? This is what I tend to do, long ways away, small canera angle (anaogous to "telephoto" in real photogs, the images there (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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