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Hello James, thank you very much for the detailed inormation. Yes.. i already checked that description page.. i think its very cool because it is nery nicely explained how to setup things. This could be definately an tutorial on ldraw.org because (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: Annoying Reflections
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(...) Thanks Todd. I never thought of using normals to diffuse reflections. Actually, some turbulence normals might look good on the brown, since it's supposed to be dirt. (...) Already using that. :( (...) I tried that with the last MLCAD scene but (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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I just start a new sub-thread to discuss two very important points where I thought over two nights now: The location of the ini file and environment variables! I would not recommend to go with both solutions, because its source for possible errors (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New unofficial part: Brick 1 x 1 with Studs on Two Sides (47905)
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(...) Sven, Thanks for doing this. I think it should be rotated 90 degrees for consistency with 30414 (URL) and 4070 (URL). Once that is done, can you please send to parts@ldraw.org and I'll submit to the parts tracker. Thanks, Chris (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Annoying Reflections
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(...) 2 options (apart from Todd's suggestion): 1. Turn the QUAL value to 1 (first uncommented line on any L3P-generated file) QUAL 2 simply(?) *adds reflections* to parts, while QUAL 3 adds reflections and Lego logos to their studs 2. Look in the (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Animation of Mladen Pejic's models
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(...) Thanks! Ever since I saw LDraw and POV-Ray, I've wanted to make animations like this. It is nice everyone else is into it now too. Hard to say exactly how long it took. Well, it took 3 days of off and on trial and error trying to get alpha (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: Annoying Reflections
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(...) You might try setting normal bumps .25 scale .1 turbulence 0 or variations of that in the texture block. --Todd (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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Hello all, It's 12:32am right this minute, so this is going to be very short. My bedtime was a looong time ago. But the last thirty minutes have been well-spent: I've redesigned an MLCAD scene and it looks much, much better. Except for one thing. It (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: New unofficial part: Brick 1 x 1 with Studs on Two Sides (47905)
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(...) There are two missing cylinders inside the hollow studs. (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Animation of Mladen Pejic's models
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Hi! This looks great. How long did it take exaclty to render it using the grid and in what resolution did you render the images? Play well Carsten "James Reynolds" <james@magnusviri.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:Htro3E.F6B@lugnet.com... (...) (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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| | Animation of Mladen Pejic's models
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And I have just made this movie at work to test distributive rendering with POV-Ray: MP4 (QuickTime 6 required--Windows users have this, right?) 6.7 MB (URL) versions and an explaination of how I made the animation are on this page: (URL) let me (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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(...) I think you are being a bit unreasonable. The discussion is about a fundamental functionality of LDraw, which has impact on all programs. Agreement is important to ease the life of the end user: *one* place for setup. We try to accomodate (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: OFF files ?
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(...) Try 3DWin, it supports OFF files: (URL) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | OFF files ?
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Has anyone ever made any OFF (object file format) files for LEGO pieces? They're basically big files with lists of vertices to draw when making a wireframe. See here for examples: (URL) there converters to make them from LDraw parts? I'm in a (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Question on using stl2dat.exe
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Hi I have a question on using stl2dat.exe I have a stl file of my new train wheel that I would like to make into dat file. The conversion seems to work okay, but it's the wrong size size as my stl file has mm units. My question is this: Can I edit (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | New unofficial part: Brick 1 x 1 with Studs on Two Sides (47905) [DAT]
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Hello I've just created a LDRAW part file for the new SNOT brick used in the new Robo X-Pod-Set 4346: A 1 x 1 Brick with Studs on two sides. Here it is. (URL) (Bigger picture available here: (URL)) I think it is a very useful brick. Leg Godt Sven 0 (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Bylaws Ratification Passes
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(...) Thank *you*, Orion. (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Ldraw Minifig "Machinima" POVray include file
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(...) Cool. I'm anxious to see it. I've built most of my MLCAD scene for it already - as soon as you release I'll put it to work and make 'em sweat. :) There's just one thing about this include file that is bad but indirectly very good: it makes my (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation, FTX)
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| | Re: Ldraw Minifig "Machinima" POVray include file
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(...) With the latest developments Miguel announced, I can say that if there's the right contest, my current film will be in it. History would work. Or storytelling. Or music. -Mike (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation, FTX)
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| | Re: Ldraw Minifig "Machinima" POVray include file
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(...) Well, I guess I need a user base first ... 8?) Actually, I'm developing this as fast as I can partly becasue I'm taking a two week vacation away from it all starting a week from today & partly because there is one user who has expressed (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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