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(...) "can pursue" and "is insane enough to try" are two different issues. I teach computer programming--I've never claimed to be a GOOD programmer. =) Peter (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Actually I'm no longer sure about that. If ROTSTEP is supported internally in LPUB, and LPUB supports ldglite as an alternative renderer, than supporting ROTSTEP in ldglite might make that more difficult. Kevin? I suppose I could make ROTSTEP (...) (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) For you it does. I don't think that's an option Peter can pursue. ;) Steve (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Because there are 24 cogs. So a 48-segmented primitive is easier to modify than a 16-segmented one. (...) OK, I'll try that. CU Bernd (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Wow, I am surprised. That is the kind of thing I'm looking for... what kinds of settings do I need to change for that? Of course, the other downside of POV-RAY is the amount of rendering time it takes, but I can let my computer run for a (...) (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Tonight I'll modify the .MPD file and hide everything on top of the door and just do a final-step render... then I'll post a picture. There's definitely something wrong and it looks like the door is off by 90 degrees, but with a bunch of stuff (...) (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Having got the .pov file created I did have to include a Library path to the LGEO.inc files folder. Once that was set I managed to get a render in 3.1 but got more errors in 3.5, something to do with version levels. I also got a strange (...) (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) <snip> (...) Peter, To my knowledge, only LPub creates the visual part lists. Could you show us examples of the door issue? I'm sure someone here can figure it out. Kevin (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Peter, I'm adding support for ldglite (and possibly ldlite) to LPub. We've got a few compaibility issues between POV-Ray output and ldglite, but Don is working on this. I'm very pumped about about alternate renderers, and thank Orion for the (...) (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) ... (...) This may not exactly be what you're after, but the beauty of raytraced images is that they can be whatever you want them to be, and they are an order of magnitude better in quality than those produced by the other programs you (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Yuk! I guess it makes sense to add support for ROTSTEP instead. (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You reinsert all the lines that came before the CLEAR, except without STEP commands. Steve (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Maybe the -D command line option does what you want? From the docs: -D, will tell LDLite to start ignoring STEP commands after levels of included files. Use the option -D1 to have LDLite only wait for a keypress or save a bitmap at STEP (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Woohoo, thanks, that worked! (the path was just set to C:\) I wonder why it wasn't set correctly? Tim (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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I have constructed a small McDonald's as part of a small layout MichLUG is providing the Detroit area Festival of Trees as a raffle item. I've also done a version of the model in MLCAD with the goal of creating instructions. As usual, though, I've (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Not yet. The current release always picks -4/3*x for the aspect ratio. I know the negative sign is required to convert the y axis from ldraw coords to POV. I'm not sure how that gets worked into the upcoming version of l3p, which does have a (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Maybe you have a Libray_Path wrong in POV, so it's looking for include files in the wrong place? POV: 'Tools' -> 'Edit Master POVRAY.INI', go to the end of the file, You may have any number of lines like these: Library_Path=C:\Program\POV-Ray (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) The 4/3 is the aspect ratio of the POV generated rendering (matches 800x600, 1024x768, 1600x1200 etc.). If you for some reason want POV to do a high, narrow (or low, long), rendering this factor has to be changed. It's often easier to do a (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Tim, I have everything running on my E drive, so it is possible. :-) Here's my thought... There should be an LDRAW.INI file in your Windows directory. Make sure you have the "LgeoDirectory" entry set correctly under the "[LDRAW]" section, (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I assume that L3P allows the output to be any aspect ratio. The page is a little confusing that way. However, it's trying to tell you how the camera angle argument works, going on the assumption you haven't changed the aspect ratio. Just (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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