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(...) How much does Linux cost? How much does OpenOffice cost? How much does Gimp cost? How much do thousands of titles of quite useful free software cost? I think you are missing the point. Professional software titles are often out of range for (...) (19 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) (URL) Personal Learning Edition> is free for non-commercial use. (19 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) At the very least you should read the manuals to see what techniques the artists use. They aren't stupid. And they do apply to Lego animation because I have read some manuals so I know. Lightwave is only $895, which isn't that expensive (how (...) (19 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I have been working on what you want for 5 years. At first I came up with Lani as a language. (URL) sucks. I now use POV-Ray. Have you learned POV-Ray? Have you seen this: (URL) fully agree, POV-Ray isn't as powerful as, say, Maya. But it is (...) (19 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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I've had a basic animation system working in LeoCAD for a while, I tried to do things as close to how 3DS works as I could since I didn't have much experience with animations and I figured the guys at Discreet know what they are doing (I'm not (...) (19 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Dear Damien, I'm not 100% sure what you are saying for a lot of this post but I do have to say that writing an animation scripting language, even utilising what else is around, is a very difficult task. As a simple example of how hard this (...) (19 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) May be the concepts in these sofware are fine for 3D artists, but nobody has ever experienced and validated them for complete lego animation. Take "Revenge of the Brick" as an example: it's more about adding some bricks in traditionnal (...) (19 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) MLCad + L3P + POVray does static pictures, greatly limited when it comes to animation scripting capability. Considerations, - damien (19 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi, I don't know if I post in the right forum, but I wanted to notice you about an error I found in the part #590 Electric train motor 9V. It's about the 4 little hooks that are at the bottom of the motor (2 hooks on each side). I noticed these (...) (19 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Take a look at Maya and Lightwave. The concepts have been all thought out already. www.alias.com/maya (URL) you want an LDraw animation package, you are first going to have a willing programmer TEAM. That is right, animation applications take (...) (19 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'm no boffin, but doesn't POVray already do this? Allister (19 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Little Blue Bot - LDD Format - In progress -
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(...) -snip- (...) -snip- (...) ...and when you look can see the result of millions and millions of geometric combinations. Pan back even further and billions and billions of parts were sorted. Billions. (...) Wakkaakaa down waakaakaa down, I knew (...) (19 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) VIRTUA SOPHIE cue 'SEGA' intro... Ah, sweet memories.(1) This is too cool Eric! I was wondering for some time why you never rendered any of your smaller creations in a Lego CAD program. Keep up the good work. (URL) Mladen Pejic> (1) I was once (...) (19 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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Come on Technic Pallet!!! I'm ready! (URL) LEGO Digital Designer models by Biomechanical Bricks. Buy them from the LEGO Factory on LEGO.com. (URL) Eric Sophie (19 years ago, 21-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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The textual and the graphical ***...*** The history of computers, user interfaces, and LDraw are basically the same: 1. a command-line tool offers the initial functionality 2. a point & click GUI layer hides the initial tool 3. eventually everybody (...) (19 years ago, 21-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(URL) than 110 MOCs. A few new models plus complete LDraw 2004-04 compliance. - damien web page: (URL) (19 years ago, 21-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) Andrew, I finally got a chance to poke the 3.0b1 trail. Up until now, all my LEGO time was spent finishing my Super Chief to bring to BrickFest :) Here are my observations: Opening a file by ctrl clicking in the Finder and selecting MBC Trial (...) (19 years ago, 20-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: attn Jake/TLC/whoever, about Lego Digital Designer file format/SDK
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(...) Yes I did. As usual Jake was thinking about 10 steps ahead of me and gave me a lot of food for thought. The Steering Committee will be discussing these thoughts and will keeep you posted (this will however be delayed a bit due to my in (...) (19 years ago, 18-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Hi Sonnich, Yes there is such a way. There are a few tools you will need to do that: 1. The Ldraw parts library installation. 2. MLCad, a wonderful CAD program that lets you enter your model into LDraw files. 3. L3P, a program that performs a (...) (19 years ago, 18-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: attn Jake/TLC/whoever, about Lego Digital Designer file format/SDK
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(...) So, did you talk to Jake and hear anything? I spoke to him briefly about it and told him you would be asking him about it. I think a conversion tool would be extremely beneficial. Although, it sounds like they are updating elements on a (...) (19 years ago, 18-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego)
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