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(...) Thank you for this great hint. I do not mean for there to be limitations on paths. I'll see what I can do with this tidbit. Kev (...) (19 years ago, 10-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi John, I put quad2dat in google and I found: (URL) greetings MikeHeide John O'Keefe schrieb: (...) (19 years ago, 10-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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I have organized my models in the subdirectory as: E:\LDRAW\MODELS\fert...37-75.mpd. If I want to use them in LPub I got the following error: "create_mpd_construction_dats: Failed to open file E:\LDRAW\MODELS\fert...w\main.ldr for writing." If I (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad)
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Both helpful and maddening, I've been trying for a year now.. What is your highest recommended tool? I've been working with Blender... (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) When I do my renders I try to imagine what the source for the light would be eg. desk lamp, overhead light, window and make my lights accordingly. It might be fun to try to capture that in your class. Even if you just used two lights and (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) This is an interesting statement.. I find a lot of my beginning 3D students do not have a good idea of what their scene is supposed to look like. A lot of their renders have a "sameness" as well, as they have no real idea of composition, (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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Mike, where can I find that program? Best Regards, John "mikeheide" <mikeheide@web.de> wrote in message news:IssqDA.IFw@lugnet.com... (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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In lugnet.cad, Timothy Gould wrote: snip (...) Hi Tim, That statement is just too true!! I myself feel still as a beginner (first rendering maybe 20 month ago). And I got some really helpful tips from Jeroen (digitalbricks.nl), but first I had to go (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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Sven Moritz Hein schrieb: (...) I just tried ldglite_1_0_7 and I think it can work for you. Just give it a try. MikeHeide (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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John, that is my goal with asking a lot of questions about rendering and trying stuff myself. I like you have found it hard but I am hoping that once I learn how to create a nice render I can share the methods. Hopefully I can present it in such a (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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Steve Bliss schrieb: (...) It seems that you need a viewer for MPD files but also a collector for all file in the MPD. And I mean really all parts. Please try my MPDCenter at www.michael-heidemann.de. It will collect unofficial files according to a (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi John, I'm sorry you've had so much trouble with ray tracing. I've tried to answer some points below. (...) The thing about rendering is that it is a combination of art and science. There are so many parameters to deal with and what looks good in (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) First, I would like to agree that there are quite a few nice renders out on Brickshelf and the various personal sites. Before I begin I do not want this to come across as criticism, but I have a few questions/comments to make about some of the (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) LDLite will do work, but it does bark at you when there's no setting for the LDraw directory. Clicking Cancel gets you past that prompt, and then LDLite draws the file as best it can. (...) I think your idea for a packager is very good. I'd be (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I sure wish I knew how to recreate this...... Kev (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Sven, What might be better than sending a viewer app each time awould be send a person an LDR/MPD file and a link to a server running a viewer, perhaps an pared-down version of the java app mentioned in this post: (URL) That would definitely (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ldglite wouldn't be a good choice (for a packaged solution) -- it needs glut32.dll along with the main ldglite.exe file. But it would be a good choice for a program someone could just grab, unzip, and run. If you pointed them at the download. (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ldglite is still fairly primitive. For Windows, it's basically just an executable and a dll. If you don't give it an ldraw path, it should just look in the directory containing the model, and in the model file itself (if it's an MPD). Is that (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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I always thought of the MLDFR to look something like this: (URL) (click on the models!) The pictures of the models are clickable and link directly to the Ldraw files. This is merely a small test. We could make all catalogues clickable. If we'd get (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Exactly this is my problem. It is hard to explain all this to someone who has never heard of LDRAW. What I imagine is something like a (*.zip?)package containing the model file, the parts and the viewer. You just have to send this package per (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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