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(...) Bricksmith is in Sourceforge. Browsing around its CVS, I found what appears to be the minifig generator source here: (URL) at the MinifigureDialogController files.) Of course, that source is in Objective C, but Objective C tends to be very (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Have you used the same ID for the poll as the last SOTM/MOTM, which is the only LDRAW poll I have voted in earlier? (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Sorry, I didn't realize how many versions there are. I believe Bricksmith also has a minifig generator now. The source code for any and all would be helpful. I looked at the LDDP link you posted and didn't see anything about the source, either (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Dancing Mech Modeling/animatino LDraw/POV-Ray Video Tutorial Series
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(...) Have you considered converting them to FLV and using a flash based player like Flowplayer ((URL) to deliver them? Just a suggestion as almost 50% more internet users have flash installed than quicktime ((URL) A> (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks for checking the ballot, Dan and thanks to people for voting. Tim (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) To which minifig generator do you refer? - The MLCad minifig generator: MLCad is closed source - The LDDP minifig plugin: source code here, (URL) The LDAO minifig generator: LDAO source here, (URL) Note LDAO is extremely out of date and still (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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The winners of the 2007 LDraw Steering Committee Election are (in alphabetical order by last name): - Chris Dee - Tim Gould - Michael Heidemann - Orion Pobursky - Willy Tschager Congratulations to the new LDraw Steering Committee members! Dan Boger (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | Site changes on LDraw: Opinions sought
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Hi all, If you've visited (URL) lately you will probably have noticed a new set of big links up the top (I call them quick links). We've been trying to make the site easier to navigate in order to help new and old users alike. In order to make the (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) according to sourceforge you are: (URL) Project Admins : billthefish, dheyse, kclague # Developers : 3 # Development Status : 4 - Beta (...) this is proof enough for me that you are ;-) and that it wasn't that bad cc: you. (...) :-)) turned (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You're free to use the code from L3PGen, but I don't think there is much of any use bar concepts and lots of string concatenation :) Personally, I'm not using any .NET based language yet and have no real plans to. Sorry :| (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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ludo soete schrieb: (...) This part is already an official part. Please download the the actual parts updates to install it on your system. cu mikeheide (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Hi, me again! Just started watching the first Bricksmith video and I noticed you pointed out something that's always bugged me - how the part browser matches spaces literally. I guess the LDraw part descriptions all reserve two characters for (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Dancing Mech Modeling/animatino LDraw/POV-Ray Video Tutorial Series
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(...) (URL) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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Hello, I am contemplating a minifig editor that would work like the generator but would be able to select and modify minifigs in an LDraw file. I'm not sure yet whether I'll use Java or C++, but even if I use Java the source code for the generator (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Dancing Mech Modeling/animatino LDraw/POV-Ray Video Tutorial Series
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(...) first video and look forward to watching it and the others. It appears that you have put a lot of time into this project and I anticipate that it will appreciated as a great resource. Anyway, as a fellow Bricksmith user I am eager to pick up (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: L3P question concerning MPD files
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(...) OK. Now I see where you're heading. Yeah if you want all that automated a program might be the best mesh. Being a script kind of guy I'd just do it all by hand in POVray and write a perl/imagemagick script to combine them. I never use standard (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Sorry, no offense intended - I'm afraid I didn't provide a good description of what I was going to do. I was planning to write a little tool to automatically combine images (such as: take picture1, draw picture2 scaled down to 20% into the (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Dancing Mech Modeling/animatino LDraw/POV-Ray Video Tutorial Series
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I'd happy to announce a new tutorial: Dancing Mech Modeling/animatino LDraw/POV-Ray Video Tutorial Series (URL) From the webpage: This series of videos walks through the process of creating a dancing mech from start to finish. Here are the (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Which is *exactly* what I've been trying to say (to other people in the past as well). I've also figured out a way to use an LDraw editor to create keyframes (because I'm tired of having to imagine everything and render and have it come out so (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you spend the time learning how to use POVray rather than writing a GUI MPD editor then not only can you do what you describe really easily, as an added bonus you can make your renders look good in the (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Well, great, also with a graphical settings editor? Is there any alternative for L3P then, which is written completely in POV-Ray? Or would the POV-Ray script have to call L3P then? Thanks for improving my knowledge on POV-Ray :-), regards, (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I imagine I can do that in less than 20 lines of POV-Ray code using an INI script. Tim --snip-- (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Well, can you create a POV-Ray file which will automatically read in an LDraw MPD file and use settings files or maybe even a GUI to select submodels from the MPD file and render those to several picture files? That would be an interesting (...) (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Are we? I didn't know that, but I did get your email the other day and checked the year old 2.2 source code out of CVS. I fiddled with it a bit and found simple workarounds for most of the problems with the minifig chains in that version. (...) (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) yes he is + Don Heyse and Orion Pobursky (...) no idea, I'm not Kevin. mail and ask. (...) w. (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks for the information. Is Kevin still the one doing development of LSynth, and do you know if he is accepting additional beta testers? If not, I'll just build my chains by hand for now. -Joel (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) a tutorial on this will come out in a few days. w. (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) no, 3.0 is currently betatested. yes, it will support the generation of minifig chains. the easiness of the overall handling in MLCad (with a spot on the minifig chain) is currently in the hands of the PT admins. w. (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I really should have sent my above reply to this group (lugnet.cad.mlcad) instead of lugnet.cad like I did. For those of you who read this group but not lugnet.cad, I'm copying the reply, since this is generally useful to any MLCad user who (...) (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Neat. I look forward to this, because I've been meaning to learn more about POV-Ray. I've been putting off doing final renderings for my recent LDraw models because POV-Ray has been a bit of a black box. Your point about its relative (...) (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Works fine now, thanks Tim & all! Philo (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Why not learn POV-Ray? If you know VB or C# or any language for that matter, POV-Ray is really simple compared to them (much less syntax to learn). I'm creating a new LDraw POV-Ray video tutorial that I hope to get online today or sometime (...) (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Parts Updates
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(...) Create a file named MLCad.ini in the directory where you installed MLCad. Put the following text in this file: ;----Start here---- [SCAN_ORDER] 1 = SHOW <LDRAWDIR>Parts 2 = HIDE <LDRAWDIR>P 3 = SHOW <LDRAWDIR>Unofficial\Parts 4 = HIDE (...) (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Parts Updates
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Hello Although I am anxiously awaiting the next parts update, i am not complaining. I understand that a lot of work is taking place behind the scenes. However, would it be possible to extrapolate an aproximate release date based on the amuont of (...) (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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Hello, I've seen some mentions about LSynth support for generating minifig chains, but I can't seem to find the right version. Version 2.0, which is available from Kevin Clague's website, doesn't seem to support minifig chain meta command, which I (...) (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: L3P question concerning MPD files
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(...) Hi, your programme is written with Visual Basic? By now, I'm thinking about creating a little tool for doing some kind of "batch rendering of several submodels from certain camera positions" and automatical combination of those rendered (...) (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) My L3PGen program supports this. When you open a MPD file, it will show a list of all the "models" at the top allowing you to select which to rerender. (URL) and all feedback is welcome. Thanks (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Yes that was me and it's great to have you back. I always use LGEO for my renders because of the high quality which is one reason I started this thread... I want more parts to match LGEO's standards :) (...) That would be optimal in my (...) (18 years ago, 14-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Hi Philo, Unfortunately I don't know how (or even if I can) change this so I've sent an email to the other webmasters to alert them. Tim (18 years ago, 14-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Ah yes, I see... Still the old rivality ;-) between different approaches. I have not even used my own library for years, not to speak of development. Reasons were university to finish, a relation, a job and a Bricklink store to get the money (...) (18 years ago, 14-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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No, I'm not here to complain about lack of updates ;o) But it seems that the layout of updates page on LDraw.org ((URL) is completely wrong (tested with Mozilla and IE). Philo (18 years ago, 14-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Settings for LPub using LDView or LDGLite as renderer
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(...) ...and it did. I succesfully rendered the full instructions for the ever so briljant CAR model using LPub and LDView as renderer. It required fully uninstalling LPub and LDView and removing all entries of the programs in the Windows register. (...) (18 years ago, 14-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Hi Travis! Thanks for your reply. LDView is running smooth. However I still get the errors. So I think the cause is LPub. I will just uninstall everything and then re-install. Perhaps that will work.... Jaco (18 years ago, 14-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Hi, well, the first model is for sure my main model, but I'd like to provide some other views of my main model, too - for example, if my submodels are several modules of a starship, I'd like to be the main model the docked version, and another (...) (18 years ago, 14-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | LDraw file for wheel 55981?
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Is there an existing LDraw version of the 55981 "Wheel 30.4 x 14 with Holes on Both Sides" ((URL) I can't seem to find it in the parts tracker. On the other hand, LDD does have this wheel. Is it possible to convert LDD parts to LDraw format (not (...) (18 years ago, 14-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: L3P question concerning MPD files
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(...) I think it should be mentioned that the MPD format was specifically designed to allow you to encapsulate all of the submodels of one single model into a single file for convenient transmission to others. It wasn't designed to allow for (...) (18 years ago, 13-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: L3P question concerning MPD files
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(...) If you want to render a sub-model use the MLcad Multi-part export feature to export the sub-model to it's own file, then run that through l3p. ROSCO (18 years ago, 13-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Or instead of learning POV-Ray code language, just get in the habbit of exporting the scene model (IE the one with all the sub models from inside MPD file assymbled in), and rendering it. Thats the way I do it. Jeffrey Jarvis (18 years ago, 13-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: txt2dat updated
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(...) Received and uploaded, Mac & Linux users can now download binaries from the main page. I'd just like to thank Jim again for all his help producing this version, and I hope Mac & Linux users can get some good use out of my little program. ROSCO (18 years ago, 13-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: L3P question concerning MPD files
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L3P just converts the file to POV-Ray format. If you aren't afraid of learning the POV-Ray syntax, you can just edit the files and render whatever you want. James (...) (18 years ago, 13-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | L3P question concerning MPD files
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Hi, am I mistaken if I presume that L3P doesn't offer any means to render another one than the very first model in an MPD document? If so, are there any tools already to help that? Or is it maybe planned for the next version which I've read about in (...) (18 years ago, 13-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Settings for LPub using LDView or LDGLite as renderer
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(...) This may be due to a bug in LDView 3.1. However, since LPub isn't listing the LDView executable at the beggining of the command, it seems that something else might also be wrong. Click on the LDView button in LPub, and make sure it's pointing (...) (18 years ago, 13-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Public LDView 3.2 Alpha for Windows
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(...) This is wicked cool. (I just realized that it works in the pre-alpha Mac build I've been poking at.) Is it or will it be possible to export the light orientation to POV-ray format as with the camera angle? Be well, Jim (18 years ago, 13-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: txt2dat updated
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(...) I've updated the (URL) txt2dat online> interface to use the new version. You can use the "Custom description" option to enter a comment for the first line of the sticker file using txt2dat's new -d option. The downloadable binaries are on (...) (18 years ago, 13-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Public LDView 3.2 Alpha for Windows
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Due to some of the problems that exist in LDView 3.1 (command line snapshots and screensaver preferences), I've decided to do a public alpha release of LDView 3.2. Please note that this version will only run on Windows computers with Unicode (...) (18 years ago, 13-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Settings for LPub using LDView or LDGLite as renderer
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Hi there, Just recently I began working again with LPub. I ran in to some problems and cannot seem to set things up properly. Errors: Could not run command"-ca0.1 -cg0.00,0.00,500000.00 -SaveWidth=1280 -SaveHeight=1024 -PreferenceSet=LPub (...) (18 years ago, 13-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | txt2dat updated
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My LDraw text generator, txt2dat has been updated. The new version can be found (URL) here>. Changes in this version: Upgraded to current library versions: - Triangle 1.6 - Freetype 2.3.2 (Require at least 2.1.9) Initial build support for Mac (...) (18 years ago, 13-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | TextWrangler LDraw Kit
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I like (URL) LDraw DesignPad>. However, I do a lot of work in (URL) TextWrangler> on my Mac, so I thought it would be neat if it had more features for working with LDraw files. Towards that end, I've starting putting together an assemblage of (...) (18 years ago, 13-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Version 530 of my Library is available now.
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(...) Also note that it definitely isn't compatible, and won't work with L3P. However, Anton has an online LDraw converter here: (URL) L3P, the above can't be used with LPub. --Travis (18 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: POVray LEGO
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(...) For the short term, yes that's easier. But in the long run that collection of links will get lost. Maybe after you collect the links you can work together with Orion to move all the good bits into the one library so people can still find them (...) (18 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: POVray LEGO
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(...) I've done binoculars (30162), 1x1 slopes (54200/50746) and lever base (4592). All at (URL) when moderated. Tim (18 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: POVray LEGO
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(...) While I can see the idea of the project I think for the time being it's probably easier just to try to collect links here. Most people who use POVray for rendering LEGO are members and it's so easy just to make a post with a link. Tim (18 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: POVray LEGO
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(...) I have the LDraw POV Code Library ((URL) I created with the intention of it being an officially sponsored, community developed replacement for LGEO. It is supported by L3P v1.4 and will be promoted when 1.4 is released by Lars (wink, wink, (...) (18 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: POVray LEGO
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(...) Hey, maybe you want to take over (URL) this project>? According to the news archive it's in limbo pending the official release of l3p version 1.4. But who knows when/if that'll happen... (18 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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Hi all, With Anton's announcement of a new library and the question that followed I realised that perhaps it would be a good idea to compile all the LEGO part POVray work people have done into one thread. I'm aware of LGEO and Anton's library as (...) (18 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Version 530 of my Library is available now.
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(...) It could be considered a competitor. LGEO is not currently actively developed (and hasn't been for a while) so competitor isn't quite the right term. -Orion (18 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Version 530 of my Library is available now.
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(...) I have a 'noob' question. Is this library compatible with LGEO, or is it an 'competitor' to it? I'm doing some research into the whole LDRaw -> Povray happening for my animation software, because I need to export to Povray as the final step. (...) (18 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Version 530 of my Library is available now.
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Hehehe, at this rate your library will become bigger than ldraw.... (URL) good going! Jan Folkersma. (18 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Version 530 of my Library is available now.
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Version 530 of the Library can be found on my website now, 5 new pieces have been added. The Reference Gallery has been updated to version 530 too now. With the kindest of greetings, Anton Raves (URL) (18 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | My RACHAL - Close Encounter
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Hi folks, I submitted my (URL) RACHAL - the Raytracing Challenge> entry "Close Encounter (of the third kind)" to the (URL) 'Atmosphobic' Gallery> at LDraw.org: (URL) More about the rendering process can be found (URL). PLMKWYT. w. (18 years ago, 11-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX) !
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| | Re: Transparent Black in POV-Ray
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(...) how about some pov-code snippets? (please don't post your 2556 pieces model - a trans black 1x1 brick will do the job) w. (18 years ago, 11-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Transparent Black in POV-Ray
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Every time I render a model in POV-Ray the Transparent Black colored pieces always come out solid. How do I fix this? (18 years ago, 11-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Reminder: 2007 Steering Committee election closing in a week
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Hi folks, As outlined here: (URL) election will close in a week, at 2359 EDT (GMT -0500), March 15, 2007. Willy Tschager On behalf of the LDraw.org Steering Committee (18 years ago, 8-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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| | Bricksmith 1.6
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(2 URLs) Bricksmith 1.6> adds the following features: Part Browser can be configured as a separate window Export Part List feature Background color preference Always switches to perspective mode when not drawing a head-on view Can insert raw (...) (18 years ago, 8-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Parts Releases and the CA
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(...) I am pleased to report that Luis E. Fernandez has now made contact and affirmed the Contributor Agreement - thanks Luis. Updated list : Name (number of parts authored) Chris Alano (5) Eric D'Aragon (1) Howard Lande (1) Kevin Bane (8) Tim (...) (18 years ago, 7-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Part Authors: opinions sought on T-Junctions
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(...) Yes, that's true, but in such cases there are generally lines separating the polygons (parts), and people expect to see those in the render. The problem we're talking about here is artifacts showing up on the faces of individual parts where (...) (18 years ago, 7-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Part Authors: opinions sought on T-Junctions [DAT]
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Something else to consider is that T junctions will often appear in model files themselves between two parts as shown in this simple example. 0 Model exported from LeoCAD 0 Original name: 1 4 20.00 -24.00 30.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 (...) (18 years ago, 7-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Minor Bitsticker update
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(...) I realized that Bitsticker would generate really long output filenames resembling the path to the original image when used with browsers like Internet Explorer 6. I've fixed it so that the output filename should be derived only from the (...) (18 years ago, 7-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Part Authors: opinions sought on T-Junctions
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(...) No there's not. I'm a physicist... not an engineer ;) Tim (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) blah, blah, blah, snip Oops, I was trying to be all ironical in a geeky math sorta way. But apparently I failed. Guess I shoulda used more winkies... Do people still use winkies? Or have they gone obsolete like ASCII art? Anyhow, sorry about (...) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) There is, however, such a thing as an impractical problem ;) ROSCO (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Well actually what txt2dat does is a slightly different problem - it has a few simple closed loops and has to triangulate the complex polygons bounded by them (it uses the excellent (URL) triangle library> to do that). Renderers on the other (...) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) OK, I stand corrected. Technically a program can fix things a load time. However, you might be surprised at how long it takes. It's "only" O(n^2), but each iteration is slow. You have to search the current line segment against all other line (...) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Well... Technically it is true. The rendering program ought to be able to scan all the points in each part and look for intersections with every edge in the part. Then break up the offensive T-joins automagically and render it perfectly. (...) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Arguably it's probably the algorithms and/or numerical proccessing that are at fault. Certainly when you design scientific code algorithms they should usually be created in such a way that it minimises numerical error. Of course I don't expect (...) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) I'd really appreciate it if you didn't blame it on the rendering programs. There's really nothing that they can do to fix the problem. I can understand why you might feel that they are at fault, but it really isn't true. As such, you might (...) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) I try to minimise file size whenever possible myself and have nothing against T juctions. While the gaps can be annoying I feel that they are a fault of the rendering program rather than the parts. (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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Well I submitted my entry: (URL) It was pretty fun, and I got to teach myself a few more POV tricks (like loops mainly). Nothing was changed in the MPD and I used L3PAO to convert to POVRAY and then I used Mesh-Enhancer on the minifig's hair to (...) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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El-Lutzo schrieb: (...) I am also often confused by the naming. For that I have started to have my own translation table for which wheel fits to which tyre. The problem at this point is, that there are many official parts out and I think it might (...) (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) jeroen, you've got mail. bye, w. (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Hi Timothy, I would love to vote but I lost/forgot my login-name. I tried to recover but I don't get reply-mails with a new password and contacting you via the webmas...etc address only gives my an 'hey don't send spam to peeron'-message: Hi. (...) (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Sounds reasonable to me. Any chance a T-junctions FAQ could be created on the parts tracker reference page, and the above could make it into a policy statement in the parts review FAQ? Most of my original post here could be used as the FAQ, (...) (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) T-junctions are a quality issue in part files. I don't think they should be strictly forbidden (that is, having T-junctions is not a reason to hold a part file from official release). Generally, I wouldn't even say that a part with T-junctions (...) (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Heh, I think I found the (URL) ASCII art>. I coulda sworn it made it into a FAQ somewhere though. Oh well. Have fun, Don (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) cockpit is drawn with a stipple function that's buggy in many ATI drivers. And the ledit text (toolbar?) is still drawn in the front buffer. The latest source code in CVS is patched for the toolbar problem on some radeon cards because it was (...) (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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--snip-- (...) Just to be clear it's not the render time I'm worried about... it's the authoring time. Tim (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Much as I'd like to agree on this, I don't think the fact that nobody posted back then disagreeing with my statement really counts as consensus. I pointed out the problem, but didn't ask for opinions on whether parts should be modeled that (...) (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) There are T-junctions there, but the ones that produce the most visible dots are between the white stripe and the moon. Both of those colors are light, so the dark background showing through is much higher contrast, which makes the dots much (...) (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) It's not really constrained to high zoom. If you have a 1% chance of any given pixel along any given T-junction boundary edge resulting in a hole, then you'll have the roughly the same number of holes at any zoom level, since in general the (...) (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Good call. I ran it with -n4, and that makes things visible during rotation. The status bar and final appearance of the model (after you stop rotating, if your rotation style is different) don't get drawn until obscured by a menu, etc., so (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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