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(...) Hi Scott, It will be better if you put adjacent horizontal pixels into a long quad rather than a line. The renderer POV-Ray does not support the concept of lines, so they are tossed when L3P converts you LDraw file to a POV file. Kevin (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Almost...I combine pixels of the same color that are on the same horizontal line. So, if pixels 1 through 5 are the same color, they become a line that ocupies 1 through 5. Most of my stickers have been about 1MB. I wasn't aware of the other (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad)
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&tIn lugnet.cad, Michael Heidemann wrote: It seems to me that you put for every pixel one quad. This produces an (...) This is the approach also used by Bitsticker. It is certainly not optimal. (...) Tim Gould's (URL) img2sticker> script uses a (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) So, I know of at least four tools to convert images to LDraw stickers: (URL) BMP2DAT> (URL) img2sticker> ((URL) *>) (URL) Bitsticker> (URL) Sticker Generator> Plus you can make stickers from text with (URL) txt2dat>. I think this is a case of (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Both of these applications are very cool, and I intend to begin using them immediately. Do you guys mind if I ask a dumb question? That is, another dumb question after these two? Are these applications an evolution of the various BMP2DAT (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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I have just tested your prog. It seems to me that you put for every pixel one quad. This produces an enormous amount of bytes in a file. There was already a prog that was called bmp2dat. If you could rearrange the quads that are direct beside into (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) you can add download links by yourself. just login, go to the download section, click on the [Add Download] link and fill in. don't worry if it doesn't show up immediately - I have to authorize it. w. Ldraw Content Manager (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Don't feel bad - the same thing happened to me when I wrote my script (except I didn't really think to search much first). Shortly after releasing it, I discovered an (URL) even earlier effort> on Lugnet. I think each implementation has its (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Jim, I searched and searched for a program that would do this and never found one. I was surprised that there wasn't something, but it looks like I was wrong. You can absolutely put a link from you page to my download page. I'll have to (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Very cool! May I add a link to this from my (URL) page? I suspect the desktop program does not have the size/speed restrictions that limit my script. Jim (17 years ago, 23-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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