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(...) It'll be there in the next release. (...) Actually, if you look you will see that parts of it are somewhat transparent (like the left edge of the windscreen). All of it that has the background visible through transparent parts is supposed to (...) (19 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) I would choose LDView over POV-Ray and L3P in an instant if the -SaveAlpha option worked on my Mac. Otherwise, I think your conclusions about the appearance settings are correct. LDView renderings like your example look great. Would it make (...) (19 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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--snip-- (...) --snip-- (...) Is it that they prefer POV-Ray or that they don't have/aren't aware that the latest versions of LPub can use LDView? Although I consider myself quite a dab hand at POV-Ray I would never use it for instructions now that (...) (19 years ago, 8-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) In my opinion, both images are unusable for instructions. Prefering legibility over realism (though a bit of "realism" is still needed to even recognize the shapes), I put down some universal rules for creating instructions of virtually any (...) (19 years ago, 8-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) This is one of the main reasons I posted asking for opinions. I think I can fix this, but I know that fixing it is going to be a lot of work. There's no point bothering if people aren't going to like the results. (...) That can be fixed (with (...) (19 years ago, 8-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) That isn't a silly question at all, really. In fact, it may be more important than all the flaws that have been pointed out. Based on the comments here, there seems to be a general consensus about a few things regarding "high-quality (...) (19 years ago, 8-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) On my monitor, version 1 certainly looks cleaner and sharper. I will be interested to see how you accomplished this. It might get me back into creating instructions again, which is something I have stopped doing because I was getting so (...) (19 years ago, 8-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) I've found that getting rid of the transparent colors' refraction characteristics makes for a much clearer rendering, too: (URL) no refraction>> Jim (19 years ago, 8-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) Unless Travis is explicitly setting it, I think POV-Ray defaults to 2.2. -Orion (19 years ago, 8-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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hi all, today I played around with the group feature and found out that MLCad "ungroups" a Group when you try to copy'n'paste a Group withing the file. furthermore the order in the .ldr looks kind of weird though it is sorted fine in the parts list (...) (19 years ago, 8-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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