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| | | All this talk lately about L3P and how easy it is to use finally convinced me to check it out... And WOW! I gotta say, Lars Hassing has created a truly amazing piece of work! The download only took a few seconds, the install only a couple minutes, (...) (26 years ago, 1-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets —Tamyra Teed
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| | | | | Looks Great Todd!! and I like how you did those chess pieces! Yes I have to admit, L3P is a great prg! Lars did a good job on it! I like the fact that you don't have to have the piece in the .inc files to use pov with it, you can use all the parts (...) (26 years ago, 1-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets —Roy Earls
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| | | | | | | Mookie wrote in message <36D9F135.438D0E8B@e...pc.com>... (...) I'm not sure this will help, but I copy the L3P model into a scene file I have set up that has a background and camera effects like lens flares. Since the camera in the scene is (...) (26 years ago, 1-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | POV camera positioning [was Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets] —Terry Keller
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| | | | | | | (...) Well, hopefully we will eventually get a least a simple implementation of a Camera.dat and Lookat.dat into LDraw. Until then, you could try using a couple of Light.dat files in your LDraw model. First, generate the .POV file from your dat (...) (26 years ago, 1-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: POV camera positioning [was Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets] —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | (...) What's that you say, Sonny? :o) Here are the groups that -allow- .DAT content: lugnet.cad lugnet.cad.dat lugnet.cad.dev lugnet.off-topic.test Here are the groups that -require- .DAT content: lugnet.cad.dat --Todd (26 years ago, 1-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: POV camera positioning [was Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets] —Terry Keller
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| | | | | | | | (...) Hmmm...... interesting. The message I replied to (from Mookie) had replies set to lugnet.build and lugnet.cad. I originally fired off the reply with the .dat lines intact, and received a message back that dat's were not allowed in (...) (26 years ago, 2-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: POV camera positioning [was Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets] —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | (...) I'd argue that this is more consistent than allowing a post to some, but not all, of the groups that you intended the post to go to. But if I did make that argument, would I be against allowing cross posting to RTL when it's hosted here? I'm (...) (26 years ago, 2-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Crossposting and .DAT content —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | (...) You mean why didn't Terry's reply show up in lugnet.cad? Because Terry didn't address his post to lugnet.cad. He addressed it to lugnet.build and lugnet.cad. Note that there is no way to crosspost an article to lugnet.build and/or lugnet.cad. (...) (26 years ago, 3-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Crossposting and .DAT content —Terry Keller
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| | | | | | | | (...) OK, that satisfies me. I can live with that. :-) -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 3-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets —Jeff Boen
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| | | | | | (...) hey tamy... how come you didn't write me to let me know you were experiencing problems with L3PAO??? shoot me mail at onyx@flash.net, let me know exactly what you're doing, what problems/errors you're receiving and i'll do whatever i can to (...) (26 years ago, 1-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets —Roy Earls
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| | | | | Very good, Todd. I'm glad you have found what POV can do for your models. It is a great way to show off what you've done. Roy (26 years ago, 1-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets —Terry Keller
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| | | | | (...) <snip> Isn't it a shock to download such a tiny program and have it do what it does so easily? If only all software were that simple. :-) -- Terry K -- BTW, cool chess sets. It sure will be nice when there are POV-Ray primitives for the cone (...) (26 years ago, 1-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | (...) Indeed! (...) Would you buy one if they were for sale? :-) (...) I was thinking that too, but I really can't complain...being able to automagically convert any .dat file to a .pov file is an incredibly cool thing, even if it does it so (...) (26 years ago, 1-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | | | | (...) With professionally-printed instructions and all the Lego parts for the chessmen and board, I would, sure! Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 1-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) BTW, you did see Lars reply to my question about L3P and the conic sections, right? So after the next update to L3P, you'll put the fix for the 1x1 cone into the following parts update, right? Steve (26 years ago, 2-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets —Terry Keller
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| | | | | | (...) Affirmative to both. Though, to be safe, you might want to prod my memory when the time comes. Question, do the other cones have that problem? -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 3-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) Okey-doke. (...) The problem is with the primitive being used. I used the 1-4con3.dat file, the translation of which is improperly written by L3P. Presumably, any part using this primitive will render incorrectly. Currently, there's only one: (...) (26 years ago, 3-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | (...) I checked this part with L3P this morning. What I got was: (...) I can't find an error in these lines, except they zero out the y component to turn a conic into a ring. Does POV-Ray not work with this type of transformation matrix? (or: did I (...) (26 years ago, 3-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets —Terry Keller
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| | | | | | (...) Good answer, but not the one I was looking for. :-) What I meant to ask is: do the current cones need to get the same/similar fix as the 1x1 cone? -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 3-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) Oh, definitely. Haven't looked at many cone parts in L3P, have you? The 3x3x2 cone especially needs extensive work. Steve (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | 3x3 cone availability —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | | | (...) What? (DING DING DING DING DING going off in my head) Is the 3x3 cone available in LDraw yet? Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: 3x3 cone availability —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | (...) YHBT. Steve (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: 3x3 cone availability —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | | | | (...) ? Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: 3x3 cone availability —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | (...) You Have Been Trolled. (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: 3x3 cone availability —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | | | | (...) :-D :-D :-D Yah, I fell for it. Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets —Terry Keller
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| | | | | | (...) Nope, that's why I asked you. (...) Good thing I read Sproat's replies first. :-) -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) I don't know if the other cones will be as easy to fix as the 1x1x1. But I think they will (the main complication would be if the conic surface was interrupted by some feature). (...) Too bad; that one was aimed at you. ;) Steve (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets —Jeff Boen
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| | | | | (...) not to toot my own horn, todd... but if you're diggin L3P, you GOTTA run it with my front end L3PAO.. once you DO decide to start tweaking camera angles, and even the color changes you've already started playing with, you'll find it much (...) (26 years ago, 1-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | L3PAO —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | [Removed lugnet.build from crosspost list] (...) There's an old saying: "If you don't toot your own horn, someone else will use it as a spitoon." (...) see my models directory and shows me a list of actual files, which is cool. The weird thing is, (...) (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: L3PAO —Jeff Boen
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| | | | | | | (...) that was the funniest, one-sided, tech-support-yourself conversation i've never been a part of... heheehe.. yeah...problem #1 is the long filenames... L3P doesn't like them and i don't pass it the 8.3 version... i check to make sure the output (...) (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: L3PAO —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | (...) LDAO has a routine to do this. I don't remember off the top of my head how much of the work amounts to calling a Windows API routine, and how much is actual VB code, but it's there. Steve (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: L3PAO —John Bauman
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| | | | | | You're very good at giving me tech support ,too. Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) :) (...) (26 years ago, 13-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets —Robert Farver
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| | | | | (...) Took me a while to get everything working, but here's my rendered chess set: (URL) aren't spaces in the URL, they are _ characters.) You may notice I've gotten rid of the theme in my website to reduce it's size so I can put up more stuff. Rob (...) (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Say, do those game pieces fit down around onto the 2x2 tiles? -- way cool!!! Hrm, now to take you up on that challenge you posed on your webpage -- to find the two errors in the picture... OK, first error is that the kings and queens are on (...) (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets —Robert Farver
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| | | | | | | (...) Hehe, Black is easy now, white is hard. I'm am looking for many more (36 to be exact) white corners to fix the 2nd problem. (You found problems 1 and 3 (which I didn't notice)). (...) The above question has a mixed answer. Some do, yes, some (...) (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Although I'm terrible at chess, I can remember that because it rhymes! White on right. :) --Bram OBLEGO: my brother and sister gave me a choice of any LEGO set under $15 for my birthday :) because everything they were thinking of ordering was (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | | | | could i have the .dat files? (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) Alright, I'm blind -- I still don't see it. What's the problem? Steve (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets —Robert Farver
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| | | | | | (...) In the left picture enlargement, look at the right white rook (right in the front bottom of the picture) and compare to the other rooks/ knights. Rob +---...---+ | Rob Farver - rfarver@rcn.com | | (URL) | | (URL) | +---...---+ (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets —Ryan Dennett
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| | | | | | He's got headgear!! Ryan (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | Re: 1x1 and 2x2 chess sets —Robert Farver
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| | | | (...) Ok, I've fixed the problems with my chess set, including changing the pawns. A picture of the result (sitting on a wood tabletop) is now up on my page: (URL) also added a few new creations to my site too: (URL) Rob Farver - rfarver@rcn.com | | (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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