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Hi all, It turns out that what I thought was an "ugly hack" had more life in it than I thought. I've continued working on the minifig animation include file for POVray that I posted here last week. I've now added several functions to it, and have (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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Which application do I use to view the movies? (21 years ago, 23-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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(...) Hi Michael, The avi files can be played with Windows Media player, but you might need to have the Xdiv (or any other Mpeg 4) codec as well. I've used this codec because it has an amazing compression ratio/quality The official site is (URL) but (...) (21 years ago, 23-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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Thanks to the advice of some friendly folks over at Brickfilms, I have now added a "natural" walk mode to the include file. The updated include file for POVray is not yet available, but these two clips showcase the new walking cycle. (URL) (~500k (...) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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(...) That's pretty cool. One thing though - walk across the room and note the way your arms swing. Now look at the animation again. Cheers, Allister (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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(...) Cheers indeed! Slick. I haven't been posting in this thread but I've definitely been following along - this is going to come in *very* handy for the next scene where I need to march 16 minifigs down a street. I like this last walk mode the (...) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation, FTX)
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(...) Hi and thanks Allister, Problem is, after 2 days of intense study of walking cycles, I forgot how to "walk *naturally* accross the room"=8D /I get what you mean - thanks again! (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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Here is the latest update - the script has been cleaned and should be easy to follow (I hope) (URL) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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That's very good! Could you show a transition bewteen the improved walking function and the running function? (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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(...) (snip) I have been following this with some interest. Are we going to see some examples of this in the next animation film contest from your user base? (Stop motion is very cool but this may actually be cooler in the long run) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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(...) Well, I guess I need a user base first ... 8?) Actually, I'm developing this as fast as I can partly becasue I'm taking a two week vacation away from it all starting a week from today & partly because there is one user who has expressed (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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(...) With the latest developments Miguel announced, I can say that if there's the right contest, my current film will be in it. History would work. Or storytelling. Or music. -Mike (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation, FTX)
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(...) Cool. I'm anxious to see it. I've built most of my MLCAD scene for it already - as soon as you release I'll put it to work and make 'em sweat. :) There's just one thing about this include file that is bad but indirectly very good: it makes my (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation, FTX)
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Latest version. (URL) multi-minifig support. I've also added the POVray feile (& the original Ldraw ones too) that render the video below. (URL) .inc file itself includes intructions. The main_secene file (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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In lugnet.cad, Miguel Agullo wrote: <snip> Ugh! That was one ugly post written in way too much of a hurry. Anyway, to avoid risking being called an spammer, I just want to signal that all new developments related to the LMM include file will be (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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I was wondering if anyone else had released similar include files? (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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