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Re: Transparent parts (small)
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lugnet.cad
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Wed, 8 Jun 2005 22:21:38 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Jaco van der Molen wrote:
> > What I see when I use small parts in transparent colors does not
> > make me happy.
> > See what I mean in the same image of my previous post:
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/sjaacko/Temp/LPubTests/bbsswinr_0_05_ci.png
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> > Look at the "plate 1 x 1 round" colored red transparent in the PLI
> > and the step. Any way to get this better? I'd prefer using LPub and
> > LDGLite as renderer.
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> I don't think LDGLite supports anything other than stipple transparency.
> If you use LDView as your renderer, you can get sorted blended
> trancparency. You'll want to use the latest LDView test release for
> it to work properly, though. That's available here:
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> http://www.halibut.com/~tcobbs/ldraw/private/LDView-3000B1E.zip
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> (I know you said you prefer to use LDGLite as the renderer, and
> LDView is certainly slower than LDGLite, but LDView is a whole lot
> faster than POV-Ray. I seem to remember Don commenting in the past
> that sorted blended transparency wasn't supported in LDGLite. I
> suppose that could have changed, though.)
It's true. The only way to get really nice transparent effects
from ldglite is to use the trick described here where you render at
a higher resolution and then scale down.
http://news.lugnet.com/cad/?n=5344
I believe the current model of the month at ldraw.org was rendered
with this technique, and it even has a "plate 1 x 1 round" in
transparent orange, if you want to check it out.
http://ldraw.org/gallery/album35/m2004_11_andersson_large.png
It'd be really cool if lpub had an option to do that for you though.
I wonder if you can force it to scale up through the ldglite options
box without totally messing up lpub...
Don
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