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| | | Hi, After finding L3P, I tried to see what a model would look like redered. Very impressing, and I immediately feld a need to make it better ;-) I had a space-craft model to experiment with and wanted to have a nice galaxy-type background. I loooked (...) (26 years ago, 27-Oct-98, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: Backgrounds in POVray —Terry Keller
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| | | | | (...) Save yourself a _lot_ of aggravation and hair-pulling and go get the Galaxy include file here: (URL) background work much easier. An example of my using it is at: (URL) Terry K -- (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | Re: Backgrounds in POVray —Wouter van Wageningen
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| | | | | | (...) ____ |oooo| Cheers, |oooo| Wouter van Wageningen ¯¯¯¯ (26 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Backgrounds in POVray —Wouter van Wageningen
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| | | | | | (...) Well, it didn't. After reading for 1 minute or so, I had a nice background. Great stuff, highly recomended. ____ |oooo| Cheers, |oooo| Wouter van Wageningen ¯¯¯¯ (26 years ago, 30-Oct-98, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Backgrounds in POVray —Terry Keller
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| | | | | | (...) POV-Ray is a royal pain in the butt to use, but that galaxy include file was a snap. I wish more things were that easy. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 31-Oct-98, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Backgrounds in POVray —Wouter van Wageningen
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| | | | | | (...) Do you know of some nice planetary surfaces? I have a Lego Exo-sceleton that I would like to see on some cratered moonscape ;-) ____ |oooo| Cheers, |oooo| Wouter van Wageningen ¯¯¯¯ (26 years ago, 2-Nov-98, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Backgrounds in POVray —Terry Keller
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| | | | | | (...) I would like to see it as well. :-) Check here: (URL) the Categories, look at "Heightfields" and "Planet Images" The heightfields section has links to some terrain generators that look promising. The planet images links are a little less (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-98, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Backgrounds in POVray —Tom McDonald
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| | | | | | | (...) <snippage> Views of the Solar System is a very cool site. Funny, I've had it bookmarked for over a year and never thought to use it. Careful, though. Some images are copyrighted, if I remember correctly. Try out this site too. Way cool (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-98, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Backgrounds in POVray —Wouter van Wageningen
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| | | | | | (...) I guess I need to learn a lot more about POV-Ray. Working with the examples is easy. I got gforge from one of the links, and getting a lunar surface in POV-Ray works. But getting a l3p converted LDraw file to stand on that surface is a (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-98, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Backgrounds in POVray —Matthew Marshall
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| | | | | | the number outside the location of the plane where you want the model to stand if I remember correctly will move it up and down. at least that's how I did it with mine De Bengel wrote in message <3641d92c.145899812@...et.com>... (...) Matt Marshall (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-98, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Backgrounds in POVray —Wouter van Wageningen
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| | | | | | (...) If I use the land.pov example from Gforge and add all the stuff that L3P produced, I can see the surface from land.pov is I leave the light & camera from land.pov and comment the ones from L3P out. I see the Lego if I do it the other way (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: Backgrounds in POVray —Nick Holdbrooks
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| | | | you could map the texture onto a sky_sphere. -- Instructions for usage of Ickna: Ickna should be placed on a level surface, maximum acceptable incline is +/- 5° Ickna is not a toy, may be toxic to less that .00013% of the population of the Bermuda (...) (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: Backgrounds in POVray —Wouter van Wageningen
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| | | | (...) I tried that, but being new to POVray, I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong. ____ |oooo| Cheers, |oooo| Wouter van Wageningen ¯¯¯¯ (26 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.cad)
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