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Re: L3PAO
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lugnet.cad
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Sat, 13 Mar 1999 22:47:59 GMT
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You're very good at giving me tech support ,too.
Todd Lehman wrote in message ...
> [Removed lugnet.build from crosspost list]
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> Jeff Boen writes:
> > not to toot my own horn, todd...
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> There's an old saying:
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> "If you don't toot your own horn, someone else will use it as a spitoon."
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> > 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 easier to get everything you can out of L3P... you
> > can grab the front end at:
> > http://www.flash.net/~onyx/L3PAO/L3PAO.html
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> Looks great! I just downloaded it and it's running now (sort of). It can
> see my models directory and shows me a list of actual files, which is cool.
> The weird thing is, when I click the "Run L3P" button, nothing happens --
> no beep, no dialog box, no changes written anywhere on the disk.
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> A couple other weird things -- when I asked it to save a scene, I gave it
> a full path, but it put the .L3A file in the root directory. When I ask it
> to display the L3P help file, it invokes notepad looking for \L3P.txt.
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> My LDRAW environment variable is set like this: LDRAWDIR=C:\LDRAW
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> Let me check my LDRAW.INI file. Hmm... L3PPath=\ and POVPath=\, that
> doesn't sound right. OK, I'm fixing L3PPath=c:\ldraw\ and POVPath=
> c:\program files\pov-ray\ . Now when I click "Run L3P", it runs, but then
> it (L3P) errors out and says "*** Too many filenames."
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> Maybe L3PAO is passing the POVPath to L3P on the command line without
> surrounding it in double-quotes? Let's test that theory. Aha--bingo --
> I just copied my POV-Ray directory from where it really is to a path
> C:\foopov containing no space characters, and now it creates the .pov file.
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> Well anyway, thanks for pointing me to L3PAO -- I look forward to using it
> soon! (I just need to find more spare time for this sort of thing first. • :)
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> --Todd
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