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Re: Need some help with Mlcad and Pov
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Date: 
Fri, 22 Jul 2005 05:35:54 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Ross Crawford wrote:

OK, the problem is starting with road.ldr. That makes it the first model in the
file, which is always what L3P uses to generate the POV file. And because you
only added road.ldr and figure.ldr to the 3rd model, it never gets rendered.
What you need to do before step 6 is:

5a. Click Multipart / Model sequence from the manu
5b. Select "New Test" at the end of the list
5c. Click "Move up" until its at the top of the list

Then save the MPD, and your new model will be the first one in the file, so L3P
will convert it correctly.

HTH

ROSCO


Oh THANK YOU!  That was it!  I don't remember seeing that in the tutorials that
I was going through, but that was it.  Thank you so much.

OK, now that I've got that part down, my next question has to do with creating
and rendering stickers.  How can you create a sticker to put on bricks?  Is
there a way you can just map the image on the brick in POV?



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(...) Hi, With reference to stickers, if you have Linux or Unix or feel up for a challenge, you can use my img2sticker program as mentioned here (URL). There is also an older program called 'bmp2dat' (I think) which a search on the LDraw site should (...) (19 years ago, 22-Jul-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)

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(...) OK, the problem is starting with road.ldr. That makes it the first model in the file, which is always what L3P uses to generate the POV file. And because you only added road.ldr and figure.ldr to the 3rd model, it never gets rendered. What you (...) (19 years ago, 22-Jul-05, to lugnet.cad)

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