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Re: My latest Ldraw Work -- 588 Police Headquarters
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Sun, 7 Aug 2005 23:17:51 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Timothy Gould wrote:

   Nice work although I do recommend setting your camera angle a little narrower. I mocked up a dat for that part using my sticker converting program which you can find here (dat file). The header material is a little crappy but just ignore it.

The print should work in POVray and LDView although it may not look like it from some angles in MLCAD because of undersensitivity in the display routines.

Please let me know if it is satisfactory.

Tim


Actually, it is quite good! Thank you for the link. I was working on a sticker also, but whenever I rendered it, the sticker kinda stuck out rather than blending in with the brick behind it. I went as far as making the sticker background transparent, but that didn’t help much either. Yours is a better improvement, plus you have it real close to the included brick which is nice.

How do you make a 1 x 2 brick with the pattern on the surface of the brick itself? I’ve seen all the other bricks with patterns on them, and wondered how you can make a brick like that. I’ve been wanting to make some custom minifig torsos also that have patterns and labels on them, but I’m not sure how to do that.



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  Re: My latest Ldraw Work -- 588 Police Headquarters
 
(...) It's actually 0.25LDU out from the brick. Of course unless you render an extreme clos up that will be less than a pixel and will thus look as though it is directly on the brick. (...) One trick is to add a blank quad a little out from the (...) (19 years ago, 8-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)

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  Re: My latest Ldraw Work -- 588 Police Headquarters
 
(...) --SNIP IMAGES-- Hi Chris, Nice work although I do recommend setting your camera angle a little narrower. I mocked up a dat for that part using my sticker converting program which you can find (URL) here (dat file)>. The header material is a (...) (19 years ago, 7-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)

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