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Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:04:40 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Damien Guichard wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Allister McLaren wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad, Damien Guichard wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > This is why i think LDraw users should stop whining about the lack of an
> > > animation-enabled LDraw graphical tool, as long as no such tool even exists in a
> > > textual form.
> > > The textual step simply can't be avoided.
> > 
> > 
> > I'm no boffin, but doesn't POVray already do this?
> > 
> > Allister
> 
> MLCad + L3P + POVray does static pictures, greatly limited when it comes to
> animation scripting capability.

I have been working on what you want for 5 years.  At first I came up with Lani
as a language.

http://james.magnusviri.com/lego/lani/details.html

It sucks.  I now use POV-Ray.  Have you learned POV-Ray?  Have you seen this:
http://www.ldraw.org/article/348

I fully agree, POV-Ray isn't as powerful as, say, Maya.  But it is as powerful
as you are going to get in free software.



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  Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
 
(...) I downloaded Lani long time ago, not deeply tested it but i wouldn't say it sucks. I know about POV-Ray, ray-tracing primitives and Constructive Solid Geometry. My lego POV-Ray gallery: (URL) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
 
(...) MLCad + L3P + POVray does static pictures, greatly limited when it comes to animation scripting capability. Considerations, - damien (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)

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