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Re: LPub 2.4.8.0 available
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lugnet.cad
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Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:39:21 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Allan Bedford wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
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> > I collaborated with the authors of LDGLite, and LDView, and they can be used
> > as renderers now too. Relative to POV-Ray, they have the advantage of speed,
> > and support the concept of edge lines without having to resort to a heuristic
> > like MEGA-POV (which is not available for POV-Ray 3.5, 3.6 and higher.)
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> Ahhhh..... :)
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> Sounds like I need to update my installations of various apps.
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> So in talking about "edge lines" am I correct to think that this is for the more
> traditional type of instruction images... i.e. the more cartoon-like and less
> realistic images with lines drawn around the studs, element edges etc? If
> that's the case, I definitely want to give this new arrangement a try. As much
> as I've found MEGA-POV to be useful, it seems to be an incredible resource hog.
> So anything faster and lighter will be a nice change. :)
You are correct. Using LDGLite and LDView (with the proper settings), can give
you building instructions in a style much more like those produced by LEGO.
LDGLite is blindingly fast, and a welcome change.
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> Thanks again,
> Allan
Kevin
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: LPub 2.4.8.0 available
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| (...) Kevin actually has samples on his Brickshelf account of what LDGLite and LDView rendering look like in LPub: (URL) LDView> (URL) LDGLite> --Travis (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
| | | Re: LPub 2.4.8.0 available
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| (...) Just as a note, LDView might go marginally faster with the addition of a -MemoryUsage=0 command line argument (or setting the memory usage to Low in the LPub preference set inside the LDView UI). While it's counter-intuitive that instructing (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: LPub 2.4.8.0 available
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| (...) Hi Kevin, I'm finally hoping to give ldglite a try. (Yes, I know this is an old thread, but it came up when I searched.) :) So I have ldglite downloaded and have extracted the .exe and the .dll that were in the zip file. Stupid question... but (...) (18 years ago, 1-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 2.4.8.0 available
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| (...) Ahhhh..... :) Sounds like I need to update my installations of various apps. So in talking about "edge lines" am I correct to think that this is for the more traditional type of instruction images... i.e. the more cartoon-like and less (...) (19 years ago, 12-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad)
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