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Re: LPub 2.4.8.0 available
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lugnet.cad
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Fri, 2 Jun 2006 04:12:10 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Allan Bedford wrote:
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It seems to call POV-Ray on some attempts. Then on other attempts it seems to
be calling ldglite. When it does call ldglite, it opens the ldglite.exe
window, but there’s no action.
Just checked... it’s creating the .dat files and the .pov files for the
instruction steps, but won’t seem to create the images to match.
It will create the ‘complete model’ image, but not the steps.
Help?
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I’ve never used LPub much. I did use it when working out getting LDView to work
as a renderer. Ironically, despite the amount of time I’ve spent developing
LDView, I don’t make many LDraw models.
I just tried LPub to see if I had problems. It worked fine for me when I did
the following:
- Downloaded LPub marked as 2.4.10.0 (which reports 2.3.0.10 when installed)
- Launched LPub and pointed it to my LDraw directory
- Clicked on the Renderer tab, then hit the LDView button
- Pointed it at LDView 3.0 (latest official LDView release, NOT my development version of LDView)
- Made sure I had an LPub preference set in LDView that was configured the way I wanted things to look
- Loaded car.dat
- Ran Generate->Complete Model
- Ran Generate->CSIs, PLIs and BOM
- Ran Generate->CSI Web Pages
The above seemed to work fine. As pointed out before, ldglite and LDView will
produce very similar images. Since I’m the author of LDView, I’m familiar with
it and tested with it. To the best of my knowledge, LDView has the following
advantages over ldglite when used for LPub:
- Better transparency (not stipple). It’s not as good as POV, but I think it looks a lot better than stipple.
- Curve smoothing (often not visible with instruction images, but sometimes quite visible).
- Option to put Lego logo on studs (probably not visible on instruction images, and realistically probably just adds clutter to the image).
I haven’t compared the performance of LDView in LPub vs ldglite. As far as I
know ldglite is always faster, but LDView is definitely a whole lot faster than
POV-Ray. If you want the best performance using LDView from LPub, I’d recommend
setting LDView’s memory usage setting to “Low” in LDView’s LPub preference set.
While it might seem that this would slow things down, it speeds up the initial
loading of the file. Since LPub only needs one frame, and not real-time
updates, faster loading is the most important.
--Travis
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) Hi Travis, Thanks for the suggestion. I downloaded LDView and go it installed with no problems. I ran LPub and it was able to use LDView to produce the PLIs and the BOM images, but not the CSIs. I'm going to respond to a couple other messages (...) (18 years ago, 3-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| (...) Yup, that's the page I used. And the install .exe is called LPub_2_4_10_0_setup.exe. But when I do Help > About it says it's ver 2.3.0.10. Now I'm really confused. :) (...) It seems to call POV-Ray on some attempts. Then on other attempts it (...) (18 years ago, 2-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad)
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