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| | | I'm trying to render some new models I made out of set 4883, but I keep getting this message when I try to load it into POV-Ray: // Empty model. This is listed where the parts should be in the file. This is a standard .ldr file, not a .mpd file. I (...) (18 years ago, 20-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: // Empty model errors in POV-Ray —Tore Eriksson
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| | | | | (...) First thing you would try is avoiding spaces in file namnes and directories. L3P is a DOS program, and DOS programs generally hate spaces. /Tore (18 years ago, 20-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | Re: // Empty model errors in POV-Ray —Roland Melkert
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| | | | | | (...) You could also try quoting the long file names like C:\LDRAW\L3P.exe "I:\LDraw\MODELS\OFFICIAL MODELS\4883-Designer Set\4883-C Spaceship Racer.ldr" "C:\LDRAW\POV-Ray Files\4883-C Spaceship Racer.pov" -cg45,45,0 -ld -lg45,0,0 -lg30,120,0 (...) (18 years ago, 20-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: // Empty model errors in POV-Ray —Daniel Collis
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| | | | | | | Ok, I removed all spaces from the file names and folders. Still no go. Same exact results. The top section of the files are just header info, aren't they. They all start with the // which, if I remember right, means that those lines aren't being (...) (18 years ago, 20-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: // Empty model errors in POV-Ray —Daniel Collis
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| | | | | | Here's the .pov file header from a working file. Reran it to be sure. // Generated by L3Lab v1.2 20000616 (C) 1997-2000 Lars C. Hassing lch@ccieurope.com // WWW: (URL) WWW: (URL) WWW: (URL) Date: Tue Jan 14 00:26:09 2003 // Input file: (...) (18 years ago, 20-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: // Empty model errors in POV-Ray —Ahui Herrera
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| | | | | | (...) I recenlty ran into this same problem becuase I have 2 LDRAW folders on my computer. One on my C Drive (which is the working version) and one on the D Drive which is used when I create the ALL IN ONE INSTALLER. This is what I learned the hard (...) (18 years ago, 21-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: // Empty model errors in POV-Ray —Daniel Collis
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| | | | | | How do I go about confirming where the programs are looking? (18 years ago, 21-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: // Empty model errors in POV-Ray —Ahui Herrera
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| | | | | | (...) I ended up uninstalled everything on my C drive and deleteing all traces of the ldraw apps on the C drive and then reinstalled the ALL IN ONE INSTALLER and worked my way thru each one (MCLAD, L3PAO, and POV) to ensure that they were all (...) (18 years ago, 23-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: // Empty model errors in POV-Ray —Daniel Collis
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| | | | | | I was hoping to avoid doing that. Oh, well. Wish me luck. Thanks guys. (18 years ago, 23-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: // Empty model errors in POV-Ray —Lars C. Hassing
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| | | | (...) This is because L3P hasn't read any file having line type 3 or 4. (...) L3P is looking for DAT files in I:\LDraw\MODELS\OFFICIAL MODELS\4883-Designer Set\ C:\LDRAW\LEdit\P C:\LDRAW\LEdit\PARTS C:\LDRAW\LEdit\MODELS Is that what you expect ? (...) (18 years ago, 23-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: // Empty model errors in POV-Ray —Daniel Collis
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| | | | In looking in the C:\LDRAW\LEdit folder I find no other folders, just the LEDIT.exe and LEDIT.html files. Would this be causing the prob. I've decided that I'm going to keep all models on the C: drive from now on. As of this point, I still have not (...) (18 years ago, 24-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: // Empty model errors in POV-Ray —Lars C. Hassing
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| | | | | (...) Thought so. Your LDRAWDIR is probably just C:\LDRAW. You can confirm this, if these folders exist: C:\LDRAW\P C:\LDRAW\PARTS C:\LDRAW\MODELS LDRAWDIR is a way of telling LDraw related programs where to find the P, PARTS and MODEL folders. Now, (...) (18 years ago, 24-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | Re: // Empty model errors in POV-Ray —Daniel Collis
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| | | | | | | DUDE! That was it. Thank you all so much for trying to help me with this. Thanks! -Daniel (18 years ago, 24-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | Re: // Empty model errors in POV-Ray —Daniel Collis
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| | | | | | (...) Is there anyway to keep from having to edit the .ini file before every usage of the L3P Addon program? It got old verrrrry quickly. (18 years ago, 2-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: // Empty model errors in POV-Ray —Dean Earley
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| | | | | | (...) I haven't seen that problem with L3PAO myself. <advert> Personally, I dropped L3PAO a while ago and wrote a replacement, which IMO has a few more useful features and is slightly more up to date. L3PGen can be downloaded from: (URL) comments (...) (18 years ago, 3-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: // Empty model errors in POV-Ray —Ahui Herrera
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| | | | (...) The ALL IN ONE INSTALLER will NOT remove your models folder when it uninstalles. All other folders within LDraw will get wiped. So as long as you put your models in C:LDRAWMODELS or store them OUTSIDE of the LDraw folder they are okay. -Ahui (18 years ago, 25-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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