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Re: Mesh Enhancer
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lugnet.cad
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Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:00:45 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Eric Albrecht wrote:
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In lugnet.cad, Tom Beattie wrote:
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I was wondering if anyone could point me towards a copy of Mesh Enhancer.
All links on LDraw are obsolete and broken. I have a 2x2 dome dat in serious
need of smoothing, and a rendering looking worse for wear.
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I could never get mesh enhancer to work right, but the Anton Raves library
does have the part you mention. In that library it is referred to as
stwa_r2d2_head.
I created the following ar_0553.inc file to use this with LGEO:
#ifdef(ar_0553)
#else
#include "ar_material.inc"
#include "ar_library.inc"
#declare setting = 2;
#declare ar_0553 =
object {
www.brick(texture{})
matrix <-0.1, 0, 0,
0, 0, .1,
0, 0.1, 0,
0, 0, -3*LG_PLATE_HEIGHT>
rotate <0, 0, 90>
}
#declare ar_0553_clear =
object {
ar_0553
}
#end
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If you are using L3P, you need to add this part to the .lst file. If you are
exporting straight from LDView like I do, you need to add the following to
LGEO.xml:
<Element>
<LDrawFilename>553.dat</LDrawFilename>
<POVName>ar_0553</POVName>
<POVName Alternate="Clear">ar_0553_clear</POVName>
<Dependency>LGDefs</Dependency>
<POVFilename>ar_0553.inc</POVFilename>
<MatrixRef>LGEOTransform</MatrixRef>
</Element>
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Naturally, you have to actually have Anton’s library which is the
ar_library.inc file and you have to make sure to include it when you run
POV-Ray.
Once you’ve done these things, everything will be automatic and you’ll have a
nice looking dome! Look at
this picture for a
good example of a render with this part.
Eric Albrecht
Technicopedia
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Thanks Eric.
All this sounds interesting, however you may have to guide me some of the way
here.
I have always been interested in Anton’s Library but to be honest I never worked
out how to use it within the MLCad, L3PAO, LGEO, POV tool chain, or when to
consider it as an alternative to LGEO parts.
I currently model in MLCad, genreate a POV file from L3PAO (with LGEO part
substitution) and manually tweek the POV file to suit. But I am always looking
for improvements. So here goes.
First Question.
I have downloaded Anton’s Latest parts library (535 library)and it contains
a ‘library.lib’ and ‘material.lib’ file - no sign of either ‘ar library.inc’,
or ‘ar material.inc’. I assume they are similar but do they function/referenced
in the same way?
Second Question.
I assume your custom ‘ar 0553.inc’ file (as described above) lives in the NEW
LGEO release within the ‘ar’folder along with other ‘ar xxxx.inc’ files.
Third Question.
I am currently using the older version of LGEO because when I use L3PAO it looks
for the various ‘l2p xxx.tab’ files contained within the original LGEO folder.
The New LGEO has ‘lg colours.lst’, and ‘lg elements.lst’ files which I can not
get to play well with L3PAO. Is there a way around this? I understand it works
with the latest L3P release (1.4) but I really struggle with command line stuff
so I have stayed with L3PAO as the front end of L3P 1.3 (I haven’t checked if it
works with L3P 1.4 to be honest as I was having enough trouble with the new LGEO
I gave up, and went back to my ‘old ways’.
Fourth Question.
is the .lst file you mention ‘parts.lst’- the one generated by mklist.exe? What
is the reason to up date this?
Fifth Question.
Is exporting from LDVeiw to POV a comparable process to processing a .mpd
through L3PAO? And does it reference the New or Original LGEO part libraries?.
And going full circle how do you (if you can) integrate Anton’s library into
this workflow - or is this a manual thing within POV.
I think that’s it. Dig under the surface and it’s amazing how much of this goes
over my head. Oh well, I’ll concentrate on placing cameras and lights - i’m
getting better at that.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers
Tom Beattie
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| (...) This all sounds very familiar. I only started rendering myself late last year, and I also struggled through all of these questions. Hopefully I will be able to answer most of them so you can get through it more quickly! (...) OK, as you have (...) (15 years ago, 19-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| (...) I could never get mesh enhancer to work right, but the Anton Raves library does have the part you mention. In that library it is referred to as stwa_r2d2_head. I created the following ar_0553.inc file to use this with LGEO: #ifdef(ar0553) (...) (15 years ago, 16-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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