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Re: The future of LDraw?
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lugnet.cad
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Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:57:40 GMT
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> There are plenty of people still using LDraw and plenty of newcomers to it.In
> some ways I think it's a victim of its own success. The software is well
> developed and easy to use and the parts library is vast and easy to install. As
> such people don't always need to ask as much about getting stuff to work.
I've been using LDraw for about 8 months now (as a very casual user), and it's
taken quite a while to get into it. I'm mainly using MLCAD to create/edit models
and using POV-Ray to render stuff. Here's my take on it...
I think the key thing is that people need to keep adding new parts to the parts
library. Without the parts you can't create the models..etc..etc
It seems like Lego are churning out new parts everyday, so it's hard to keep up.
Is there a way of working out the number of sets that are dependent on a
particular part? The creation of critical missing parts could then be
prioritised.
From my experience, it seems that most Lego rendering is done using POV-Ray
(there seem to be more tools to support this process). From my experiments, I've
tried to convert models into other 3D formats, but the tools to do this seem to
be quite limited (e.g. 3DWin5 and Ldr2Dat2Dxf). If we could somehow open up the
modelling/rendering process so that's it's easier for users of other 3D tools to
manipulate and render stuff, then I think that would benefit everyone.
(BTW, you can download some Lego models in various 3D formats from my website
http://www.pearse.co.uk/lego)
As a final thought, I think it would be great to create an open source 3D Lego
game as an LDraw community project. Perhaps something like Blenders Game Engine
could be used to do something like this?
For info on the Blender Game Engine see the following link:
http://www.blender.org/education-help/tutorials/game-engine/
Bye for now
Reuben
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