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Hello all Lego CAD'ers, I'm interested in creating movies (animated sequences) based on Lego space ships. My intent is to create CAD files of some of my ships and then import those into Lightwave 5.5. My first question; is this possible? You must (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You've announced it -- now you must show it to us! Muah ha hah hah hah *ahem* Please continue. (...) I would probably recommend converting the DAT files into DXF (Autocad), which Lightwave will probably support. You can find a DAT2DXF (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) CAD (...) are converted and used in another 3D program (I use trueSpace), there is no gap between the pieces. An example is that 2 2x2 bricks, end to end in the same color, look like a 2x4. Mayhaps the creator of DAT2DXF (forgot who, sorry...) (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) a (...) the (...) You can export .obj or .3ds files from LeoCAD, Lightwave should be capable of reading at least one of those formats. Just remember that you might need to turn backface culling off. Leonardo (25 years ago, 23-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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Charles Seyferth wrote: <parte cortada> (...) I know that, the ldraw pieces are "ideal" pieces and have no gap. (...) It's me 8^) (...) HMM.. I could shrink all pieces a little bit, to get this effect, it is possible, and is not difficult. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) How do you do this?Pat J (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I don't know, I've never used Lightwave but in case it doesn't read .obj or .3ds files, search the net for any freeware 3D file converter and you'll certainly find a program that can convert files to the Lightwave format. Leonardo (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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