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Re: Lego Space Craft Movies
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lugnet.cad
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Thu, 22 Jul 1999 22:11:29 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> Pat Justison wrote:
> > 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.
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> You've announced it -- now you must show it to us! Muah ha hah hah hah
> *ahem* Please continue.
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> > My first question; is this possible? You must
> > somehow convert the Lego CAD (l-draw or LeoCAD) data file into a format that
> > POV-Ray can use. Do you think that I could use this same conversion for use
> > wuth Lightwave?
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> I would probably recommend converting the DAT files into DXF (Autocad),
> which Lightwave will probably support. You can find a DAT2DXF converteter
> somewhere, I can't seem to find it though. :-(
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> > My other big question is what is the software of choice for creating Lego • CAD
> > files?
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> Other than LDraw, you mean? There are a few re-write projects going on, but
> LDraw / LEdit seems to be the best bet right now.
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> As for ray-tracing, I see a lot of people using POV-Ray; Lars Hassing's l3p
> can do the conversion:
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> http://www.netby.net/Nord/Mandelvej/Hassing/l3p.html
The only problem (even though it is a *wonderful* program) is that when parts
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...)
could implement this in the next version. Otherwise, Pat (and other non-POV
users), I'm working on remodeling all of the parts in trueSpace's .COB format.
I've got 5 parts done so far. Slightly slow process....
Charles
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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. (...) (...) (27 years ago, 25-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Lego Space Craft Movies
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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 (...) (27 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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