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Re: LEGO part files for POV-ray
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Wed, 2 Dec 1998 18:08:29 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <36657965.2096806@lugnet.com>...
Once upon a time, "Eric Brok" <brok@fcjsvc.hvu.nl> wrote:

I haven't been following developments about legocad for about a year.
I remember when I converted LDraw models to Pov-ray back then, only some • of
the parts were in the library. Now before getting everything back in gear, • I
wonder if this situation is really changed 9to such an extend that only
occasionally a part will not be converted).

If you get L3P, you won't have any problem with any missing parts.  L3P
converts the existing LDraw parts on-the-fly.  If you have the
higher-quality, POV-Ray format parts from the LGEO library (from Lutz
Uhlmann's L2P), L3P will use those instead.

So you get the best of both worlds. :)

Get L3P at <http://www.netby.net/Nord/Mandelvej/Hassing/l3p.html>
Get LGEO at <http://titan.informatik.uni-bonn.de/%7Euhlmann/lgeo.html>

Steve

Great, that's exactly what I could possibly hope to hear!
Thanks for the clear info and direct pointers.

Eric



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  Re: LEGO part files for POV-ray
 
I installed PovRay and L3P and both do run, but L3P can't find the proper part files. I tried to run a batch file to set the envariable LDRAWDIR, specify the batch file as properties of L3P and so on, but still no effect. Also tried with LDraw, L3P (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: LEGO part files for POV-ray
 
(...) If you get L3P, you won't have any problem with any missing parts. L3P converts the existing LDraw parts on-the-fly. If you have the higher-quality, POV-Ray format parts from the LGEO library (from Lutz Uhlmann's L2P), L3P will use those (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.cad)

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