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Subject: 
Re: L3P Idea
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Sat, 30 Dec 2000 00:58:53 GMT
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Amnon Silverstein wrote:
In lugnet.cad, Chuck Sommerville writes:
In lugnet.cad, Amnon Silverstein writes:
It would be really nice if L3P could put arbitrary POV code in for parts.
POV code could go into the comments of the dat file.

The latest version of L3P supports it this already.  Look at this post as an
example:

http://news.lugnet.com/cad/dat/parts/primitives/?n=107

Great!
However, is there a way to do substitions? For example, how about a fog
object, that creates fog in whatever color you assign to it and a depth up
to its position?
e.g. something like:


fog {
    distance 2000
    color rgbt<%R, %G, %B, %T>
    fog_type 2
    fog_offset %Y
    fog_alt 1
  }


where everything with a % gets substituted in. Is there a way to do this
with L3P already?

No.
L3P (unlike e.g. L3Lab) doesn't keep track of the current color,
and thus cannot substitute %R, %G, %B, %T.
Colors are inherited, they come from the referencer.
E.g. the _3001_dot_dat object is colorless, but gets the color from
  object { _3001_dot_dat material { Color4 } }
  object { _3001_dot_dat material { Color1 } }
Inside the _3001_dot_dat declaration the color is unknown.
Also the actual coordinates is not known, at least I don't know how to access them.

L3P could perhaps support fog like it features a floor.
I don't know the fog, do you normally only have one fog?
/Lars



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  I'm getting leery (was Re: L3P Idea)
 
(...) For what it's worth, I think I'd avoid taking L3P in this direction. I see L3P for what it is, a .DAT to .POV conversion tool, used for verts, lines, faces, etc. Before we start heading off into having .DAT versions of every possible .POV (...) (24 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: L3P Idea
 
Great! However, is there a way to do substitions? For example, how about a fog object, that creates fog in whatever color you assign to it and a depth up to its position? e.g. something like: fog { distance 2000 color rgbt<%R, %G, %B, %T> fog_type 2 (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad)

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