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Anton Raves ((URL) updated his excellent PovRay LEGO library with many new parts and samples. Also he added a reference library with pictures of all of his parts (you will need Stuffit to unzip it). Anyone interested to render LEGO models who is (...) (24 years ago, 18-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
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"GeoMan" <geoman@ars.net.gr> wrote in message news:G8xo17.9B8@lugnet.com... (...) I must say...its been ages since I went to that site. As always I am amazed by the stuff there! It would be great if L3P supported Raves' library as well. -Tim (24 years ago, 18-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
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I would really love to see those animations on the site, but the links are broken and the M*c plug-ins require registration to download. Bah! /Tore (...) -- Tore Eriksson Sweden ICQ: 76066510 LEGO: MOC++++ FS,SP,TO++ TC+ LS YB@m (24 years ago, 18-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You can do it, but it takes a little work. By adding Raves' parts definitions to the .DAT files with L3P IFPOV commands and the proper transform matrix. I have done it, but it takes some time. The parts need to be rotated, translated and (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Anton's parts are defined smaller and use different coordinates so to use them you have to scale them x2.5 (scale 2.5), rotate (rotate <180,-90,0>) and translate them to correct position. Also you have to include his libraries: #include (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
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GeoMan wrote... (...) I've always admired Anton Raves' renderings, he is very good at setting the light and other POV parameters. And his parts looks great, he has done many difficult parts like propellers. In december 2000 I asked Anton Raves (...) (24 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I would like to connect my program to POV-RAY. Since BrickDraw3D aims at being best at interactive modeling, adapting it to work alongside POVRAY would make a natural division of labor. Two ways to do this. 1. Finish the POVRAY plugin for the (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I just found out the POV-Ray license terms have changed since 1995. No wonder the plug-in was never completed--they prohibit changing POV-Ray into a plug-in.... Anyway, path #2 is good enough. There's probably some API where the user can press (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Check the command line options on the help file, I think the parameter is +Ifile.pov but I'm not sure. Leonardo (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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(...) There must be a way to do this, since Moray, (URL) a 3d modeler uses Povray directly to render. -Chuck (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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