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Re: Question about posting DAT files here
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Sat, 21 Jul 2001 00:05:13 GMT
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Well, after figuring out how to use L3P & POVRAY, made a 'review' picture of
the Castle style MiniFigs I (re)created so far in my quest of recreating the
Castleland sets in MLCad. These have the vests/torsos/shields that have been
'skinned' using BMP2LDRAW that I uploaded earlier in the LUGNET.CAD.DATFILES
newsgroup. The 'streaking' that shows up in MLCad does NOT show up in
POVRAY. I must say, the POVRAY rendering is much more impressive than what I
was getting via LDVIEW.
Here's a link to the picture:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=57256
BTW - when I converted the POVRAY BMP to a JPG, the picture lost a bit of
the sharp clarity. Haven't figured out why that happens [yet].
Mark
In lugnet.cad, Mark Chittenden writes:
> I've noticed the streaking myself when I have a 'skinned' piece at an angle in
> MLCad, but it does not show up so much when I view the dat files in LDVIEW-10
> (what I use to generate my 'POVRAY's). I'm a point & clicker, (in reality a
> logic database programmer), not really much of a draw-it-myself graphics artist
> type. After I do a few scans & skins via BMP2LDRAW's, I'll work up to trying to
> actually do the 'painting' via the triangles & quads (so far all I can manage
> is to change the colors of those already in place).
>
> Thanks for the comments.
>
> The (really) new guy on the CAD block...
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> In lugnet.cad, Heather Patey writes:
> > BMP2LDRAW32 does have its uses though... when I did the necklace torsos, I
> > used it to figure out where the centre of each bead should go, and then
> > started afresh and drew the circles based on those coordinates. (Filling in
> > between the beads was the hard part.) Mark, you could do the same sort of
> > thing to note the "corners" of each shape found by BMP2LDRAW32 and then draw
> > them with triangles and quads. Nonetheless I've saved yours in my parts
> > directory, although I don't think I'd want to POVRAY them, I think that
> > would take a long time!
> >
> > That said, I notice that when I look at the pieces at an angle (in MLCAD or
> > L3LAB), they look sort of streaky, as if there were tiny spaces in between
> > the strips... but there aren't, I checked a couple, and anyway I think
> > BMP2LDRAW32 takes care of that. Could someone with more of a clue explain
> > why this happens?
> >
> > Cheers, Heather
> > --
> > Heather Patey
> > Pirate Wench / Brick Detective
> > LUGNET Member #490
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| (...) JPEG is a lossy compression format. This means that in order to compress the file size, the JPEG compression algorithm averages boxes of pixels, losing some data along the way. The higher the compression, the boxier (the more artifacts) it (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.publish)
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| I've noticed the streaking myself when I have a 'skinned' piece at an angle in MLCad, but it does not show up so much when I view the dat files in LDVIEW-10 (what I use to generate my 'POVRAY's). I'm a point & clicker, (in reality a logic database (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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