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Re: Another LDrawn town (Was: Another house for datville?)
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Mon, 10 Sep 2001 21:08:40 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Jacob Sparre Andersen writes:
> But once Tore gets the interpreted POV-Ray file below 1 Gb,
> we can start adding more buildings to the town. ;-)
I'm more interested in the methods he used, so that I can replicate it.
> I like the idea of "going west" and creating another town,
I think growing interest via this method might be exponential, instead of
linear (as is true of the current method).
> I am not sure I like the idea of making Datsville
> static.
I really think that would be a better idea (with the exception of modifying
existing models). I think it would be better to farm the technology out to
as many people as possible. Otherwise, you may just end up with the same
problem: Datsville gets so large (even with Tore's optimizations) that only
the fewest number of people have access and ability to modify files within a
model. There may be an inverse proportional relationship between Datsville
size and people's interest. Was that not the case beforehand? The
disadvantage, also, of Datsville is that there needs to be a moderator.
I/One can't just go hacking Datsville without comprimising some of the broad
appeal.
I measure broad appeal in terms of: popular support, lack of dissent, ease
and effectiveness with which other people (even novices) can take up similar
approaches, and, lastly, small file size.
> Regarding the construction of other town/villages:
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> * We should probably put some hills or mountains
> around the towns, so we can render them without
> having to include neighbouring towns.
Splitting a large model into several, smaller towns would actually help
facilitate this. It would be pragmatic to only render one town at a time.
Neighboring towns would simply lie over the horizon line (at least, pretend).
> * If somebody would like to create a new town,
> then it is basically just a matter of building
> a house, adding a bit of road, deciding a name,
> and inviting people to add construtions to the
> town.
Thank you, that is very good advice. I will follow it.
Mike :)
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 | | Re: Another LDrawn town (Was: Another house for datville?)
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| (...) I'm still working on different methods, comparing the results, and trying to automize the as far as possible. (...) In my (coming) animated version(s) of Datville, it will be anything but static! :o) Btw, that means a lot of splitting files = (...) (23 years ago, 11-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Another LDrawn town (Was: Another house for datville?)
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| Mike: (...) I think that is a correct interpretation. But once Tore gets the interpreted POV-Ray file below 1 Gb, we can start adding more buildings to the town. ;-) I like the idea of "going west" and creating another town, but I am not sure I like (...) (23 years ago, 19-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad)
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