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Re: Challenge/Request for the CAD gurus
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lugnet.cad
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Fri, 9 Nov 2001 18:22:45 GMT
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1. it's hard,
2. it's a pain in the butt
3. I'd hate someone to ask me to do it
4. I had a lot of naive questions like this to ask, then I realized that
it's not so hard, and that I realy just didn't have sufficient motivation to
do it myself
Really, the instruction manuals aren't that necessary, once you get your
fingers dirty and stuck in the muck of things, so to speak. Also, there are
some technical barriers that stand in the way of development. Along some
lines this can be true, and would require significant coding effort in order
to overcome; but, this isn't really relevant to this topic. Maybe you
should keep your sights kind of small, and think more in the terms of, "What
could I do in order to inspire others to work in more equal increments
toward some common, or commonly held ideal, or effort." You'd more likely
see a lot more FAQ's and stuff on people's web pages if you took that method.
Sorry to rant, but, boy, was I knocked down to size when I came upon this
very same realization. Plus, it made lugnet/the ldraw world a lot more fun.
I'm worried that I'm ranting.
-Mike
In lugnet.cad, Jake McKee writes:
> For whatever reason, I have started to really get interested in the
> wonderful things that can be done with LDraw, MLCad and POVRay. Some of the
> movies, animations, images and scenes that I have seen come out of the POV
> Ray program are just amazing! I want to do those things myself!
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> Alas, the POVRay code is a little, well, confusing for a programming novice
> such as myself. And the POVRay documentation is written, um, for the
> non-novices.
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> I would like to send out a challenge/request to all the people who know the
> LEGO rendering arena quite well to create a series of documents, articles
> and how-to instructions for novices like me to create high quality renders.
> Wouldn't it be great to see a LEGO Rendering for Dummies? Topics like:
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> - Getting started with LEGO Rendering
> - How to understand where the camera is, and how to position like you want
> - Make it move: How to animated your renderings
> - Adding pictures as part of the render
> - Understanding how POVRay works in relation to LEGO Rendering
> - and so on...
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> I'll even bet the LDraw.org leaders would even like to post this instruction
> in a part of their site. (Guys, I am correct in this assumption?)
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> I know that I would be eternally grateful to share in the CAD wisdom you
> gurus possess! (Any other "me toos"?)
>
> Thanks!
> Jake
>
> ===
> Jake McKee
> AFOL
> LUGNET Member #211
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 | | Re: Challenge/Request for the CAD gurus
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| (...) This last one of yours is one of my problems too. But, on the other hand, its not something that I will allow to thwart my goals of community building with LDraw. I'm happy with Jake's enthusiasm for more information, and I hope it inspires (...) (23 years ago, 9-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: Challenge/Request for the CAD gurus
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| Along the lines of Michael's suggestion to ask people for small commitments: I'd love to see a series of artist's comments on ldraw.org about ray traced or other complicated productions. The comments needn't explain how to do every detail. Just what (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: Challenge/Request for the CAD gurus
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| (...) Um...it's a good thing that no one said that when they were thinking about creating LDraw, or MLCAD, or LEOCad, or the LGEO library, or L3p, or LDAO, or.... (...) I'm not ask for something made for Jake that no one else can use. I am proposing (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Challenge/Request for the CAD gurus
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| For whatever reason, I have started to really get interested in the wonderful things that can be done with LDraw, MLCad and POVRay. Some of the movies, animations, images and scenes that I have seen come out of the POV Ray program are just amazing! (...) (23 years ago, 9-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad)
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