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| (...) Why don't you try using ldglite for the chrome pieces (or all of them.) It should be a drop in replacement for the ldlite command line, thick edges and all, plus you could do antialiased thick lines with -q. I'm pretty sure I added code to (...) (22 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) That's a possibility. (...) Hmm... Gold: (2 URLs) gold looks interesting; not exactly "gold plated", but definitely distinctive. But the silver looks remarkably normal. Maybe you implemented shiny-silver as a different color code? Grepping the (...) (22 years ago, 9-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Well I could work with the colors and specular values a bit. I think I used the same colors values as ldview, but picked my own specular values based on empirical testing. I think I used different specular values for silver, so it may look (...) (22 years ago, 9-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Try this. I switched the silver to use the same specular values as the gold. Makes it look shinier from that angle. (URL) (22 years ago, 9-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) At a guess by looking at the two images, the gold specular is set up to be shiny for a wider angle, which causes the studs to be shiny in the sample gold image. You'll note that the rest of the brick isn't really shiny at all from this (...) (22 years ago, 9-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) You guessed it, or did you sneak a look at the code. ;) (...) That's interesting. I used a value of 15 for for the gold, and 50 for the silver. Apparently 15 produces a wide enough angle for my default view and light positions. I don't like (...) (22 years ago, 9-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) also looks more metallic when rotating things around. In standard Oblique mode, you can't really tell the difference between the metallic and non-metallic parts. I discovered in my own experimentation that using 5.0 as the shininess value (...) (22 years ago, 11-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) I saw the references, but didn't (immediately) notice anything special about them. Then again, I'm pretty good at missing things. Steve (22 years ago, 12-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Steve (22 years ago, 14-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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