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Re: Chrome Parts
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Fri, 9 Aug 2002 14:47:35 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Don Heyse wrote:

Why don't you try using ldglite for the chrome pieces (or all of them.)

That's a possibility.

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 render gold and silver with a specular
highlight instead of the yucky dithering.

Hmm...

Gold:   http://www.ldraw.org/library/official/images/334/3001.png
Silver: http://www.ldraw.org/library/official/images/383/3001.png

The 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 source
code for 334 doesn't turn up anything super-interesting (ie, I missed
it).

You can also use the offscreen
rendering if you want to make it more of a batch operation.

Hmm, does that work in the Windows version?

Steve



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  Re: Chrome Parts
 
(...) 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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  Re: Chrome Parts
 
(...) 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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