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Re: LPub 2.1.0.3 released
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst
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Fri, 6 Dec 2002 22:28:57 GMT
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Hi Richard,
One of the things that is ill-defined for LPub is which controls affect
Complete Image, and which controls affect Building Instructions. The camera
settings you refer to only affect complete image. LPub assumes that you
will use rotation steps to adjust your view angles for building instructions.
Only a few of the L3P and POV-Ray controls affect the building
instructions. I've realized that I need to figure this out and find a way
to provide as much control over building instructions as possible. The
POV-Ray quality only affects Complete Assembly.
I will figure out why POV-Ray quality is not saved and restored.
I originally coded LPub to behave in the way it does. It was by design.
I'm not so sure the design is a good one at this point. I'll see what I can
do to involve all the controls in building instructions. One of the things
that is tricky is view angle. LPub does its own math for view angle and
always hands a view angle of 0,0 to L3P, because LPub is busy supporting
absolute and relative rotation steps.
Kevin
In lugnet.cad, Richard Morton writes:
> Kevin,
> Well done on this newer version - it is a HUGE improvement over the previous
> earlier version and I no longer get the calculation errors I used to get
> with the numeric fields.
>
> I do however have one strange problem that I think is a bug;
>
> I am generation a set of renders to use as instructions for one of my custom
> models.
> To do this, I customise the settings and then generate a 'Complete Assembly'
> render as a test to see if camera angles, lighting etc are okay.
> Once I am happy that everything is ok, I attempt to do an 'Instruction
> Images' render, to gernerate the step by step images. This however isn't
> working properly as it is not using the same settings that 'Complete
> Assembly' uses.
> Specifically, I have a Globe Camera set with a Radius of -20 to move the
> camera back a little (as I am using Orthographic, sometimes the corners of
> the model get cut off if I don't do this). I am also using the POV>Rendering
> setting of 'Ambient Light Only (high)'. Unfortunately, the camera redius it
> is using is 0 and the render setting appears to be 'Media and Radiosity
> (low - default)' even though it is not set that way.
>
> I don't know if it is significant, but I have noticed that even if I save
> the config as either a local or global and restart LPub, the render setting
> always comes up as 'Media and Radiosity (low - default)' instead of the
> Ambient Only.
>
> If you need me to supply all the settings I use, I can, but can you please
> advise me how to get this working? I am currently breaking the Model file
> into a file for each step and then doing a 'Complete Assembly' generation on
> each file. This of course is a lot slower than doing an 'Instruction Images'
> render, but it is the only way I have found to get LPub to render using all
> the settings I supply.
>
> Thanks for the great software and the help,
>
> Richard.
>
>
> "Kevin Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:H6HsoD.68J@lugnet.com...
> > LPub 2.1.0.3 has been released to http://www.users.qwest.net/~kclague/LPub
> >
> > This is a bug fix release:
> > - Single image generation complains that lsynth is not installed
> > - LPub forgets where LDraw and L3P are installed when saving global • config
> > - Selecting specify output file name for POV-Ray doesn't complain if no
> > file name provided
> > - LPub can't handle names with multiple periods
> > - POV-Ray anti-aliasing threshold option formatted incorrectly
> > - POV-Ray output image dimensions mislabeled
> >
> > These bugs were found by Willy Tschager and the reporting is much • appreciated.
> >
> > One feature as added for this release:
> > - support for CLEAR meta-command
> >
> > Kevin Clague
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| Thanks for clarification on this Kevin. I didn't realise that different settings only affected 'Complete Assembly' and not also the Instruction Images' (...) for building instructions. This makes sense and now I know how this works, I have done this (...) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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| Kevin, Well done on this newer version - it is a HUGE improvement over the previous earlier version and I no longer get the calculation errors I used to get with the numeric fields. I do however have one strange problem that I think is a bug; I am (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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