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"Jake McKee" <sink@countersinkdg.com> wrote in message news:H8zqBB.8By@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) [ ... snipped ... ] Wouldn't it be nice if LPub had a feature to allow some user interaction or automated process to run on the POV code (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) LPub already post processes the POV files quite a bit, so doing some more might not be a bad thing. I've thought about providing for a list of simple text substitutions, that are blindly applied to the POV file, but these would be limited to (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
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"Kevin Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H8zv6n.n1z@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) using (...) [ ... snipped ... ] I have a include file that I use for lighting. It defines a shadowless light source that (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
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Mike, LPub has always used shadowless lights for building instructions. 2.0.1.5 also has the ability to override ambient, diffuse and specular reflections default values created by L3P. I now turn reflections off, set ambient to 0.7 and diffuse to (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
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Mike, I like the external POV post processor idea a lot, although I'll try not to use it as a catch all for denying LPub enhancements ;-) It would be a command line mechanism with command line arguments. I can see these things being possibly useful (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
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"Kevin Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H90L2r.HM2@lugnet.com... (...) 2.0.1.5 (...) [ ... snipped ... ] That is good news. I suppose I should look closer at the generated POV code before making assumptions! It must be the (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
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"Kevin Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H90Moo.MrA@lugnet.com... (...) into (...) I (...) etc, (...) Let's add a Tcl scripting interface! Actually, it isn't a bad idea. I would think some of the processing steps I am thinking (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
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Mike, In the first image, there are no shadows. What you see are reflections. The reflection of the smoke stack on the top of the engine compartment looks like a shadow because the smoke stack is darker than the abient light you see other places. (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
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Mike, Can I offer embedded perl as a counter offer to Tcl? Perl is a very powerful language for manipulating text files. Kevin (...) [snip] (...) I really like the post processing idea for the items listed, especially the images, because it would (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
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"Kevin Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H90qHs.CCn@lugnet.com... (...) I suspected as much when I really started to look at it after you noted that you were using a shadowless light source. [ ... snipped ... ] (...) of (...) (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
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"Kevin Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H90rrv.GHJ@lugnet.com... (...) Sure. While I prefer Tcl[1], any scripting solution would be a very welcome addition. If Perl makes it easier for you to introduce this functionality then (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
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Mike, Thanks for the input on TCL. My bias towards perl is primarily because I know perl ;-) I've learned a *lot* of computer languages in my life, so it is no big deal to learn another. I'd guess that TCL is easier to graft into an application. It (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
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"Kevin Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> skrev i meddelandet news:H90qHs.CCn@lugnet.com... (...) I have found that putting a shadowless light _exactly_ at the camera point makes sure there are no visible areas showing only the 'ambient' color. In (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
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"Kevin Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H915Bq.JGC@lugnet.com... (...) I (...) it (...) [ ... snipped ... ] I am not a Perl weenie - I have done a little with it but by no means would I consider myself versed enough to sit (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
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