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Re: new user installation summary
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Mon, 28 Apr 2003 08:02:30 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Amy Hughes writes:
> Okay, I'm new to ldraw stuff, and fairly inexperienced on the PC (I'm a Mac
> person, and a Unix geek by prefession). I built a PC specifically for ldraw
> stuff. Here's a summary of my progress...
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> I installed ldraw and mlcad according to instructions found in miscellaneous
> places, as ldraw.org was down. MLCAD works well.
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> I bought the book "LEGO Software Power Tools". I did not install from its disc
> since I already had an MLCAD installation, and I wanted to make sure I got the
> most recent versions of the other programs. This may have been a mistake.
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> I've gone through the book over the weekend. I've gone through all the
> tutorials for programs I have working, and read the material for programs I
> don't have working. Here's the list of successes and failures...
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> MLCAD, L3P and POV-Ray work well, LGEO parts and all, though I had to make some
> changes to the LGEO files to get it to work with POV-Ray 3.5...
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> 1) I commented out the line that forces version number 3.0, since 3.5 was
> complaining that at least version 3.1 was necessary.
> 2) Version 3.5 wants semicolons after declare's, so I added them.
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> These are the programs I can't get to work, as described in requests I've
> posted here...
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> LSynth, megapov, LPub
Hi Amy,
I'm Kevin Clague, one of the authors of the Power Tools books, and the
author of LPub and LSynth. I'm sorry that things didn't work for you right
out of the shoot. Folks tell me that installing the whole package off the
power tools CD gets them a working system (except for problems with lsynth).
LPub has been tested extensively using POV-Ray 3.1. I know it has
problems with 3.5. Much has changed in LPub since we published the book, so
grabbing the one off my website http://www.users.qwest.net/~kclague is your
best bet. Same for LSynth.
If share some detailed facts about how LPub and LSynth are failing,
including what version of Windows you are running, I'd be happy to help you
get evertying up and running.
There are two parts to the LSynth program: lsynthcp, the actual brains of
the bunch that does all the synthesis, and LSynth a simple GUI front end for
those folks who don't like terminals (my editor :^( Since you are a unix
geek I'm sure you can make lsynthcp work from a DOS prompt.
LPub's function is a bit more complicated because it depends on external
tools like L3P, POV-Ray and MEGA-POV. If you'd hsare with my the symptons,
I'd be we can figure it out.
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> The Power Tools book is an excellent resource for the stuff I got working. It's
> a bit wordy and redundant, and contains a number of minor errors, but it
> probably saved me a bunch of time experimenting and digging through online
> documents. And by reading the book first I avoided the "hey, I didn't know it
> could do that" element that has been written in reviews of this book, though
> I'm sure there's still more undocumented. For one, the book didn't fully
> explain the group configuration options. I was pleasantly surprised to find
> that a couple un-mentioned programming-isms worked (quotes and parenthesis) and
> disappointed that combining features didn't work (e.g. !Round> ).
I'm sure *all* the wordiness, redundancy and minor errors are in MLCAD
chapters, right? (I'm being sarcastic!) Miguel wrote the MLCAD chapters. I
wrote the lsynth, L3P/POV, and LPub chapters.
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> Definitely worth $40. Now to go build stuff...
Thanks Amy.
>
> Amy
Kevin
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| (...) LPub isn't finding POV-Ray. I'm working on the assumption that it's looking specifically for 3.1 and I have 3.5 installed. I'm going to install 3.1 in the coming days. LSynth isn't finding its own install directory. This may have something to (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) ... (...) GRRRR! Actually, I'll happily take that criticism =8D ... Here come the excu ... cough! ... explanations: wordiness and redundancy are, at least in part, a side effect of reaching out to all audiences: beginners, regular users and (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| Okay, I'm new to ldraw stuff, and fairly inexperienced on the PC (I'm a Mac person, and a Unix geek by prefession). I built a PC specifically for ldraw stuff. Here's a summary of my progress... I installed ldraw and mlcad according to instructions (...) (22 years ago, 27-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad)
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