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Subject: 
Re: POV in Part
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lugnet.cad.dat.parts
Date: 
Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:27:08 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Steve Bliss wrote:
   In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Jeroen de Haan wrote:

   Simple question: can a part containing POV-code be official?

I’d rather not. But I might be outvoted.

If people are really hot on POV-code parts, could we start working on a fully LDraw-compatible POV-Ray library of parts?

Steve

I’m not too keen on this idea. While POV-Ray is a nice tool and freeware, I’d like to avoid dedicating ourselves to one tool, not to mention the size increase on all the files. If all you want is nice looking parts for POV try a combo of L3P,LGEO,and Anton Raves Lego POV library.

--Orion



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: POV in Part
 
(...) Since L3P already supports the LGEO part library, is it possible to just add new LGEO parts and have L3P automatically use them? The only problem I see with this is that the .tab files in the LGEO library are binary files, but the format of (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.admin.suggestions)
  Re: POV in Part
 
(...) I agree to that, but since POV-code will be between IFPOV and IFNOTPOV codes will it matter that much? (...) There I disagree: the reason I ask is because of the macaroni-brick. I tried (fairly succesfull) to write the main part as POV-code (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
  Re: POV in Part
 
(...) The 'dedicating ourselves to one tool' aspect is why I'd rather not allow POV-Ray code to be embedded in official LDraw part files. What I was suggesting was a separate library of POV-Ray parts that was designed from the start to be fully (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)

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  Re: POV in Part
 
(...) I'd rather not. But I might be outvoted. If people are really hot on POV-code parts, could we start working on a fully LDraw-compatible POV-Ray library of parts? Steve (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)

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