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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Orion Pobursky wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Steve Bliss wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Jeroen de Haan wrote:
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> > If people are really hot on POV-code parts, could we start working on a
> > fully LDraw-compatible POV-Ray library of parts?
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> 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.
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 the files seem
fairly simple. For example, the l2p_elmt.tab file seems to have
an entry for each POV .inc element file. These entries consist
of a 32 bit counter, an unknown 8 bit number, and a NULL terminated
string with the base filename of the .inc file containing the POV
code for the element. If we knew what the unknown 8 bit number
was, it'd be a fairly simple matter to write a small program to
add new elements to the .tab file.
Don
PS. Did the text entry window for replies get a whole lot smaller
recently? I need more room to see what I'm talking about. Also how
about making plain text the default format for the CAD newsgroups?
FTX doesn't seem to like underline chars in filenames like
l2p_elmt.tab.
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| (...) Here's a small program to dump the file out as text so we can examine the unknown 8 bit value. It looks to me like it contains some flag bits. Only 3 bits seem to be used (0x01, 0x02, and 0x80). From the output it appears as if bit 0x80 (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| (...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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