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(...) I believe that POV's FOV is the horizontal field of view, while OpenGL's is vertical field of view. So you have to convert from one to the other (which I do in LDView). Set your rendering window in both the OpenGL view and the POV rendering to (...) (16 years ago, 26-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I also think it should be enough to place a disclaimer and preserve (part of) the comments to identify and credit the original authors. But with all the commotion around the license (library is on hold for years etc) It would be nice to have (...) (16 years ago, 26-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Actually I was planning to support both to see which approach renders faster. Having the vertex and index data in memory, the mesh2 approach was the easiest step to begin with. I only had to correct for quad -> triangle conversion to get (...) (16 years ago, 26-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's right. L3P also passes comment lines (line type 0) on to the POV code, but there's currently no disclaimer at the top. The coming release has this line at the top: // LDraw.org: (URL) (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I don't know about an official answer, but it's worth considering that L3P has been providing POV exports of LDraw models for over 9 years now, and as far as I know, nobody has complained. --Travis (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) A few things. First of all, both the LDraw file format and the POV file format support hierarchical compositions, so I think it's a good idea to leave things in their original hierarchy. So, instead of having a POV object for each part that is (...) (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Anybody... ? An alfa version of a pov export you'll find here: (URL) would really like to get an 'official' answer to this. (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hello all, I have been busy with POV-Ray export for LD4DStudio now and then for about two weeks now. It comes along quite nicely, but the results can be better. I am no POV-Ray expert so I'm looking for some tips from experienced users. An example (...) (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw.org Steering Committee: SteerCo reconfirmed for new term
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(...) Thanks for the update. Shouldn't the bylaws be updated to reflect the changed operations? Cheers Richie Dulin CO Legeaux (16 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) That's quite a bind you're in. Who does the help desk call when they need help? (16 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Hi Richie, the LDraw Steering Committee's summary can at any time found at: (URL) learn that the SteerCo has decided to not elect any of the above positions - same as last year. As for the activities we are still engaged with the CA and other (...) (16 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw.org Steering Committee: SteerCo reconfirmed for new term
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(...) It's been a few months now: are you able to advise which Steerco members have been elected Chairperson, Treasurer and Secretary? It'd be good to be able to follow up the quarterly report of activities and progress and financial reports with (...) (16 years ago, 18-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: James Jessiman Memorial Award for 2007 awarded to Kevin Clague
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(...) With an OK from Orion, who regrettably couldn't attend, I presented the award to Kevin at the closing ceremonies yesterday. LDraw is core to how we communicate and share with each other in the hobby; so I'm glad when a recipient is able to be (...) (16 years ago, 23-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) It was a great honor to receive the 2007 James Jessiman Award at Brickworld. It was unfortunate the current SteerCo members were unable to attend, but you were there in my mind. I was especially honored to receive the award from Tim Courtney. (...) (16 years ago, 23-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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I am confused. Maybe someone can help me. If I have a file that is CW and I have a subfile that is CCW. I want to inline that subfile without having additional BFC statements. As far as I have understand BFC I have to rewind the lines in the (...) (16 years ago, 23-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Stl2dat merging plane triangles and quads to uniform surface?
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(...) be sure I've tried all sorts of combinations but I get the triangles simulating the ndis primitives only in one corner, while it looks like that the other corners get merged: (URL) there something I haven't taken in consideration? BTW I use (...) (16 years ago, 23-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi Willy (...) There already exists such an option : -o4 : no merge to quadrangles All the options are listed here (URL) Would it further be possible to mirror all points on the y-axes right away with (...) Have you considered using a subpart the (...) (16 years ago, 22-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Custom Categories for Bricksmith's Part Browser
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Because I like to build alternate models, I realized that I often look for the same bunch of parts in Bricksmith's part browser - the parts from the original set. I worked out a way to add new categories to the browser and to automatically get the (...) (16 years ago, 21-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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Hi Marc, authoring this part (URL) tried to simulate LDraw's "ndis" primitives to ease the substitution once the part is in dat shape. The STL preview showed the triangles at the corners of the various cylinders but it looks like STL2DAT merges (...) (16 years ago, 20-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: dll file for use with Visual Basic Express
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(...) I should be more clear with VB. I am talking about VBExpress that is a NET Framework language. As far as I understand with the NET Framework it is possible to use a DLL that is written in VB also with the other Framework languages. So maybe it (...) (16 years ago, 19-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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