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Re: Anatomy of a POV file (e.g. L3P suggestions)
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Fri, 21 Jan 2005 01:50:43 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Lars C. Hassing wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Tore Eriksson wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad.dev, Michael Horvath wrote:
> > > It would be nice if L3P could split any/all of the top-level categories (as well
> > > as sub-models) into separate *.inc files, instead of having them all in the
> > > *.pov file. I read that you are going to implement some of what I'm suggesting
> > > in the next release.
> > > 
> > > -Michael
> > 
> > Optional, yes that would be nice. But I also see the strength in the fact that
> > all data needed are gathered in the same file. I have downloaded so many
> > pov-files just to discover that they have references to inc files I fail to find
> > on the net.
> 
> For newbies I think it's nice that the POV file is self-contained and ready-to-render.
> However, using certain coming options you can exclude camera and lights.
> 
> Why would you like submodels in separate .inc files ?
> Only to have a smaller "master" POV file?
> Should these be self-contained, i.e. having the necessary primitives and colors?
> Or would you like to manage the needed primitives and colors yourself?
> 
> Your software can call L3P for each submodel to generate the .inc files.
> These will be self-contained.
> Having primitives and colors defined multiple times in many .inc files doesn't harm,
> since they are guarded by ifdef's.
> /Lars

Hi Lars,

  I'd prefer that the format is unchanged.  Right now LPub post-proceses the one
file, greying parts as needed, adjusting camera settings for orthographic, and
creating new colors for the greyed pieces....

  I'd really rather *not* have to chase down all the files to achieve the post
processing.  Unless there are very compelling reasons to make the change, I
would ask that you don't split things up (or at least make it optional).

Thanks,
Kevin



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