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Re: Parts for LDraw or parts for POV-Ray?
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Fri, 13 Aug 1999 22:51:28 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Paul Gyugyi writes:
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> Steve Bliss wrote:
> > For example, those rounded edges have been part of raytrace
> > libraries since at Paul Gyugyi's L3G0.
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> > And this leads us back to the tantalizing, captivating possibility of
> > L3P-meets-L2P.
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> Any interest in LDLite-meets-L3G0?
I'd give that one a hearty "Heck, Yes!" :) Except I never did come up with a
decent working version of Rayshade/Netshade. I finally settled for the POV-
Ray port of L3G0. Even made a few parts for myself. :) No rounded edges,
though. :(
In lugnet.cad.dev, Leonardo Zide writes:
> and Steve said:
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> > And this leads us back to the tantalizing, captivating possibility of
> > L3P-meets-L2P. Oh, if only it were so. Hmm, did Lars publish the source
> > to L3P? Hmm. No, I'm too busy this year. Maybe *after* the next update
> > to LDAO is put to bed.
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> I've done that to LeoCAD a few months ago, when you export a file to
> POV-Ray it first searches the LGEO library for the parts and then if it
> cannot find something it generates the part like L3P (except that it
> doesn't do the primitive substitutions). Did anyone try that ?
Really? I missed that detail. Cool! Time to reinstall everything I took off
to save hard-drive space!
> PS: I'm replying to 3 messages in a single post to make this feel like
> the good old times in the L-CAD list[1]. ;)
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> [1] For those who don't know, we had a limit of 50 messages per day and
> sometimes we had more posts and the list would get frozen.
That was one way to keep us loud-mouths under control. :)
Steve
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| (...) Good idea, we shouldn't be discussing this in lugnet.flame.flame :) and Steve said: (...) I've done that to LeoCAD a few months ago, when you export a file to POV-Ray it first searches the LGEO library for the parts and then if it cannot find (...) (27 years ago, 13-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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