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Re: Parts for LDraw or parts for POV-Ray?
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Sat, 14 Aug 1999 04:42:40 GMT
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Leonardo Zide <leonardo@centroin.com.br> writes:
L3G0 was one the things that got me interested in Lego again but
it's been a while since I last used it so I'm going to ask a stupid
question:
Does it have many parts that are not in LGEO ?
Maybe it would be a good idea to join both libraries in a single,
more complete one. We just would have to make sure that the center of • each
part is in the same place and that they use the same units and axis
direction.

I agree with joining libraries, but the creators of the libraries might
not, especially when parts are in both libraries.  Then which do you
keep?  It may also take a lot of effort to match the scale, coordinate
system, and insertion point of the parts.  I know it was a real pain for
me trying to add an Anton Raves minifig to one of my L3P'd models, and to
mix L2P and L3P output for my Fallingwater landscape.[1]
How do the library authors feel about this?  If I remember correctly,
Lars had a combined LGEO-L3P in mind originally, but Lutz was reluctant.
I have no idea how Anton or Paul feel.
--Bram


[1] There wasn't enough memory to L3P the 10,000 piece landscape, so I
used L2P.  To make things render quicker, I reduced the one LGEO part
needed to a box and a cylinder, but I still had to translate and scale
the landscape correctly to fit the L3P'd building.


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Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Parts for LDraw or parts for POV-Ray?
 
(...) I don't care, really. I'm still wondering why we needed those newfangled L*P tools, anyways. :) I've always been amused at how everyone who creates a part library uses a totally wron^H^H^H^Hdifferent coordinate system and names the pieces (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
  Re: Parts for LDraw or parts for POV-Ray?
 
(...) First to make clear: L2P uses a library of parts, about 630 by the latest update L3P uses LDraw parts and converts them directly, as I know, so with L3P you can get all parts which are in your parts-directory. So the discussion shlul be about (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: Parts for LDraw or parts for POV-Ray?
 
(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 13-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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