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| I've been messing around with pov-ray today and I've been trying to figure out how I can get headlights/taillights/emergency lights for a fire truck. I've seen headlights done before, but I can't seem to get it to work. I can make a spotlight, but (...) (25 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| A easy way to do this is in Ledit, insert the file "light.dat" inside the element you want lit up. By running L3P with the -l option it turns the light.dat files into light sources. (I'm not sure if this works with L2P, you will have to check if (...) (25 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| Actually, I can't really get that to work from inside a transparent plat/tile. It will sortof light up, but not nearly bright enough, and I can't find any way to adjust the brightness. I guess that's the biggest problem that I have. Then, with the (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) Try playing with the "ambience" value on the piece you want to light up. Arg, I forget the actual syntax, and all my POV files are on my other machine, so I'll just have to tell ya to check the docs. Basically, the ambience value tells POV-Ray (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) trying (...) lights (...) light up. Arg, (...) other machine, so (...) ambience (...) so an object (...) not) will (...) may be okay; (...) OK, read the docs(well just on that subject) but it didn't really help me. I'm one of those people who (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) In POV Ray, choose "Render" > "Edit Settings/Render" In the "Command line options" box, type: +Lc:\ldraw\lgeo or whatever the correct path is. You can add more than one path to look in, for example if you want to use Anton Raves' (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) Yes U can from the POV menu chose: TOOLS Edit master POVRAY.INI and then add at the end a row like: Library_Path=......... U can add up to 10 Paths in this way U have to do it just one time! (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) I goofed on the spelling; it's "ambient" and not "ambience". Anyway, modify in the "finish" section of the sub-part you want to light up. e.g. in the L3P output file, find the sub-part you want to light up, and change from: finish { ambient (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| Scott R Dennett skrev i meddelandet <199908231819070990....te.net>... (...) Not exactly headlights and such, but I made some experiments around Christmas last year. You're welcome to take a look, and if you want I'll try to find the POV-source for (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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