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(...) Hmm, I just fixed that pesky little bug in ldglite, so now you can click on the DAT files from Internet Exploder and see them. Gotta update the ldglite website to version 4.0 real soon... If you're really brave you can join the small group (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Help with LDLite
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That would be fine with me. Call it 1.6.1. -gyug (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Usefull little feature idea for Ldite [was: Re: Help with LDLite]
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I've been really wanting to see a little feature get implemented somewhere along the way. When I first saw that Ldlite had a "rotate model after drawing" feature, I was expecting that it was in preperation for this feature: The ability to generate (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Usefull little feature idea for Ldite [was: Re: Help with LDLite]
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I have written a straight-to-QuickTime converter for DAT files. I don't know about making a QTVR file, but, it makes a 3DMF file which you convert in 1 step to a MOOV. The movie rotates the model in realtime in any QuickTime player. I am pretty (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Usefull little feature idea for Ldite [was: Re: Help with LDLite]
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(...) step (...) Thanks, Erik! I'll look into the conversion to QTVR. The only way I've done it is by feeding the QTVR Builder an image matrix of individual frames, but it only stands to reason that QTVR can convert from a QT movie... but then, (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDraw to QuickTime was Re: Usefull little feature
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I played with the QuickTime tools and my converter last night. The process goes like this: Process a DAT file with LTrans.pl (my program) to get a .3dmf file (8k) Use 3D Movie Maker on that to get a .mov file (8k) At this point you have a QuickTime (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw to QuickTime was Re: Usefull little feature
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(...) goes (...) Hmmm, so your program generates its own render code? The examples on your site look a little crunchy. I can't tell, is it rendering transparent parts at all? It looks like it is making them black. Since I tend to make trmendously (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw to QuickTime was Re: Usefull little feature
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(...) I didn't know how transparency is coded for in a DAT file so I didn't write any code to handle it--it would be simple enough to translate. A lot of polygons fail to reflect light because I was not sure about surface normals. My program just (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw to QuickTime was Re: Usefull little feature
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I added transparency. You can see how it comes out rendered on a RAGE II+ (my original G3/233 or anything newer.) I took some pictures of 3823.dat (2x4x2 windscreen). And I accidentally made a 30% translucent Car.. the one you were complaining the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Usefull little feature idea for Ldite [was: Re: Help with LDLite]
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(...) You mean we gotta wait? Oh, that is *so* unfair! In other words: I can't wait! :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw to QuickTime was Re: Usefull little feature
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(...) Wow, that was quick :) I was thinking, though that one *Huge* advantage of being able to do this through LdLite, is that when you generate the QTVR matrix, It could be made to rotate the model in teh horizontal axis and step through the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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