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RE: License - again
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 13 Dec 2000 17:08:44 GMT
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John VanZwieten writes:
> L2P, on the other hand, looks at the location and orientation of a part in
> the model file, but uses its own part library to define each element
> (which is why L2P can't handle all the parts in the LCAD library.) The
> part definitions are the artistic work of Anton Raves (sp?) and do not
> rely on the artistic work of part authors. (Actually, he may have relied
> somewhat on LCAD parts in creating his library, I'm not 100% sure on
> this.)
Actually, L2P uses the LGEO library written by Lutz Uhlman. Lutz also wrote
L2P and all the textures that LGEO uses. AFAIK, Anton Raves has no
connection with L2P at all. It's difficult to use Anton's parts because not
only the coordinate system but also the origins of the parts are different.
And since Anton is working on a Mac, I doubt he has much use for the LDraw
parts library. Here's a summary of the libraries I know of:
Name System Author
LDraw LDraw James Jessiman, others
LeoCAD? LeoCAD Leonardo Zide (many converted from LDraw)
LGEO POV-Ray Lutz Uhlman
Unnamed POV-Ray Anton Raves
L3G0 Rayshade? Paul Gyugyi (someone converted this to POV once)
Conversion programs:
LeoCAD I believe LeoCAD has a converter to import LDraw parts.
L2P first LDraw -> POV converter, written by Lutz, uses LGEO parts
L3P Lars Hassing(sp?) wrote this to convert LDraw parts to POV directly.
Feel free to correct me if necessary.
--Bram
Bram Lambrecht
bram@cwru.edu
http://home.cwru.edu/~bxl34/
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 | | Re: License - again
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| "Bram Lambrecht" <bram@cwru.edu> wrote in message news:MABBIBJJFOJIOHD...wru.edu... (...) part in (...) The (...) relied (...) wrote (...) not (...) different. (...) LDraw (...) directly. (...) Thanks for the correction and lists. John Van (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| In lugnet.cad.dev, Bram Lambrecht writes: [snip] (...) Filip Spacek did the conversion. (...) It would be great if when/if MLCad started allowing plugins, someone wrote a converter to POV which worked directly in MLCad. This would make life a bit (...) (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
| | | Re: License - again
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| (...) Actually LeoCAD is somewhere between L2P and L3P. When converting a part to POV it searches first in LGEO then if the part does not exist in LGEO (or LGEO is not installed), it creates the part from the LeoCAD library, just like L3P. It's a (...) (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: License - again
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| "Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:3A36D1B3.4287@m...ing.com... (...) This is the perfect example of the line we should draw with regard to converters. There are two main tools which convert an LDraw model to POV-Ray: L2P and (...) (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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