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(...) Probably. I re-uploaded it in binary mode now, so it should work... (...) Nasty links to local files... Try it now. Thanks, --Ryan (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Need info help
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BTW - every time I try to cross-post, I must be doing something wrong cause it doesn't go through. Where's the FAQ's on this? Darn it all, someone else DID model the round shield. And here I thought it be a good first project for me (besides just (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: LDGLite bug report (yes, one more)
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(...) This could be the ldlite large MPD bug again. The ldlite parser has a problem with MPD files if it runs out of cache. I increased the size for ldglite, but it may not be enough for Datsville. You could try increasing it some more and (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | RE: Perspective in LDGLite (Was: About the great datsville)
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(...) POV-Ray uses "up" and "right" to determine the aspect ratio of the viewing window (which results in non-square pixels if the the camera ratio and the render ratio don't match. I believe the use of either "angle" or "direction" is important in (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Don: If you try to render Datsville in perspective: ldglite -j -s0.1 town.mpd you will notice some very strange blue lines going from the centre of the window to the blue castle out in the left-side background. They shouldn't be there, and I am (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDGLite bug report/feature request
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Don: Some times, mostly when rendering large files, LDGLite reports syntax errors in lines with totally unreasonable line numbers. 1) Why? 2) Could you print out the content of the line as well, so I can try to find the offending lines (if there are (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Perspective in LDGLite (Was: About the great datsville)
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Don: (...) Good to know. (...) I think they are called "look_at" and "location" in POV-Ray. (...) It would be fine if you could make something equivalent to: camera { sky <0, 0, 1> up <0, 1, 0> location <0, 0, 528> look_at <0, 0, 0> } in POV-Ray. I (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: About the great datsville
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(...) It looks like both "-j" and "-J" turn on the perspective projection from the command line. Otherwise it defaults to the orthographic projection. However since this is apparently undocumented in the readme.txt file I reserve the right to change (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Need info help
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Ahh. Well I did look around first, but didn't see where anyone had already modeled that piece. Last I looked was still listed on Tracker as being needed. I'm working on 're-creating' my lost (thanks to the ex-wife) LegoLand Castle collection in (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Datsville continuation - more ideas
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(...) And the results are: 16 original ttore.dat's @ 800x600: 3 min 56 sec 16 simplifed ldbox.dat's @ 800x600: 1 min 26 sec I think it's worth keep working on! /Tore (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Datsville continuation - more ideas
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(...) I don't know. That's why I asked. :o) I will try to render a lot of ttore.dat's in a model and compare the time used to the time used to render the same model with box replacements. (...) Yes, but how do we accomplish that still avoiding bad (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Help Needed: Boundary Box Utility [DAT]
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Could somebody please make a utility that calculates and creates a boundary box for a .dat file? I want it to be able to take a DOS command line like "bbox.exe C:\Ldraw\Models.Mymodel.dat" and it should create 'MyModel.box' in the same directory. An (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: terrain in LDraw
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Mike: (...) No. PGM is basically a "pure ASCII grey-scale only" version of BMP. You can find information and conversion tools at: (URL) PS - Do you have any screenshots? I noticed there weren't any on your website. "screenshots"?!? It is a command (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Datsville continuation - more ideas
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(...) Doesn't POVray do this inately? After all, at some point POVray has to decide which information it will display, and which information it will not display. Wouldn't it speed up the rendering process even more if all LDraw models were turned (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | RE: Need info help
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(...) The part isn't perfect though. I modeled the concentric rings as flat-topped cylinders instead of half-toruses (tori?) --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Datsville continuation - more ideas
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Here's a first working version of what I was thinking about: (URL) *.box files have to be in the P, Parts, Models, or LDraw BaseDirectory. The boxes.lst file has to be in the LDraw BaseDirectory. Will it make life easier for the POV-Ray engine? (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) has been done before trying to start it... in this case the part exists already, or so it seems. Mark, take heed. (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Need info help
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Here's Bram Lambrecht's round shield (URL) (23 years ago, 12-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Need info help
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I thought someone had already made one of these. It may not be "official" yet, however. I will look in my MLCAD directories and see if I can find it. -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Chittenden" <mdublade@aol.com> (...) series. (...) (23 years ago, 12-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Need info help
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(...) Two suggestions 1. Learn how to cross post instead of posting multiple copies of the same post to different groups, it keeps the threads better organized. It is not hard to do and is very very useful. 2. Try to see if you can actually get a (...) (23 years ago, 12-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.castle)
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