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(...) The reference to LDLite is really a generic reference to renderers other than POV-Ray. I've not done a lot of homework on LDLite, but if it can be an alternative renderer to POV-Ray it has a few advantages including rendering speed (as it is (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Better rendering control. While I use MLCad for model capture and review, I use LDLite as a rendering tool for final instruction images, as it is much more flexible and gives me fine grained control over more things. YMMV. (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Is this where LDLite might come into play? Jake --- Jake McKee Webmaster- B.I. Portal (URL) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) This may be a dumb question, but what exactly is the benefit of LDLite? From what I have seen (and this is probably wrong) LDLite simply allows you to look at a model in 3D space, much like the 3D view in MLCad. What am I missing? Jake --- (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) got it! to me "renderer" means raytracing, radiosity ... progs like povray, 3ds, bryce ... sorry for messing up. bye w. (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Willy, I understood you perfectly. Maybe you didn't understand me. LPub is not a renderer. I know all too well that hard for me means easy for you, but in saying that you are completely ignoring that it is *hard for me* :^( (...) Kevin (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) hi kevin, you probably "missundaztood" me. I was thinking of the following feature: loading a .ldr or .mpd it shows up in a preview-frame in the camera tab, like the hose, spring or minifig in MLCad. rotating the model in the preview-frame (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Willy, (...) Thanks for this one. (...) Please note that LPub is not a renderer. What you are asking for in this one is a renderer, which is no small change. It could take a *long* time for this one to get done (if it does). Might I (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) hi kevin, we've already discussed the following in the past via e-mail, but these features are missing in the list ;-) * mask-rendering or support for transparent background. * preview-window to check the camera-settings * color scaling of (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) OK, I wasn't aware it was in there. However, according to the huge meta-command thread, people have created meta-commands with mixed case and some that aren't case-sensitive. Nobody mentioned there that this was illegal according to the LDraw (...) (22 years ago, 29-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes: <snip> (...) This is already in the LDRAW file spec. All meta statements are required to be in all caps. -Orion (22 years ago, 29-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I have to disagree with this (nice of you to say it, though :). Ultimately, the community has the final say. Here's my feedback & suggested revisions for version 12. You could've just dropped the old revision numbers. That would have made the (...) (22 years ago, 29-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Paul, Because L3P doesn't know anything about buffer exchange or rotation steps, LPub creates a DAT for each step and handles all the rotation and stuff. Is there mechanism in LDLite that will let LPub interact with LDLite through interprocess (...) (22 years ago, 29-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) :-) (...) day about adding support for Buffer Exchange and Rotation Steps, etc. Maybe if LPub supported it, LDLite wouldn't have to make those changes. -Tim (22 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi All, I've been doing some building lately to recharge my tactile batteries, but LPub and Lsynth have been starting to stur up back-of-the-brain activity. I've gotten so many suggestions (especially from Tim Courtney who emails me almost every day (...) (22 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Dear fellow LEGO fans, I am sending this message to the groups I regularly read and post to, because since today my E-mail address that I used to post with no longer exists! It was jmolen@globalxs.nl... :-( My new adres will be jmolen@zonnet.nl and (...) (22 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.inst, lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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(...) This document describes a method of scaling to fit a bounding sphere into a viewport, starting somewhere around page 30. (URL) would think you'd have to pick a camera angle first, or fix one of the other variables like the distance to the (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Hi Orion, The law of similar triangles comes to mind...... not that I consider myself much of a mathemetician. Pick an aribitrary camera distance greater than zero and calculate the size of the bounding box projected into a 2D plane (the (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Steve (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Maybe someone can point me in the right direction... I have an object with a known bounding box, how do I calculate the position of the camera so that the whole object is shown on a screen of known dimentions? In other words, how to I determine the (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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Steve Bliss wrote: > Make sure you've installed LDRAW027.EXE -- that should resolve the runtime > 200 problem. > > Steve Ah, now it works! Thanks, Steve! Cheers, --Ryan ryanjf@ifriendly.com (URL) (22 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) ASAP means right now for the hard-to-read-but-rev...ion-marked version: (URL) not going to work on making an easy-to-read version until I've gotten some comments, though. --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com) (22 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I have created an updated revision of the BFC spec, available from the following location: (URL) create this file, I started with bfcspecv4.txt (which was actually revision 10), then remarked every line in the file to be revision 10, then made my (...) (22 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I will be producing a modified version ASAP that incorporates the various suggestions in this thread. However, it won't be nearly as easy to read as his version is at the moment, since it will have version numbers at the beginning of each (...) (22 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes, he sent it to me last week. Is there going to be a newer version I should wait for? -Tim (22 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm betting Orion sent it to you, since I certainly didn't, and he sent me the same file. --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com) (22 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Certified does sound better in that context, and I think certification could be a good thing. We should figure out how best to frame it, but I think it would add to the strength and usefulness of LDraw.org as a central resource for all of (...) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Exactly. -Tim (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I started creating a page for LDraw.org out of Travis' text file of the BFC spec. Should I wait, since you're adding numbers? The one Travis sent me didn't have numbers in them. -Tim (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I searched through all my LDraw email archives, with key messages going back to 1999(!), and couldn't find it. So, I emailed Jacob for instructions and will get this done in the next day or so, when he gets that to me. -Tim (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Don't forget, as per this post ((URL) I'm resetting all the numbers in the current document to 1 prior to making my new changes. --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I agree. I don't think a program can be "compatible" with an organization. It can be "certified" by one, though: LDraw.org-Certified. Of course, this might have stronger implications than LDraw.org-compatible. On the other hand, maybe that's a (...) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ok... I'll throw it on the to-do list to dig up the poll documentation and change it. Lazy me! -Tim (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) not that anyone ever heard of it, but ESQL (IBM language for MQSI) uses double hyphen for comments. That said, if I had to choose between '--' and '//', I'd go with the slashes. oooh - here's an idea. We could change the Ldraw.org poll (which (...) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Sorry, 'LDraw.org-compatible programs'. Which is poor terminology, I think. Steve (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I never imagined those numbers would be a permanent part of the document. I thought they'd go away once we accepted the BFC standard. But that never actually happened, so the document was never finalized, so the numbers never went away. When (...) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hmm, the sequel to a hyphen... I like hyphen or double hyphen because they contrast more with the surrounding text. I agree with Kevin, anything's better than nothing. Steve (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Travis, By definition, all the programs have to be able to handle the original unadorned comments of type 0 records. This is a requirement for all 0.27 compliant programs. This means that anything we don't recognize as a meta-command is a (...) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Steve, *anything* is better than nothing. Trying to read a DAT/LDR program that has *lots* of comments with interspersed meta-commands is really hard. I've programmed for 30 years, and I've never seen hyphen used as a start of comment. I guess (...) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) LDraw compatible, or LDraw.org compatible? ;-) You made a distinction before -- are you using the same metric now as well? Just curious. -Tim (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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