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Re: Repository of .dat files with inline POV-Ray code... any interest?
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sun, 3 Aug 2003 02:01:28 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Tony Hafner wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Orion Pobursky wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad.dev, Don Heyse wrote:
> > > In lugnet.cad.dev, Orion Pobursky wrote:
> > > > In lugnet.cad.dev, Tony Hafner wrote:
> > > > > I'm picturing files that are essentially official parts with some
> > > > > added inline code.
> > > >
> > > > Why not just a library of POV code only parts, ala LGEO/Raves, only
> > > > compatible with the LDraw.org library? We could host this project on
> > > > Sourceforge so anyone who was interested could develop. I think if
> > > > we do it Pov only, LDraw.org is more likely to offically recognize
> > > > our efforts
> > >
> > > Because parts with inline POV code work with the version of L3P that
> > > we have now. Why not start by building a library of modified official
> > > parts, but with the explicit goal of eventually converting them into
> > > POV only parts when L3P or some other tool can support them that way?
> > > That probably just a matter of running L3P on the tweaked parts and
> > > saving the results.
That's right, Don. Please see http://news.lugnet.com/cad/dev/?n=7005
Orion continued:
> > I asked Lars a while back if he could wrap all the part definitions
> > with IFNDEF statements so that someone could define the parts they
> > wanted in an external include file and the rest would use the standard
> > L3P code. Hopefully when a new version of L3P gets released, this will
> > be implemented.
Yes, it will.
Tony said:
> Now that would rock. For my personal use, this would almost entirely solve the
> problem. I could whip up a single file that contains all the parts I want to
> fix, run it through L3P, manually fix the parts in the resulting file, and then
> include that file. Perhaps such an include could be the deliverable if people
> want to collaborate.
Good initiative!
If the file gets too big or unhandy for POV, I will reconsider the L3PARTS
mentioned in http://news.lugnet.com/cad/dev/?n=7005
/Lars
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