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| (...) I'm not sure which library has the most realistic finishes and colors, but you may want to compare the output of Anton's, Lutz's, Paul's, and your own definitions for LEGO colors and finishes. I think Anton's lego_finish and pure colors (ie (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) I agree that Anton's settings are the best: (URL) makes me wanna reach out my hand and grab the model. I think he uses just one light (area-light) and maybe also radiosity. (...) Yes, like John VanZwieten suggested: (URL) The slope bricks (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| I finally got off my butt and whipped up an ldraw.org banner ad. This ad is at the standard full size of 468x60 - a 400x40 (CLSOTW/LinkExchange) version is coming soon). Please send comments on the banner and feel free to place it on your site (...) (25 years ago, 8-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| (...) Well, I'm pretty sure you didn't, as I was anxious and alert about your reactions to L3P. An "invitation" in the very first L3P announcement of August 27th 1998: (...) and some later on was apparently ignored? But never mind that now. I will (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| Adam, Thanks for the tips. Jacob has pinpointed the problem: (...) So a solution is being worked on. -Tim Courtney ldraw.org Project Coordinator (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (25 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| (...) You should try the beta v1.2 Win32 L3P32: (URL) have successfully used it for a 6000 part model. Be sure to try out the new STUDS flag in the POV-file to reduce rendering time during the test renderings. and Bram Lambrecht wrote in another (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) Both l2p and l3p have their advantages depending on the goal of the user. l3p is great if you want a rendered version of a model, no matter the parts. l2p is great if you want a more detailed/smooth render and the parts are available. Thanks (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) you (...) I know, but I was talking about the three libraries in the statement above, not L3P. (...) True. (...) Exactly. (...) This is exactly the reason for joining efforts: to handle all parts, yet use the best quality parts where possible. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| Scott R Dennett: (...) You are supposed to use 462, but I am not sure it works in all LDraw to POV-Ray converters. (...) LDLite processes colour 23 as "purple blue". Play well, Jacob PS: Please check the FAQ. ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| Gee, I figure if I make it a policy to post a reply to each of Steve's messages, I'll hold even in the ranks. And I'll quote the entire previous article liek he did, in case anyone is counting bytes. -gyug ObLego: AC3D (a wireframe cad program) (...) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| L3P declares Color10 (Light-Green) this way: #declare Color10 = #if (version >= 3.1) material { #end texture { pigment { rgb <0.862745,1,0.0392157> } finish { ambient AMB diffuse DIF } The result is some neon yellow kinda colour. LDraw FAQ defines (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) First to make clear: L2P uses a library of parts, about 630 by the latest update L3P uses LDraw parts and converts them directly, as I know, so with L3P you can get all parts which are in your parts-directory. So the discussion shlul be about (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| Snipped most of the message... ok.. all of it.. :-) I have some thoughts on why TLG hasn't thought about trying to shut this down... I'm sure they already know the group as a whole isn't very happy with them. To turn around, and try to shut down a (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) If you liked the Windows version, you're going to be even more amazed when the Linux version is ready. :) I just hope that someone else gets impressed and offers me a job... (I'm going to graduate this semester and I realized I don't want to (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) Yep. Jacob Sparre Anderson has created a fractal landscape generator. It works in two steps, first you create a PGM bitmap (in an image editor, or using Jacob's fractal generator), then you convert the PGM to LDraw. Sorry, I don't have the URL (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) I don't think TLG has changed much since then. I also think TLG was blowing some smoke, and Carsten gave up too easily. I'm pretty sure Carsten could have made some cosmetic changes to satisfy TLG. Steve (25 years ago, 15-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| On Sun, 15 Aug 1999 00:28:15 GMT, Joshua Delahunty <dulcaoin@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu> wrote: [Update on the story of BriCAD and Carsten Gnoerlich] Thanks for the information, Joshua. I hadn't heard of btopia. Heck, the last thing I knew, I was (...) (25 years ago, 15-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) You are probably more correct than me, I've never been able to talk to Carsten and I've never been able to use BriCad, Unix was very hard to install at that time and I wasn't a programmer (didn't knew much about computers). (...) You're right, (...) (25 years ago, 15-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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