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New LDRAW renderer for the Mac
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lugnet.cad.dev.mac
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Fri, 9 Aug 2002 20:04:20 GMT
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Yes its true, however don't too excited yet.
For several months now I have been working on a new LDRAW renderer. I did
this to over come some of the shortfalls in the renderer in LdGLite (Mac)
that I converted earlier this year.
In principle I was looking for faster and smoother rendering of LDRAW
models. Mac LDRAW Viewer renders about 10 times faster than LdGLite and can
rotate small models at speeds of up to 78fps on my G4-400 (Yikes) machine.
NB this version is speed restricted to 30fps.
The software is still development software and as such offers no real user
interface and is quite un-Mac like in its operation (that will come)
At present it will display a model which can be manipulated in a GLUT
window. Editing, etc is currently unavailable.
The software only works on MacOS 9.x at the moment. Additionally recomend
anyone that is not at least familiar with LdGLite, not to run the software.
This is beacause, there are no installation instructions, however that said,
installation is identical to LdGLite (Mac).
If all of this still hasn't put you off, the program is located at
http://homepage.mac.com/aallan/LdGLite.html
you need to download: Mac LDRAW Viewer.sit
What I'm looking for is feedback as to where to take the program (keep it
nice please) and some idea as to it's stability on other systems.
Andrew...
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: New LDRAW renderer for the Mac
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| in art1$*ní×´ê×´P (...) I like it, it actualy runs on my machine (mac os 8.6) all the comands work with no problems, including 'o' open. it seems to display most of chassis.dat,engine.dat and steering.dat. but verry little of the other (...) (22 years ago, 13-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
| | | Re: New LDRAW renderer for the Mac
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| (...) Speaking of other systems, I did a quick and dirty port of the sources to check out the speed for myself. It's pretty speedy, but not quite as pretty. :-) Slightly modified sources and a makefile are available here if anyone without a Mac (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev)
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