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Subject:	Request for Comment on my L3P camera tutorial
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish
Followup-To:	lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date:	Tue, 29 Jan 2002 00:23:07 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Jeremy H. Sproat writes: > The l3p-generated camera block can > be intimidating. So...I'll whip up a quickie tutorial on that. Okay, I've whipped up *something*. If you're intimately familiar with the L3P camera block, or if you're just plain curious, here's my L3P camera block tutorial ready for review: http://www.io.com/~jsproat/temp/Deciphering_L3P_Part_1.html It's kinda beta-quality right now, so I'm soliciting criticism. If you find any misspellings, typos, layout or composition issues, broken math or broken code or broken links, please let me know. My intent is for this to be included in the LDraw.org tutorial section, so I want it to look *good*. :-, I want this to have something for beginners and experts. If I left something out that shouldn't be immediately obvious to the typical new-but-at-least-slightly-code-savvy user, I'm very eager to hear about it. Also, at the end is a rough outline of what I'll tackle next, but won't be included in Part I. Comments and suggestions for the later stuff are welcome as well. Cheers, - jsproat

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		Re: Request for Comment on my L3P camera tutorial
(...) Wow, lots of good stuff in there! I especially liked the way you broke up the sky vector in the "How to roll the camera" section, and the way the camera_range declaration really clears up what the PCT values are doing. Perhaps we should add (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

		Re: Request for Comment on my L3P camera tutorial
(...) Great! I've been experimenting with these values in POV-ray, this really helps! Critiques: orthographic, para 1, "as it is the camera type used by LDraw most if not all the other LDraw tools" is missing an "and" between LDraw & most. Maybe a (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

		Re: Request for Comment on my L3P camera tutorial
In lugnet.cad.ray, Jeremy H. Sproat writes: [snipped] (...) Love it! But why not submit it to Tim Courtney of LDraw.org. He/they really want some user input/experience of LDraw related issues. Think about it! Jeroen (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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