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Subject:	Re: Voting now open for April's MOTM and SOTM contests
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date:	Tue, 6 Apr 2004 01:57:08 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Larry Pieniazek wrote: > perhaps someone can develop an app to generate camera settings interactively by > giving you a real time rendering of the containing boxes of your models or > something as you change settings via flying the mouse around on a camera sphere > or something? I'm resistant to this. I think all the models should be rendered with the same settings. In other words, I want the settings in the file that aren't directly related to the model (camera, floor, lighting, etc) to be same across all the submissions. The only exception to this would be the custom camera positions provided by the submitter. -Orion

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		Re: Voting now open for April's MOTM and SOTM contests
(...) I meant for YOU to use so that you got the right settings easily... :-) More seriously, I agree that most models should be at the same angles and so forth (except for huge models where the camera needs to pull back or whatever) but size drives (...) (20 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

		Re: Voting now open for April's MOTM and SOTM contests
Why not a QuickTime or a Java VR. This is a really small one, but it shows what can be done. It has about 144 frames (12 side to side by 12 up and down). (URL) could be optimized by removing rendundant frames (if left side is the same as the right, (...) (20 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

		Re: Voting now open for April's MOTM and SOTM contests
(...) What about using the standard ldlite views with the ancient -A ldraw command line option? See the ldlite documentation of ldraw.txt for details on -A. You can feed these to ldglite to quickly see which of the standard views look good for a (...) (20 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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		Re: Voting now open for April's MOTM and SOTM contests
(...) I think most people won't fault you at all, the goal of a leval playing field is a very good one. MoTM should be about the models, not the renderings. I was able to decide which model I liked best nonetheless. (...) I am a total novice at this (...) (20 years ago, 5-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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