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Re: How is this created?
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Tue, 21 May 2002 21:02:46 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Mike Walsh writes:
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> "Jeroen de Haan" <jeroendehaan@mac.com> wrote in message
> news:GwH5EL.6Dn@lugnet.com...
> > > 5) Create a template in powerpoint and begin inserting your models, • cropping
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> > Small tip: when using Powerpoint (or any other Office application) convert
> > the LDR without a floor and render your pictures as PNG with Alpha • channel.
> > That way everything but your model wil be masked out so that when you • place
> > it on a coloured background you won't have a white frame around it.
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> > Alpha channels are also very handy when using image-editors.
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> > Jeroen
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> I am intrigued, does this apply to Publisher as well? As I don't understand
> what you mean by "without a floor" and rendering with Alpha channel. Can
> you elaborate for those of us who don't know exactly what you are talking
> about.
When you convert a .ldr/.dat file to a .pov via L3PAO/L3P by default L3PAO
put a floor plane in your model. That is say you render a 2x4 blue brick.
If you look athe the POV code you will notice at the bottom a section of
code that says something like:
// floor
plane {...
You want to get rid of this code all together from the plane {... to the '}'
that corresponds to the 1st '{'. Also look right above this code and you
show see one that says
//background
Make sure you set that one to WHITE or rgb <1,1,1>. You can aslo set the
background in L3PAO by setting the colro to white via the colro panel.
As for the alpha channel.. someone please tell us cause i have no clue on
that one....
AHui
> I render my instructions with LD-Lite and place the images with Microsoft
> Publisher.
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> Mike
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> Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring dot com
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| Hi all. Thanks for all of your tips. They will be a great help. Dave "Ahui Herrera" <jedi_agh@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:GwHBsM.Kz8@lugnet.com... (...) convert (...) understand (...) '}' (...) (22 years ago, 22-May-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
| | | About the alpha-channel (was: Re: How is this created?)
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| (...) erm, hate to sound like a know-it-all (cos I don't know it all) but the floor is a switch which isn't on by default. In L3P the switch to turn the floor on is -F. In L3PAO it is a checkbox which you have to activate before a floor is added. (...) (22 years ago, 22-May-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| "Jeroen de Haan" <jeroendehaan@mac.com> wrote in message news:GwH5EL.6Dn@lugnet.com... (...) cropping (...) channel. (...) place (...) I am intrigued, does this apply to Publisher as well? As I don't understand what you mean by "without a floor" (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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