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Thanks Mladen! I'd love too a battle scene incuding massive missile swarms and rail guns. If only I had more time. Once I finish version 2 of my transforming mecha I'm going to animate a sequence with it transforming. After I finish that, I'll work (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.space)
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(...) Great! I love that spin the first craft does... NEAT. ;-) (...) Yeah, I'd like to see the new & improved version once you solve the lighting and add more stuff. Oh yeah, any chance of some battle scenes? A few missile swarms? Rail gun slugs (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.space)
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Its about 6megs and features a couple of microfig space ships heading towards a planet. You can also see a small drone vehicle passing in front of the planet after the camera turns. There are some problems with the lighting on the two ships. I'd (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.space)
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Lars C. Hassing wrote... (...) Well, Jeroen, from the M4564a.pov you sent me today, I have found a bug in LGEO part lg_3195.inc line 13. It currently reads: #declare LENGTH = but it should have read: #declare LENGTH = 5 Just add the '5' in your own (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Jeroen de Haan wrote... (...) Seems like POV thinks M4564a___dot_dat has already been defined as float...?!? Please post the M4564a_.dat or e-mail it to me, and I'll look into it. /Lars (23 years ago, 27-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Hi, I'm trying to render a model using the following commandline in L3P: C:\L3P\L3P.EXE F:\trainpos\M4564a_.dat F:\M4564a_2.pov -cg0,90,0 -b1.000,1.000,1.000 -q3 -lgeo -o And with only this model (I rendered more with the same parameters) I get the (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: From Screen to Paper Printing (PPI/DPI Question)
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Thanks everyone for those great explainations. And the graphic web link had a lot of good info on the LPI-DPI-PixRes descriptions. BTW Here's a 18" x 24" poster I made using MLCad + WinPOV + Power Point www.brickshelf.com/c...gi?i=94099 Each step's (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks! --Ryan ryanjf@ifriendly.com (URL) (23 years ago, 23-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Bram, Thank you. The shadowless light helped as did as did a tip I found in an old message about rendering at a fairly large size and reducing the image later. Take a look at: (URL) (23 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Merry Christmas! Scene on Brickshelf.com
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After "playing" with LDraw, MLCAD, POV-ray, etc. for better than a year, I finally took the plunge and finished something. Check out: (URL) started with wondering how light would project through a "stained-glass" window in POV-Ray, and the idea (...) (23 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.announce)
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"Ryan Farrington" <ryanjf@ifriendly.com> skrev i meddelandet news:001801c188c7$79...dly.com... (...) Something like this perhaps? (URL) of all, I had to turn down the ordinary lighting as there are a lot of extra light sources: light_source { (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | RE: From Screen to Paper Printing (PPI/DPI Question)
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(...) No, POV-Ray's rendering engine doesn't really care what the dimensions of your image are. It only cares about what you tell it the aspect ratio is. If you render with a default camera (4/3 ratio) to a square output image, you'll get an image (...) (23 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) No, Bram is 100% correct -- the resulting image is distorted unless I account for the proportions of the image POV expects to render. -- Hop-Frog (23 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.ray)
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"Bram Lambrecht" <bram@cwru.edu> wrote in message news:000001c188be$d8...1681@bl... (...) Good point. Since I've never tried to render a square image, I've never run across this. I'm curious though, why do you need to do this? I figured it would be (...) (23 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.ray)
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[XFUT cad.ray] (...) I used the orthographic keyword in the camera to eliminate perspective. I then placed three shadowless lights along the x, y, and z axes. The edges were done with MegaPOV's find_edges...perhaps this will help: (URL) file, be (...) (23 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.appraisal, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | RE: From Screen to Paper Printing (PPI/DPI Question)
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(...) You may want to make it 6400x4800 or 4800x3600 so that the render isn't distorted. If you want a square picture, you will need to modify the camera object so that it renders to a square aspect ratio. Millions of pixels also take a while to (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: From Screen to Paper Printing (PPI/DPI Question)
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(...) I may still be confused slightly. From that article I gather that no printer (professional printing device) cares about anything above 200 LPI. The article further claims that one would generally want to print from an image 2 times the desired (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.ray)
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Hi all, I was wondering if anyone has ever successfully created what looks like fluorescent lights. I have tried inserting area lights, but the shadows created were too harsh; it just looked like incandescent lighting. I also tried the looks_like (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: From Screen to Paper Printing (PPI/DPI Question)
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Steve, I can explain better using black and white printers; for color, just add four times the explanation. For a monochrome printer, there is a tradeoff between lpi and grayscales. If you have a 600 dpi printer, and you chose a 600 lpi screen, you (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: From Screen to Paper Printing (PPI/DPI Question)
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I have been pondering this point for years, but don't know much about the half toning for CMYK ink mixing algorithms. Is this something you know about? Can you share some more info and or links to pages that explain the difference between printer (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.ray)
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