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(...) No, flattening everything wouldn't be a workable solution. We had some of that (quite awhile ago). It was scary. (...) Ah. Yeah, if the macros are only evaluated once, that wouldn't work either. I'm not sure how L3P performs the translation (...) (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) How many parts have this mirroring? I expect that the 4x8 wings are an example. Would it be possible to recreate the basic wing, without studs, as a sub-part, and then invoke it in the two actual wing files? The studs could be added in the (...) (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) According to the L3P page, it does. However, this might not work with LGEO colors. --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com) (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I believe that Lars agrees with you regarding the fact that we can't expect parts not to use mirroring. However, based on his knowledge of POV, fixing this would require a complete change in the way L3P works. It would have to internally (...) (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Hmm. Does L3P/POV-Ray recognize color 256 as "black rubber"? Steve (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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I just installed L3PAO and I keep getting an error when starting up that "POV-Ray could not be verified." I have reintalled POV-Ray 3 times now. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance, Mark M (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) All it really needs is some way to adjust things like the reflectivity of the tires-- they're kinda shiny, which shows off the splines, unlike the rendering with Brazil... The only giveaway on the Brazil model I could spot right off was the (...) (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Cool it really looks like a photo is very nice. (...) (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) look at, indeed. Fredrik (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Lars, you have made my week with this posting! I wanted to thank you for pursuing this project, getting help from the big guns. These results are sooooo pretty and very encouraging. (...) Indeed. Other renderers may have an edge in creating (...) (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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how do you remedy library problems with lgeo? I just noticed that my part 3939 is being rendered as part 3942. Also my part 73435 is rendered 180 degrees off axis. please help me -tk (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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how do you remedy library problems with lgeo? I just noticed that my part 3939 is being rendered as part 3942. Also my part 73435 is rendered 180 degrees off axis. please help me -tk (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Considering the usefulness of modeling mirrored parts this way (one file just references the other file) (it saves time and bytes), I'd say this is a problem that needs resolution in software. I *think* it could addressed with a POV-Ray macro, (...) (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) But the stud subfile was mirrored. At the lowest level, the ldraw system doesn't differentiate parts, models, primitives, etc. It just knows about files. So mirroring a stud primitive is logically identical to mirroring an entire part. BTW, (...) (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Right! Play well, Jacob (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Something about MLCad that's worth noting is that fact that when you add a new part is uses the same rotation matrix as the part above it. Therefore, if you mirrored the part above the part you just added, the part you added is mirrored as (...) (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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any suggestions? "travis" <phree@attbi.com> wrote in message news:H1uGDs.Byq@lugnet.com... (...) (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Hmmm, I am trying to understand what you are stating here as applies to parts authoring. I get it if you mean that someone manually mirrored aspects of the DAT file without regard to how the stud would turn out at L3P quality level 3 -- so I (...) (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I hope this was understood to be a joke. I love all you crazy CAD guys! (...) Indeed it does. A thousand thanks. I suppose this means there was indeed an error in the matrix locating the stud file (the subpart in directory P), right? This (...) (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) matrix that represents that stud is mirrored (meaning either 1 or 3 of the axes are flipped). You should get the same problem if you render both of the classic space wing pieces. One of them will have correct logos, the other won't, because (...) (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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