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Chuck Sommerville wrote... (...) Good idea, I have thought of it myself too :-) But I have postponed the implementation because I was hoping for an integration of LGEO and L3P: the effort writing POV replacements for LDraw parts naturally belongs in (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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George GeoMan wrote... (...) The good thing about L3P: it is INDEPENDENT of part updates. The not so good thing about L3P: some rounded parts look egdy/angular. /Lars (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Car- version 2 (was Re: sports car)
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(...) Well, I raised the steering wheel one plate and amputated my driver at the knees so that he'd fit: (URL) I should change the color of the upholstery and the color of the driver's shirt so he stands out better. Any suggestions? --Bram (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) That'd be great (seems like L3P files just keeping getting bigger, though :) Lars, have you discussed anything with Lutz about using LGEO? --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) If it makes renderings better, POV files smaller, and doesn't take a lot of effort on my part, how could I not be interested? Please continue your efforts! --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) It sounds as a good idea since the parts/primitives libraries will need updates only when new l-cad updates are released. The current version of l3p allthough really good still needs regular updates to keep up with the growing parts libraries. (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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After playing with Ldraw, The first thing I wanted to do was learn the file format and write a converter to POV. Then I found L3P, and was delighted. When I saw the minifigs with faceted heads, I investigated and learned about the triangle and quad (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: help!!! - light sources in POV-RAY
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(...) Actually, the help files with POV suck rocks -- you're railroaded through the tutorial, and it severely lacks in many areas. And the resources listed on www.povray.org deal almost exclusively for pre-3.1 versions. (...) Is it current? Does it (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) The help files included with POV are pretty good. Of course you can also check www.povray.org. I have a book called "Ray Trace Creations" that I bought in a book store, which is about one inch thick and deals exclusively with POV. -Chuck (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Franklin W. Cain skrev i meddelandet ... (...) (This (more or less) has already been posted in the thread 'lit truck raytrace wallpaper...' in connection with headlights) Don't try to put lights inside other pieces, edit the .POV file instead, and (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: automated rendering??? (was "Re: New White Tiger Mecha")
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Bram Lambrecht wrote... (...) OK. Maybe some sort of "#if not defined(Color0)" (if that's possible) around L3P's colors would suffice. /Lars (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Bram Lambrecht wrote... (...) L3P (and L3Lab) defines these files as studs: static char *StudPrimitives[] = { "stud5.dat", "stu2.dat", "stu22.dat", "stu22a.dat", "stu23.dat", "stu23a.dat", "stu24.dat", "stu24a.dat", "stud2.dat", "stud2a.dat", (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) L3P files include a STUD flag which turns of studs, but I'm not sure if it turns off tubes... --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Wow, thanks. I'll play with it a bit... Say, does anyone know if there's any kind of FAQ or tutorial or even a *book* in print for POV 3.1? Everything I'm coming across is for 3.0, which isn't very helpful in terms of the media stuff... (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Traffic light drag racing? There are some great ideas for traffic lights in the Ultimate LEGO Book. We might have to make a city background, too then. Perhaps some randomized buildings of different scales? Shouldn't be too hard after creating (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Well, I don't know how helpful this is -- and I did have to add the lights manually in the .pov file -- but the raytraced images shown here... (URL) a POV point-source light rather than actually coloring any elements. It's wicked slow to (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: automated rendering??? (was "Re: New White Tiger Mecha")
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Lars, Speaking of rendering many files, is there a way you could edit L3P so that the output files wouldn't include color definitions. I like to use my own (well, actually, Anton Raves') colors, so I always have to delete the color definitions from (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Actually, creating a light_source which includes a looks_like { mypiece } works pretty well. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: help!!! - light sources in POV-RAY
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(...) I was pretty disappointed to discover that light sources don't cut it, not in the POV-Ray world. What you need to do is set those pieces' colors to have a high ambience, like 3. For example, say in your POV file you have the following color (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: automated rendering??? (was "Re: New White Tiger Mecha")
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(...) Well, sure... It's called ONYX's L3P Add On. Now that I have figured out what makes it crash, It's wonderful. One trick is that you will pretty much always have to manually adjust the floor groundplane in the POV file if the model is at all (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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