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How in the WORLD did you do that???!!!! (animate it) -brickmodder (21 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.ray)
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Okay... If those two are reacting like that, it have to put the files on my webspace.. :D [773kB] (3 URLs) to understand the file: The Model consists of the following subparts: Assembled.ldr +Body | +-Main | | +-Main_Gear1-5 | +-Left_Arm | | (...) (21 years ago, 18-Mar-04, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) That is way cool! I realy would be interested in see the POV/INI file. -Orion (21 years ago, 18-Mar-04, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.ray)
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AWESOME I like the shutter of the camera. How about some more. Steve (21 years ago, 18-Mar-04, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.ray)
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Well... 8 years ago I didn't own enough parts to build it... Now I do! (virtually, but who cares?) The Facts: -20 Frames 640x480 packed in flashanimation -5 hours and 6 pages (A4) for the trigonometric equations -I used Ldraw for designing and (...) (21 years ago, 18-Mar-04, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I wasn't able to pull it off. The ifpov and ifnotpov insert their own if/else statements into the .pov file, itself. They break the if/else statements that I'm trying to create. (21 years ago, 10-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Oh. I thought you were talking about overlapping walls. I also just remembered that I had used an earlier version of LDBoxer, that replaced bricks regardless of position, to convert Datsville. (21 years ago, 7-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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I'm working on some code to do this now : ) It's an extension of a utility I wrote a week ago that takes an Ldraw file and parses all the submodels and parts to give one a list of the pieces needed to build it. This new version just parses things (...) (21 years ago, 7-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I know you're being tongue-in-cheek, but what it sounds like you are saying couldn't be further from the truth. I suspect it is due to your misinterpreting what I was trying to say. Given that it isn't exactly a trivial thing, that's not too (...) (21 years ago, 7-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) On second thought, this would be a bad idea, because objects outside the view cone could affect things, like reflections, shadows, and fog (important!!!). (21 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) True, but that would be an example of sloppy modeling on the part of the author ;) . (21 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) It's not exactly surprising that it worked ok, but if he didn't include any MPD support, then the results aren't necessarily correct. Since he presumably only pays attention to the locations of parts that he's willing to box, the references to (...) (21 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) It worked fine for me. But then, I had to split it up into sections, just like Orion did. (21 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) What I meant was that this should be done by POVray within the .pov file, not in the the .ldr file. It is my understanding that one can put ifpov & ifnotpov statements into an .ldr file. They are, however, intended to be used solely by POVray. (...) (21 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Sorry, LDBoxer does not "unpack" and re-parse MPDs. Therefor, the output will not be trustworthy. Someday I may be able to make programs that can handle MPDs correctly... :/ (...) I can understand that. The entire Town.ldr is an extreme task. (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) All I did was MPD the Town sections and then ran the MPDs through LDBoxer. I tried to run an MPD of the entire Town.ldr file but it was really slow and LDBoxer exited with a access violation. -Orion (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Well, I've found one at: (URL) it's from Sept. 2001, and I don't even remember how to use it. (...) Yes please! I would be very happy if you did this. (I've added the exception keyword "Datsville" to my (very conservative) spam filter, so it (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Typo in the above message. Change "can't" to "can". -Orion (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Not that I'm aware of (...) I have MPD files of the individual town sections (i.e. Town02, Town10, etc) that have been run through LDBoxer. I can't send them to you if you'd like and then you could just Un-MPD them for the individual files. (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I've been doing some experiments with different variants of LDBoxer, and also a hing called LDFilTEr. There is a semi-automatic version of LDBoxer where you can pick parts one by one and the interface lets you filter out parts irrelevant for (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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