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| "Vince" <Vincent05@gmx.de> wrote in message news:Hv4Ls6.19y5@lugnet.com... (...) found out (...) I can (...) yet (...) used (...) radiosity (...) source. (...) other (...) some (...) Hi Vince, I would like to help you, this also affects me and the (...)   (22 years ago, 31-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray) 
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|  |  | Re: Povray with LGEO changes part 3464 into 3461 
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| (...) copy and make a new part for 3464, name it like 3464lgeo or something. when l3p coverts it part 3464lgeo wont be replaced with lg_3461. hope that helps    (22 years ago, 30-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray) 
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|  |  | Povray with LGEO changes part 3464 into 3461 
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| When trying to render set 386 using LGEO I noticed that the wheels with stub axles (part 3464) were replaced with helicopter rotors (part 3461). I find some postings about this dating 2 years ago. Is there a solution or workaround for this already? (...)   (22 years ago, 29-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray) 
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| (...) Hi again, I received the file and will try to use it with my next picture. I will let you know if it works for me. I have explained some things about hdri and povray here: (URL) If you have any further questions, feel free to ask. If I can (...)   (22 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX) 
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| (...) I've forwarded Orion's email with the file and instructions on how to use it to you. I hope it helps somehow. What program are you rendering this with? POV-Ray, I presume? How are you doing the HDRI with POV? -Mike    (22 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX) 
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| (...) Hi Mike, thank you for your quick answer. Can you send me the modified color-file? Or can you tell me a link for download? Would be great... I set ambience in the critical pictures to a higher level without any good result. Only if I use (...)   (22 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX) 
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|  |  | Re: HDRI and radiosity 
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| (...) Sven, The easiest way is to reduce the reflectivity of the colors. I have a file around here somewhere that Orion once sent me with lowered reflection (Jeroen's colors, for the digitalbricks radiosity). However, if you're looking to use only (...)   (22 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX) 
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| Hi again, I'm still working on a good way to use hdri with MLCad pictures. And I found out that grey is a "bad" color. Pictures with grey models are always too dark. I can only fix this if I place additional light sources. I don't know the reason (...)   (22 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX) 
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|  |  | Re: Custom colours and POVRay 
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| (...) Thanks for the offer though Mike Tim    (22 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX) 
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|  |  | Re: Custom colours and POVRay 
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| (...) Credit where it is due, please... that's Lars's post, not mine. LOL.    (22 years ago, 24-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX) 
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|  |  | Re: Custom colours and POVRay 
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| (...) Whoops, sorry, I hadn't seen Lar's post. Sorry! -Mike    (22 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX) 
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|  |  | Re: Custom colours and POVRay 
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| (...) Tim, Basically it involves a little simple tweaking of the POV file. I can do it for you (and teach you how to do it) if you can send me your file. -Mike    (22 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX) 
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| Cool, thats a very hassle-free way of doing it, thanks. I assume that as the colour specs are included with each part it will transfer to another installation of MLCad/LDedit/LDraw with no problems. I can also get rid of the troublesome custom (...)   (22 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray) 
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|  |  | Re: Custom colours and POVRay 
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| (...) In stead of using color 95 (which L3P doesn't understand because it is a custom color) you can use color 0x026E99C9 which is understood by most programs. In the color dialog simply enter 0x026E99C9 as the color number. To calculate a number (...)   (22 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray) 
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|  |  | Custom colours and POVRay 
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| I have made a model using custom colour Medium Blue, I have given the colour the number 95 and the RGB value r110 g153 b201. I found both these figures from one of the colour chart on the net but I can't remember which one. The model gives an error (...)   (22 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray) 
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|  |  | Re: some experiments with HDRI and PovRay 
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| (...) Hi Martin and all others who have asked... you're right! You need a patched version of Povray that is called MLPov 0.83. It looks like the normal povray you all know. But you now can use the needed .hdr-files for luminance and you have some (...)   (22 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray) 
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|  |  | Re: some experiments with HDRI and PovRay 
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| (...) Doing some Googling myself revealed a whole plethora of HDR programs: (URL) what I got out of the page I read, Luminance is the originator of the format. -Orion    (22 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray) 
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|  |  | Re: some experiments with HDRI and PovRay 
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| (...) Googling... Seems to mean 'High Dynamic Range' (URL) a patched version of POVRay - MLPov (URL) still don't know what to use it for, though... -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs)   (22 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray) 
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|  |  | Re: some experiments with HDRI and PovRay 
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| (...) FULL STOP!!!!! sry for double-posting, but it IS possible to use HDRI in POV-Ray. You have to have MLPOV! (Patch for POv-Ray 3.5) Further information: (URL) ask me if they can be treated like normal POV-Files. I don't even have MLPov...    (22 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray) 
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|  |  | Re: some experiments with HDRI and PovRay 
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| Hm I have googled a bit and found out that HDRI is a shader for 3DSMAX, which is a little bit to extreme for me. This program is so strong, that it flattens me. (*cough*) The images are really cool, but it requires much more knowledge of the (...)   (22 years ago, 22-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray) 
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