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(...) You can go via www.ldraw.org -> download -> software -> L2P. Fredrik (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Thanks. (...) It's an optical illusion--well, actually, it's probably just a limitation of POV-Ray. AFAIK, reflective surfaces in POV don't actually reflect the light rays that bounce off of them, so no light reaches the bottom of the car, so (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Probably he just omitted the round things to save rendering time. Alan (24 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.ray)
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Steve Bliss writes: [snip] (...) [snip] i just thought of an interesting idea that would TEMPORARILY solve the 'decal lines' problem: have an option for l3p to check the input for linetype 2's, and make a REEEALY thin cylinder (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Very cool! Did you do anything special to the bottom of the car in the ray-trace? In the reflection, it looks almost like you have placed tiles there upside down, but the MPD has plates for the bottom. Or is it an optical illusion? James (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Nope. These parts are modeled using lines to represent the corrugations. L3P drops the lines, because POV-Ray doesn't *do* lines. So you end up with smooth parts. There are some other LDraw parts which suffer from similar problems. (...) Not (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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I have noticed that the shutters for the 1x4x3 town windows and the hinge train gate don't render properly. I use the standard L3P output and render at the highest settings but they always come out smooth. The corrugated brick does fine though. Is (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) These are some really great renderings. I just thought the .castle folks might be interested in these. I love the action you have incorporated into your renderings. Great Work, Eric Kingsley The New England LEGO Users Group (URL) My Creations (...) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.castle)
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(...) These are some really great renderings. I just thought the .castle folks might be interested in these. I love the action you have incorporated into your renderings. Great Work, Eric Kingsley The New England LEGO Users Group (URL) My Creations (...) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I have: (URL) I'm not sure if the windshield is right. Alan (24 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I first thought about adding all kinds of connections but the studs are the most useful for modelling and polygon reduction (unless someone wants to write a full forward kinematics simulator). The studs are the most easy connections to check (...) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Thanks! Does anyone want to take a shot at converting this to a "regular" Caddy? --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Is (...) The ground is an seamless tiling image i got from (URL) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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The building instructions for the robots from _The Unofficial Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS Robots_ are now available as downloadable archives: (URL) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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[ FUT lugnet.cad.dev ] Leonardo: (...) I think it is time to think about identifying connections. What about using an empty piece named "-stud.dat" that should be placed exactly, including orientation, where a "properly" connected stud should be (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I searched my backup disks and couldn't find a version of the library with the connections information. I fixed about 100 files, making them BFC compliant and with the connection information but I lost everything after I changed the format of (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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This is the coolest thing I have seen this week! (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Excellent! The water looks very blue, but the ground texture is beautiful. Is it an image, or an actual texture? --Bram (24 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Thanks for the advise. I noticed the command Halo in your code. Halo is not supported in PovRay 3.1. Instead i have to experiment with the Media command. George (24 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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GeoMan skrev i meddelandet ... (...) You can see my water at (URL) for POVRay version 3.0 - might need '#version 3.0' to silence some error messages in 3.1, I haven't tested...) It consists of two parts - first a plane with ripples: -8<---...--- (...) (24 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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