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 CAD / Ray-Tracing / *2697 (-20)
  Re: Missing seams
 
(...) The problem is that L3P fails to recognize the two unofficial parts as parts. Try moving 3429.DAT and 3430.DAT to the PARTS folder. See also (URL) have already a long time ago updated L3P to scan a part's header for "Unofficial Part" but I'm (...) (18 years ago, 24-Sep-06, to lugnet.people.newbie, lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Missing seams
 
(...) Maybe Lars has fixed this in L3P 1.4 (wink, wink, nudge, nudge Lars ;-) ) -Orion (18 years ago, 24-Sep-06, to lugnet.people.newbie, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
 
  Re: Missing seams
 
Just an update. I never really resolved the problem. But for now I am working around the problem by manually entering the .5 spacing that L3P would usually add between parts in POV-Ray. Here's the corrected file. (URL) Thanks to everyone for your (...) (18 years ago, 24-Sep-06, to lugnet.people.newbie, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
 
  Re: Missing seams
 
(...) Thanks for your help. You've deffinitely helped me understand some of what creates that authentic lego look in the POV-Ray picture. :) But I tried everything and I just can't get L3P or POV-Ray to shrink/separate the unofficial parts in the (...) (18 years ago, 24-Sep-06, to lugnet.people.newbie, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
 
  Re: Missing seams
 
(...) It looks like you're using LGEO parts in your picture. These have (slightly) rounded edges on all the bricks that visually create seams. The forklift part isn't modeled in LGEO, so L3P falls back to the LDraw geometry for that part, which (...) (18 years ago, 24-Sep-06, to lugnet.people.newbie, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
 
  Re: Missing seams
 
(...) Thanks for the quick response. But I'm still confused about something. If POV-Ray doesn't draw lines/seams, then what causes the other parts to display seams in the POV-Ray picture? (Such as the supporting bricks for the forklift rails) Thanks (...) (18 years ago, 24-Sep-06, to lugnet.people.newbie, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
 
  Re: Missing seams
 
(...) Hi David, The problem is a shortcoming in L3P. The way L3P adds seam "lines" is to shrink the pieces by a small amount. How L3P determines what to shrink (since it wouldn't be appropriate to shrink any subpart assemblies) may introduce the (...) (18 years ago, 23-Sep-06, to lugnet.people.newbie, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
 
  Re: Missing seams
 
(...) Hi David, The short answer is that there are no seams, only lines. Since a line is a one-dimensional object it is invisible in POVray. The long answer is that POVray won't show edge lines because they are not really useful and don't fit with (...) (18 years ago, 23-Sep-06, to lugnet.people.newbie, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
 
  Missing seams
 
Any idea why the some pieces don't show seams in POV-Ray but they do in MLCad? Sorry if this has been addressed elsewhere. I did search for it, but I didn't find anything. (Newbie to all this.) For example, this is the model as seen in MLCAD. (...) (18 years ago, 23-Sep-06, to lugnet.people.newbie, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
 
  Re: Raytracing Challenge II: Remix Disco
 
(...) --SNIP-- (...) Forgot to cross-post here so see the parent post for details. Tim (18 years ago, 21-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.build.contests, FTX)
 
  Re: Raytracing Challenge II: Remix Disco
 
(...) For added authenticity colour everything brown and black, make a sticky floor and fill it with smoke. Unfortunately a render can't simulate the smell of old beer and tobacco but you can pretend. Tim (18 years ago, 21-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
 
  Re: Raytracing Challenge II: Remix Disco
 
Thank You, Tim, for the challenge! I will try to master it. Even if the the first obstacle for me will be the impression of a disco, since that kind of location is still quite full of mysteries for a nerd (ok...geek) like me :-( Andreas (18 years ago, 21-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
 
  Raytracing Challenge II: Remix Disco
 
Hi all, Well, thanks to some recent encouragement from Zach Best and at the end of the first challenge I've decided to run this again with a new model. I do hope people enter as I very much enjoy seeing the different interpretations of the same (...) (18 years ago, 21-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX) ! 
 
  Re: Bugs in rad_def.inc
 
(...) Thanks Niels, but the kudos go to Koyan Derudder (URL). All I did was take his work and put it in magazine format, along with a model that's easy to build. Koyan did all of the hard part, and we should be thanking him. :-) (18 years ago, 10-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
 
  Re: Bugs in rad_def.inc
 
(...) Thank YOU for making that great tutorial Geoff I'm sure we're many that has really been needing that for a long time: Personally I tried to assemble the bits and pieces strewn across lugnet and brickshelf to get the kind of renderings I've (...) (18 years ago, 9-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
 
  Re: Bugs in rad_def.inc
 
Thanks a bunch Jeffrey It seemed like anohter one of those offending type " 's had snuck into my povray.ini-file, thanks for making me check again, everything is working now!!! Cheers NB (18 years ago, 9-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
 
  Re: Bugs in rad_def.inc
 
(...) details removed (...) Thanks everyone for pointing these out. I will update this info on the BrickJournal web site as well so other people don't run into the same problem. As for the copy through Notepad, I have done that so long that I take (...) (18 years ago, 3-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
 
  Re: Bugs in rad_def.inc
 
There are more then one issue with the files and code specified in the tutorial. I found them all, so here is the required fixes to make them work. Step 1.) Assuming you have downloaded the proper files: Begin by opening the POV-Ray master ini file (...) (18 years ago, 3-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
 
  Re: Bugs in rad_def.inc
 
(...) That wouldn't have helped here. The problem is that whatever software was used to do the article used fancy quotes (different opening and closing quotes). Those are just extended ASCII characters, though, which means that they would have (...) (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Bugs in rad_def.inc
 
Of course this doesn't solve the problems I ran into in the process because I messed with the installations :( Hope somebody can help with that -NB (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad.ray)


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