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(...) Well, great, also with a graphical settings editor? Is there any alternative for L3P then, which is written completely in POV-Ray? Or would the POV-Ray script have to call L3P then? Thanks for improving my knowledge on POV-Ray :-), regards, (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I imagine I can do that in less than 20 lines of POV-Ray code using an INI script. Tim --snip-- (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Well, can you create a POV-Ray file which will automatically read in an LDraw MPD file and use settings files or maybe even a GUI to select submodels from the MPD file and render those to several picture files? That would be an interesting (...) (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Neat. I look forward to this, because I've been meaning to learn more about POV-Ray. I've been putting off doing final renderings for my recent LDraw models because POV-Ray has been a bit of a black box. Your point about its relative (...) (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Why not learn POV-Ray? If you know VB or C# or any language for that matter, POV-Ray is really simple compared to them (much less syntax to learn). I'm creating a new LDraw POV-Ray video tutorial that I hope to get online today or sometime (...) (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Hi, your programme is written with Visual Basic? By now, I'm thinking about creating a little tool for doing some kind of "batch rendering of several submodels from certain camera positions" and automatical combination of those rendered (...) (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) My L3PGen program supports this. When you open a MPD file, it will show a list of all the "models" at the top allowing you to select which to rerender. (URL) and all feedback is welcome. Thanks (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Yes that was me and it's great to have you back. I always use LGEO for my renders because of the high quality which is one reason I started this thread... I want more parts to match LGEO's standards :) (...) That would be optimal in my (...) (18 years ago, 14-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Ah yes, I see... Still the old rivality ;-) between different approaches. I have not even used my own library for years, not to speak of development. Reasons were university to finish, a relation, a job and a Bricklink store to get the money (...) (18 years ago, 14-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Hi, well, the first model is for sure my main model, but I'd like to provide some other views of my main model, too - for example, if my submodels are several modules of a starship, I'd like to be the main model the docked version, and another (...) (18 years ago, 14-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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