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(...) Bummer. (...) I have used heightfields several times, but I can never get them to look exactly as I want them too. I wanted hills that really looked like the CS hills in this case. (...) That's the hard part. And creating heightfield images is (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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I made a movie once, with a Futuron guy flying on a spaceship over a classic space landscape -entirely in POV-ray. (The movie got lost when my HD crashed, so I can't show it to you.) The hills were easy to make; use a heightfield! If you don't know (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space, lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I used my lgeo_2_l3p.inc file. :) (URL) Lambrecht BXL34@po.cwru.edu (URL) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.cad.ray)
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"Bram Lambrecht" <BXL34@po.cwru.edu> wrote in message news:G3Cv84.1wt@lugnet.com... (...) uploaded some (...) L3P to (...) available. Would you care to explain just what you did to use the LGEO parts in an L3P'd file? -John Van (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Since no one seems to have anything to say about the scans, I've uploaded some clearer pics of the images before they were "scanned". (URL) case anyone is interested, here's how I made the pics: I started by LDrawing the model and components (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space, lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad.ray)
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I am proud to announce the re-launching of my new-and-improved "Ray-Traced Lego Mania" collection. There are too many large pictures to fit in my personal webspace, so I've put it all at a free provider here: (URL) Check out the "Cool Lego Site of (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.space)
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On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:04:59 -0600, Jay Jacinto wrote (in message <G30AoB.Byx@lugnet.com>): (...) Looks great Jay! Keep up the great work! Ben (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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Hi, I've just put up a couple of new renderings. One is of my icerat with some extra stuff: (URL) other, with permission, is of Ben Vaughan's ronin. (URL) plan to do more renderings, so stay tuned Thanks Jay (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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(...) Thanks a lot. I'll try to make it all work this weekend (you know, there is that pesty work-to-be-able-to-p...-the-bills thing) and post a first summary ASAP. Regards, Hakan (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Hi again, I've uploaded my icerat POV file and the secondary INI file that I use. HTH Thanks Jay Jacinto (...) I (...) find (...) Bram (...) with (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Hi, I'm not at my home computer right now but I'll upload the settings as soon as I get home, promise. Thanks Jay Jacinto (...) that (...) got (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Try downloading the new version of L3PAO - I had exactly the same problem and narrowed it down to L3PAO not passing the full path to the .dat file to L3P and so the error message was that L3P couldn't find the input file but the DOS box clears too (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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"Jay Jacinto" <manjingo@yahoo.com> writes: Wow, by far the crispest LEGO renderings I've ever seen. (...) *start google search* *start downloading* ;-) (...) Could you please (pretty please, with sugar on top of it ;-)) post your settings and the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Right. From (URL) or ldraw.ini It is no longer necessary to set the environment variable LDRAWDIR if you are using LDAO or LDLite. If LDRAWDIR is not set, L3P looks for ldraw.ini in C:\Windows (or the directory specified by the environment (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Hmmm... good call Travis... unfortunately he said that everything works fine if he runs L3P manually, so the LDrawDir variable must be set (or he has LDAO installed). L3PAO does *not* set the LDrawDir variable automatically though, so that was (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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The case shouldn't matter. Have you set the LDRAWDIR environment variable to point to d:\ldraw? If not, L3P won't work (unless L3PAddOn does this automatically). Check the L3P DOS window again. If the help text ends with the following (after you hit (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) All right here are my settings: EXEName: "L3P.exe" L3PPath: "d:\LDraw" These both seem to be correct (that's where everything is). But, oddly enough (I don't think it matters though) the other settings all have my second HD as D:\, not d:\. (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Hi Jay, Welcome to .space. I really do like your icerat model. Do you have a DAT or a pic of the interior of the cockpit? Thanks for posting! ~Mark (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.people.newbie, lugnet.space, lugnet.cad.ray)
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Hi Carsten, I use the preprocessor of kings, L3PAO. It's actually the post-processing that makes the difference. I use POV with the MegaPOV addon. The addon has a feature called find_edges. I actually found this feature when Ben Vaughan actually did (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.cad.ray)
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Hello jay, wow ... that pictures look cool. How did you made them? What preprocessor did you use to convert DAT Models to POV? The shading is almost comic-like... Please don't let me die dumb ;). -- Greetings, Carsten Schmitz "Jay Jacinto" (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.people.newbie, lugnet.space, lugnet.cad.ray)
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