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Re: L3P user primitive substitution
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Date: 
Fri, 5 Oct 2001 09:13:31 GMT
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Chuck,
Did you follow up this post with some examples?

Thank you,

-Mike


In lugnet.cad.ray, Chuck Sommerville writes:
> Awhile back, I persuaded Lars Hassing to add a feature to L3P.  I wanted the
> ability to substutite POV language commands in the comments of a .DAT file
> that could be used in place of the DAT primitives when rendering through
> POV.  This would allow users to add native POV commands that could render
> better than the triangles and polygons defined  in DAT files.  Since the
> commands are inbedded in comment fields, and only recognized by L3P, they
> have no effect of any other tools.  Lars was waiting untill I tested the
> commands to announce the feature.  The good news, is you probably already
> have the ability to use these features.  He built them into Version 1.2
> 20000616.
> 
> The commands are
> 0 L3P IFPOV
>  Conditional section begin
>  Begin POV statements in comment statement fields
> 
> 0 L3P IFNOTPOV
>  Conditional section begin
>  Begin DAT statements
> 
> 0 L3P ELSEPOV
>  Switch between above section modes
> 
> 0 L3P ENDPOV
>  Terminate conditional section
> 
> After running L3P, you can see in the POV file conditionals like
> if(0) or if(1)
> To see the alternate version for comparison, just change the constant in
> these conditionals.
> 
> If you don't understand any of this, don't worry,  I am following this post
> up with some examples.  Remember to get L3P V1.2 or latter to use thse.
> 
> -Chuck



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  L3P user primitive substitution
 
Awhile back, I persuaded Lars Hassing to add a feature to L3P. I wanted the ability to substutite POV language commands in the comments of a .DAT file that could be used in place of the DAT primitives when rendering through POV. This would allow (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)

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