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Re: Minifig Heads
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lugnet.cad.ray
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Thu, 22 Nov 2001 01:37:03 GMT
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Which version of pov are you useing? 3.1 or 3.5?
I'm getting a few errors with that.
Gary
Bram Lambrecht <bram@cwru.edu> wrote in message
news:000301c172c4$d30fa960$b7fb1681@bl...
> Joel Hoornbeek writes:
> > I'm still enough of a novice to not know how to do that. Is
> > it something you do in the .dat file stage? Do in the .pov
> > file? I seem to lear the best by example, so if you know of
> > someone who has posted a file which demonstrates this, I'd
> > like to look at it. Thanks!
>
> In general, improved results for any rendering are accomplished by
> editing the POV file. Each LDRAW part gets converted to a POV 'object'
> when you run L3P. If you use -lgeo, then the object is simply a
> transformation of the LGEO object for the part stored in an INC
> (include) file. Every time a part gets used in a model, it is called,
> using a line something like this:
> object { _3626b_dot_dat transform <...> material { Color14 } }
> If that's the minifig head you want to add a face to, then change it to:
> object { _3626b_dot_dat
> material {
> Color14
> texture {
> pigment {
> image_map {
> gif // gif,tga,iff,ppm,pgm,png
> "myface.gif" // extension must match to keyword
> above
> map_type 2 // cylindrical map
> }
> scale <1,24,1> // scale to the height of the head
> }
> }
> }
> transform <...>
> }
>
> You may have to add rotate statements after the scale to get the face to
> face the right direction. For more on image maps see:
> http://nucwww.chem.sunysb.edu/povray_doc/pov298.html
> http://nucwww.chem.sunysb.edu/povray_doc/pov355.html
> HTH,
> --Bram
>
>
> Bram Lambrecht
> bram@cwru.edu
> www.bldesign.org
>
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