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Re: Newbie having trouble ray tracing MLCad models
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lugnet.cad.ray
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Fri, 31 May 2002 10:34:15 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Ahui Herrera writes:
> In lugnet.cad.ray, Tore Eriksson writes:
> > In lugnet.cad.ray, Christopher J. Dean writes:
> > > // Input file: C:\LDRAW\MODELS\Ambulance\Ambulance (wide) NYC.dat
> >
> > I don't know, but it looks like the name of the input file contains whitespaces.
> > This is a known source of errors. To be on the safe side, I always stick to
> > the old 8.3 DOS naming format. Good luck.
> >
> > /Tore
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> Yup! That IS the problem. If you want to use the automatic feature of L3PAO
> (in which it render the image after it converts it) you NEED TO keep the old
> DOS 8.3 file naimg format. That format is: 8 alpha-numeric characters
> followed by a '.' and then 3 alph-numeric characters.
I don't think that's the problem!
Christopher J. Dean wrote that the file did appear in PovRay,
it just contained a lot of "// Empty model" lines.
L3P can handle long filenames with spaces, you (or the program
that calls L3P) should just enclose it in quotes ("),
which is common practice for filename arguments.
However, L3P16 only supports the 8.3 format.
> Try renaming your file from
> C:\LDRAW\MODELS\Ambulance\Ambulance (wide) NYC.dat
> to
> C:\LDRAW\MODELS\Ambulance\AmbW_NYC.dat
A program only supporting the 8.3 format would not recognize the above path,
since the "Ambulance" directory is 9 characters long :-)
While many programs supports long filenames (of the model),
it's not advicable to use WITHIN DAT/LDR files.
/Lars
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 | | Re: Newbie having trouble ray tracing MLCad models
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| (...) Yup! That IS the problem. If you want to use the automatic feature of L3PAO (in which it render the image after it converts it) you NEED TO keep the old DOS 8.3 file naimg format. That format is: 8 alpha-numeric characters followed by a '.' (...) (22 years ago, 30-May-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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