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Re: Omitting DAT-code from POV output files?
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Date: 
Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:28:30 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Dave Schuler writes:
I've created a clone part in POV-Ray, the .pov file for which is somewhere
around 1.3K.  I inlined it in a somewhat large .dat file (over 100K) and
used the superfantastic L3P -enp to convert the file to POV-Ray, but the
output file was 320K!


I think this is what you want to do:

0 File header
0 L3P IFPOV
0 POV-Ray version of file goes here
....

0 L3P ELSEPOV
0 Ldraw version of file goes here
....

0 L3P ENDPOV
0 End of file
0

Andy



Message has 1 Reply:
  Thankyouthankyouthankyou! Re: Omitting DAT-code from POV output files?
 
(...) Ah-ha! This bit is the part that was messing me up! I wasn't leading the LDraw lines with the 0 character. Now the part converts to a 4.5K .pov file! Thank you very much for helping me work this out! Dave! (22 years ago, 13-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)

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  Omitting DAT-code from POV output files?
 
Now that I've made my first baby steps into the wild world of inlined POV-Ray code, I have a whole fleet of brand new dumb questions to ask, so here goes the first one: I've created a clone part in POV-Ray, the .pov file for which is somewhere (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)

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