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  2 Methods of Making CG Animations (was Re: LEGO animation software)
 
--snip-- (...) Nope. =( It will render the animation in a movie file format (..mpg, .avi, etc..) when you are done. LD4DModler does not go the route of frame-by-frame animation as POV-Ray does, it uses 3D modeling. (The following text comes from a (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
 
  Re: Simple POV-Ray Question - Perspective
 
(...) Here's what I use when I'm rendering parts: camera { orthographic sky -y right -4/3*x location <100,-60,100>*100 look_at <0,20,0> angle 1 } Change the location and look_at to suit your tastes. Note that I multiply the location by 100. I work (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Simple POV-Ray Question - Perspective
 
(...) If you just do a straight "L3P model.dat," then you're right; the whole model fits very nicely in the camera's view (though a little fish-eyed, I find). But if you switch the view to orthographic, the model can appear a bit off-center and (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Simple POV-Ray Question - Perspective
 
(...) As long as you let L3P calculate the camera distance, the whole model should be visible, and (mostly) fill the frame. I just copied the L3P auto-camera algorithm into LDView, and it works consistently for me with camera angles ranging from 0.1 (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: LEGO animation software
 
(...) Ahui showed me that site just the other day; that guy is wonderful. My brain hurts. I'd be very, very interested in seeing some tutorials on your animations, Steve. I watched your entire Brickshelf animation collection a couple days ago and (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: LEGO animation software
 
(...) Hello I dont have much experience with writing programs. But I am working on writing a tutorial on how to make animations with povray using the clock, transform, and rotate commands. Maybe a couple of weeks. For now this is the best site I (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Simple POV-Ray Question - Perspective
 
(...) I've run into this problem, and my caveman-sophistication led me simply to translate the object a little to put it back in line with the look_at coordinates. Even so, I often have to change the "PCT" value to 5 or 10 to accommodate all of my (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Simple POV-Ray Question - Perspective
 
(...) Don't you then have to move the camera a ways back to get all your objects in the image compared to larger camera angles? This is what I tend to do, long ways away, small canera angle (anaogous to "telephoto" in real photogs, the images there (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Simple POV-Ray Question - Perspective
 
(...) Using orthographic does not always work. You can get the same effect by seeing the camera angle to 0.1 Kevin (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Simple POV-Ray Question - Perspective
 
(...) Just add the word orthographic. You may have to adjust the location. camera { orthographic location <708.303,-747.057,-563.561> sky -y right -4/3*x look_at <176.812,4.58475,-32.0701> angle 67.3801 rotate <0,1e-5,0> } Steve (21 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)


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