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Re: Animation using Datsville
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Fri, 5 Mar 2004 15:52:50 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Michael Horvath wrote:
> Also, it would be nice if LDBoxer could replace bricks that have only their
> bottoms or only their tops covered, as opposed to replacing only those bricks
> that have both their bottoms and their tops covered. This, however, would
> necessitate the creation of an additional pair of replacement bricks for each
> and every brick (unofficial ones, at that).
> However, clever use of conditional statements within the existing part files
> might accomplish the same (I can go into more detail, if you wish). But, these
> would be unofficial modifications, as well.
> I would be willing to add the conditional statements into the simple bricks that
> LDBoxer currently checks for, but am not sure if my changes would be accepted
> into the next parts update.
I've been doing some experiments with different variants of LDBoxer, and also a
hing called LDFilTEr.
There is a semi-automatic version of LDBoxer where you can pick parts one by one
and the interface lets you filter out parts irrelevant for your decisions. I
know, this can be very time-conuming, despite my efforts to make it easier.
LDFilTEr can't filter out a cone, but at least objects that are placed behind
the "camera", or very much to the left or right. Btw, I'm not sure if I ever
made an official LDFilTEr(?)
My programming skills are limited. I wish I could make utilities that parsed
down through sub-models, that would be really great in the case of Datsville.
But so far, my utilities have been very linear; Open file, read first line,
process that line, read and process next line, close file when end of file is
reached.
Btw, thanks for using LDBoxer! :D
/Tore
PS. I've been thinking of adding "safe" simplified versions of Datsville's
buldings - at least the largest ones. With "safe", I mean "Simplification Level
B" - only parts without any risk are boxed. If you have a library with such
files, could you email them to me for the next Datsville update? Also, any
suggestion on how to solve the directory structure dilemma would be great. DS.
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Animation using Datsville
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| (...) Not that I'm aware of (...) I have MPD files of the individual town sections (i.e. Town02, Town10, etc) that have been run through LDBoxer. I can't send them to you if you'd like and then you could just Un-MPD them for the individual files. (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
| | | Re: Animation using Datsville
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| (...) What I meant was that this should be done by POVray within the .pov file, not in the the .ldr file. It is my understanding that one can put ifpov & ifnotpov statements into an .ldr file. They are, however, intended to be used solely by POVray. (...) (21 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Animation using Datsville
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| Also, it would be nice if LDBoxer could replace bricks that have only their bottoms or only their tops covered, as opposed to replacing only those bricks that have both their bottoms and their tops covered. This, however, would necessitate the (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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