Subject:
|
Is it possible to use LDView as POV-Ray previewer?
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.cad.ray
|
Date:
|
Fri, 2 Dec 2005 17:46:55 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
5761 times
|
| |
|
|
Hi
I am using it and I am really glad I've found it. But some models (or details)
require better rendering, so I use POV-Ray.
In POV, pinpointing exact camera_position and camera look_at parameters just by
typing coordinates is real pain even when using all the tricks I've found on
ldraw.org and elsewhere. One still has to type the coordinates, run the test
render, change coordinates little bit, run the render... and it sucks.
I think that it would be really great if I can set the view in LDview just by
rotating and dragging with mouse as usually, and then somehow get figures I
need (camera position, camera look at etc), so I can put them into my .pov file.
I have looked through the whole documentation for LDview, but didn't find
anything useful. Yet there is rotation matrix, it actually isn't full 4*4 trafo
matrix. I have the angles, but I don't have the offset of the model from the
centre of view. (It's actually rotation matrix for the model, not for the
camera, but i think I can derive camera parameters from it.)
Does anybody know how to do it (interactive camera positioning) or how to dig
out parameters from LDview?
Should I write it to the feature requests for the LDView, or did I miss
something and this feature is already there?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Robert
|
|
Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Is it possible to use LDView as POV-Ray previewer?
|
| (...) I tried to implement this functionality, but ran into a brick wall. The problem is that L3P doesn't allow for arbitrary camera positioning, so there's no way to convert LDView's arbitrary camera position into an L3P command line. Specifically, (...) (19 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
|
17 Messages in This Thread:
  
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
