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Re: Another space render...
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Fri, 14 Apr 2000 22:35:26 GMT
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"John VanZwieten" <john_vanzwieten@email.msn.com> writes:
> Bram Lambrecht <braml@juno.com> wrote
> > 2) I created an include file which hacks all the available LGEO
> > parts into an L3P file.  If there's any interest, I'll post a copy
> > somewhere. I tried to get the pattern on slopes to show up, too,
> > but POV didn't seem to want to add the color of the part later, it
> > just left the slopes black.  So, the slopes are smooth, as in L3P...
> 
> There's interest here.  Can you explain more about what you did and
> how to use it in an L3P'd file?

Here's what I did:
in MS-DOS, in the LGEO directory, I typed
dir *.inc > lgeo.txt
I opened the text file in Excel to grab the column of available part
files.  I reopened the text file and separated "lg_", the part #, and
".inc" into three different columns so that I could grab all the
corresponding part numbers.
I then added columns into the spreadsheet to define the L3P part names to
the corresponding LGEO part names.  When I noticed that slopes weren't
rendering, I manually moved all the sloped parts to the end of the list
and added the sloped portion into a union of the part and the slope.

All you have to do is include the line:
#if (QUAL > 1) #include "lgeo_2_l3p.inc" #end
(well, the #if isn't really necessary, but that way you can still have
the bounding-box only parts)  after any set of part declarations.
Consider this L3P file:

#declare part1
#declare part2
#declare part3
#declare part4
#declare part5
#declare submodel
#declare part6
#declare part7
#declare part8
#declare model

I think for the include to work correctly, you need to include the file
after #declare part5 and after #declare part8
--Bram


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