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Re: LPub and Mega-POV Question
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Fri, 26 May 2006 10:58:35 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ray, David J. Perdue wrote:
> Hello all,
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> I'm trying to render using POV-Ray 3.6 and Mega-POV 1.21 or 1.1, and I am having
> some technical difficulties.
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> First, I have the following installed on my computer:
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> LPub version 2.4.8.0 (works fine)
> Pov-Ray 3.1 (works great)
> Mega-POV 0.7 (works great)
> Pov-Ray 3.6.1 (works sometimes)
> MegaPOV 1.1 and 1.21 (I've tried both and they don't work)
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> I like using Mega-Pov for my building instructions because of the nice outlining
> feature. I have had wonderful success with Pov 3.1 and Megapov 0.7, but my
> transition to pov 3.6 and megapov 1.21 (or 1.1) has not gone well.
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> Here's the scenario. I open LPub, select my LDraw file to render, select the
> Mega-Pov renderer, and tell LPub to render a "Complete Assembly." LPub obeys,
> opens Megapov, and Megapov dies with a "can't find LPub.ini error." I can get
> all my other versions of Pov-ray to work, so why wouldn't this work?
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> In addition, when I manually use megapov to render an image (which it can) it
> does not use the outlining feature I want. Despite entering the proper line of
> code in the program for enabling the Mega-pov features, I have not been able to
> get Megapov version 1.21 or 1.1 to outline anything.
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> Anyone have any suggestions?
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> Thanks,
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> David J. Perdue
Hi David,
From what I remember, MEGA-POV 0.7 is the last one that had the edge line
capabilities. It was dropped in the follow on version of MEG_POV and I don't
know if subsequent versions ever brought it back.
So, if you're set on ray tracing with edge lines, you'll have to stick with
POV-Ray 3.1.1 and MEGA-POV 0.7.
If your goal is edge lines, and you really don't care about they ray-tracing
part, I would recommend using the latest version of ldglite or LDView. These
are both excellent renderers that have been extended to make it easy for LPub to
interact with them as it would with L3P/POV-Ray.
Kevin
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: LPub and Mega-POV Question
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| (...) I will second Kevin's suggestion of changing to ldview or ldglite. They produce excellent instruction pics and I think they look much better than MegaPOV with edge-lines for instructions. That said, I would strongly recommend backing up all (...) (18 years ago, 26-May-06, to lugnet.cad.ray)
| | | Re: LPub and Mega-POV Question
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| (...) I was not aware of that! I had simply assumed that Megapov 2.11 had that same feature. No wonder it wasn't outlining my models... (...) Thank you very much for that information. I just downloaded both programs. Thanks, David (18 years ago, 26-May-06, to lugnet.cad.ray)
| | | Re: LPub and Mega-POV Question
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| (...) Hi Kevin, I hope you don't mind a question. I read your comments above and was thinking I might like to transition to that path for creating instructions. I've used Mega POV-Ray for a long time, but my goal is, as you note, just to have the (...) (18 years ago, 28-May-06, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | LPub and Mega-POV Question
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| Hello all, I'm trying to render using POV-Ray 3.6 and Mega-POV 1.21 or 1.1, and I am having some technical difficulties. First, I have the following installed on my computer: LPub version 2.4.8.0 (works fine) Pov-Ray 3.1 (works great) Mega-POV 0.7 (...) (18 years ago, 25-May-06, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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