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Re: LPub and Mega-POV Question
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Fri, 26 May 2006 11:18:11 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.ray, David J. Perdue wrote:
> > 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 (works great)
> > Pov-Ray 3.6.1 (works sometimes)
> > MegaPOV 1.1 and 1.21 (I've tried both and they don't work)
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Anyone have any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > David J. Perdue
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> Hi David,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Kevin
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 your old lpub setup before trying the change. Some people have experienced
big problems trying to change. If you can get it working though it is really,
really great and a lot quicker and prettier than MegaPOV.
Tim
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| (...) 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 (...) (18 years ago, 26-May-06, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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