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Re: LPub and Mega-POV Question
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lugnet.cad.ray
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Fri, 26 May 2006 14:51:31 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.
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...
> 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
Thank you very much for that information. I just downloaded both programs.
Thanks,
David
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-06, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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