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Re: LPub and Mega-POV Question
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Date: 
Fri, 26 May 2006 14:56:03 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Timothy Gould wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.ray, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> > 
> > 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
> 
> 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

Thanks for the tip, Tim.

- David



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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 (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-06, to lugnet.cad.ray)

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