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Re: L3P question concerning MPD files
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lugnet.cad.ray
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Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:47:37 GMT
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James Reynolds wrote:
> > written with Visual Basic?
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> > My language of choice for that tool would be C#, and the part that
> > calls L3P could easily be put into an external assembly (i.e. a
> > DLL).
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> Why not learn POV-Ray? If you know VB or C# or any language for that
> matter, POV-Ray is really simple compared to them (much less syntax
> to learn).
Well, can you create a POV-Ray file which will automatically read in an
LDraw MPD file and use settings files or maybe even a GUI to select
submodels from the MPD file and render those to several picture files?
That would be an interesting idea, of course.
> I'm creating a new LDraw POV-Ray video tutorial that I hope to get
> online today or sometime this week. I really hope you guys watch it
> because this stuff is so simple in POV-Ray once you learn how, and it
> is so much easier and more powerful than writing separate apps.
Ok, I'm going to watch it, no matter in what way I write my app :-)
> And POV-Ray code is cross-platform but VB and C# are not.
Actually, using Mono instead of .NET, C# programmes can be run on other
platforms than Windows, too, in an increasing extent :-)
Regards,
Florian
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| (...) Why not learn POV-Ray? If you know VB or C# or any language for that matter, POV-Ray is really simple compared to them (much less syntax to learn). I'm creating a new LDraw POV-Ray video tutorial that I hope to get online today or sometime (...) (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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