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Re: L3P question concerning MPD files
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lugnet.cad.ray
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Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:28:39 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Florian Haag wrote:
> Tim Gould wrote:
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> > In lugnet.cad.ray, Florian Haag wrote:
> > > 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.
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> > I imagine I can do that in less than 20 lines of POV-Ray code using
> > an INI script.
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> Well, great, also with a graphical settings editor?
> Is there any alternative for L3P then, which is written completely in
> POV-Ray? Or would the POV-Ray script have to call L3P then?
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> Thanks for improving my knowledge on POV-Ray :-),
> regards,
> Florian
I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you spend the time learning how to use
POVray rather than writing a GUI MPD editor then not only can you do what you
describe really easily, as an added bonus you can make your renders look good in
the process.
Tim
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: L3P question concerning MPD files
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| (...) Which is *exactly* what I've been trying to say (to other people in the past as well). I've also figured out a way to use an LDraw editor to create keyframes (because I'm tired of having to imagine everything and render and have it come out so (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
| | | Re: L3P question concerning MPD files
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| (...) Sorry, no offense intended - I'm afraid I didn't provide a good description of what I was going to do. I was planning to write a little tool to automatically combine images (such as: take picture1, draw picture2 scaled down to 20% into the (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: L3P question concerning MPD files
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| (...) Well, great, also with a graphical settings editor? Is there any alternative for L3P then, which is written completely in POV-Ray? Or would the POV-Ray script have to call L3P then? Thanks for improving my knowledge on POV-Ray :-), regards, (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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