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Re: realistic minifig heads with ldraw and povray?
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Sun, 1 Jul 2007 17:55:40 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Tore Eriksson wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.ray, Sven Reger wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm trying to produce a realistic minifig head with povray. I tried severals
> > head parts in MLcad but the result after conversion with L3P is always not very
> > good. I tried LGEO parts but it is too old and only supports a very early
> > version of the minifig head.
> > I tried the mesh enhancer from L. Teichert. The result is a little bit better
> > but still looks not very realistic. Espacially the upper part of the head still
> > has a lot of corners. And the mouth seems to disappear with mesh enhancer?!
> > L. Teichert is unreachable under his old mail addy...he has a small gallery with
> > really nice minifig renderings. So I think there is a way to reach a better
> > result.
> > Every idea or hint is very welcome!
> >
> > Sven
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> Taking the risk of being flamed again, I recall there were some minifig heads
> made using inline POV-code for use in L3P. If they can be spotted or reproduced,
> you (and I) will have very realistic minifig heads without compromizing the
> enourmous advantage of L3P's simplicity and resource economy.
>
> /Tore
With very little effort, I found this link:
http://news.lugnet.com/cad/dev/?n=9094
with this pretty little face (left = inline POV and right: standard LDraw)
http://web.telia.com/~u66203131/LDraw/3626bp6.jpg
I had to adjust two little code flaws, but it's very little sweat. (Hey, it took
less than 30 minutes to locate Paul Easter's file, copy, adjust, render, and
finally write this post.
I'm very sad that EmbPOV isn't allowed in official parts - but then again, it's
completely allowed in private, unofficial folders! :D
/Tore
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