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Re: realistic minifig heads with ldraw and povray?
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Sun, 1 Jul 2007 18:22:46 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Timothy Gould wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.ray, Tore Eriksson wrote:
> > 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
> > >
> > > 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.
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> > 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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> Would you be so kind as to add those (and any others you find) to the POV parts
> repository on the LDraw wiki, please.
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> http://ldraw.org/wiki/index.php/POVray_Parts_Repository
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> Tim
I'll try - if I get enough time.
There is a potential problem with the studs on top of the heads that I haven't
solved yet.
Btw, I found these beauties by Chuck Sommerville, too:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=2288
/Tore
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| Hi guys, thank you very much for so many good answers in a very short time. I found Anton Raves converter page yesterday. In the end the converted data was useless for me and his documentation is unreadable on a Windows PC :-( As so many others Lutz (...) (19 years ago, 2-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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