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Re: realistic minifig heads with ldraw and povray?
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lugnet.cad.ray
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Sun, 1 Jul 2007 21:43:00 GMT
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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
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> 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
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> /Tore
hi tore,
no flaming at all. there were very good reasons for introducing this policy:
http://news.lugnet.com/cad/dev/?n=9419
looks like there is no mirror of this post in the specs at LDraw.org. odd! has
some of you an idea why there is no trace?
w.
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