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New to digital LEGO
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lugnet.cad.ray
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Tue, 2 May 2000 02:07:47 GMT
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Hi folks,
I've just picked up the challenge of using Ldraw, L3P, and POV-ray. At
http://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=431 you can see my first crack
results.
They are crude by the standards of some of your works, but I'm pretty excited
about how little time it took to run through the tutorials I found and start
making my own stuff.
But I'm pulling my hair out over the hilly scene, and maybe someone can help.
First, I would like to place several of the skimmers in a flock following the
hillside terrain. When I put them in the scene far enough from the camera that
I can have a bunch of them, they're just indistinct little smudges. Any hints,
or is that just a limitation of the media?
Also, I'm trying to rotate them around the y axis and it just doesn't work. Is
there something weird about what Ldraw and L3P do with axes? I'm not really
getting it. I have to flip the skimmer 180 to put it right-side up. Then when
I try to rotate them, to tip them down one of the far-off hilsides, I just
can't do it. It'll rotate around the other two axes, but I'm not sure I
understand when and why. The instructions and help for POV make it seem easy,
but it's not working the way they say it should.
TIA,
Christopher Weeks
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: New to digital LEGO
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| (...) If you're in LEdit: One thing you need to figure out is where your center of rotation is. By default, it's on <0,0,0>, but you can move it around. Personally, I keep a fake part line (e.g. 0.DAT) and move that around to help setting the center (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: New to digital LEGO
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| (...) From the thumbnails, your pics look pretty nice. However, I don't have the patience to download 3+ Mb bitmap files. Please consider saving your renderings as JPG files, and compress them to 150 Kb or less. --Bram (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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