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  LGEO and colours
 
I've noticed that if I use tan in my models the parts actually come out using the default colour choice set using l3p (greyish if not defined). I've got the complete lgeo download and the #15 update. Anyone else managed to fix this? Or is something (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: LGEO and colours
 
(...) I get the same problems. I think it has to do with l3p not reconising it as an "official" ldraw color, but as a homemade/custom color. I do not know how to fix it though. l3p Does this to me with trans orange as well, so it is not just l3p (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: LGEO and colours
 
L3p does not seem to recognize the newer "LDlite" colors, including orange, tan, trans orange. For it to work use the color numbers in the list below. I've also added some other less-used colors. tan: 382 transparent-orange: 44 orange: 462 (...) (24 years ago, 12-May-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: LGEO and colours
 
Daniel Crichton wrote... (...) If L3P is call3ed with the -lgeo option, it first looks up a color number in L2P_COLR.TAB. If it is found the lg_xxx color is used. (L3P can dump the contents of L2P_COLR.TAB if called with -d (debug) too) If not, you (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: LGEO and colours
 
(...) I use L3PAO to call L3P so it's difficult to see the error message :) The POV does include something like this, however for a tan part it uses the default colour setting, eg. if I choose Drk Cyan for the default colour then all tan parts are (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: LGEO and colours
 
Daniel Crichton wrote... (...) Ah, is it the "one part problem", see (2 URLs) ? L3P or POVRay has a problem with DAT files with only one part, that's why I added the -c option. Daniel Crichton wrote first in this thread... (...) Before my previous (...) (24 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: LGEO and colours
 
Austin Greenwood wrote... (...) Please be more specific. My L3P v1.3 20010120 renders color 57 Transparent Orange well. /Lars (24 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: LGEO and colours
 
"Lars C. Hassing" <lch@ccieurope.com> wrote in message news:GDrCFM.L0w@lugnet.com... (...) Ah, I always thought that option was for if you were rendering files directly from the parts dir (where most colours were specifed as 16 and 24) so you could (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)

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