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Subject: 
Re: conversion to POVRAY
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Date: 
Mon, 11 Jun 2001 21:03:44 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Jake McKee writes:
In lugnet.cad.ray, Tim David writes:
Hi

This weekend I have been reading the instructions for L3P, both the ones on
the site and the ones that come zipped with the program. I can't work it out
Could someone give me a brief, clear guide as to how to use it?

I would suggest skipping the learning curve of L3P and download the L3PAddOn
program. It is a very nice windows interface that writes out the L3P commands.

You can download it at www.Ldraw.org.

  Alternatively, I recommend that, if you're going to start with L3P, as I
did, your best bet is simply to render the model straight off the page:

   l3p model.dat

and then play around with the POV file within POV-Ray.  I'm not especially
conversant with all the ins and outs of POV-Ray scene language, but I've
found that having to muddle through the tough stuff, while slower (as Jake
correctly points out) has benefitted me in understanding POV-Ray's use.
But, as they say, YMMV.

     Dave!



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  Re: conversion to POVRAY
 
(...) I would suggest skipping the learning curve of L3P and download the L3PAddOn program. It is a very nice windows interface that writes out the L3P commands. You can download it at www.Ldraw.org. Jake --- Jake McKee AFOL LUGNET Member #211 (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)

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