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Re: Smooth surfaces
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Date: 
Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:42:00 GMT
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My thought was that the smoothing could be turned on and off, as
appropriate. That would require metastatements in the parts files.

Extra metastatements will slow down processing, but not by very much.

They will also increase file size, but again, not by very much.  Unless
someone likes to turn triangle smoothing on and off a lot.

Steve

In lugnet.cad.ray, Michael Horvath writes:
Instead of shoving all these metastatements into files, maybe a file
conversion utility (DAT -> POV) should keep an INI file that records which
parts can be processed in this way, and which cannot.
I'm basing this suggestion on the assumption that more metastatements will
increase file size, but if that's not really the case, then nevermind.
-Mike


In lugnet.cad.ray, Steve Bliss writes:
In lugnet.cad.ray, Lothar Teichert wrote:

I think the following is of interest in this newsgroup:

Wow!  Yes, I'd say it's definitely of interest!  At least it is to me.
:)

See some examples at http://members.aol.com/elferwette/LDraw/index.htm.

That one example looks awesome!

Is it worth to ask Lars Hassing for integration in L3P, e.g. controlled by
commandline parameters?

Heck yeah!

Would there be any point to discussing possible meta-statements, to turn
smoothing on and off for different sections of part files?

Steve



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Smooth surfaces
 
(...) I agree with Steve. My program is processing mesh by mesh, try it by using the clipboard-feature. You would give away control facilities if there's no control in the dat-file. I'm not familiar with the dat-fileformat and the processing of L3P, (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
  Re: Smooth surfaces
 
Ok (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
  Re: Smooth surfaces
 
I know this is an old discussion, but I really like Steve's idea of meta-statements to control this. What would be really cool is to have all the primitives and parts in the parts library have the meta-statements that simply turn smooth triangles on (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)

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  Re: Smooth surfaces
 
Instead of shoving all these metastatements into files, maybe a file conversion utility (DAT -> POV) should keep an INI file that records which parts can be processed in this way, and which cannot. I'm basing this suggestion on the assumption that (...) (23 years ago, 22-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)

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