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Hi Travis,
I did actually download and try out your new version of LDVIEW.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work well with my computer. I have a
voodoo 2 3d card and a 450MHZ computer. It selects software rendering
instead of the hardware accelleration. Given that this is a fairly complex
model, my frame rate is about 1 frame a second!
Support for Voodoo 1&2 would be great, but I can understand the difficulty
if you don't have that sort of card. Ironically, I bought a Voodoo because
it was most compatible with games at the time.
LDVIEW does look like a cool program. I look forward to a new update with
more hardware support, or to a time when I can get some updated hardware.
Brad
Travis Cobbs <tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com> wrote in message
news:G2M3ps.51n@lugnet.com...
> "Brad Hamilton" <bhamilto1@home.com> wrote in message
> news:G2LoCH.C5n@lugnet.com...
> > > > Nathan McDowell <Skiing_Scotsman@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > > Wow! I've never used LDraw but I can imagine that making something • that
> > big
> > > in that program without having something real to base it on was some • hefty
> > > piece of work to accomplish. It looks great! =)
> >
> >
> > Thanks again. I actually had to keep rendering it in POV-ray to get a
> > decent view of things. MLCAD provides a 3-d view, but it is somewhat • rough.
> > The POV-ray output is great and it only takes a second or two to • generate
> at
> > reasonable quality. MLCAD is a little difficult to learn, but its • pretty
> > efficient once you get the basics down.
>
> I don't mean to blow my own horn (well, not too much anyway), but have you
> tried LDView? It certainly doesn't produce visuals at the quality level • of
> L3P->POVRay, but I feel the quality is pretty good, especially since it's • a
> realtime viewer. And, if you enable auto-update polling, it will reload
> every time you save your model in MLCAD.
>
> Not having access to your DAT file, I'm not sure how fast it would be with
> this particular model, but I wouldn't expect it to be TOO slow (assuming • you
> have a video card with decent OpenGL support).
>
> I just announced version 1.0 on .announce, .cad, and .cad.dev, but here is
> the URL:
>
> http://home.san.rr.com/tcobbs/LDView/
>
> --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com)
>
>
>
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