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[ XFUT lugnet.general and lugnet.faq ] Kya Morden: (...) I can't remember SPUDs either. Steve? POOP = Piece (that can be built) Of Other Pieces Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: FAQqage: How to get zero perspective from L3P?
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Bram Lambrecht wrote in message <19990928.161727.509...no.com>... (...) Bram won the price. Please have a look at (URL) Jeff (onyx) pointed out, L3P already puts the orthographic setting inside the camera definition. It is commented out, so it has (...) (25 years ago, 29-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: FAQqage: How to get zero perspective from L3P?
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(...) It's even easier than that. Just run C:\LDRAW\MODELS>l3p -o -cg30,45 -ca5 somedat.dat and L3P will automatically compute the radius for an angle of 5. I almost always change the camera angle to something between 30 and 50. (-ca30, -ca50) For (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: FAQqage: How to get zero perspective from L3P?
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(...) actually, L3P already puts the orthographic setting inside the camera definition, it just has it REM'd out (//)... go to the end of the .POV file and you should see the camera definition (not quite at the end, but just before the light (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: FAQqage: How to get zero perspective from L3P?
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Sproaticus: (...) There is a camera type for this. It should be enough to add "orthographic" at the beginning of the camera definition[1]. It could be fun, if the DAT Explorer switched to cylindrical projection so we could get to look all the way (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: FAQqage: How to get zero perspective from L3P?
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(...) Argh! It's so simple! ;-) I swear, I'd get over these hurdles more easiliy if there was a recent book for POV-Ray... It would probably help if I read the whole doc, too, but it's like reading a dictionary (I usually get stuck around "G"). :-P (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: FAQqage: How to get zero perspective from L3P?
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(...) This is very simple to achieve. You simply insert the "orthographic" statement inside the "camera" declaration. This will generate an image with the same perspective as LDLITE does, i.e., no perspective at all. Of course, you'll need to alter (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.faq)
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| | FAQqage: How to get zero perspective from L3P?
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I think that's the right question. I'm trying to get L3P to give me zero skewing from perspective; I want an isometric view such as what LDraw gives me. I'm taking the approach that to do this in photography, you should get real far back and zoom (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Jambalaya FAQ?
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(...) Great work, Patricia! If you have the time, I raised some potential FAQ questions earlier, in: (URL) not sure which, if any, are really necessary, but they popped up in my noggin and probably the noggins of some others as well... :-, Cheers, - (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Less-Common Colors
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(...) I have to agree. If TLG wants to be non-violent, no guns anywhere. On the other hand, I think maybe they could draw a line with things like modern day weapons. I think they can give the police hand-held pistols, and still do without (...) (25 years ago, 21-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Less-Common Colors
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<snip> (...) You will also notice that there are not any real hand-held blasters in Star Wars. The closest they have come to blasters is a Classic Space camera thingy for the Rebel Soldier in the Snowspeeder set and Megaphones with trans-red 1x1 (...) (25 years ago, 21-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Less-Common Colors
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(...) Sorry, I didn't mean to imply it was a direct quote. The words in quotes are my attempt to re-state what I perceived to be the long-term reasoning from TLG. Steve (25 years ago, 21-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Less-Common Colors
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(...) I think the answer that Todd suggested (at the last NELUG meeting) was that swords, lances, etc., were added because they're 'historical'... and also you "can't have knights without swords"... as for the cannons, rifles, and pistols, well, I (...) (25 years ago, 20-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Less-Common Colors
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(...) How is LEGO non-violent if it produces cannons, rifles, pistols, swords, lances, etc, etc. Scott Smallbeck scotts@contactics.com (25 years ago, 20-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Less-Common Colors
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(...) The historical answer "green and brown (and a few other colors) can be easily used for military models, and LEGO is non-violent, so green and brown aren't allowed, except in limited situations". I don't think the cost of production was a real (...) (25 years ago, 20-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Browser Add-On to View DAT Files...
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(...) Like Larry said, start with non-MPD parts. LDLite doesn't always render MPD files correctly, so avoid them until you know everything else works. If you are using Internet Explorer, you can set things up pretty easily. First, open Windows (...) (25 years ago, 20-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Less-Common Colors
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I've always been curious as to why green and brown pieces have always been relatively uncommon; I realize that it now probably has to do with the higher production costs associated with adding a color scheme to existing parts; however, what I am (...) (25 years ago, 20-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Browser Add-On to View DAT Files...
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Steven Broughton: (...) It sounds more like a bug in your browser. (...) You aren't. That's just a name your browser grabs from the URL you download from. (...) No. They can end in whatever you feel like as long as they are identified as being LDraw (...) (25 years ago, 19-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Browser Add-On to View DAT Files...
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Try a simpler one first with only one part... I believe that when you install LDLite it will automatically make the association for you if you use netscape. if not, when netscape prompts you what to do with the file, instead of downloading it, tell (...) (25 years ago, 19-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Browser Add-On to View DAT Files...
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Thanks, glad to know that I have the right programs. However, I guess that means I'm doing something else wrong. When I click on the [DAT] link that (I presume) should be a link to the DAT file, I am told that I am downloading ldraw.cgi. I thought (...) (25 years ago, 18-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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