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I realized that this suggestion might work fine for rectangular parts, but cylindrical parts won't have edge lines along the cylinder walls, right? Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.inst)
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"Lars C. Hassing" <lch@ccieurope.com> skrev i meddelandet news:H7JwBt.7t1@lugnet.com... (...) Perhaps L3P could collect all the edge lines during part generation, but defer the output until the complete model has been generated, and then write (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.inst)
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(...) First, I don't think that it is related to the "smooth triangle" algorithm, because this is independent of the scale of the triangles, it only deals with their surface normals. The basic problem is, that there is no such thing as a line in (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Yes, I plan adding -co for orthographic camera with automatic camera positioning. But the orthographic camera has changed in PovRay 3.5, and it is playing games with me. Perhaps I'll use the command "version 3.0" to overcome my trouble... (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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Excellent suggestion!! I've been wrestling with MegaPOV lately, having frustration with different size submodels and the find_edges settings. I want to keep the line thickness relative to the _parts_ and not to the render resolution, but since the (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.inst)
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I just got another email discussing the use of orthographic camera and building instructions. The two do not work well together, and won't for the forseeable future. LPub leaves it to L3P to determine the camera settings. For a given LDraw file, (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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(...) YUPY! This at least helps me out in not "killing" myself in trying to get more of my BIs out the door sooner. I really need to clear my inbox of BIs in progress but got too much "other LEGO" work bogging me down right now. -AHui (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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(...) Absolutely! But don't let that stop you from adding even more great instructions! Jake --- Jake McKee LEGO Enthusiast Webmaster - B.I. Portal (URL) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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Dear Jake, I was wondering do we get credit for previous reviews or instructions which were added before the contest? If we do not that is ok. Ben (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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That's right! The Building Insturctions Portal ((URL) is giving away a 5563 Model Team Racing Truck! In an ongoing effort to help build and grow the Building Instructions Portal, we are making adding your instructions links even more rewarding! (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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Hello people, You can find pictures of my latest custom, a 'not so mini' mini Rebel Blockader Runner, here: (URL) recently been obsessed with creating instructions and this is my first custom that comes complete with LDraw file, parts list and PDF (...) (22 years ago, 17-Dec-02, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.inst) !
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I figured out what my problem was, in my POVRAY.ini file I had the settings initial_frame = 0 final_frame = 0 initial_clock = 0 final_clock = 0 included, so POVRAY kept rending the images with Stepping and putting an number on the end of my .bmp (...) (22 years ago, 14-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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Hi James, Please email me two files and some information: 1. The test.ldr file 2. config.lpb from the directory in which you installed Lpub 3. The name of the full path which test.ldr exists. 4. The version of LPub you used. You can send these (...) (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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I have a test project called test.ldr with 4 steps. When I run LPub and use the Instruction Images feature everything seems to go just fine for the first step. But after the first step is rendered I get the error message "Image file test.bmp not (...) (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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Hi all, where can I find instructions of the set #5935 (Adventure plain) ? They aren't on Lugnet. Thanx. (22 years ago, 11-Dec-02, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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Thanks for clarification on this Kevin. I didn't realise that different settings only affected 'Complete Assembly' and not also the Instruction Images' (...) for building instructions. This makes sense and now I know how this works, I have done this (...) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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Hi Richard, One of the things that is ill-defined for LPub is which controls affect Complete Image, and which controls affect Building Instructions. The camera settings you refer to only affect complete image. LPub assumes that you will use rotation (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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Kevin, Well done on this newer version - it is a HUGE improvement over the previous earlier version and I no longer get the calculation errors I used to get with the numeric fields. I do however have one strange problem that I think is a bug; I am (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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LPub 2.1.0.3 has been released to (URL) is a bug fix release: - Single image generation complains that lsynth is not installed - LPub forgets where LDraw and L3P are installed when saving global config - Selecting specify output file name for (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: LPub 2.1.0.0 Available
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Willy Tschager has been testing LPub for bugs and trying to make it die, which is a *huge* help to me and you. He reported the following bugs in LPub 2.1.0.1. I've resolved all the reported bugs and the fixes will be available in LPub 2.1.0.3 and (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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