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"Kevin Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H89087.MI1@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) issues. (...) [ ... snipped ... ] As long as you are in there working on things - can you add an option to specify a directory where (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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Hi Jake, (...) I'm merely setting the camera angle to 1 which eliminates perspective. I do not set orthographic. I modified LPub so the lowest camera angle is 1, and fixed the label that indicates the actual camera angle so it is updated as the (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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So to clarify, rather than use the ortho setting, you are choosing the camera angle setting and using a 1? Is that it, or are you doing additional stuff? I was playing around last night and was noticing that the creations weren't always centered (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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I ran into the want for orthographic camera, with my pneumatic adding machine MOC, and made some discoveries. You can simulate orthographic images with a camera angle of 1. I tried using 0, but L3P silently ignores this and assumes you want the (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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My littlest niece got the 200-piece play table for Christmas (I wonder who?) and we tried to follow some of the instructions inside the idea book. They are really hard for a 7-year old. The chief difficulty is when what should be a 6 step build is (...) (22 years ago, 28-Dec-02, to lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: Win a free set!
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(...) Weird... I just noticed in my original post, I mis-spelled the URL. It should be: (URL) that and let me know via email (sink@countersinkdg.com) if it doesn't work. Thanks! Jake --- Jake McKee LEGO Enthusiast Webmaster - B.I. Portal (22 years ago, 24-Dec-02, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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(...) If you're gonna do optional lines then it'll only look correct when viewed from one direction. This means you can apply the standard cheat to solve the problem with cutoff cylinders on concave edges. Push all the edge cylinders toward the (...) (22 years ago, 24-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.inst)
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Hey jake, I've been unable to access the BIPortal for the last week or so. It keeps coming up with a "page missing" message. Just to let you know, so it can be fixed! peace _Lenny (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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(...) All line type 2 (and some type 5) should be visible. Why not? Edge lines along primitives are harder but not impossible. /Lars (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.inst)
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(...) L3P works on one file at the time (it doesn't walk the tree), and when it processes the model, the parts and submodels have been thrown away. Otherwise you are right. After posting I imagined I would let L3Lab (which walks the tree) generate (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.inst)
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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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| | Instructions of 5935
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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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Thanks for pointing this out Jake. The examples have been restored. (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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Kevin, just a quick note to let youknow tha thte examples on your LPub site are coming up as 404 errors - page not found. Jake --- Jake McKee LEGO Enthusiast (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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(...) I think I have this fixed. I found a problem with some initialization issues. LPub is supposed to remember where it found these things in a file in LPub's install directory called config.lpb. There should be two lines near the bottom: (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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Hi! I downloaded the new version and installed it. Every time I start it I have to specify where parts.lst and/or l3p.exe are. I tried it on the car, left every default option and got a message when I ran Generate > Complete Assembly: Could not find (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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Forgot to post these to cad and inst. LPub 2.1.0.0 is now available at (URL) number of bug are fixed in this release: - a major problem with numeric fields in the graphics user interface. - crashes when starting LPub without POV-Ray installed - (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: Build-a-Bot Hit 10,000 Hits!
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(...) Thanks T! (...) (URL) ya man, That's been up for awhile, I'm very happy about it, plus, it features some other familiar names too. I think the article is very important in that it helps open peoples eyes to the possibilities! Yay! (...) (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.inst)
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Congrats man! 10,000 man thats alot o' people! As a side note too I saw a link to your bshelf gallery on LEGO.com, I didn'y know if people knew about that or not! You have been recognized by the head honchos! That's gotta make you feel good too! (...) (22 years ago, 24-Nov-02, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.inst)
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Thanks Dave! Your a Good Friend. I too had no idea when I was just futz'n around with a Pile of Blue Lego! (...) Dave just think, mmmmmm, Orange Quarter Ovals in the Upper Legs, Brown, Green, Trans, and other Unbound Color Guru you could rock it! (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Well, while some instructions only have 20 click thrus, others have 600 or more. But just for discussion purposes, if you take an average, that average is 200 per instruction. But setting that aside, the key is that there are more than 42,000 (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.inst)
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"Jake McKee" <sink@countersinkdg.com> wrote in message news:H5wDFs.GCp@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) about (...) Yowza! (...) [ ... snipped ... ] Jake - can you elaborate on what this means? I am not sure what you mean by 200 click (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.inst)
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