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| "Kevin Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H90rrv.GHJ@lugnet.com... (...) Sure. While I prefer Tcl[1], any scripting solution would be a very welcome addition. If Perl makes it easier for you to introduce this functionality then (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
| | | | | Re: Sand Green and POV
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| "Kevin Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H90qHs.CCn@lugnet.com... (...) I suspected as much when I really started to look at it after you noted that you were using a shadowless light source. [ ... snipped ... ] (...) of (...) (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
| | | | | Re: Sand Green and POV
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| Here's some interesrting reading that dosen't answer the question but is very related (just trying to keep a path for historical sake). The thread wanders, but from here down is about CLUTs and MLCad custom (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
| | | | | Re: LPub support for external POV post processors (was Sand Green)
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| Mike, Can I offer embedded perl as a counter offer to Tcl? Perl is a very powerful language for manipulating text files. Kevin (...) [snip] (...) I really like the post processing idea for the items listed, especially the images, because it would (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| Mike, In the first image, there are no shadows. What you see are reflections. The reflection of the smoke stack on the top of the engine compartment looks like a shadow because the smoke stack is darker than the abient light you see other places. (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
| | | | | Re: LPub support for external POV post processors (was Sand Green)
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| "Kevin Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H90Moo.MrA@lugnet.com... (...) into (...) I (...) etc, (...) Let's add a Tcl scripting interface! Actually, it isn't a bad idea. I would think some of the processing steps I am thinking (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
| | | | | Re: Sand Green and POV
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| "Kevin Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H90L2r.HM2@lugnet.com... (...) 2.0.1.5 (...) [ ... snipped ... ] That is good news. I suppose I should look closer at the generated POV code before making assumptions! It must be the (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
| | | | | LPub support for external POV post processors (was Sand Green)
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| Mike, I like the external POV post processor idea a lot, although I'll try not to use it as a catch all for denying LPub enhancements ;-) It would be a command line mechanism with command line arguments. I can see these things being possibly useful (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
| | | | | Re: Sand Green and POV
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| Mike, LPub has always used shadowless lights for building instructions. 2.0.1.5 also has the ability to override ambient, diffuse and specular reflections default values created by L3P. I now turn reflections off, set ambient to 0.7 and diffuse to (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
| | | | | Re: Sand Green and POV
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| (...) Well, tried that and still nothing. Also tried changing the L3P color to Sand Green, and still nothing. Anyone else have any ideas? Jake --- Jake McKee LEGO Enthusiast Webmaster - B.I. Portal (URL) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
| | | | | Re: Sand Green and POV
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| "Kevin Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H8zv6n.n1z@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) using (...) [ ... snipped ... ] I have a include file that I use for lighting. It defines a shadowless light source that (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
| | | | | Re: Sand Green and POV
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| (...) LPub already post processes the POV files quite a bit, so doing some more might not be a bad thing. I've thought about providing for a list of simple text substitutions, that are blindly applied to the POV file, but these would be limited to (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
| | | | | Re: Sand Green and POV
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| When you use LPub, try to specify a color other than gray in the L3P->Model configuration tab. I've had some success with this method in L3P. Travis Dickinson (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| "Jake McKee" <sink@countersinkdg.com> wrote in message news:H8zqBB.8By@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) [ ... snipped ... ] Wouldn't it be nice if LPub had a feature to allow some user interaction or automated process to run on the POV code (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
| | | | | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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| (...) I like the fact the it doesn't use the registry. This mean I can move the LDRAW directory around at will and have to worry about flargging Windows not being able to update itself. You would think something as basic as update all the registry (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
| | | | | Re: Sand Green and POV
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| (...) without changing POV code. I have been using LPub (and loving it) and of course, can't modify the POV code. Is there a way to add Sand Green (and other custom colors for that matter) to the colors.inc file to avoid this? Or some other (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray)
| | | | | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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| I agree that it should ask. For example I keep my LDraw files in C:\Program Files\LDraw and MLCAD in C:\Program Files\MLCAD. It was a little awkward to set up, but it works great. If LDraw used a proper Windows installer then this wouldn't be an (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
| | | | | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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| (...) Another issue is the ownership of the changes. Do you wish to require authors who contribute changes to assign ownership of the changes to you? If you do not, then the program becomes partly owned by you and all whose code you have accepted (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
| | | | | Re: Sand Green and POV
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| (...) Yeah, I didn't think that it was an Lpub issue, most certainly a POV issue. I am really curious hwo to fix this without resorting to using L3P and POV without Lpub. I've become addicted! :) Jake --- Jake McKee LEGO Enthusiast Webmaster - B.I. (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
| | | | | Re: Buffer Exchange and Ghost parts
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| Øyvind, I don't think there is a way around this situation in MLCAD. I added PLIST BEGIN IGN meta-command to LPub, to ignore the second occurrence of parts, but I know of no way to do this in MLCAD. Kevin (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.inst)
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