| | Re: Star Wars LDraw Models by Nth Dimension Website Will Chapman
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| | Wow! Nice renderings (the models are great too)! What program did you use to get the nice element delineation (brick lines) to show up? LPub? (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | Re: Star Wars LDraw Models by Nth Dimension Website Ahui Herrera
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| | | | (...) The porgram is called MEGAPov. It is an unoffical patch of POV-Ray. You can get it here: (URL) the same as POV-Ray but you use the find_egde function to get the brick lines. An easier way is to install POV, MEGAPOv and LPub. LPub has a (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | Re: Star Wars LDraw Models by Nth Dimension Website Will Chapman
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| | | | Thanks. I followed the LPub installation instruction, downloaded & installed the other components (l3GO, PovRay, MegaPOV, MLCad, etc.), and successfully rendered my mpd. However, when I look at the MegaPOV tab in LPub, it is completely blank! I (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | Re: Star Wars LDraw Models by Nth Dimension Website Ahui Herrera
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| | | | (...) 1. Open LPub 2. Click on the POV tab 3. Click on the Rendering tab 4. Click on the drop-down menu and choose "MEGA-POV => POV-Ray 3.1 5. Now the MEGAPOV Tab shoul be enabled. Note make SURE you downloaded POV-Ray 3.1g for windows and NOT (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | Re: Star Wars LDraw Models by Nth Dimension Website Tim Courtney
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| | | | (...) Also, I found it really great if you turn reflections to 0. This gives the smooth shading, or "cell shading" effect. Reflection statements are found in the color definitions, just do a find for "reflection" and you should see it. Set all of (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | Re: Star Wars LDraw Models by Nth Dimension Website Will Chapman
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| | | | Thanks Ahui, and Tim! My renderings are spot-on georgeous thanks to your tips and help. :) I couldn't find any reference to "reflections" anywhere, however. I'll keep looking.. (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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