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Subject: 
Re: 9V Train track DAT files?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains
Date: 
Wed, 13 Jun 2001 04:02:32 GMT
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Let me just first clear up a slight misconception... I wasn't trying to say
that either Chris OR James were doing anything wrong with theier use of
unofficial track models or anything like that.

I agree with Chris that the "wheel shiny" color is probably too shiny for
the rail... that rail is kind of a dull shiny. Typical Stainless Steel,
whereas the wheel almost looks chrome plated to my somewhat untrained eye.

I was toying with using the 9v track in my renderings (you can see them all
at the www.miltontrainworks.com site) but since someone else (Bram, thank
you very much Bram) put the render macros to gether for me, he went with the
12V/4.5v track and it looks fine to me anyway. Maybe not to a purist.

++Lar



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  Re: 9V Train track DAT files?
 
(...) Hi Lar (and everyone else), I didn't take what you said as an accusation of wrong doing; I understood your statement to mean that you just didn't like the color I chose, and that it shouldn't become the official color. Yep, I agree Whether it (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)

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  Re: 9V Train track DAT files?
 
(...) In lugnet.trains, Christopher Masi writes: (...) The color appears yellow in MLCad. Used L3P to convert to the POV-Ray format. When rendered in POV-Ray, the yellow "turns into" the shiny metal you see in the images of my APT at The BrickShelf. (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)

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