For the SW POVers out there...

I found this lurking around in the depths of my computer, a quick 
radiosity excercise from long ago. Someday I'll figure out how HDRI 
works and redo it.

~Mike

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> For the SW POVers out there...
> 
> I found this lurking around in the depths of my computer, a quick 
> radiosity excercise from long ago. Someday I'll figure out how HDRI 
> works and redo it.
> 
> ~Mike
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
Oh nice, I love the lego-style look :-))
Does LEGO made this kind of model ?

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thats funny. Reminds me of a book I saw this week at a little boutique. It
was The story of Genesis from the Bible, done with photos of lego creations
and one or two sentance passages. It was pretty funny. The lego creations
were very well done.

you've made a nice looking model.

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LightBeam wrote:
> Oh nice, I love the lego-style look :-))
> Does LEGO made this kind of model ?

Yes, they make just about every major Star Wars unit there is (ships and 
people/aliens, mostly). This model is almost an exact clone of the real 
LEGO droid (I think the feet are a little too big...other than that it's 
the same).

~Mike

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Ross wrote:
> thats funny. Reminds me of a book I saw this week at a little boutique. It
> was The story of Genesis from the Bible, done with photos of lego creations
> and one or two sentance passages. It was pretty funny. The lego creations
> were very well done.
> 
> you've made a nice looking model.

I've heard of that book (I forget the guy's name)...just remember that 
he took some artistic liberties and he was careful to choose only the 
stories where people were doing something wrong.

There is actually a 3D modeller for LEGO available at 
http://www.ldraw.org. There's some conversion necessary to get the file 
formats right, but other than that it's pretty straightforward (drag and 
drop, mostly). There's a little app there you can download that converts 
the LDRAW format in straight POV (only primitives and no CSG, 
unfortunately, which results in some very long files). From there it's 
all yours.

I hope to be posting a number of LDraw renders in the near future. :)

~Mike

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Mike Thorn wrote:
> Ross wrote:
> 
>> thats funny. Reminds me of a book I saw this week at a little 
>> boutique. It
>> was The story of Genesis from the Bible, done with photos of lego 
>> creations
>> and one or two sentance passages. It was pretty funny. The lego creations
>> were very well done.
>>
>> you've made a nice looking model.
> 
> 
> I've heard of that book (I forget the guy's name)...just remember that 
> he took some artistic liberties and he was careful to choose only the 
> stories where people were doing something wrong.
> 
> There is actually a 3D modeller for LEGO available at 
> http://www.ldraw.org. There's some conversion necessary to get the file 
> formats right, but other than that it's pretty straightforward (drag and 
> drop, mostly). There's a little app there you can download that converts 
> the LDRAW format in straight POV (only primitives and no CSG, 
> unfortunately, which results in some very long files). From there it's 
> all yours.
> 
There are also the straigh POV libraries by Anton Raves at
http://www.antonraves.com

> I hope to be posting a number of LDraw renders in the near future. :)
> 
> ~Mike

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andrel wrote:
> There are also the straigh POV libraries by Anton Raves at
> http://www.antonraves.com

This is true, and while this may be more useful/intuitive for POV 
purposes, it is somewhat limited in scope. The LDraw libraries are 
approaching completion of just about every piece LEGO makes/has made, I 
think. At least it seems that way - only once have I wanted a piece that 
wasn't available (and it is now, I think).

~Mike

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Mike Thorn wrote:
> andrel wrote:
> 
>> There are also the straigh POV libraries by Anton Raves at
>> http://www.antonraves.com
> 
> 
> This is true, and while this may be more useful/intuitive for POV 
> purposes, it is somewhat limited in scope. The LDraw libraries are 
> approaching completion of just about every piece LEGO makes/has made, I 
> think. 
I think Anton is claiming the same (i.e. nearly complete ;) )

And he added MegaPov 1.1 and Pov 3.6.1 support while I wasn't looking.

> At least it seems that way - only once have I wanted a piece that 
> wasn't available (and it is now, I think).
> 
> ~Mike

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andrel wrote:
> I think Anton is claiming the same (i.e. nearly complete ;) )

Ah, ok. I must have missed something when I looked. :)

~Mike

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Hello!

> > This is true, and while this may be more useful/intuitive for POV
> > purposes, it is somewhat limited in scope. The LDraw libraries are
> > approaching completion of just about every piece LEGO makes/has made, I
> > think.
> I think Anton is claiming the same (i.e. nearly complete ;) )

Well.. Anton did excellent work but his library is far from completion... He
did around 950 different pieces which is amazing for a single person.

The LDRaw library on the other hand is containing more then 2300 pieces with
quality checked parts... (and its still far from completion too).
Additionally another 400 parts are waiting in line to get qualified.

If you want to build and render a really detailed model you NEED a modeller
and the related pieces.. and that is where LDraw & MLCad would be my first
choice.(Take a look at this picture made in LDraw and rendered with POV :
http://www.ldraw.org/gallery/album53/m2001_12_sava_large.jpg )

If I just want to build a simple small lego item then Antons library might
be the faster choice.

Play well

C.

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