I'm using POV-Ray 3.1 on Windows XP. My renderings are fine out of LPub,
except that the drawings of the separate, individual parts are
disproportionally large, compared with the drawings of the complete models.

Does anyone know how to reduce the size of these individual part drawings?

Thanks much,

Rick R.

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On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:58:25 EST, "Railrho" <nomail@nomail> wrote:

>I'm using POV-Ray 3.1 on Windows XP. My renderings are fine out of LPub,
>except that the drawings of the separate, individual parts are
>disproportionally large, compared with the drawings of the complete models.
>
>Does anyone know how to reduce the size of these individual part drawings?
>
>Thanks much,
>
>Rick R.

An example might help clarify what you mean.
Sorry, but it is not obvious to me what you want. 

Regards
	Stephen

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Sorry, Stephen, I wasn't very clear.

If you save POV-Ray images using the web page feature, the web page shows
the model being built on the top, and below that model are shown the parts
that are used to complete the model sequence featured above it. The model
size is fine, but the parts shown below the model on the web page are three
or four times the size of the model above it. I don't know why this is. If
you have any ideas, I'd be grateful.

Thanks,

Rick R.

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"Railrho" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message
news:web.4596d2bd2b143266c070f5810@news.povray.org...
> Sorry, Stephen, I wasn't very clear.
>
> If you save POV-Ray images using the web page feature, the web page shows
> the model being built on the top, and below that model are shown the parts
> that are used to complete the model sequence featured above it. The model
> size is fine, but the parts shown below the model on the web page are three
> or four times the size of the model above it. I don't know why this is. If
> you have any ideas, I'd be grateful.

I still don't understand what you mean :-/
I've read it ten times now, but still it doesn't seem to make sense :-/

maybe if you show us a screenshot?

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#end#end _(y-x,y,x,x+y)_(y,-x-y,x+y,y)_(-x-y,-y,y,y+z)_(-y,y,y+z,x+y)
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Yes, I'd like to show you a screen shot, but the forum won't let me post
attachments. Is there a way that the forum will allow me to post
attachments?

Rick

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You can either upload it to a website and paste a link or I believe you can 
use povray.binaries.misc (not certain) and refer to that message in this 
group.

Thanks,
Jonathan

"Railrho" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
news:web.45972e322b143266c070f5810@news.povray.org...
> Yes, I'd like to show you a screen shot, but the forum won't let me post
> attachments. Is there a way that the forum will allow me to post
> attachments?
>
> Rick
>
>

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"Jonathan" <redmasq(at)redmasq.com> schreef in bericht 
news:45975095@news.povray.org...
> You can either upload it to a website and paste a link or I believe you 
> can use povray.binaries.misc (not certain) and refer to that message in 
> this group.
>

No, povray.binaries.images is where you post images.

Rick, reading your initial message, left me also totally in the dark. I am 
afraid you are refering to something not POV-Ray related... But an image 
would clarify the issue.

Thomas

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On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:58:13 EST, "Railrho" <nomail@nomail> wrote:

>Sorry, Stephen, I wasn't very clear.
>
>If you save POV-Ray images using the web page feature, the web page shows
>the model being built on the top, and below that model are shown the parts
>that are used to complete the model sequence featured above it. The model
>size is fine, but the parts shown below the model on the web page are three
>or four times the size of the model above it. I don't know why this is. If
>you have any ideas, I'd be grateful.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Rick R.

Hi Rick, Do you mean save images from the newsgroups? Or are you talking about
Povray itself? What programme are you referring to? You mention LPub, a Lego
programme? Confusion reigns, somewhat, but we will get to the bottom of your
problem. 
And as Thomas says povray.binaries.images is where you post images. The misc
group is not used much and any postings there might be missed.


Regards
	Stephen

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Thanks, Stephen.

I posted a screen shot of my problem in the binaries section of this
newsgroup. Hope this helps to solve my problem.

Rick

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> I posted a screen shot of my problem in the binaries section of this
> newsgroup. Hope this helps to solve my problem.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

> Does anyone know how to reduce the size of these individual part drawings?

LPub was written by Kevin L. Clague, he probably would know exactly
how LPub generates POV code, although I think LPub isn't open source.

>How do I reduce the size of these part list images?

I found this link http://www.users.qwest.net/~kclague/LPub/LPub.html
That suggests that part images can be made smaller by adding it to the
half_size.ldr file in the Part_Images subdirectory of your LPub install.

>Is there a setting in POV-Ray that would accomplish this?

There are settings for POV that can choose the output resolution
(+H#, +W# on the command line), and there are portions of the POV SDL that
can scale objects. However, LPub is generating this code for you, so no.

> The model size is fine, but the parts shown below the model on the
> web page are three or four times the size of the model above it. I don't
> know why this is.

I think that the part images come from the part image database in
LPub, I'm not sure if that is rendered on installation, or distributed.
The images probably can be modified if they remain in the same
resolution and file format.

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