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AndersI wrote:

Wolf01 wrote:I already tried with mlcad and wings3D, but none of them are simple, ok, mlcad is it, but the povray model made with ldview doesn't convince me

Did you try BlockCAD (see sig)? It's the simplest of all the Lego CAD-systems. You can do one-click renderings with POVRay, using either the L3P-generated parts, or Lutz Uhlmann's parts with more facets etc..

Edit: Fixed the lightning a bit in the BlockCAD image.

TrueLight wrote:What light source did you use for the l3p? It looks good!

// Lights:
light_source {
	<1000,-5000,-1000>  // Latitude,Longitude,Radius: 60,-120,240.952
	color rgb 0.5*<1,1,1>
}

light_source {
	<-1000,-5000,1000>  // Latitude,Longitude,Radius: 60,-120,240.952
	color rgb 0.2*<1,1,1> 
	shadowless
}                          
light_source {
	<0,-5000,0>  // Latitude,Longitude,Radius: 60,-120,240.952
	color rgb 0.5*<1,1,1> 
	shadowless
}                          

AndersI wrote:

TrueLight wrote:What light source did you use for the l3p? It looks good!

To be honest, I don't know BlockCAD patches the L3P generated file before sending to POVRay, so I just set the light position in BlockCAD and click 'Render'. I'll have to re-create the render and check. Just a minute, maybe the file is still there ... [...] ... ah, found it!

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// Lights:
light_source {
	<1000,-5000,-1000>  // Latitude,Longitude,Radius: 60,-120,240.952
	color rgb 0.5*<1,1,1>
}

light_source {
	<-1000,-5000,1000>  // Latitude,Longitude,Radius: 60,-120,240.952
	color rgb 0.2*<1,1,1> 
	shadowless
}                          
light_source {
	<0,-5000,0>  // Latitude,Longitude,Radius: 60,-120,240.952
	color rgb 0.5*<1,1,1> 
	shadowless
}                          

I think the key lies in setting the extra lights 'shadowless' - they fill in the details but don't cast shadows. Also note that the sum of the light intensities shouldn't be too far from 1.0.

Wolf01 wrote:so... coders! where are you?

Soeb wrote:Can you update first post and added there link to additional shores ( I posted them some time ago, I think their on 16th page ).