Needed titles are:
* Steering Committee or SteerCo
* Standards Board or LSB
* Administrator
* LDraw.org Member
* James Jessiman Memorial Award or JJMA
* Parts Author
* Parts Author/Reviewer
* Library Administrator
* Anything else you think may be relevant
I've just installed POV-ray and I'm trying to find out what I can do with it from LPub3D
I have gone to Configuration > Preferences > Rendering, ticked the POV-Ray is installed box and found the path for POV-Ray: (C:\Program Files\POV-Ray\v3.7\bin\pvengine64.exe) and L3P (C:\Program Files (x86)\LDraw\LPub3D\3rdParty\l3p1.4WinB\L3P.EXE).
I have also ticked the LGEO is available box as I installed that too (with the AIOI), but I am confused about what to put in that field. There is no executable, so my best guess is C:\Program Files (x86)\LDraw\LGEO
With this in place I have set Preferred Renderer to POV-Ray and tried to render the first page of a set of instructions I am working on. However, POV-Ray throws error message after error message saying something is wrong. I have tried to figure out how to copy the information in the message pane (POV-Ray itself sends me to the Edit menu, but I can't seem to find what I need there) so I can post it here and ask what I may be doing wrong.
...toggle the visibility of conditional line control points.
...drag&drop files on the 3D editor view.
...drag&drop files on the text editor view.
...use the new "modern" GUI layout on a fresh installation.
...activate anti-aliasing on some linux systems with MESA/Gallium*
The following critical issues were fixed:
Risk of data loss: When you open a file again (which was unsaved in LDPE) the file in the 3D view gets cleared.
"Show selection in text editor" did not work correctly for subfiles, if the text editor was closed before.
"Open Part File" from the 3D editor opens a text editor window, too.
Identical lines are not detected if they have different colours.
CSG does not work with invalid colour numbers.
"Unselect" (Ctrl+Click) does not work for subfiles.
Subfile selection issues with adjacent subfiles.
The coarse/medium/fine grid buttons don't stay pushed.
The program was tested intensively with "real world" files.
However, it is still a beta version and something can go wrong in about 100.000 lines of code.
Make sure that you choose the right architecture for your OS and Java Virtual Machine (JVM) (64bit or 32bit).
A short guide how to check if a 64bit JVM is installed on your system is located at the bottom of this message.
Download the zip-Archive
Extract the archive content to the location of your choice
On windows, double-click "run.bat" to start LDPE.
On linux/mac, you have to excecute the shell script "run.sh" to start LDPE.
Please note that this software is in the beta stage. Although, LDPE 0.8.7 was carefully tested and developed, there are already known issues for this release. There is a potential risk of data loss.
You can search for updates if you do the following steps:
On windows, double-click "update.bat" to search for updates.
On linux/mac, you have to excecute the shell script "update.sh".
I listen carefully to your requests and possible complaints. Please leave me a message, with your thoughts and wishes to further improve the software.
LDPE is a 3D CAD application: The overall system requirements are higher. While I recommend to use a powerful 64-bit multicore system, it could be possible, to run LDPE on older machines as well.
System Requirements:
Minimum System Requirements:
Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.8
OpenGL 2.1 compatible Graphics Card
Operating System (32/64bit): Windows [XP; Vista; 7 or newer], Mac OS X [>=10.6], Linux [e.g. Ubuntu Linux >=10.4]
CPU: Multicore-Processor e.g. Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon II (>2.0Ghz)
RAM: 4GB
Video-Memory: 512 MB
Free Disk Space: 100 MB
Recommended Requirements:
Operating System (64bit): Windows 7, Mac OS X [>=10.6], Linux [e.g. Ubuntu Linux >=10.4]
CPU: Multicore-Processor with 4 cores (or more)
RAM: >4 GB
Video-Memory: >=1 GB
Free Disk Space: 512 MB
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How to check your JVM version (32- or 64-bit):
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You can try on the command line:
Code:
java -d64 version
If it's not a 64-bit version, you'll get a message that looks like:
Code:
This Java instance does not support a 64-bit JVM. Please install the desired version.
In general, I recommend to install the 64-bit version of the JVM for Java 8.
_______ * (on Windows, for AMD/NVIDIA cards, you have to enable anti-aliasing manually for the javaw.exe process, with AMD Catalyst or the NVIDIA Control Panel)
Is it me and is this a silly question or does anyone else experience difficulty placing a 1x1 plate round in LDCad with part snapping turned on? Dragging this part from the part bin to the model almost never finds a connection or a strange one for me.
I am having serious trouble placing this part in any model while other (small) parts (like a normal 1x1 plate) work perfectly fine.
I am looking for this part
Its been around since The Lone Ranger sets, but cannot seem to find it in LDraw yet.
I found it on http://www.digital-bricks.de/de/index.ph...ddp&mg=259 where it seems to be a fine part.
Couldn't it be made official through the parttracker?
This part is the windscreen in Poe's X-wing. It shows on the new update for LDD, but I can't find it in my LDD. Can someone convert this over to LDraw? Thank you.
Currently, there is a critical bug in version 0.8.6 (risk of data loss):
If you open a file again (which is modified with LDPE, not saved and has an asterisk * as a filename suffix), the file in 3D editor gets cleared.
Changelog:
(9 new features and 11 bug fixes)
With this release you will be able to...
...customise the layout of the 3D editor toolbars by placing one of the "layout_3D_editor.cfg" files in the application folder. You find two different layouts in the attached archive "layouts.zip". The new modern version could improve your workflow
...zoom in/out on the primitive area with two new buttons (-) and (+) (instead of using Ctrl+Mousewheel)
...use "Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete" in the right-click contextual menu from the text and 3D editor
...browse in the last visited folder if you open a file dialog again.
...select something and move it into a subfile (with a click on the old "Add Subfile" button), supports cut and copy
...draw to the cursor position from the text editor (there is a button on the 3D editor, to enable this behaviour).
...use two new buttons ("Save Part" and "Save Part As...") in the 3D editor.
...use a new "Switch BFC" button in the text editor.
...reset the snapping/grid values to the default value with a right click on the corresponding "coarse", "middle" or "fine" button.
The following critical issues were fixed:
Creating a new *.dat (Text Editor) did not rebuild the hints/warning/errors tree.
Java heap space problems on 32bit machines
"Merge / Split => Transform / Rotate / Scale" was able to break the 3D model triangulation.
"Merge/Split => Rotate Selection" did not rotate around Z axis
"Open *.dat File" did not rebuilt the text editor tab, if the same file was saved before.
Copy->Paste->Mirror, mirrored the initial copy.
The hide/show state was deleted on undo/redo.
"Save as..." did not update the <"0 Name: "> (and type) entry accordingly.
The "Select Touching" implementation was not correct. It selected too much.
Focus issues: A click on a button in the 3D editor removed the focus from the 3D view
A small memory leak (<1KB)
The program was tested intensively with "real world" files.
However, it is still a beta version and something can go wrong in about 100.000 lines of code.
showtime for version 0.8.7! 
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