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LDView POV output colors - Michael Horvath - 2014-07-12
The default colors of LDView's POV-Ray output are too light and washed out looking when rendered using POV-Ray 3.7 as opposed to POV-Ray 3.6. This is due to the way POV-Ray 3.7 handles gamma output differently than before. So I created the attached hotfix for lg_color.inc that repairs this issue. This fix was suggested to me at the POV-Ray newsgroup. It may not be perfect, but as you can see in the attached images the "saturated" version looks much closer to reality than the "unsaturated" version.
Update: changing each color statement to use the srgb keyword instead of rgb should do the trick just as well.
Re: LDView POV output colors - Travis Cobbs - 2014-07-12
Bad colors in POV 3.7 is one item on my list of things that I really want to fix prior to the 4.2 release. It requires research and testing on my part to get it right, though.
Re: LDView POV output colors - Michael Horvath - 2014-07-15
FYI, some of the colors have been renamed in the "updated" LGEO parts by C3POwen.
http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=65876&#entry1195830
Re: LDView POV output colors - Steffen - 2014-07-16
just for completeness here a link where we've discussed this issue already some time ago:
http://forums.ldraw.org/showthread.php?tid=4406&pid=4406#pid4406