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Help a noob start designing elements - Giorgos Solomonidis - 2016-12-06
As title says guys, I use mlcad το create my digital models, and povray to render them, and from time to time I ask your help to design a new element thats not in the database yet (and you helped me everytime I asked)
Thing is I want to start designing .dat files for my own custom elements.
Can you point me where/what to read? and a basic workflow? which programs I should use in order to achieve this?
Thanks a lot
RE: Help a noob start designing elements - Willy Tschager - 2016-12-06
(2016-12-06, 19:10)Giorgos Solomonidis Wrote: As title says guys, I use mlcad το create my digital models, and povray to render them, and from time to time I ask your help to design a new element thats not in the database yet (and you helped me everytime I asked)
Thing is I want to start designing .dat files for my own custom elements.
Can you point me where/what to read? and a basic workflow? which programs I should use in order to achieve this?
Thanks a lot
Hi,
years ago I wrote this short article:
http://www.holly-wood.it/ldraw/authoring-en.html
which might gives you some basics but nowadays we use a tool Nils has written for this very exclusive club:
http://nilsschmidt1337.github.io/ldparteditor/
A stub of a tutorial can be found here:
https://github.com/nilsschmidt1337/ldparteditor/wiki/home-backup
I case you're fluent in French don't miss:
http://jc-tchang.philohome.com/manuel/LDPartEditor.htm
Hope this helps, w.