City / Airport

[Philippe Hurbain]

City / Airport sets

[Philippe Hurbain]

Download MPD (OMR compliant)
Known errors: Missing stickers
Done with LDCad 1.6alpha4.

[Tom Burger]

I am really impressed that all the new plane parts have been done.

looks really good
just did a large rendering of it, super results
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/GrapeA..._plane.png

[Michael Horvath]

City / Airport sets

I'm not real impressed with those sets for some reason.

[Philippe Hurbain]

Glad you like them

[Philippe Hurbain]

Download MPD (OMR compliant)
Known errors: Missing stickers
Done with LDCad 1.6alpha4.

[Marc Belanger]

How do you make those nice renderings? With LDCad only?

[Philippe Hurbain]

How do you make those nice renderings? With LDCad only?

No, I think that this one was done with LDView. But LDCad renderings have the same quality level (sometimes even better), you just have a little less control on framing and lighting direction (View -> editing View -> OpenGL view export). The only "trick" I use it to create a huge image (the initial one was 4000x4000) then resize it down. Note that Tom Burger's rendering in the post below was done with a ray-tracing program (PovRay I guess)

[Marc Giraudet]

Not a city and no airport for landing for the first aircraft !

10124 - Wright Flyer

   

  10124 - Wright Flyer.mpd (Size: 96.87 KB / Downloads: 6)

File OMR compliant
Known error : Chain optimized with lenght criteria, in this case contact between chain and wheels are not perfect.
Rendering without chain and string, studio refused to performed ...

[Philippe Hurbain]

Known error : Chain optimized with lenght criteria, in this case contact between chain and wheels are not perfect.

Yeah, virtual chains lack the slack offered by physical ones!

Rendering without chain and string, studio refused to performed ...

A weird one... I tried to debug more finely (using delete one by one/try render) to see what caused Studio renderer to crash.
- Chains (as expected, they are just a collection of parts) worked fine.
- Most strings worked fine, except for Wing string RH... I tried to tweak it to no avail, so I finally recreated it by duplication/mirroring of (working) Wing string LH.
- I also had to modify maxmerge to 1 to avoid triggering Studio scaled parts bug.
Attached a modified file that works fine.
I also tried to understand what difference between working and not working strings caused the problem, but couldn't find anything meaninful

[Philippe Hurbain]

I also tried to understand what difference between working and not working strings caused the problem, but couldn't find anything meaninful

I made a little step towards understanding: turns out that this string was rubber black, after changing it to plain black the model renders fine. But it's not strictly a problem with rubber colors, since other parts set to rubber black render fine.

[Orion Pobursky]

I made a little step towards understanding: turns out that this string was rubber black, after changing it to plain black the model renders fine. But it's not strictly a problem with rubber colors, since other parts set to rubber black render fine.

I've pretty much given up with trying to please Studio with flexible parts. I just export the flex file and put it in the CustomParts folder. Then create a Studio specific file and remove the embedded flex objects.

[Philippe Hurbain]

I've pretty much given up with trying to please Studio with flexible parts. I just export the flex file and put it in the CustomParts folder. Then create a Studio specific file and remove the embedded flex objects.

That's what I did initially, but it's quite an hassle. Once you have created/modified the templates, it works well (the problem with Marc's file beeing the exception )