Ldraw tests

[zerofractal]

Hello.

These are a couple of test renderings form LDraw Models. I was testing mainly DOF and area lights.




higher res:
http://production.zerofractal.com/al...alez/lDraw.jpg

[s0real]

cool...
i like lego.

[n6]

me too But I prefer the Lego Technic

nice pictures anyway!

[dusan]

Nice but i dont really see any dof (?), but area lights are ok.


I love lego, i had a ton of them when i was a kid, at one point my mom flipped her lid because they were laying all over the house. I had to tidy them up, and thats when i stopped playing with them . Over the years i lost most of my lego plans, so does anyone know can they be found on the internet?


This one in particular, it is originaly a big black mean looking car, this is the alternative, but i lost the plans and cant make it back into the car.


Sorry, had to remove the picture because it was ieating a lto of bandwidth, Its model 8880.

[zerofractal]

The enlarged one has DOF

[dusan]

What exactly is lDraw?

[mc-escher]

Ldraw is a lego cad program, used mostly by fanatics to design their own models.

it's free as are the lego parts libraries, as well as various programs to convert lcad models to max or whatnot.

Check out ldraw.org

[Matt_3D]

Zero Fractal - Looks cool mate It's been so long since I've made any 3D Lego models. LDraw is awesome ay?


Dusan - This wouldn't happen to be what you were after would it?
http://library.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=25

Ldraw - http://www.ldraw.org

It's a cool little program which allows you to create 3D Lego models. To use the pieces in Max you'll need to convert the pieces (stored in Dat format) to DXF. You can get a converter here:

http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/Gold/3269/dat2dxf.html

Once in Max you may have to modify the part slightly as they're not always imported.

Here's some of the things I've made with LDraw...unfortunantly back then I only had access to the standard Max renderer
http://members.tripod.com/Matt_3D/newlegogallery1.html

Zerofractal, you've insipred me to start building again

-Matt

P.S Sorry if i've hijacked your thread

[zerofractal]

dont worry. I liked lego models for some time and they are good test subjects for Vray

[trixian]

What happened to good old LeoCad?
Is Ldraw easier to use?

[Matt_3D]

Trixian, personally I don't use Ldraw to make the models, I convert all the pieces to DXF, import them into Max, make any fixes to the piece I need, then save it as a max file. (When saving, I make sure the perspective viewport is selected with the whole piece showing so you get a good thumbnail of the piece) Save all your pieces into 1 directory and then open up using the asset browser. Find the directory where you logo pieces are saved and then you have a drag & drop Lego collection

-Matt

[gafl]

Hi all !

I didn't know all that !
It's really cool, very funny subject.

Thank you zerofractal

Bye !

Gaël

[holyghost]

My dreams come true! damn....a played Lego Tech. for several years....and now i will start again!
Well Done ZeroFractal!!!...... :P
Valerio

[__Leo__]

Hi Folks..

Now that we're talking about Legos.. check this out.. I took these pictures when I was in San Diego Lego land.. nice hugh??

I can post high resolutions if anyone needs it..

Nice images Zerofractal..

Leo

[Janus Rölder]

has anyone made a public library of lego pieces in max format?

i mean if someone has something like that it would be much easyer then everyone converting the pieces.

i would love to play around with this but i have no time to install ldraw and convert all the lego pieces to max.