[Ldraw-content] Re: MOTM relaunch

[ldraw at holly-wood.it]

----- Original Message -----
Da : Orion Pobursky <orion at ldraw.org>
A : ldraw-content at ldraw.org
Oggetto : Re: [Ldraw-content] Re: MOTM relaunch
Data : Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:01:06 -1000

> LDraw wrote:
> > Orion Pobursky writes:
> >> Orion Pobursky wrote:
> >>> I just ran the posted script on my computer and
> received a correct  >>> render.  To answer your previous
> question the "-mF" tag off screen  >>> renders the whole
> model and not the steps in the model vice the "-mS"  >>>
> which renders the individual steps >>
> >> P.S. I added some explanation of the batch script I
> wrote to the MOTM  >> page:
> >> http://www.ldraw.org/article/376
> > 
> > I set up the contest for november. please crosscheck. I
> > didn't use your  script. it worked fine with a small
> > model but cut the "big ship" in  pieces. I therefore
> > wrote a script for LDView: set
> > LDVIEW_EXE="C:\Programme\MLCad\LDView\LDView.exe" for
> %%a in ("MOTM_*.dat","MOTM_*.ldr","MOTM_*.mpd" ) do
> > %LDVIEW_EXE%  "%%a" "-SaveSnapshot=%%~na1.png" 
> > -PreferenceSet=MOTM -SaveActualSize=0  -SaveImageType=1
> > -SaveZoomToFit=1 -SaveWidth=1600 -SaveHeight=6000 
> > -AutoCrop=1 -DefaultLatLong=30,45 for %%a in
> > ("MOTM_*.dat","MOTM_*.ldr","MOTM_*.mpd" ) do
> %LDVIEW_EXE%  "%%a" "-SaveSnapshot=%%~na2.png" 
> > -PreferenceSet=MOTM -SaveActualSize=0  -SaveImageType=1
> > -SaveZoomToFit=1 -SaveWidth=1600 -SaveHeight=6000 
> > -AutoCrop=1 -DefaultLatLong=25,215 the reslut can be
> > seen in the gallery. comments? w.
> > I played around with the order in the Entry ID column
> > but it won't list  the newest - (115) first.
> 
> Looks good to me.  I toyed with LDView for a while when I
> retooled the  contest in 2004.
> 
> -Orion

I added some info to paragraph 1 and 2 in the howto article
about things I learned during the setup of the contest. feel
free to correct my grammar and wording.

w.