LD4Dstudio

[legolijntje]

Hello,

I found THIS program on the internet, that's called LD4Dstudio.

Whit it you can make animations of ldraw files.

But I don't now how to import an ldraw file, does somebody now how to?

[Splat]

I have only looked at LD4DStudio a little bit, but this info may help:

When you first open LD4DStudio, it looks like a blank screen, but you are actually in a 'Project'.

Inside the Project you can have 'Packages', so the first thing you need to do is create a new Package. To do this, on the left hand side of the screen click the '+' next to Project, and then right click on Packages and select New.

By default the new Package is called '<New package>', and you can click on the + sybmol next to it to see 3 more branches in the tree - Parts, Actors and Animations.

Right click on Parts, and select New. You will be prompted to select an LDraw part, and you can select either an *.DAT, *.LDR, or *.MPD file (possibly others too).

Once selected, you will see your new Part in the tree. Double click on the new Part and it will open a 'Window' with the Part in it.

LD4DStudio is actually quite a bit different to most other LDraw based programs, and has quite a steep learning-curve (at least I found it did). If you are familiar with Object-Oriented programming, you should pick it up fairly quickly and, if you have the time, I definitely recommend reading though the Manual (found here) as it will point out a lot of little tips that aren't obvious at first glance. The real power of this program looks like it is in it's animation possibilities, but I haven't got that far... yet.

[Dilvish]

I thought it was tricky at first too.