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moctown - 3 CarsonBrick - 1 lightningtiger - 1

Great review, well done. This set is a welcome addition to the architecture series.

Good luck! 2) 2 votes 10) 1 vote 17) 3 votes 42) 1 vote

Yep, it is a great little set, I'm supporting it. You can find more of his work on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/moctown/

Not everything is the same in MegaPOV and PovRay, some things work and others don't work. Even color can be differently rendered. You can check on the MegaPov website what is possible and not. The only downside is that I never managed to get LGEO to work on my mac with MegaPOV The best thing in MegaPOV for me is that the you can do great things with HDR light, etc... for reflection on material and to get very realistic images

Good start - here are a few suggestions: - multiple platform approach for mac/windows in your guide - it should be interesting to have both platforms. You can use my website to add the relevant info if you like. But it will be beneficial to have both setups together. - the povray section should have some images with before / after changes, as it is very difficult to quantify the small setting changes in the renderings. Also there are a thousand things one can alter - reflections on the floor, sky view, different light rendering, making the bricks more transparant, etc... It should be fun to show as much as possible. I'll link to this post from my website, for window visitors For those on mac os x they might want to have a look at it: argobrickmodels.com

Great, I didn't see that post yet. I'll post there a few suggestions. I might be able to learn something as well.

Hi all, For all those interested in creating povray renderings from ldraw models, can use my website to learn it: http://www.argobrickmodels.com/ The guide is made for Mac users, but basically everything works on windows also. It explains how to get your ldraw file to a povray file and tweak the settings to get the best rendering. The only thing that is not working on mac is the lsynth for making tubes. This is not included in my website. For those on windows: - bricksmith is the mac equivalent of any ldraw compatible program - megapov is the mac povray client that currently works the best - any povray on windows will do. You will find a step by step guide as well as many posts with tweaks to get the best result in povray. If you have suggestions or questions, just let me know. I've been working with many MOcers now to recreate their MOCs in nice rendered images. You can follow this on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23243753@N03/ enjoy

11) Croc’s sewer (Build by Skrytsson) 5) Cat Burglar (Build by Darkblane) 20) Joker's Funhouse (Build by Oky) good luck to all.

6) Batman Returns (1992 Burton) (Build by lego-maniac) -> 2 points 11) The Dark knight! (Build by Skrytsson) -> 1 point All are beautiful creations! Very hard to make a decision.

Thank you for sharing LegoManiac - the micro really compliments the big model. Good luck with the the competition. I hope you win.

This is a fantastic set of renderings! Thank you for making them available.

Great work on the Advent calender, looking forward to each new set you bring us.

10. Spacy Smoke's Sunken City Corner -> 2 points 13. Hiawatha's Shipwreck ->2 points 7. lisqr's Subs -> 1 points

I cannot use the LSynth, it is not working at all on my Macs - so I cannot be of any help, sorry. Did you try it on a 10.5+ machine? I only tested it on 10.6+

4000002: LOM 2011 Moulding download: .ldr file All parts should be ok.

To everybody working on it - a job well done! I had fun discovering all the buildings, some interiors have great detail

Great set The 6 room caste has very nice little details incorporated.

congratulations to all the winners! wel done

Super nice set. It can be even part of the architecture sets, oh, I forgot the buildings are not real

well done, a lot of action and anticipation in the scene!

It took me a while to sort things out. But finally I was able to render my first images. Here is quick list of what you need: - bricksmith to create your MOC - latest LDraw files for an up to date part list - LGeo files placed in the LDraw directory - LDView to setup your POVRay scene - lights, studs, camera position, etc... - this program allows you to export a POV file (a little tricky - you need in the save options link to the LGeo elements list in the LDraw directory) - megaPOV to render your image All works on Mac OS X 10.6.8 but not on 10.7 Currently I'm thinking of setting up a website for this topic. Here is my first created image - it is not yet perfect, based on the bricks from the first MBA set - but I'm happy with this first result. Next I want to get the shadows correct and more realistic plastic :-)

I contacted suparMacho in Flickr and he send me the following message: Thanks, I'm glad you like them! I have been building with Lego by hand a lot lately, but I really should make some more digital models, they were a lot of a fun to figure out. It is definitely tricky getting the exact settings that make a particular model look just right. It requires a lot of tinkering I find. But there was a particular tutorial that got me a really good starting point. You can find it here: www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=163897 I use windows natively, so it might be a bit harder for you if you are using a mac (I assume you are from the forum posts). If you are using a windows VM though, everything in that tutorial should work fine. I assume bricksmith uses the standard .dat ldraw save format. If that is the case you can always build with bricksmith and then transfer the dat file (or equivalent) to the VM to render it with the windows tools. Anyway, I hope this helps. Feel free to repost this in the forums if it is at all helpful.

yep - its a pain... I'm hoping one day a good lego loving programmer might come along and make an easy working solution for all of us to use :-) Fully agree on the LDR screenshots, Lpub is easy and simple to use for that purpose. Amazing rendering example - that is exactly what I would like to try to achieve on mac...