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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Export LDD for phoitorealism?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=rioforce]The LDD and LeoCad models are about the same for standard bricks, but LDD is actually better for round things, minifigs, and such (due to the fact that it's official LEGO instead of just fan measurements). But it still takes a lot of work to make them photorealistic. It's not as simple as import/export.[/quote]

Yeah it still surprises me no one has made a high quality library for this kind of thing.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[AquaMorph]]></name>
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			<updated>2015-12-07T15:32:06Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Export LDD for phoitorealism?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[The LDD and LeoCad models are about the same for standard bricks, but LDD is actually better for round things, minifigs, and such (due to the fact that it's official LEGO instead of just fan measurements). But it still takes a lot of work to make them photorealistic. It's not as simple as import/export.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[rioforce]]></name>
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			<updated>2015-12-07T15:08:50Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Export LDD for phoitorealism?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Are the brick models more detailed in LDD? LeoCAD when I have tried to use it in the past was pretty poor in detail so I have not really looked into 3D animation much further.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[AquaMorph]]></name>
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			<updated>2015-12-07T03:38:38Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Export LDD for phoitorealism?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I think I dabbled in both of those programs a bit, but before LDD existed.  Thank you for the advice.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[HoldingOurOwn]]></name>
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			<updated>2015-12-07T03:12:19Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Export LDD for phoitorealism?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[url=http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=109972]Blue Render[/url] is one that I don't have experience with, but has some decent results.

I've used [url=http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=71654]LDDtoPovray [/url] several times. It's slow as all get out, but yields some really nice renders.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Pritchard Studios]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/4427/</uri>
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			<updated>2015-12-06T19:28:20Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Export LDD for phoitorealism?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Blender has [url=http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/Import-Export/LDRAW_Importer]a plugin[/url] that will allow you to import LDraw files.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[bataton]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/131794/</uri>
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			<updated>2015-12-06T18:47:52Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Export LDD for phoitorealism?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[LDD to Pov-Ray. It's Windows-only. I'll find the link.

EDIT: [url=http://ldd2povray.lddtools.com]Here ya go[/url]. Best of luck.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[jampot]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/189/</uri>
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			<updated>2015-12-06T16:51:51Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Export LDD for phoitorealism?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Are there any 3D modeling programs that allow a user to import a file from Lego Digital Degisner, and render it with photorealism?]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[HoldingOurOwn]]></name>
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			<updated>2015-12-06T16:44:45Z</updated>
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