So how does one use a utility that was made for an 10 year old OS environment. Well ... you pretty much start over. So with no Lviewer anymore I now use Internet Explorer with a buildin VRML viewer from Parallel Graphics. (Make sure you get the VRML 1.0 convertor plugin as well). Very fast and it can handle surprisingly large amount of vertices and faces. Renderstar is no more, so for rendering I turned to the opensource package Blender, which just happens to have a very useful VRML import function. Here below you see the packages I now use. The fast viewer to debug the ls files ... and then to Blender to work it up into a nice image. I'm now in the process of adding to the basic lparser code and revamping the parsing ... See further down the page for the first release of the new lparser.
New Lparser
New Gallery
Here a number of images made using the new tool set. Click on the image to see a larger version:
