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Re: Quick way to mirror-image a model?
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lugnet.cad
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Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:50:31 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Don Heyse wrote:
> > Ah, it's not too bad, especially when I did my program to automate
> > it. It has shortcomings, but it works for the majority and the rest
> > is merely exception processing.
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> Take a peek at the MLCAD.INI file for minifig posing. Could you
> use a config file like this to handle the exceptions? I'd imagine
> if you pick one axis for mirroring that works best with most parts,
> (I think Travis said most were symmetric across the Z axis?) then
> you could give a rotation matrix for the exceptions to make them
> line up correctly. Then to get a mirror over another axis you
> mirror over the standard axis and and apply a rotation to the
> results.
Oh yeah, the other exception would be a part substitution, like
left minifig arm for right arm, or left wing plates for right wing
plates.
But watch out, some folks might object to substituting left-wing
for right-wing of anything. ;^)
> It'd be really nice to create a MIRROR.INI file, put it in the ldraw
> directory and keep it updated with the parts. Then if you could put
> some wrappers around your program to allow it to be used as an MLCAD
> generator and an LDDP plugin, that'd be fantastic.
>
> Have you considered making the source code available?
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> Enjoy,
>
> Don
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| (...) Talking to myself... Here's what I'm talking about. Completely ripped off from the MLcad.ini file. (URL) one contains an entry every part in my parts.lst file. It needs to have the changes made for the exceptions, but here's how it starts. ; ; (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Take a peek at the MLCAD.INI file for minifig posing. Could you use a config file like this to handle the exceptions? I'd imagine if you pick one axis for mirroring that works best with most parts, (I think Travis said most were symmetric (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
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