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Re: New Building Instructions from the latest LPub
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst
Date: 
Fri, 6 May 2005 08:03:05 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
Hi all,
  I've been making good progress with LPub development.  I've been putting it
through its paces for testing purposes, and finally finished the LDraw file for
my small pneumatic walker Pedmatic (due to a typo of mine, it is also sometimes
referred to as Pendmatic).

Hi Kevin. Any idea when this new release will be available for download? No
hurry or anything, but I've got a couple of instruction I want to generate
sometime this year or the next, and would like to have a go at it. Do you want a
beta tester?


Here is the original MOC:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=46671

Here are the building instructions for Pedmatic:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=126902

Awesome. I'm not too keen on the psychedelic background, but I see the
potential. I never could figure out how to make the background transparent. Can
you see the background through transparent pieces? Can you get it to reflect off
chrome pieces?

The building
instructions use a few new LPub and LSynth features:

  - LSynth now has the ability to create synthesized results into a MLCad group.

'kay.

  - LPub now has the ability to remove previously defined groups, as an
alternative to buffer exchange.

'kay. What was the point of that again?

  - LPub now has support for multiple steps per page, and this reduces the
number of pages from 93 down to 31.

Woohoo! Is it customisable?

  - The use of POV-Ray's transparent background (alph-channel) is fabulous for
providing background images as the backdrop to building instruction pages.

For those interested, the backdrop used in Pedmatic's BI's is generated by a
fractl program I wrote a few months ago.

I guess that answers my question above. Again, woohoo!


I'm working on Inno setup now for LPub and LSynth.  Gotta figure out how to run
an uninstall before the new install and then I'll be ready.

I don't know an Inno from an Outo, so I say, whatever, go for it. It'll be grand
whatever it is.

Allister



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  Re: New Building Instructions from the latest LPub
 
(...) I've stopped adding new features. I have been in testing phase. The building instructions I just posted were pushed through LPub to try to flesh out a lot of bugs. I've finished updating the docs. I hope that I can release it today or (...) (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)

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  New Building Instructions from the latest LPub
 
Hi all, I've been making good progress with LPub development. I've been putting it through its paces for testing purposes, and finally finished the LDraw file for my small pneumatic walker Pedmatic (due to a typo of mine, it is also sometimes (...) (19 years ago, 24-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)

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