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Re: Help needed with Minifig
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Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:37:24 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.models, Tore Eriksson wrote:
Could somebody please help this poor fellow put the binoculars to his eyes? I
find it extremely difficult to turn his hands properly. If he turns his head a
little, it's onnly better. But I want the left arm to remain in the same angle.

Sorry I'm late to this party, but you also use LDLite metastatements.  ROTATE
and nested blocks make it a lot easier to position minifigs manually.

In fact, just for an example, here's the output of the LDAO minifig generator.
Note that some of the parts are obsolete.

0 Minifig shortcut
0 Name: Untitled
0 Author: Generated by LDAO Minifig Editor
0 Unofficial Minifig

0 - The MINIFIG meta-commands are used to reload settings into LDAO's Minifig
0 - Modeler.  Please do not modify.
0 MINIFIG HEAD      14 0 3626BP01.DAT
0 MINIFIG TORSO     25 0 973.DAT
0 MINIFIG HIPS      0 0 970.DAT
0 MINIFIG LEFTARM   25 0 976.DAT
0 MINIFIG LEFTHAND  14 0 977.DAT
0 MINIFIG LEFTLEG   0 0 972.DAT
0 MINIFIG RIGHTARM  25 0 975.DAT
0 MINIFIG RIGHTHAND 14 0 977.DAT
0 MINIFIG RIGHTLEG  0 0 971.DAT

0 Hips
0 ROTATE 0 -1 0 0
0 TRANSLATE 0 -12 0
   1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 970.DAT

   0 Torso
   0 TRANSLATE 0 -32 0
      1 25 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 973.DAT
   0 TRANSLATE END

   0 Head
   0 TRANSLATE 0 -56 0
   0 ROTATE 0 0 -1 0
      1 14 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3626BP01.DAT
   0 ROTATE END
   0 TRANSLATE END

   0 Left Arm
   0 TRANSFORM 15.5 -24 0 0.988 0.156 0 -0.156 0.988 0 0 0 1
   0 ROTATE 0 -1 0 0
   0 TRANSFORM -15.309 -2.425 0 0.988 -0.156 0 0.156 0.988 0 0 0 1
      1 25 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 976.DAT

      0 Left Hand
      0 TRANSFORM 23 22.828 -12.672 0 0 1 -0.707 0.707 0 0.707 0.707 0
      0 ROTATE 0 -1 0 0
      0 TRANSLATE 0 -4 0
         1 14 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 977.DAT
      0 TRANSLATE END
      0 ROTATE END
      0 TRANSFORM END
   0 TRANSFORM END
   0 ROTATE END
   0 TRANSFORM END

   0 Right Arm
   0 TRANSFORM -15.5 -24 0 0.988 -0.156 0 0.156 0.988 0 0 0 1
   0 ROTATE 0 -1 0 0
   0 TRANSFORM 15.309 -2.425 0 0.988 0.156 0 -0.156 0.988 0 0 0 1
      1 25 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 975.DAT

      0 Right Hand
      0 TRANSFORM -23 22.828 -12.672 0 0 1 -0.707 0.707 0 0.707 0.707 0
      0 ROTATE 0 -1 0 0
      0 TRANSLATE 0 -4 0
         1 14 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 977.DAT
      0 TRANSLATE END
      0 ROTATE END
      0 TRANSFORM END
   0 TRANSFORM END
   0 ROTATE END
   0 TRANSFORM END
0 TRANSLATE END
0 ROTATE END
0 Left Leg

0 ROTATE 0 -1 0 0
      1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 972.DAT
0 ROTATE END

0 Right Leg
0 ROTATE 0 -1 0 0
      1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 971.DAT
0 ROTATE END

0



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  Re: Help needed with Minifig
 
(...) <snip> Thanks for the input, Steve. I was just thinking in those areas. Also, we had a thread about a new Minifig Extractor/Modifier and the need of a syntax that covers all (well, at least more) of the situations that may come up in that (...) (14 years ago, 27-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)

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Could somebody please help this poor fellow put the binoculars to his eyes? I find it extremely difficult to turn his hands properly. If he turns his head a little, it's onnly better. But I want the left arm to remain in the same angle. TIA /Tore 0 (...) (14 years ago, 26-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)

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