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Introducing Lic - Lego Instruction Creator (pre-alpha)
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Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:32:17 GMT
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Hi everyone,
I’ve been lurking here for a few years now, and have been using LDrawfor quite
some time. I finally have something worth saying! In the past few months I’ve
found time to work on a little LDraw application that I’ve been wanting to
develop forever now. I call it Lic (Lego Instruction Creator).
I absolutely love LPub, but I tend to prefer WYSIWYG-based applications, and get
frustrated pretty quickly with manually editing LDraw files - which is where Lic
comes in.
Lic takes a regular LDraw model as input, and basically generates the same kind
of final instruction images as LPub. But instead of meta commands, Lic provides
a fully interactive preview GUI, which you use to control page layout. The GUI
also gives you a hierarchical tree view of the overall instruction book, which
makes navigating the book easy.
Right now, Lic is still in an early proof-of-concept stage. It’s just reached
the point where I’m convinced it can work, and work well. There’s not a lot of
features or functionality, and it can be a pain to get up and running, but I
believe the underlying framework is solid and extensible, and worth building on.
I’d like to pass it to you, the community, to see what you think.
I’ve put together a little website for Lic,
with more info, screenshots, etc. Given its early state, I don’t want to put up
a fully public download yet, but here’s a
link where anyone
interested can grab a copy. Feel free to pass the link (or zip file) to anyone
else you think may be interested.
Before running Lic, be sure to check out the
installation instructions. Lic itself
needs no installation, but does require a handful of libraries (Python,
PyOpengl, GTK, etc). I know installing a bunch of stuff just to run this one
app is a lot to ask, but if people find Lic useful and worthwhile, I’ll know
it’s worth spending time to streamline the installation. I would never release
an app to the general public with such absurd requirements!
What do you think? Is an app like Lic useful, worth developing further? Or
should I crawl back to my hole and mind my own business? ;)
Best regards,
Remi
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Introducing Lic - Lego Instruction Creator (pre-alpha)
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| (...) Hi Remi, Maybe you didn't know but I am working on a WYSIWYG version of LPub, where there is no manual editing of the LDraw file. So far, almost everything has GUI point and click kind of interface with support for multiple steps per page, and (...) (17 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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