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(...) Heh, you hit that problem too? I've played around writing an OpenGL LDraw renderer based exclusively on display lists, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to handle conditional lines in this setup. Has anyone else solved this (...) (14 years ago, 16-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Hi Roland, Bricksmith now recursively flattens the geometry for each referenced top-level part then sorts it according to primitive type (triangles, quads, lines). Since the primitives are sorted, each type can be enclosed in a single glBegin (...) (14 years ago, 16-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, Kevin L. Clague wrote: <snip> (...) Hi Kevin, Sorry I replied to the wrong message, that's what you get if you read the group in a newsgroup client and post at the site. Still hoping Allan could share some insight on the (...) (14 years ago, 15-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Hi Roland, Just to be clear, Allan recoded and achieved this fantastic performance improvement. Kevin (14 years ago, 15-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, Kevin L. Clague wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> (...) Hi, Keving Just from a technical interest, how did you achieve that boost? I'm in the midst of writing a new LDraw renderer myself, so I'm very interested in any possible (...) (14 years ago, 14-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) ...snip.... (...) Allan, Congratulations on such a great improvement! Keep up the good work. Kevin (14 years ago, 14-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(2 URLs) Bricksmith 2.4> adds the following features: Drawing speed improvements of up to 1200% 64-bit native on Mac OS X 10.6 Viewports fill their entire frame Supports displaying the newly-standardized direct RGB color syntax Supports displaying (...) (14 years ago, 14-Jun-10, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(2 URLs) Bricksmith 2.3.1> fixes the following bugs: Empty steps no longer prevent files from being opened Split and Close tooltips appear Split and Close buttons always work Bricksmith requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later, and may be download it at (...) (14 years ago, 15-Dec-09, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX) !
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(...) Voila! Mac universal binary now available at the above link for download! ROSCO (14 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) I'm on my way, thanks! Kevin (14 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Well, I'm interested in helping to maintain current builds for the Macintosh. We're still at 4.0.0.1. If you update the SourceForge page with the current code, I will work on that - and then my interest might be rekindled enough to delve (...) (14 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) FYI, I have taken the liberty of compiling a Mac OS X version of LSynth 3.1, which I have made available along with the lsynth.mpd file and constraint parts: (URL) have not tested it much but it seems to work fine with the few examples I have (...) (14 years ago, 21-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) (snip) (...) Cool! I haven't become a power user of Bricksmith just yet, but have adopted this and LPub to create some of the instructions that are in BrickJournal. Many thanks from me and the readership of the magazine for your and Kevin's (...) (15 years ago, 2-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Hi, Allen! Great update. The configurable viewports are a pleasant surprise. I appreciate the change in behavior when selecting a part in step display - I didn't realize it was a bug, but the view reset would be a hassle sometimes. Thanks for (...) (15 years ago, 1-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) This is awesome. Thanks for listening to fans and continuing to make a great tool even better. -Orion (15 years ago, 29-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(2 URLs) Bricksmith 2.3> adds the following features: Configurable viewport arrangements Zoom to Fit Views stay scrolled to center as they change size Colors are more vivid It also fixes the following bugs: Reordering or copying steps no longer (...) (15 years ago, 29-Oct-09, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Hi, Willy. I don't think I have the ability to edit LDraw.org. Please feel free to add or link to this tutorial yourself, however. Although this may remain a handy reference, I want to point out that Mac users now have a much nicer option. (...) (15 years ago, 10-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Jim, please add this to the tutorial section at LDraw.org w. (15 years ago, 10-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) This doesn't help with rendering. (...) This does, big time. I can use newer versions of official parts that may have better primitive usage. LDView helps with this a little bit better than L3P but I find a self contained MPD more convenient. (15 years ago, 18-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Considering Bricksmith's seamless support for submodels, I didn't initially see the need for MPD Wizard (my own (URL) Mac MPD Utility> is wonkier and long since obsolete). However, as Allen hints, I realize MPD Wizard does provide a few (...) (15 years ago, 18-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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