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Something... It's been about 2 (two) dayz since the color scandal took over, and still .castle is quiet on all fronts. Surely we've got somethin' interesting going-on up in here. The Vikings are on their way, a few of the KK2 sets are not so bad, (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Vikings?
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(...) So, is it a hoax or not? Any idea when these may be coming out? John R. Beck (returning fan) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: need help with instructions
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(...) Do you have Adobe Acrobat or Macromedia Fireworks? These are NOT freeware or shareware programs, but can get a trial version of Macromedia Fireworks to use for 30 days by going to the Macromedia Website. Macromedia Fireworks is a graphical (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
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I wholeheartedly agree. Chris McNamee (18) Portland, OR (21 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Having built a number of prototype "clone" bricks, I feel reasonably certain that the RCX's internal space is not the limiting factor. The surface area occupied by 2x2 I/O connectors is the true limit. (Assuming you dedicate a board to hosting (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Hey, The monitor is a bit huge, but the shape is really nice. I like your mouse solution particularly. Bruce (21 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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on a very nice model (URL) hope I'm not stealing anyone's thunder but I saw this train in the new folders on Brickshelf and had to post. As well as simple but clever tilt technique it looks really good, with a complicated front well rendered in the (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains) !
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(...) Yea, new rule. If you want to express something controversial on lugnet, then do it using bricks, rather than words. :) -Alfred (21 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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I have used LPub in setting up the instructions. Could you tell me how you have used these other programs (Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Fireworks) to create the backgrounds and arrows and how you create the box call out things? I am not very well (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) No DAT part can provide a perfect render without using some substitutions - flat polygons just can't do perfect curved surfaces. But that's another issue. I have recently finished re-authoring Ben's wheels (URL) (waiting for his OK before I (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I've seen this topic come up several times, and am curious why no one suggests that the input and output ports be extended from the RCX to pods. Using the same form factor constraints limits the possibilities. Using a more condensed cable connection (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
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I pretty much love LEGO unconditional. But the supply of the old colours will eventually run out. A lot of parts will not be available in the new colours for quite a while, so it is a problem for Moccers. How would you feel, if you had a car (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) (snipped image) Evan, great MOCs. The Rolls is my favorite. KR (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I should probably find then for what is LDraw library aimed at. If it's something like as perfect as possible renders or some quick mockup prototyping. (...) Wouldn't it be possible to be the parts as accurate as possible and then (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Well I'm kind of of pissed. ** begin rant ** Curious to find an acceptible substitute for Java, I was looking into cross platform GUI toolkits. GTK+ came to mind but alas no Mac support for the latest version. Then I thought of Qt. I visited the Qt (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Tim, That is great. And I know exactly what that feels like. Last week, a coworker and I got buried in 6 feet of code vomit. The monitor is a little big for MF scale but that's OK, it's very nicely made and believable. KR (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: Sorting Bley and Chocolate Brown
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(...) Me too! Light grey is light grey. Occasionally a new color piece really stands out so I simply discard it back into the tub and grab for another. My collection is still mainly old, so that procedure works well. The only real problem is my (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.storage)
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(URL) Every cloud has a silver lining. ...Oh wait I guess that's a comment isn't it ;) Cheers Tim (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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Guys (and Janey) This is probably old news, but my local Zellers has the Space Shuttle (URL) On for $29.99!! I hope it's not a local misprint, but I got the last two here for Christmas/Easter/Bday gifts for my nephews this year. Cheers, Ralph (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) I too mix all my greys. Having a mostly technic collection, I don't have much new brown, but it will be mixed in too. I have already built MOCs that mix the greys, and have no problem with it. If I build something that just has to be (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.storage)
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THANKS EVERYONE! Not only for the compliments but for the courteous exchange! I have to admit that it feels good too! :) It was just one of those MOCs that just came together. I guess I have been so obsessed with building in rare colors that I (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Silly me, I missed your post. Thanks for the Link. Shame you don't have a S.P.E.C.T.R.E. website to back it up like Evan does with is LEGO07 site though. You super-villian-wannabe you. You probably don't even like persian cats. That's why (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Sorting Bley and Chocolate Brown
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(...) Hi there, good question! I have most of my parts sorted by type and then also by colour for the most common types. I have most of it (what is not kept in the original box, of course) in storage boxes with many (four types: 13, 17, 15-23 or (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.storage, FTX)
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| | Re: my first post :)
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(...) All three of these are good, but Tapatio is my favorite. It's got the visual impact of an all-red color scheme, the proportions are good and "beefy", articulation and posability are excellent, and it's got character. I'm especially impressed (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: 2005 Sets
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(...) One of our Sears in Ottawa has a few new Technic, X-Pod and City sets, and since they have 25% off this weekend I got a few sets. It is a bit disappointing that the turn table in 8419 is a new stud-less version. (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) Compressed air can either be expensive (from the little cans) or sometimes has traces of oil in it from the compressor. What I have had good luck with are camelhair brushes. If you buy makeup brushes it is sometimes possible to get rounded (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Congratulations, this is an amazing achievement! I've been seeing "Johnny's" progress on Brickshelf from time to time. It would be cool to see this one in person, to get the full effect of the massive scale. I even picked up some good (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: Parts editing made easy, anyone?
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(...) Well, rendering time gets affected too, right? It's harder to build a model if it takes MLCad 20 seconds to redraw once... Oh, you mean for the rendering in POV when doing the animation? Well, file loading time, memory consumption, etc. etc. (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: need help with instructions
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(...) <<Talking as the LDraw Help Desk Coordinator>> Are you using LPub to create your building instructions (BIs). LPub has some functionality to make your BIs look more like LEGO Offical BIs with the call outs and such. I would suggest you start (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 2005 Sets
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(...) We noticed this set in TRU in Toronto plus a few others. (URL) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) A nice thing about open source would be that it would be possible for other people to work on ports to different architectures other than the microsoft-based platform. While emulators may exist to allow people to get by for the time being, (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Aste lego...
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Ciao a tutti, giusto due righe per dirvi che domani, lunedì e martedì finiscono le mie aste su ebay: (URL) il link non funziona, andate su ebay, cliccate compra, poi ricerca avanzata, poi per venditore ed infine scrivete gianpoldo. Ciao Gianluca (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug.market)
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| | Re: Parts editing made easy, anyone?
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(...) If for nothing else, to permit them to be used as the basis for the manual creation of similar parts, and abstraction into resuable sub-components. Not a strong reason, but worth considering. (...) To use just one example - the STUD primitive (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts editing made easy, anyone?
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(...) Yes, since it is text based. Also, a most new authors learn by examining the code. (...) Unneccessary memory usage and file size. (...) L3P (and other converters/viewers) detect these primitives and convert them to smooth objects (e.g. L3P (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Sorting Bley and Chocolate Brown
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(...) The newer 'Stone' colors tend to have a more obvious blue component, while the older classic shades of gray tend more towards a yellow shift. For the browns, the original shade is the darker of the two. The new shade of brown has more red. I (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.storage, FTX)
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| | Re: l3p as open source (was: Re: Anatomy of a POV file (e.g. L3P suggestions))
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(...) Why don't you create your main scene file that never changes and then just include the l3p output file into your scene file. I believe Lars is working on options that leave out the povray code that is required to be in the main file (like (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Paul's Ferrari
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Congrats Paul!! You did a fantastic job! This Enzo is the real deal. You certainly did prove a point! You say the car has still some flaws, but don't be so hard, enjoy this moment of what you did achieve! Because you two (Paul and Misha) make these (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Sorting Bley and Chocolate Brown
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(...) I agree with DkStone<->DkGray and RedBrown<->Brown cases. But I can't make a difference between MdStone and Gray without some serious staring. But I still have them mixed, because I have the parts sorted only by type, I don't have enough space (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Paul's Ferrari
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Hey Paul, Like I said before, so far the best supercar made! It beats the shit out of my viper, but I hope to catch up with my Mazda RX-8 ;-) Still, I'm quite a busy guy lately, due to my study, so it won't be finished soon. 2500 parts!!?!? is that (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: LEG007 – James Bond Models
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(...) That Rolls is awesome! The building instructions are very nice. Cross posted to .Adventurers. -Elroy (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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| | Re: LEG007 – James Bond Models
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(...) Thanks for sharing these! I especially liked the Phantom and have snagged a copy of your pdf... (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Sorting Bley and Chocolate Brown
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(...) I just toss them in with my other greys and browns. They are pretty easy to spot once I start building. -Elroy (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
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(...) It was funny though. And made the point. (...) Apology accepted on behalf of just me. But we're still not mailing you the instruction manual. (because there isn't one!) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Parts editing made easy, anyone?
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(...) Why? Is the .DAT file supposed to be readable by humans? Why? ;) What's wrong with the larger number of polygons? What positives (from the side of the automated rendering process) does bring the existence of primitives? What's wrong with the (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Steve's Ball hanging out at Wendy's
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(...) Here's a moronic ditty I remember from a few decades back... Ronald McDonald stuck his Big Mac into Wendy's Hot-'N-Juicy, shortly after Burger King was born - he was a Whopper! -Patrick (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: New Train Moc - Simple Red Caboose
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(...) Hey Steve, nicely done. Traditional, detailed, clean design, and RED!!! Spotlighted! Looking forward to following the developments in TCBL. Janey "Red Brick" (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: LEG007 – James Bond Models
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(...) Err...Ummm...did you miss something, Mark? I did that last week: (URL) By the way, love the Bond MOCs. As you can see, I have a particular affinity for the genre, though from the other side :) Adrian (URL) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, FTX)
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This is a really awesome idea! Someone else said it, and I agree, it would be awesome to see this in MR. I'll bet they never expected their design to inspire someone to this end. The truck hood is a neat idea and the stairs on the caboose are nicely (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | I looking for photos, can you help?
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I'm finally getting around to putting together a website for my models (with the help of Todd Thuma) and I'm looking to the lego community for your help. If you have any good pictures of either my cathedral at Brickswest 2002 or Brickfest 2004, or (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
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(...) K, that was a little too snarky, even for me. I apologize. Dave K -note: no admin or anyone else e-mailed me to tell me to rethink my post. I just read it again and realized that it really was too snarky. (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: LEG007 – James Bond Models
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Hehe, allllllRIght! There's some huge potential for MOCs here. Are you planning on doing viginettes? I'd presonally love to see a Bond minifig on the table with the lazer coming to get him. ("No Mr. Bond. I expect you to DIE!") Or perhaps the scene (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: LEG007 – James Bond Models
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(...) small snip. Evan, Went over to the link above and was expecting some pics and a small set of instructions....but got a lot more! You did a great job on building the models, but the best things were what you wrote about how you built each (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: LEG007 – James Bond Models
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(...) Not next, but I did just get a Lego Supercar (Set 8880) just to convert to an Aston Martin DB5. Obviously, that will be a much larger project and may take some time. (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: My First Mech ... Please Critic
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(...) Brian, I thought this creation was a hoot. For several reasons it reminded me why I do this in the first place. You built a mech just because you wanted to and grow with it. Good for you! The legs are thin, could be filled in with brick or (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.org.us.cedarlug, FTX)
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| | Re: LEG007 – James Bond Models
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(...) Looks like a good start. Is an Aston Martin next? (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| | need help with instructions
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Hello all- As many of you may know, I have been working on a virtual crane since last year, managing to put pics up of th erendering just recently. Anyway, my question is this; does anyone know how I can set the instructions to look a lot like the (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: l3p as open source (was: Re: Anatomy of a POV file (e.g. L3P suggestions))
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(...) Hi Kevin Thanks for your tip, but even though it seems to solve the amb/dif/reflection-problem, it unfortunately doesn't cover the need for special pov-ray objects like special lights, fog etc, as it's also based on L3p. Another thing I just (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: New Train Moc - Simple Red Caboose
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(...) Super duper. I think that is a great caboose. You did a great job all around, and I like the way you installed the front and rear facing airplane windows backwards. Simple, subtle, and effective, cudos. Chris (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
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(...) We in rtlT have control over what is spotlighted? Wow! We in rtlT have control over who bringswhat thread into our NG? That's great! We in rtlT have control over who can post in this NG? Perfect! That'll make things much better for us--nowif (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
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(...) I did say we were bothguilty of it. So there you are. (...) And you weren't interested in any of my posts that were not 'kissups to TLC' or me stating that I wasn't in the 'anti-colourchange' camp. So we're both doing it--where, in the end, (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | LEG007 – James Bond Models
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I have posted three of my James Bond Lego models at CommanderBond.net The models posted so far are the Lotus Sub from The Spy Who Loved Me, the Moon Buggy from Diamonds Are Forever, and the Rolls Royce Phantom III from Goldfinger. I have included (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
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| | Sorting Bley and Chocolate Brown
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Given that the bleys and chocolate brown are here to stay, what is the best way to sort them into a large collection, whilst still maintaining the ability to distinguish light bley from light grey? I currently sort by type, since up to now it has (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.storage, lugnet.color)
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| | Re: l3p as open source (was: Re: Anatomy of a POV file (e.g. L3P suggestions))
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(...) An alternative to open source is to post process l3p output to change things the way you want. This is what I do in LPub. L3P output is simple text and extremely consistant, making it easy to modfiy the contents. Kevin (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | l3p as open source (was: Re: Anatomy of a POV file (e.g. L3P suggestions))
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I don't know if this is besides the topic, but what I would really like was the ability to edit the "text" with the default settings l3p uses to create the pov-file (after all, it's a program that converts a textfile into another textfile). When (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
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Thank you, Calum, for putting so eloqently how mony of us feel about this ridiculous letter. Last time I checked, Lego is still a toy, not a commodity to be traded on the stock market. It's a toy, either build with it or don't, but quit whining (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: my first post :)
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(...) David, I managed to create a cockpit (URL), however, it's a little cramped in there :) (...) Thanks... although "Papa" is definitely headed for a makeover. (...) This one's a toughy... a longer snout may look funny when in robot mode, and as (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: My First Mech ... Please Critic
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(...) PlatforMechABDI/1.jpg>> (...) Brian, I'm really not a fan of the ED-209 type mechs, but even then, this one isn't so bad. If you wanna continue to go in this direction, I suggest that you try some variation with your legs... I mean, try making (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.org.us.cedarlug, FTX)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
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(...) =) Dude, you've got a lot of pent-up emotion towards me.... Lets go over to lugnet.people.lgbt and get it on!!! Have your way with me, but just get it outta your system. ;) No, but seriously... You're creeping me out. It's kewl though. Peace, (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: 4883 Gear Grinders - First play
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(...) It's a good idea, but I think Nathaniel Kuipers would win :-) I know the pic is bad - I was rushing to get this post up before I went to bed on Sunday so it would be the first post about 4883. I did have some other pics in my brickshelf folder (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.basic, FTX)
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| | Re: MarbleWorks
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(...) That is nifty! (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Gianpoldo's eBay auction are back!
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Hi all, just a line to let you know about my 94 lego auctions ending sunday, monday and tuesday: (URL) luck, Gianluca ___...___ Nuovo Yahoo! Messenger: E' molto più divertente: Audibles, Avatar, Webcam, Giochi, Rubrica… Scaricalo ora! (URL) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: MOC4100: Cranetruck
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(...) Thanks for your comment. It's all so true and I'm glad you do understand that. Building with a limited parts collection asks a lot of strong design decisions. Especially when building Technic in which there is so many basic stuff, parts can be (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: MOC4100: Cranetruck
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(...) Thanks 'brother' Jeff! We're on a mission to show the potential of designersets. I've seen the many creations you made with the 4100 set. Building alternate models is so much fun, don't you think?! Nathanael (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: Loader Building Instruction Available !!!
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(...) To be clear, i'm not the author of the Loader BI. If you have any question about rendering, I suggest you post here on Lugnet in appropriate newsgroup (lugnet.cad for example ...). I'm sure lugnetters will try to help you giving advices in (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
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(...) Strongly agree with the above letter. This quote says it all for me. "And we are extremely grateful for all these opportunities, but unfortunately these praiseworthy achievements turn into almost nothing through the decision of stopping the (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
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(...) Unfortunately it is not possible to stop anyone from spotlighting any post they want to, so that request is pointless. ROSCO (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
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(...) Ouch. (...) It wasn't "just" posted on your forum. It was highlighted as "top story" on the homepage of this website. I am not a member of your forum, but I am a member of lugnet, and replied as such. If you don't want outsiders invading your (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
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(...) It's true, I don't know Derek. I'm sure he's a nice guy. For all you know, I might be too. But Derek's last post wasn't "nice." My response was commesurate. (...) You criticize me, and yet you call me "obsessed", and lump me with quite a few (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
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(...) The point is this topic was brought into the .rtlToronto forum. The members that use the .rtlToronto forum by it's very nature will both read and comment on what's posted in this forum. I do believe that is what it is for. If this topic hadn't (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Steve's Ball hanging out at Wendy's
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(...) You piqued my curiosity (google rules). According to (URL) "Hot 'N Juicy" is the property of Oldemark, LLC and licensed to Wendy's International, Inc. along with other classics..... "Great Biggie", " This Is A Burger Town Pretty Boy", "You (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
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(...) Hi Joshua, While I understand that this is a emotion filled topic for some involved, adding yet one more "will you please shut up" post to the fire isn't helping to "stop this gangwar" as is in fact worsening the issue. -Orion (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
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(...) Hello, I was just wondering when you color change enemies are going to shut up??!! I buy sets for parts and I have thought about selling parts I don't like. If you don't like a set don't buy it for crying out loud!!!! What happened to (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
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I agree and sign. Mark Rideout (33) WA, 13K in 2003, $130 on new color sets. (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Whilst endeavouring to clean up my LEGO stuff...
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(...) That reminds me, I wish I was Jeff right now, missing all this fun we've been having. Derek (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Lessons learned in pre-school
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(...) Oh I'll have to disagree with that. When we run the Rail Racers at shows and events the kids line up, big and little. Maybe it's the lights, maybe its smell of train tires burning, maybe it's the cool space age trains, maybe its screaming (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Hats off to Jake!
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(...) I too, say thank you. I'm hoping there will be several new sculpture kits introduced this year. There are only 5 sculpture kits currently for sale at S@H (in the US anyhow). With the Statue of Libery, Mini Figure, and several others selling (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
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(...) I agree with this letter and pray that you read it. David De Gobbi. Vancouver BC Canada . +3000$ CDN before 2004 , $4.59 cdn after 2004 (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Simulink Compilation
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Dear Marc, It would be very interesting to have Simulink + Realtime Workshop controlling the RCX. By the way, how much speed do you expect can be achieved considering the communication speed between PC and RCX ? Liem. (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: (MOC) 36-gun Frigate RTS LEGOMALEE
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(...) I entirely agree. Kurt has done a few things that I would have discounted out of hand if I was building a ship myself (the hull length, the size of the tops, the double width hull extension from below, the 2x1 slopes from the top rather than (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| | Re: pre-releases brickos-0.9.0/lnpd-0.9.0 avail. for testing/feedback
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Steve, (...) The 0.9.0 version does not, however, this is being worked as I write this. Expect a 0.9.x point release to allow us all the chance to test the new code before we release as v1.0.0 Regards, Stephen -- (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Yes, we certainly are. But the pre-school kids don't find drag-racing *cool*. Maybe for the bigger kids and adults... The younger kids much prefer train layouts they can go round and round many laps like the Grand Prix. And ones in which they (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I agree with your reasoning, words aren't bad. It's all contextual. You can bet we're talking with people whose posts are inappropriate, trigger words or not. It's just that the ones with the f-bomb and such are only the most obvious. The (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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I stumbled across an extra RCX remote controller. I know Iown 2, but I'm pretty sure I don't own 3, but I appear to have 3 in my basement right now. So if anyone is missing a remote, let me know--I'll bring it to Feb. dinner. It's probably Jeff VW's (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Steve, The way you used the old-style minifig torso for the hood of the red flatbed pickup as shown here: (URL) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Paul's Ferrari
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Thanks for making a thread for the car Nathan. That was very cool of you! The car has many nice features and I am pretty happy with how it turned out. I still will probably make some changes here and there, nothing major. Here are the weak points in (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: stepping up to the dead horse (was some other title)
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Hm... I used to be extremely fanatic about LEGO, but I've long ago gotten to the point that taking Lego seriously at all would mean getting depressed over it. I just don't care enough about the toy these days to give a...eh, this is a public forum. (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: BigBen Bricks! (Was: Parts editing made easy...?)
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(...) Tore, those are parts made on Stratasys and zCorp Rapid Prototyping machines. Rapid Prototyping is a way of using machines to take digital data and create models in an additive fashion, built up layer by layer. zCorp machines build the layers (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for discussion!
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(...) snip (...) I snipped the letter, but I think this is 95% better than the original letter to the CEO. I think that referencing yourself as a member of the AFOL Community is as far as anyone should take it and that no one individual should speak (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO - has this ever worked?
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(...) I am NOT in support of this letter. I am NOT in support of this letter representing the AFOL Community. I am NOT in support of this issue continuing to be brought up with the derisiveness and disdainful language aimed at the LEGO Company and (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: "Some pigs are more equal than other pigs"
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In lugnet.trains, Ken Nagel wrote: <snip> (...) Whereas I think I can see both sides of this issue, 1- Larry wasn't posting as an admon, he was posting as a user of LUGNET, justlike the rest of us, and 2- by the very fact that he mentioned o.t.fun (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.niltc, lugnet.org.us.clb, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.terms)
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