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(...) You can't buy these magnets any more from these people - does anyone have another source? Thanks, Mike (19 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains)
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Hey, everyone! I have an unopened, factory sealed, #3026 Limited Edition Silver Brick Tub for auction on ebay right now. I've had this baby sitting on a shelf in my closet for years. Check out my other LEGO auctions as well. (URL) (19 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) Brian- I agree that fest prices cannot be much of issue affecting national, if not regional, attendance. If you spend $1.5K+ for your family to fly, stay, drive, and eat, you really aren't motivated by a better deal on the $60 per person (...) (19 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) There are plenty of people who think we are nut cases already, a Wife Swap episode mocking AF'sOL won't make things any worse. :D The thing I think is most worrisome is that on some of those episodes the new wife comes in and clears out (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.people, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) I'm confused. Better prices on what? LEGO (doubtful, as those prices are not driven by competition generated by fests) or things like registration fees (again, really doubtful; I've seen no evidence that those fees are driven by a profit (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) Ahem Ahem... I know that at least Mladen and myself do this and I've been spreading the word. You pretty much have to if you design mecha. I do, however, agree that it is annoying to deal with when people don't (I'll name no names... Swami). (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I have a question about this. It is very important to me. I like to make animations, and to rotate things correctly, I must use submodels. In using other people's models, I've discovered that nobody centers their submodels to the pivot point, (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) What I want to do is take the layout process (taking part list images, and partial assembly images and making actual building instruction pages interactive. Right now it is batch, pretty much on an entire model basis. I want to be able to pull (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Unfortunately this is a tradeoff between quality and speed, if I sorted by triangle it would give better results but would also be much slower to render. There are other options for transparency sorting, like doing a Z init pass or rendering (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'm not exactly sure what you mean about the performance issues. Running an external viewer in polling mode is too slow? What sort of interactive rendering are you considering? (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Ordering THE UNNOFFICIAL LEGO SETS/PARTS COLLECTORS GUIDE Information for Ordering
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Some folks who missed the earlier posts about the LEGO CD.... here's an update.... Since there were extras of the Limited Edition CD's produced, here's the info: Total price (including Air shipping): USA: $28.50 Canada: $29.00 Europe: $31.50 All (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.announce)
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(...) If you're doing interactivity with opengl, don't bother using the gl_select mechanism, it's way to slow for even small models (the car for example). I discovered this the hard way, while writing an editor for my LD4DModeler succeder project :) (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I've been considering starting in on a new WYSIWYG LPub. It has been a long time in coming. I was hoping to not have to figure out a new renderer, so I was thinking about using either ldglite or LDView as the renderer. I think these tools (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Well, MLcad cannot click things into place. I've learned over the years to be careful to add parts to the model when using course grid, and then switch to medium or fine as necessary. MLCad will allow you to place on whatever grid resolution (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: AFOL Wife Swap?
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(...) There are, of course, different ways of looking at this. It seems to me that at the end of each show, all four spouses end up talking about how much they appreciate the person they're married to. Usually even more than when the show started. (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.people, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) Actually, ldglite is pretty much exactly what I was thinking in terms of using OpenGL to enhance the MLcad experience. And don't knock spaghetti code - a lot of programmers never release anything because they're too busy trying to "do it (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | New homepage for LUGNET part 3
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Hi all, Reference: (URL) and: (2 URLs) Thanks to all who were responding to the previous draft, here is another one: (URL) A few comments: --- Ted Michon wrote: I notice that if I have already visited a top 10 item that it's compacted and expands (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX) !!
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(...) What he said. Well said. JOHN (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.people, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, FTX)
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(...) Hi Travis, I frequently use LDview during the editing for the reasons you outline above. My point was more in argument against the "zoom and rotation" section of the comment. I would love to have a renderer as good as LDView implemented in (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: The proliferation of fests: Good or bad?
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(...) Aaron- I think BW is far enough in the past not affect most thinking except, perhaps, to question the viability of Southern CA to attract enough LEGO oriented people. Most of the content at BFs is brought by people in their vehicles and we (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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