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(...) www.railfonts.com should be helpful for the artwork for many railroads (but not NS). Benn PS, echoing the others, nice locomotive. (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: YA Steam locomotive
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(...) Thank you Chris. The connector joints are part 44 and I think they have been around for a while. Indeed, it would look better with the smokebox and bottom of the firebox in dark gray, but a few of the parts are not available (sigh). Benn (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Impact of LTCs (Re: The Official "Issues List")
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(...) ... (...) The thing about the 9v trains is that it is a gateway to building a train layout (conventional model railroading has a long history with adults, etc etc etc). The layout, whether a LTC or in someone's basement, will likely be (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGOFan Status
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(...) Hi Rob, Several community leaders are working on creating temporary LEGOFan.org pages. We are planning to have these up fairly soon. Unfortunately all old data was lost several months ago when the server and backup both crashed at the same (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw File Format Spec 1.0 DRAFT - Call for Public Comments
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--snip-- (...) I'm not new to matrices and Travis' example is still a little unrigorous which is why I propose the mathematically sound form above. Note the amount of discussion already here because of what people consider 'standard' or 'given' (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: MOTM Contest Questions and a Proposal
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Some quick answers... (...) Excellent. Thanks. (...) You should include the unofficial parts as submodels. (...) So long as you invent it then it's yours to submit. We don't want someone to post an MPD of the alternative model shown on the back of (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: MOTM Contest Questions and a Proposal
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(...) ... (...) I'm not a contest admin, but I would like to point out that LDView is currently used to render the MOTM/POTM contest entries. So from a purely technical standpoint, it's unlikely that problems will be encountered with unofficial part (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: new moc: microscale caribbean resort
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(...) hi steve, thanks for checking it out, glad you liked it. i described the roof apexes in my reply to jonathan's post, so you can see the details there. as for public transportation, i'm thinking this is an exotic island in the caribbean not (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Re: new moc: microscale caribbean resort
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(...) hi jonathan, nice to hear from you! glad you like my little getaway place. and yes, those are embedded fence pieces to get that little detail on what would have otherwise been a really boring roof line. in my post, i forgot to give credit to (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | MOTM Contest Questions and a Proposal
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The new minimum-entries rule has inspired me to enter the LDraw.org Model of the Month contest. I have a few questions: 1. Should entries that use unofficial parts (real LEGO parts that are not yet LDraw certified) include those parts in the MPD (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw File Format Spec 1.0 DRAFT - Call for Public Comments
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(...) If I were new to 3D graphics (and I am ) I would be confused by this, I would have to ask someone else how to interpret the spec. I think Travis' proposal to show the two different matrices that can be built from the line of values is more (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Bug in current version of LDList
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(...) I found the thread on the Inno Setup forums, and based on my reading, it sounds like a Delphi bug with owner-drawn TListBox controls. It may be a bug in the MS List Box control when owner-draw is enabled; I don't know if the Delphi classes use (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: new moc: microscale caribbean resort
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(...) thank you, i'm glad you "feel" the space! the lounge chairs aren't made with cheese wedges, although that is a really great idea, but i've just checked and they aren't made (yet!) in any colour that would have suited. instead, i used the 1x1 (...) (17 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw File Format Spec 1.0 DRAFT - Call for Public Comments
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(...) I think a full worked through example would do the specs a lot of good. If I understand right the line 1 c x y z a b c d e f g h i part.dat transforms any point by the operation (u, v, w)->(x+a*u+b*v+c*w, y+d*u+e*v+f*w, z+g*u+h*v+i*w) With it (...) (17 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 3.2 Released ***
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(...) That's the first I've heard of new performance problems in 3.2. I don't think I got any reports of that for the 3.2 Beta, and the 3.2 final is only bug fixes. It certainly runs fine on the computers I've tested it on. Can you copy the first (...) (17 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: mindstorms sdk
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(...) Unfortunately, I have verified beyond any possible doubt that the comm module offsets in NBCCommon.h (as well as the offsets for all the other modules) are correct. I had really hoped that there was a bug here. What I did to verify the values (...) (17 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: what makes a good engine shed?
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(...) Graffiti :) (URL) needed something on an otherwise bland building) (17 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Bug in current version of LDList
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(...) It affects a fair few other programs (the wonderful Inno setup and various parts of windows itself) so is not LDList specific. IIRC, there was a code workaround that was applied in Inno but you'd need to check the newsgroup history. (17 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 3.2 Released ***
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(...) Thank you Travis. Is it just me or is this version unusable slow? Drawing anything takes a good few seconds of 100% CPU whereas the same model and settings were almost instant in previous versions. I can go back to some previous build if it (...) (17 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw File Format Spec 1.0 DRAFT - Call for Public Comments
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(...) I thought I'd add a clarification to the above. A quick look at LDView's (URL) Change History> file will show that I only added support for spaces in submodel filenames in version 3.0. Furthermore, I listed it as an addition, not a bug fix, (...) (17 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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