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(...) NB. 'finish off 2008' is what I mean --snip-- (...) Stage II is up now. (2 URLs) ((URL)). Tim (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Conditional Ring primitive? [DAT]
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I made a quick try - and it doesn't work very well, even when it should (between a cylinder and a cone). Example: (URL) (cedge primitive is here included). Cedge seems to behave correctly on the more sloped cone, but not on the other, it appears (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Technicopedia Update
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(...) Nice! One minor 'complaint' though: IMO, the 360 animations are rotating too fast, so it's difficult to really see any details. The super thing would be to have a controllable 360 rotation, so I could stop at any angle and look closer. I don't (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) I'll need to keep 3 dp in this case. But since it didn't smooth anyway I had no incentive to enlarge the file... (...) OK, we'll see if there is downsides to this. Maybe for very small details? Have a look at some fine mesh parts such as (URL) (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) Something to try. If it works it would help for several shading issues I have seen. See for example around peghole going through curved surface of (URL) Could you send me the LDraw file used to generate 61069s01a1.png? I'll see how (...) You (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) triangle has had its surface normal pulled down. So the triangle isn't co-planar with the quad as far as the lighting is concerned. With curve smoothing, all polygons who share a smoothed vertex use a common surface normal for that vertex. But (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Technicopedia Update
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Good news everyone! I have now added the sets from 1991 to Technicopedia including 8074, 8810, 8815, 8820, 8838, and 8856. (URL) You'll notice some other changes as well. Firstly, I have a new logo which is now rendered in 3D. The logo on the title (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Lego Survey - I really miss 9volt Trains
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There is a survey from Lego at the moment (URL) the section, suggested improvements made by others, there is a check box for "I really miss 9v LEGO trains". Just thought there would be a few people here that would like to remind Lego that 9volt (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | LD4DStudio suggestions?
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Hello all, I was wondering if people have some minor suggestions / bug reports for my current LD4DStudio version. Work on the 1.1 version is taking longer than expected so I was planning to release a bugfix only version this month. Any additional (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Conditional Ring primitive?
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(...) My comment about needing twice the geometry for the edge was based on a misunderstanding of what you wrote. Based on what I now assume you meant, two wouldn't be required for each joint. However, your solution would only work if the cones on (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LEGOLAND Park in Malaysia
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LEGOLAND theme park coming to Iskandar Malaysia. 12/12/2008 JOHOR BARU: Work on the first LEGOLAND theme park in Asia is expected to start here next year. Iskandar Investment Berhad (IIB) will sign a deal tomorrow with the LEGO Group, the Danish (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.legoland)
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| | Re: Conditional Ring primitive?
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(...) It sounds like it would work, but I'm not sure if people would go for it. Of course, if the POTM competitions are anything to go by, you're making a majority of the complicated parts right now, so if you go with it, that's probably all we need (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Some larger sets on sale at Target.com
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There are some large sets on sale from the Target website. For instance: 10182 Cafe Corner $119.99 (was 140, 14% off) (URL) 10185 Green Grocer $112.49 (was 150, 25% off) (URL) Free shipping on both. (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Conditional Ring primitive?
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(...) Mmhhh... maybe by setting 2 conditional rings on the junction. Each condring would be set between a cylinder and a cone. Scaling the ring would adapt to various cone slopes. Of course 2 rings would be needed, one for converging cones, one for (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Conditional Ring primitive?
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(...) That's a primitive I have been longing for... but I realized it is impossible to build: where would you put the control lines? The top control points would need to be scaled differently from bottom ones to match various cylinders/cones (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Conditional Ring primitive?
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(...) I just noticed something else while investigating a fix for the above problem. The above model could really use a circular conditional edge primitive. I would vote for x-ycedge.dat as the filename (ie 1-4cedge.dat, 4-4cedge.dat, (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) I played with the settings, and I had to set the precision all the way down to 0.133 in order to get it to fully smooth. (0.125 failed to smooth properly.) (...) .005. I think I'll set the precision to .01, to hopefully give it some leeway. I (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Another color change?
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(URL) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.general, lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | 1450 Class diesel
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After some more tinkering I have up'ed the screenshots. (URL) it is a cross between the 1400 and 1450, but they are very similar with the main difference being the side grills. I used the dark blue grey train base as the spine, and extended it by 8 (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LETGUI new version 0.1.0.18
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(...) Thanks! For the record: - Ytruder 1.2 is no longer limited to Y direction and can extrude along x, y or z directions - Intersector 1.3 has a new scaling option that improves result for small parts. Philo (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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