 | | ItLUG LEGO fest Ballabio: aggiornamenti 12
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- GBC (Great Ball Contraption) Anche quest'anno riusciamo a riproporre il GBC. Responsabile del layout sarà Gabriele Biffi (Biffuz). - Allestimento manifestazione Il montaggio dei tavoli si terrà Lunedì 6/Martedì 7/Mercoledì 8 dalle 20.30 alle (...) (15 years ago, 13-Jun-09, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Has Anyone Tried This and Will it Work?
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(...) The "new 8866 motor" is just the same motor as found in 9v RC trains that have been out for a year or so. It SHOULD be capable of being powered as you suggest, 9v jumper wire to a 9v track powered motor (but I haven't tried so no promises). I (...) (15 years ago, 13-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Late night cramming, anyone?
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We're working on a big Mindstorms display called "Candyland". There will be two or three robots taking orders, driving around to four or five stations, picking up candy, and delivering it to waiting kids. At least that's the idea. Hard telling (...) (15 years ago, 13-Jun-09, to lugnet.events.brickworld)
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| | Late night cramming, anyone?
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So as I prepare for another late night of building in order to finish before Brickworld, I was wondering if anyone else is doing the same during the next 5 days? Right now my living room is a disaster, I have print out's and books laying around my (...) (15 years ago, 13-Jun-09, to lugnet.events.brickworld)
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| | The Emperor's Royal Guard (video)
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On YouTube pretty funny video. The Emperor's Royal Guard by ZachMG (URL) Mindgamestudios.com>. (URL) The Emperor's Royal Guard> Video: 1:30 minutes long. Enjoy. (15 years ago, 12-Jun-09, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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| | Re: Transparent colors in POV-Ray
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(...) Try dropping the 'ambient' part. This is how my transparent 'christmas lights' are defined: #declare Color46_t = texture { pigment { rgbf <1,0.905882,0.211765,0.85> } finish { ambient 0.0 diffuse 1.0 phong 0.5 phong_size 40 reflection 0.6 (...) (15 years ago, 12-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Please note: Change in LUGNET email behavior
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Hi all, recently we have again had to deal with a significant surge in spam and as a result have found LUGNET blacklisted on Spamcop. This is quite obviously due to the fact that spammers have increasingly used the mail2news gateway of LUGNET, (...) (15 years ago, 12-Jun-09, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Consiglio su treni...
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Salve ragazzi, premesso che tra rc e pf, 12 e 9V non ci stò capendo più nulla, volevo chiedervi se conviene acquistare i nuovi trenini lego con il telecomando oppure aspettare l'uscita di qualche nuovo sistema in previsione da qui a poco Grazie (...) (15 years ago, 12-Jun-09, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: LDraw LEGO Ambassadors: Call for nominations
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(...) Thanks Franklin, but right now, due to job constraints, I don't feel I could give this position my full effort. I regretfully decline. -Orion P.S. Maybe next year. (15 years ago, 12-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Has Anyone Tried This and Will it Work?
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(...) To do this, I think you will need to run a 'dummy' PF Battery Box. I had this problem awhile back when I wanted to power my PF IR switch points using a 9V Train Controller. I had to the the 9V lead to the Battery Box and turn the battery box (...) (15 years ago, 12-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Aw, no SNOT?
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(...) Kevin: Stop by the ToT-LUG layout when you are at Brickworld. I've got a bunch of SNOT examples I can show you and I'll be happy to answer any questions you have. I agree with the comment that SNOT has become 'the IN thing', but it does have (...) (15 years ago, 12-Jun-09, to lugnet.events.brickworld)
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| | Re: Has Anyone Tried This and Will it Work?
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(...) Another thing to try: Use the 9V motor to power the IR receiver, and run the PF motor from that. This would require the 9V motor to be disconnected (just use the pick-up), and you'd need to run the train controller at full speed, and make sure (...) (15 years ago, 12-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Brickworld - Build On The Spot Challenge - Participant List
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Hey everyone, Best I can tell, the following people will be competing in the BOTS Challenge: Team Hassenlug Team Brost Team Alano Team McRae Team Atkinson Team Donahue There is room in the competition for a couple more people if anyone still wants (...) (15 years ago, 12-Jun-09, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
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| | Re: Has Anyone Tried This and Will it Work?
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(...) I just tried this out on my basement layout. The short answer is no. The 8866 motor has a 9v-style connector on it, so the first thing I tried was connecting a 9v motor to the new motor with a 9v cable. No luck. Next, I tried connecting the 9v (...) (15 years ago, 12-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Taj Mahal MOC and TAJ the movie
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(...) Beautiful, clever use of all kinds of parts to capture the feel of the real thing in microscale. The pool with the reflection is a great idea - water features are underutilized in MOCS IMHO. Roy (15 years ago, 12-Jun-09, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Re: Transparent colors in POV-Ray
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(...) I'm using 3.7 beta at the moment, because it renders considerably faster on my quad core. But the result is the same in 3.6. Thanks for that link, It makes the T parameter a bit more clear. I see now the trick is to use ONLY the T parameter (...) (15 years ago, 11-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Transparent colors in POV-Ray
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(...) Background is black by default, I got the habit of using rgbft from (URL) and think it does look a bit nicer than rgbf, but it turns out I did not completely understood the meaning of it (see my answer to mike). As for ior, it's only added if (...) (15 years ago, 11-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Transparent colors in POV-Ray
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(...) For which version of POV-Ray you are generating the code? I have just made some tests with 3.6 for windows with your values, and I can not see any faults. Maybe this page give a clue to you (URL) (15 years ago, 11-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Transparent colors in POV-Ray
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(...) For reasons that I don't understand, the apparent transparency of things in the final POV output is greatly influenced by the background color. Set the background color to black, and things look substantially more transparent than when it's (...) (15 years ago, 11-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: LPub Bad results with LDView
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(...) That did the trick! And with version 4.0.0.2 Thanks! Jetro (15 years ago, 11-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub Bad results with LDView
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(...) I hadn't. I have now tried "Clear assembly image cache" and there is no change. I'm having problems installing LPub 4.0.0.1 Jetro (15 years ago, 11-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub Bad results with LDView
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(...) I have tried to install LPub 4.0.0.1 several times now (redownloaded after cleaning the browser cache to make sure the file wasn't corrupted and tried after completely uninstalling any previous version of LPub) but every time I try to start (...) (15 years ago, 11-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub Bad results with LDView
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(...) Heh, I just realized I've been using the latest LDView myself to auto- magically fetch unofficial parts for my lsynth testing. So, I took a quick peek at the help file and according to it you may want to try the IgnorePBuffer command line (...) (15 years ago, 11-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Transparent colors in POV-Ray
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Hello all, I'm the developer of LD4DStudio ((URL) and I'm in the midsts of rounding up the 1.1 version which supports POV-Ray export. But the thing is I'm not too happy about my transparent color setup. At the moment I'm using the following (this is (...) (15 years ago, 11-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: OT: More Bacon
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You consider that "better"? (Shudder...) -Rob A> (...) (15 years ago, 11-Jun-09, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: OT: More Bacon
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(...) (URL) "Bacon Red Brick" (15 years ago, 11-Jun-09, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Has Anyone Tried This and Will it Work?
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(...) I had a similar idea a couple months ago, but it was more in terms of making 9v steam trains more bump-resistant. See, we did a layout earlier this year where our tables weren't 100% perfectly level. One of the guys had a steam train, which, (...) (15 years ago, 11-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LPub Bad results with LDView
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(...) The partly colored parts indicate LDView is having troubles, not LPub. (...) LPub's communication of what to render is done through LDraw files in the <yourmodeldirectory>/LPub/tmp directory. Those files should simply be the parts (up to a (...) (15 years ago, 11-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Ryan Rubino's: Battle of the Leviathans
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Ryan Rubino was having posting difficulties so I offered to post this magnificent creation on his behalf. Again, I had nothing to do with the build, it is all Ryan's work. Enjoy, and don't hesitate to leave some feedback, I know Ryan will be (...) (15 years ago, 11-Jun-09, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub Bad results with LDView
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(...) Well I guess people should understand that LPub 4.0.0.2 is a moving target. It is not meant for general consumption, but people can take a peek at: www.kclague.net/LPub..._setup.exe It is still changing (bug fixes) on a regular basis. Caveat (...) (15 years ago, 11-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Aw, no SNOT?
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(...) Pick up a copy of BrickJournal. There's now an ongoing article about SNOT techniques. You can also look around for presentations from James Mathis and/or Holger Mathes (aka "M and M"). Scott (15 years ago, 11-Jun-09, to lugnet.events.brickworld)
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| | Animated Lego pirate drinking song
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I have recently completed an animated Lego pirate video, based on a song from the famous comic opera "The Pirates of Penzance", where the pirates are having a drunken celebration! Many people have said how much they enjoyed my little film, including (...) (15 years ago, 4-Jun-09, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.animation)
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| | Long range scoutship
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Hi, keeping it short: (URL) PLMKWYT, Didier (15 years ago, 11-Jun-09, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Taj Mahal MOC and TAJ the movie
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(...) The reflecting pool is awesome. (15 years ago, 11-Jun-09, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Re: Aw, no SNOT?
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(...) I know how important it is for many people to have no studs showing on anything they build, but that being said and since this is just my opinion, please take it for what it is worth, I personally do not see the need to cover every little stud (...) (15 years ago, 11-Jun-09, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
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| | Aw, no SNOT?
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This being my first Lego con, I was looking forward to learning a bit about SNOT building techniques; I'm always floored when I see examples of it, but never feel inspired on how to do it myself. I guess there's no presentations or workshops about (...) (15 years ago, 11-Jun-09, to lugnet.events.brickworld)
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| | Re: Has Anyone Tried This and Will it Work?
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(...) I think the real intent was not so much installing a second motor, but actually powering the PF motor, or even a second PF motor from the 9V rail. Using the 9V truck to pick up power from the track and using the 8886 extension wire to convert (...) (15 years ago, 11-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LPub Bad results with LDView
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(...) uses the opengl hardware on the video card to do the offscreen rendering. Maybe the card is running out of memory at the higher dpi? What does LDView report about your opengl driver? Maybe that'll provide a clue. (15 years ago, 11-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Has Anyone Tried This and Will it Work?
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(...) Interesting idea, Clifton. I would be very interested to see if this works and if it is 'safe' for the motors. One thing to keep in mind though is that 9V motor failure tends to be more tied to the internal power leads that connect the wheels (...) (15 years ago, 11-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Copyright notice concerning Brickmania / Daniel Siskind's models.
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(...) Tiffeny: Check out (URL) to purchase Dan's sets. He's also got a cool subscription deal for an 'Instruction of the Month' club. Enjoy! -Dave ToT-LUG (15 years ago, 11-Jun-09, to lugnet.market.theory, FTX)
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