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Hi Kevin, Here's the problem. A mirror plus a rotation can look just like a mirror across another axis. Ugly 2D ASCII art example: .|b --- .|. Mirror the b to the left. d|. --- .|. Rotate 180 degrees. .|. --- .|p That looks just like you mirrored (...) (15 years ago, 15-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi Train Builders, We have a town MOC registered for Brickfair called Alpine Village and would like an operating 9V Alpine train MOC to complete the scene. We are set with track and the controller. If you are interested in building a Swiss mountain (...) (15 years ago, 15-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi Tim, Thanks. Math is not my specialty, so all help is appreciated. If the user has rotated the mirrored submodel, doesn't the vector normal then also get rotated? The hope was there was a way to separate the mirrored aspect of the rotation (...) (15 years ago, 15-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | The LEGO Group to Participate in NMRA National Train Show 2009
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As part of the National Train Show on July 10-12, 2009 in Hartford, CT, Jamie Berard, set designer of the newly released 'Emerald Night' and employee of The LEGO Group (TLG), will participate as part of the show. Jamie will be giving a talk on both (...) (15 years ago, 15-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | Re: LSynth 3.0 setup tutorial updated [DAT]
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(...) Thanks. I'll use that one then. Let me take advantage of this thread to suggest the inclusion of another element in the lsynth mpd: the Fibre Optics Cable x400. This is the one that came with the RCX, Spybots and several Exoforce sets, has the (...) (15 years ago, 15-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) You can also use SR 3D Builder to build your mirrored/symmetric models. You build a side and the program will build the other, mirrored one. It automatically substitute and rotate non symmetric parts and is compatible with lDraw/MLCad file (...) (15 years ago, 15-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | STX Europe ship built by LEGO Bricks competition (winners)
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STX EUROPE Competition posted on LUGNET last year. (URL) STXEUROPE-Blockdoker> Here is the winners of the competition. Plus the Jury picks of other designs by other people. Winner of the (URL) Oasis Category> design Thilo Schön. Winner of the (URL) (...) (15 years ago, 15-Jun-09, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, FTX) !
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(...) Not sure if this helps but... If you solve (M11+1) x + M12 y = - M13 M21 x + (M22+1) y = - M23 and then normalise the vector (x,y,1) the result will be a vector normal to the mirroring plane. To test that you indeed have a rotation/mirror you (...) (15 years ago, 15-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Wanted: Picture of LEGO SF GP-38 Loco “Warbonnet� design.
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(...) Oh, I almost forgot to mention, your MOC looks absolutely incredible!!! Mark (15 years ago, 15-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Awesome! Thanks, Mathew!! That's exactly what I wanted to see. I think what I'm building is shaping up to be quite similar, although I'm waiting on parts from the UK. Those darn 1x1x2 corner window pieces are hard to get now. I had to order (...) (15 years ago, 15-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Wanted: Picture of LEGO SF GP-38 Loco “Warbonnet” design.
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(...) Hi Russell, Thanks for the tip! I really appreciate your help. Mark (15 years ago, 15-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Way back in olden times we created some programs to automate the mirroring process. (URL) anyone feel like testing the programs out to see how well they hold up with all the new parts available today? Don (15 years ago, 15-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(This should probably have been in lugnet.cad.dev, and I almost put it there, but decided that it wouldn't make much difference.) I don't know the answer to this question. I'm responding any, just to let you know that I did read the question, since (...) (15 years ago, 15-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I don't think so. (...) What if you mirror it again to get back to an unmirrored state, then run the code in mirwiz to create a submodel that only looks mirrored (but actually just flips pieces to look mirrored and substitutes opposite wedges, (...) (15 years ago, 15-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LEGO® set 10197 - Fire Brigade
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(URL) Pictures> on Eurobricks David (15 years ago, 15-Jun-09, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Has Anyone Tried This and Will it Work?
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(...) Clifton, The problem with using a gutted 9v motor is the friction. The motor has a lot of side sprung friction for the electrical brush power pickups. I've been successful making power pickups using the ealy style 9v wheelsets. (URL) These (...) (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Wanted: Picture of LEGO SF GP-38 Loco “Warbonnet� design.
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(...) Thanks Russel. Mark, I did pretty much the same thing. The model that Russell pointed out was the first thing I built after coming out of my dark age, and my first real train MOC. If I were to do it again, I might use the nose from the Alaska (...) (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Transparent colors in POV-Ray
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(...) I'd say that a nice temporary solution would be just to allow a simple stud shrinking option for L3P generated studs and let people deal with LGEO separately. LGEO has less problems in this regard anyway as many of the parts are created as (...) (15 years ago, 15-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: LSynth 3.0 setup tutorial updated
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(...) Jetro, The biggest, most important change between LSynth 2 and LSynth 3, is that the bulk of the synthesized result is defined by lsynth.mpd, so that Willy and others can add whole new synthesis types without the need to change the lsynth (...) (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LSynth 3.0 setup tutorial updated
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(...) Maybe I'm looking at the wrong installer version, but when I run a case and whitespace insensitive diff I see lots of real changes. New constraints and synth types, orientation and part offset tweaks, etc. Right near the top of the file there (...) (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Mirror matrix question
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Hi gang, If I have an LDraw Type 1 line that adds a submodel, and the rotation matrix of the line is a mirrored matrix about one and only one axis, can one calculate which axis the model is mirrored about? Can one do so if the user mirrored *and* (...) (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub Bad results with LDView
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(...) Well, scratch that analysis. wing2.ldr and wing1.ldr are exactly the same model. When you added wing2.ldr you *did* use mirror matrix. LPub 4.0.0.2 notices that you used a mirrored matrix, and rendered the wing with the mirror matrix rotation. (...) (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LEGO® set 10197 - Fire Brigade
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Start saving! LEGO® set 10197 – Fire Brigade Ages 16+. 2,231 pieces. Year: 2009 US $ 149.99; CA $ 199.99, UK £ 97.85, DE € 149.99 Build an authentic vintage fire station! Ding ding ding! There’s a fire in town! The fire brigade drives to the scene (...) (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, FTX) !
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| | Re: Playing around with the new 55423 wheel
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(...) Pressing the studs of a Technic Rotor 2 Blade with 2 Studs (2711) or a Technic Rotor 2 Blade with 4 Studs (32124) in the holes of the 1x7 beam would give you your desired centered axle hole, and in case of the 2711 part, some interesting (...) (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LPub Bad results with LDView
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(...) Hi Jaco, The right wing is being rendered weirdly because LPub thinks that the right wing is being added using a mirror matrix. You have wing1.ldr and wing2.ldr in your model. In theory you could get by with just wing.ldr, because wing2.ldr (...) (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: I'm Back
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(...) Välkommen tillbaka! Du har inte missat mycket i .loc.se - här har varit tystare än i graven sedan min LEGO-träff i höstas. Det har till och med gått så långt att jag har blivit tvungen att börja läsa *andra* LEGO-sidor för att få min dagliga (...) (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: Transparent colors in POV-Ray
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(...) Shrinking/moving the parts seems like the best way to reduce the flickering, so I'm planning to implement that in the 1.2 version of my program. I guess it's also somewhat a post processing issue depending on how much of a perfectionist the (...) (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Transparent colors in POV-Ray
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(...) L3P shrinks whole highlevel parts, thats a feature I was planning to implement later. But if you shrink the whole part the window and brick will still share the same stud dimensions. Shrinking only the studs could cause problems later on when (...) (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Transparent colors in POV-Ray
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(...) I thought that l3p did shrink all the dimensions a little bit, so that two adjacent brick's co-planar surfaces don't appear as one surface. I quote from the L3P web page: Seams between bricks To have more realistic renderings L3P can make a (...) (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: DATHeader version 2.0.5 (The Reviewer Tool)
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Hello Michael Heidemann DatHeader 2.0.5 does not add CR/LF to the end of a file. This happen when you allow to program format comments (to '0 //' form ). I reference to File Format Restrictions for Official Parts (URL) El'dar Ismagilov (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LEGO on Mythbusters
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If anyone catches any other LEGO based items like this. Please contact the Plastic Brick Museum. We would like to grab up these style items for the museum (just got the Trading Spaces life size Basketball player as well as a life size Spiderman from (...) (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 20% off SUPER SALE
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Super sale of LEGO product 20% off ALL elements, over 2 million in stock UP FOR SUPER SALE (URL) (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Playing around with the new 55423 wheel
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(...) Co-operation and brainstorming is always a good idea... I have slept on it, but still no new bright idea. Let me know what you come up with. WBR Sonnich (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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In lugnet.trains, Sonnich Jensen wrote: (snip) (...) You've swept some cobwebs from my brain - I gotta dig that out and do that now while I build my copy of Emerald Night. Thanks, Sonnich! Ed (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| | I'm Back
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I am happy to announce that I'm back again, after more than 7 months of involuntary absence. (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.people, lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: Wanted: Picture of LEGO SF GP-38 Loco “Warbonnet” design.
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(...) Give this one a try: (URL) (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Probably first-come, first-served which is essentially random as far as the user is concerned. As an idea you might be able to work around the problem by shrinking all studs in the completed model. Shrinking them by a couple of percent would (...) (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Wanted: Picture of LEGO SF GP-38 Loco “Warbonnet” design.
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(...) Hi, thanks for your help! I was also starting to think that no one has built this color scheme yet. I'm actually attempting it by flipping between a picture of an HO electric train version of it and the building instructions in the book. If I (...) (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Wanted: Picture of LEGO SF GP-38 Loco “Warbonnet” design.
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(...) IMO there's poor chance someone built the blue version (well maybe Jake is reading these lines and got some pictures he may link to) - as far as I can remember, noone ever posted such a picture on BS. However, I'm having a look at the small (...) (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Wanted: Picture of LEGO SF GP-38 Loco “Warbonnet” design.
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(...) Thanks, Bruce. This is not quite the locomotive I'm looking for though. The one in the "Getting Started With LEGO Trains" book is a custom one by Jacob McKee that LEGO doesn't sell a kit for. I was just curious if anyone here may have built (...) (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Exclusives who has what
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Myer : 10189 Taj Mahal 5635 Big Zoo 5489 Vehicle Building Set Kmart:Available in July 10188 Death Star 10195 Republic Dropship ToysRus: 7680 The Twilight 7681 Separatist Spider Droid Target:Available July 10193 Medieval Market Place 3833 Krusty (...) (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | new moc: doorway study 9 - grey stone
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(URL) the last (so far) of my doorway studies, finished last year, but photographed this week. based loosely on a photograph of the doorway of the house used for the newer version of "the stepford wives" which i found in our local newspaper. the (...) (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Wanted: Picture of LEGO SF GP-38 Loco “Warbonnet” design.
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(...) Here are the instructions (URL) (15 years ago, 14-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Wanted: Picture of LEGO SF GP-38 Loco “Warbonnet” design.
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Does anyone have some pictures of a LEGO SF GP-38 Loco “Warbonnet” design as discussed in the "Getting Started With LEGO Trains" book by Jacob McKee? Building instructions for this color scheme would be even more desirable. I need to build a loco to (...) (15 years ago, 13-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Playing around with the new 55423 wheel
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(...) This is how I did it with my Shay bogie - hope it helps. (URL) (15 years ago, 13-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LPub Bad results with LDView
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(...) I've solved the problem installing the Visual Studio 2008 Runtime. LPub now runs fine. Thanks Travis! Jetro (15 years ago, 13-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Playing around with the new 55423 wheel
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Hello I was hoping on the wheel, but some tests tonight did not gave all what I wanted. 1) external design I tried to use a 1x8 technic brick, a 1x6 will do and a 1x7 will be good. It is possible to place the wheels one hole from the end, leaving (...) (15 years ago, 13-Jun-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Transparent colors in POV-Ray
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(...) the real word value), I think part of the flickering is reflections/refractions of the moving cogs. Also, it might help to raise the window a tiny amount (or shrink it) so that the bottom of the transparent part is numerically above the top of (...) (15 years ago, 13-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I'm working on some last bugs, the installer and a final sample, every thing else is done. So if the application 'survives' during this last sample I will release it this week. Roland (15 years ago, 13-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: LPub Bad results with LDView
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(...) <snip> 15. Allow PLI and callouts placed to the left of the CSI to share the column width in step-groups and callouts. For example: (URL) (15 years ago, 13-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) When do you think 1.1 is available????? I am waiting for film export!!! Ok, I think your problem can't be solved because the surfaces meet exactly the same plane. So the renderer has to decide which color to take. As both are exactly the same (...) (15 years ago, 13-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | 127,000 bricks in 110 seconds!
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We set up our 127,000 brick US flag at the Richard M Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California yesterday. The Orange County Register made this 110 second time lapse and audio/video posted at (URL). You will have wait past 10 (...) (15 years ago, 13-Jun-09, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.build, FTX) !
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| | Re: Transparent colors in POV-Ray
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(...) so I replaced it by trans white in the animation I was working on (The "Experiment" sample of LD4DStudio.). I'm now using: //----Texture for LDraw color 47 "clear" #declare color47 = texture { pigment { rgbft <1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 0.9000, (...) (15 years ago, 13-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: LPub Bad results with LDView
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(...) <snip> (...) 14. In classic buffer exchange store, add parts, step, buffer exchange load, you no longer need to GHOST the parts added between the store and step. LPub applies buffer exchanges to the LDraw files before being handed to the (...) (15 years ago, 13-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub Bad results with LDView
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(...) Oh, LPub also figures out the bounding box for things placed relative to step-groups and centers them. I also fixed problems with PLIs for step groups that do not have PLI per step. Kevin (15 years ago, 13-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub Bad results with LDView
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(...) One of the new features is affecting your swan. When you place callouts, PLIs, etc, relative to the CSI, LPub figures out the bounding box of the collection, and then automatically centers the bounding box on the page. You did this manually, (...) (15 years ago, 13-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub Bad results with LDView
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(...) Kevin, Thanks for sharing this anyway :-) I like the new features you added (add pages, cover, images). Do you have a list of new features or changes? FYI: I've noticed there are some differences in rendering. See: (2 URLs) (15 years ago, 12-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Late night cramming, anyone?
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(...) Same here Chris. Although we actually started packing last night...so I guess we're getting closer. We accomplished a lot last night, so I think I only have a few more things to do. We're leaving on Tuesday afternoon so today and tomorrow are (...) (15 years ago, 13-Jun-09, to lugnet.events.brickworld)
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| | Re: LSynth 3.0 setup tutorial updated
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(...) Thanks for a great documentation job! Just a quick question. I've had a look at the lsynth.mpd file that comes with the new installer and the one that's in the tutorial and except for a few differences in spacing and capitals I don't see any (...) (15 years ago, 13-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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(...) (URL) "Bacon Red Brick" (15 years ago, 11-Jun-09, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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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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(...) 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 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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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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| | Re: LPub Bad results with LDView
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(...) Sounds not good. At present I have no idea what the problem could cause. But LDView should not be the problem as you can see the parts correctly there. So it has to be the connection between both. Did you try in LPub - "Clear assembly image (...) (15 years ago, 11-Jun-09, to lugnet.cad)
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