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(URL) put up over 1 million elements on super discount. Come and get them! When they are gone, they are gone. (15 years ago, 8-Dec-09, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | 10% off Metal Brick keychains through Friday!
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10% off anything at (URL), now through Friday, Dec 11. Use coupon code SINTK10 when you check out. (URL) (15 years ago, 8-Dec-09, to lugnet.market.brickshops, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) No rush Kevin. There are probably not too many of us making instructions for models of this size, and we at least have (painful) workarounds in the interim. If you never get to it, I'm still very thankful for LPub, and if you do get to it, you (...) (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LD4DStudio 1.1 (def) Released
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Hello All, I've finished the newest version of LD4DStudio bringing it to version 1.1 All changes are bugfixes. I also added a page with embedded youtube clips to the website. ((URL) this stable 1.1 version I will be concentrating on 1.2 for a couple (...) (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: GBDX - Las Vegas 2007
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Also, this video was taken during setup. The entire model hasn't been assembled. When completed the 2 track runs were identical, with 2 elevators on both sides of the bridge and 2 identical track runs with the same stations running back down to the (...) (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote: <snip> (...) Pardon me replying to my own post..... The above may help with LPub showing the right portion of a large mode, but it doesn't help with cropping the image size to contain what has changed, which I (...) (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(URL) Youtube> (URL) Flickr> This was built in summer 2007 by Dan Parker's LEGO studio in Tacoma, WA. The model was created for a human resources convention in Las Vegas. The client had just acquired another company and wanted the merger to be the (...) (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.general, FTX) !
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) LPub knows what parts are added at each step. LPub could find the min/max locations of all parts added and have the look at coordinate be (min_x+max_x)/2, (min_y+max_y)/2, (min_z+max_z)/2. This would give a general idea of where to look. One (...) (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
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In lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, David Koudys wrote: <snip> (...) Thanks, Dave. It is also quite sturdy, which is the real reason why I built it. I was running (URL) Trolley> around the tree, but our English Mastiff (URL) kept objecting!> (URL) I needed (...) (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Into The Frozen North
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(...) It's beautiful, Tony. Should have been on the calendar! Now I'm reticent to post my version.... (URL) JOHN (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Minifig Accessory
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(...) Any part can only have one category. The complete text of the !CATEGORY statement takes precedence. If there is no !CATEGORY line, the first word (ignoring any initial ~ or _) of the decription should be used as the category. A !CATEGORY line (...) (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés dimanche 6 décembre 2009
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Bonjour Voici la lettre d'information du site "FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group" ((URL) lettre recense les articles et les brèves publiés depuis 1 jours. Nouveaux articles ---...--- ** Set 7747, le transport de l'éolienne ** par Pierre (...) (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Into The Frozen North
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The next installment in my Sava Railways Scenic Tours photo series: "Into The Frozen North" (URL) Image is a link. A heavily photoshopped version of an older picture of my (URL) Polar Express MOC>. --Tony (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
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In lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, John Neal wrote: <snip> (...) Nicely done! The complexity of the build is masked by the simple look of it all--I love it Dave K (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains)
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| | GFLUG at Tampa Train Show - Dec 19-20, 2009
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For Immediate Release Contact: Robin Werner TAMPA, FLORIDA - The Greater Florida LEGO Users Group (GFLUG) is proud to announce its participation in the Tampa Model Train Show this December 19-20, 2009 at the Florida State Fairgrounds Special Events (...) (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.org.us.gflug, FTX)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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(...) OK, I'll update my programs to use this algoritm for colors not stated in ldconfig.ldr /Lars (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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(...) SKIPPING "C:\LDraw\ldconfig.ldr" Line 40: Illegal color code: 0 !COLOUR Main_Color CODE 16 VALUE #7F7F7F EDGE #333333 SKIPPING "C:\LDraw\ldconfig.ldr" Line 54: Illegal color code: 0 !COLOUR Edge_Color CODE 24 VALUE #7F7F7F EDGE #333333 WARNING (...) (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: txt2dat 0.2.3 released
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(...) Voila! Mac universal binary now available at the above link for download! ROSCO (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 4.1 Released ***
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(...) I like a computer graphic. I make models for rotating it in LDView not for instructions :) . This is a huge work. Thank you, Travis. (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | *** LDView Version 4.1 Released ***
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LDView 4.1 is now available for download from the LDView downloads page here: (URL) Some notable changes: Curve smoothing in POV-Ray exports. Customizable toolbar on Windows and Mac versions. Note: the default toolbar is now missing some features (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Minifig Accessory
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(...) If I've understood it correctly, !CATEGORY precedes title in order of importance. So the shield is a Minifig Accessory. (if it didn't, why there would be that category entry.. ?) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Steam Through the Piney Woods
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(...) .. (...) Tony- Just a beautiful scene in every way. -Ted (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Minifig Accessory
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(...) I like to draw your attention to the following part which is only a sample: (URL) the guidelines in the FAQ and the Article 340 (see above) then this part belongs to the "Minifig" category as this is the first word of the description. But (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Ad for Honda Jazz using virtual bricks
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(...) Apparently they're Mega Bloks by design: (URL) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: World's smallest pneumatic walker...?
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WOW, Just fantastic! great job. Chris (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.technic)
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| | LDConfig Manager 1.0
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Because of the current discussion about the LDConfig.ldr I needed a tool to visualisise all the used colors. So I just coded LDConfig Manager. It is far from beeing complete and maybe buggy, but it works for me. Maybe you are also interested in (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
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(...) The Nerd Herd cars are never smeared with sooty grease that I can recall. Utterly destroyed, on occassion, but otherwise they are clean and pristine. (...) Did I say functional model steam locomotives? Because I meant the kind that can flatten (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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(...) I'm gonna explain (and quit afterwards) why I hesitate adding new and old - what I call "MLCad" - colors to the LDConfig.ldr file: * The current LDConfig.ldr contains only colors you'll find in official LEGO Bricks (with two exceptions (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: World's smallest pneumatic walker...?
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(...) And it's an hexapod in this size!!! (...) A tough challenge indeed. Congratulations! Philo (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.technic)
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| | LEGOLAND® Malaysia plan to open in 2012
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LEGOLAND® Malaysia plan to open in 2012. Blocks In Place For LEGOLAND at Iskandar. SINGAPORE, Dec. 3, 2009 — Construction of Asia’s first LEGOLAND theme park — a US$200 million (RM675 million) project featuring 40 different rides and attractions — (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.legoland, lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
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--snip-- (...) I remember how pleased I was with the brown 1x2 brick and 1x2 plate I got as horse filler back in the 80s. And green was what baseplates and trees came in. I can just remember when grey was rare. Of course those lucky dogs in the LEGO (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Ad for Honda Jazz using virtual bricks
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(URL) that the video description mentions Mega Bloks even though they are virtual... ROSCO (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.cad)
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| | World's smallest pneumatic walker...?
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...well, the smallest I can manage, anyway. Of course, I am hoping to see some challenges to this claim! :) Fully automatic - needs only an air supply. Uses two small cylinders and two switches. Roughly 9x9x12 studs in size. I found the small (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce.moc) !
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| | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
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(...) Dood! Model railroaders go to great lengths to get that "weathered look!" (URL) When I was with the GMLTC, we did a show that featured an amazing guy who scratch-built these beautiful 8" gauge live steam locos. They were unfreaking believable! (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
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(...) The painted silver parts can take a certain amount of abuse (I mean, the stuff doesn't flake off when you rub it, so...), and simply tipping over probably isn't enough to do much damage unless it's at high speed on, say, some sort of natural (...) (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Minifig Accessory
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(...) I thought "Minifigure Accessory" was already an official category. (URL) haven't gotten around to implementing support for the !CATEGORY directive yet, though. I still just read the first word of the description for the category. (...) Is (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Recreating Vision Center in RoboLab 4.9
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I am working on recreating Vision Center vi in RoboLab 4.9. Currently my Vision Center vi: Threshold, MorphOpen, MorphClose, MorphProperOpen, MorphProperClose, MorphThin and Invert causes a clear outline in the build window. When I try to recreate (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Official alternative model of set 8671
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(...) I hunted down the old LEGO racers site on the web archive (www.archive.org), and found it there, and then deciphered what the old link must have been when it was "available" from www.LEGO.com, and found that the file is still available and in (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets)
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| | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
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(...) Lol, just bustin' your chops! (URL) (...) Yup. I took on the "dark blue" challenge with (URL) this trolley>. Ahh, the good old days. Remember when orange was new? Or how about green. JOHN (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) I'm not sure what you mean by this. Both LDView and ldglite have ways to share the coordinates used for a particular viewpoint. Something like this: (URL) do you just want a way to set the "look at" point on the command line. I believe that's (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
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(...) I assure you any laying down of challenges was entirely unintentional ;) (...) Hah! You're going to have a really fun time detailing that one. There's a certain charm to building in the metallic colours. It's like dark blue in the good old (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Official alternative model of set 8671
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(...) Thanks Joshua. How did you find out the link to that? (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) Hm... wouldn't it be relatively easy to implement (yet effective) just to have the possibility to define the crop window for a certain assembly step? That would then work independently on the renderer. And if the coordinates were given in % (...) (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | txt2dat 0.2.3 released
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Version 0.2.3 of txt2dat has been released, you can download it (URL). Changes in this version: Upgraded to Freetype 2.3.11 Fixed -f option to generate "0 Name:" instead of "0 FILE" as per Ldraw spec. Thanks Philo! Added -g option to generate glyph (...) (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) I guess I dropped that ball. Someone contacted me about Lunix patches for LPub, and I ignored them. I should have encouraged him to put those patches onto sourceforge himself and join the team. I'll work on that. (...) Kevin (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) In the case of L3P and POV-Ray, there was the ability for look at coordinates so that you could control what is the center of the viewed image. If such a mechanism were to exist in LDView and LDGLite, LPub could support that. This combined (...) (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) I'm on my way, thanks! Kevin (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | TRU sale Dec 4-10
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Not much in this weeks flyers. TRU flyer (Friday Dec 4th to Thursday Dec 10th) has the 7685 City Dozer on for half price, $24.97 (reg $49.99). In store only, while they last, no rainchecks. Amazing, $49.99 is the S@H price. You also get a "FREE $10 (...) (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Lego Gun brings SWAT to Toronto man's office
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(...) Where's the "dislike" button? Steve (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
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(...) Not so fast, Speedy. Although that is a beautiful MOC (which I hadn't seen until now; thanks for showing it), you've never seen my first metallic silver effect that I built a few months ago. (You haven't seen it because I haven't posted a pic (...) (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
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(...) Thanks, John! Being a sharp-eyed building connoisseur, you not doubt surmised that the "secret" to the roof is attaching all of the 2x2 tiles using only their center tube. The 1x6s are attached using perpendicular half studs. JOHN (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Steam Through the Piney Woods
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(...) What John said. :^) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
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(...) That was in fact the first part of the model that caught my eye. Well-played all around, John! (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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(...) Hi Steve, good to hear from you again. Would you mind lokking into this: (URL) (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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(...) Tore, Feel free to add any color, RGB, name or number you like to the LDConfig.ldr. file. I really won't stand in the way of 100% backwards compatibility to L3Lab. w. (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Minifig Accessory
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I just saw that we have parts that description starts with "Minifig Accessory" while others only starts with "Minifig". As I like to have things conform to each other I like to hear also other opinions to this than mine. I think we should keep that (...) (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Lego Gun brings SWAT to Toronto man's office
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Long story short, Guy buys gun from brickgun.com, guy builds toy at office, neighbor across the street sees gun thru window, neighbor calls the cops. SWAT does what SWAT does and "take down" guy with lego. Lego guy fully complies and was released (...) (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
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(...) Nice! Shiny toys are good. But... you're not the most insane user of metallic silver on a train. That honour goes to Peter Norman (URL) ;) Tim (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) You know I could swear I pointed you towards a potential candidate for this, like a month or so ago... https://retracile.ne...0/10/16.45 Did you ever get a chance to follow up on that? Don (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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(...) Oh. Oh. I... I wish somebody had told me this before, instead of arrogant and provoking things like: "Welcome to 2009". Or maybe someone has tried, but I've been the write protected that time? /Tore (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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(...) Yes, exactly. 48 is rendered as trans-black, 65 is blue, and 133 should be dark pink (or whatever we're calling color #5 today). Steve (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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(...) Do you mean that original LDraw accepts color 48, 65, 133 without error message? I didn't know that. Pity L3Lab (and L3P v1.3 which I no longer use)don't act that way. If so, I guess I stand corrected. And blushing. But yet, with a little (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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(...) Just to be clear: all colors from 0 to 511 (except 16 and 24) are true LDraw colors. For color codes less than 256, LDraw would use the lowest 4 bits to determine the color value. The sixth bit would determine transparency. The other bits were (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Official alternative model of set 8671
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(...) Not to take away from Jaco's work (which is most impressive), but the original can be gotten from: (URL) those who want to compare before and after, perhaps? :) -- joshua (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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(...) I for one would have been very happy with that approach. That's exactly what I have tried to tell over and over and over again. Could those of you who have their intellectual write protection on, pretty pretty please unlock it for just a few (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
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(...) Whoa, thanks for the heads up. Our tree is in a carpeted room, and I doubt I'll ever run the thing except around Christmas time. It'll probably spend most of its life on display. Sad to hear about the scratching issues, Dave. I will remember (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
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(...) In-home, floor level use is probably fine, but if you ever run that on a layout you better hope that it doesn't take a spill, or the silver paint is likely to get uglified. I was never really sure if they were painted or not, but recently I (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) models, so it is quite common for the assembly not to fit on the page. The workaround I have used so far is to make my own custom assembly images from LView and them manually put them in the final PDF file. That's what I did (URL) here>. Eric (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
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Here is a little trolley that I built yesterday to run around the Christmas tree this year: (URL) Aside from the WOW factor of seeing a MOC completely in a rare color, it was a pretty straight-forward build. The only tricky part was the fact that I (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | Re: Steam Through the Piney Woods
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(...) Looks awesome, Tony! The bridge as seen as a thumbnail actually looks real! Great staging, and a not too shabby MOC as well! (URL) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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Nobody ever listens to me on the issue of colors, but that doesn't mean I'll go quietly... (...) I don't see why they need to be added to the ldConfig file as long as they're documented somewhere and accepted as the standard default LDraw pallette. (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Official alternative model of set 8671
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Hello, In the instructions of set 8671 (Racers - Ferrari F430 Spider 1:17) it says there are buildinginstrucions of an alternative model to be found on (URL) Alas these instructions were removed. The topic of missing or removal of official building (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) OK, here goes. When an assembly is too large to fit on the page, LPub crops the image. When one drags the assembly image to another position LPub does not redraw the image. See: (URL) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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(...) Sorry, but I really cannot understand the need to encode dithered colors. Personally I think that only colors used for parts should be coded, while, when you create a patterned part you can choose to use a "good enough" already coded color or (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Bionicle's End is Near
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In lugnet.technic.bionicle, Bob Parker wrote: <snip> Even as a fan of Bionicle, I can't say I am all broken up about this. It may even be past due. Hopefpully the new action figures won't be Galidor-esque. If there is a story component, it would be (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, FTX)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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(...) It might fix it (I think it would still gum up the PT with over-zealous hold votes); but why break anything when we're just talking about adding fewer than 200 lines to the config file? I think it's a terrible idea to make dozens of (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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(...) I have had parts on the Part Tracker held because they used one of these colors. That means it is limiting. (...) Color numbers 32-47 and 256-511 is not every color under the rainbow. (...) This is exactly the problem. (...) If this is the (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LEGO Matrix Trinity Help (Video)
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If you haven't seen it yet. For both LEGO and Matrix fans. From Youtube User: LegoAgentJones "After around 440 hours of work, and just in time for the 10th anniversary of the original movie release, we are pleased to present to you our LEGO version (...) (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, FTX) !
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(...) Very Nice!!! L. Andrew Reynolds GtwLUG (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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The next installment in my Sava Railways Scenic Tours photo series: "Steam Through the Piney Woods" (URL) Image is a link. Texas State Railroad Locomotive #300 crosses a wooden trestle bridge through the Piney Woods of East Texas. --Tony (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX) !
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(...) Well, I'm interested in helping to maintain current builds for the Macintosh. We're still at 4.0.0.1. If you update the SourceForge page with the current code, I will work on that - and then my interest might be rekindled enough to delve (...) (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Hi Willy, This is not the kind of help I was asking about. I was asking if anyone was interested in helping with the software development of LPub. It is getting too large for one person to work on alone. If would seem you have issues with the (...) (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) There are already two very old ways to specify RGB colors in LDraw files. One comes from ldlite with somewhere between 12 and 15 effective bits of color information, and the other from L3Lab/L3P with 24 bits of color information. If we're (...) (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Of course it would - as well as it does LDView. But after adding x, y, z coordinates and correcting RGB code syntax would work fine with both LDView as well as L3Lab! 1 0x02F2F2F2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 part.dat Don't know about MLCad, but I (...) (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Does finger pointing to bugs count? (URL) (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. Kevin (...) (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Neither did I but if you really cannot find a suitable color for your pattern an RGB say in the form: 1 #F2F2F2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 part.dat would surely solve your problem. And I'm going to propose this to the new elected LSC. As for the broken (...) (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) I wondered about that. I'll have to look and understand why. Man, LPub sure has gotten complicated :^) Anyone want to help? Thanks, Kevin (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hi all, Ive seen last weekend someone who showed me some brass train wheels. Verry nice done, fitting on the standard steel axle from the cars. I gave him some tips: isolate the wheels from the steel axle and use brass contacts on the (...) (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) So many features, so few memories. The latest version of LPub (at least the Windows one), has support for mirrored sub-models. It knows about mirrored matricies (thanks to minds here that are mathematically superior to mine :^) One test model (...) (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I never said that it was meant to limit, only that it is made up of these colors now. Please don't take this to mean that new colors can't be added, or that it invalidates other colors. We already know of at least one color that should be (...) (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I disagree that this was the original purpose of the ldconfig file. I can say that definitively, since I was the one who first proposed the file here: (URL). The purpose was that when *new* colors were added, ldraw software tools would have a (...) (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I have too much time to spend digging on deal sites: (URL) that's now expired. (...) That's interesting. The previous Amazon entry was actually Target's inventory (now on back order), but one this seems not to be. In the end I paid $85.87 (...) (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) She is LEGO hot!!! A rare species hehe Nice (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) I've seen some power pickups made out of a normal train wheel covered in metal tape. But I would assume there are metal model railroad wheels out there that could be forced on to a technic axle or something similar. A bit more drag, but if it (...) (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) This isn't the first time that LDconfig.ldr has been updated - and it is just that, the file has been updated with MORE colors than before. I think we are loosing sight of the purpose of LDconfig.ldr... The LDconfig file is meant to be a quick (...) (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Although I have decided to refrain from participation in this thread (you already know my position and you totally neglect it), I make one exception and say "Amen!" to all of Andy's points above. /Tore (15 years ago, 2-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I apparently have missed the discussion when it comes to certain colors are suddenly "not supported," but I'd like to register my opinion on it. It is a huge error to be calling colors in the ranges of 32-47 and 256-511 as "MLCad color codes" (...) (15 years ago, 2-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LPub gone AWOL?
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(...) I have read in the internet about problems with intel grafic cards. Maybe this is also your problem. cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 2-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Cool. :) For some reason, LPub is displaying no text at all (no button captions, labels, etc - (URL) Probably has something to do with me using WINE on it. Would it be possible to have a Linux version, perhaps.. ? (15 years ago, 2-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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