 | | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés vendredi 4 juin 2010
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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 ---...--- ** Résumé du salon de Tinqueux ** par Jean-Marc Barré (...) (14 years ago, 5-Jun-10, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | New site for purchase of LEGO products.
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This is at least a beginning for it. Will have the bulk elements and other parts of my old inventory up in the coming weeks. Contact me directly for element purchases! Will gladly post excess elements for you on the site. (URL) is a physical store (...) (14 years ago, 5-Jun-10, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: LDPattern
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(...) No greater loss I guess. ;) (...) Guess I'll have to take a peep at Quad2dat to see how it works. I thought it was basically just the same approach as bmp2dat, with the difference it can handle more file formats and color depths. /Tore (14 years ago, 4-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | I <3 LEGO
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Hi all, Here's one of the largest single-piece sculptures I've ever done. A 4' tall cross-section of the human heart for a tradeshow in Denver last month: (URL) Harshbarger (14 years ago, 4-Jun-10, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: TRU sale June4-10
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(...) They also have appeared in Walmart in Ontario and Quebec. Cheers (14 years ago, 4-Jun-10, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: LDPattern
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(...) Even with Lugnet it's not always easy to know things exists: I had no idea LDraw Draw existed until today ;o) (...) Hopefully Il'dar will chime in, but I guess LDPattern will work like Quad2dat: once vertices are created, new points closer (...) (14 years ago, 4-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Possible (minor) contradiction in the specs
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(...) If by "extension documents" you mean the (sub-)specifications referred to from the main 1.0.0 spec document (ie this page (URL) is no contradiction as the referenced specs were ratified BEFORE the main 1.0.0 spec (they had to be, otherwise the (...) (14 years ago, 4-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | I can stop building steam engines now...
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(URL) full gallery> I think I've built my masterpiece, I doubt I'll ever be able to top this one. Just over a year ago, after the Emerald Night came out I decided to build a better Pacific. My chosen subject was the Southern Pacific Railroad, 4-6-2 (...) (14 years ago, 4-Jun-10, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Re: Toy Story Train comments?
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(...) I prefer to space mine at 270 degrees. Tim (14 years ago, 4-Jun-10, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Toy Story Train comments?
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(...) No, 90 degrees is the norm for 2 cylinder locos, as Larry says it's called "quartering" (because they are a quarter of a circle apart). It ensures that there is always at least one piston not at the end of it's stroke. ROSCO (14 years ago, 4-Jun-10, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: LDPattern + LDS, Proof of Concept [DAT]
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(...) ... and here's the output from the LDS Compiler v 0.61: 0 Tile 2 x 2 with Red L Pattern 0 Name: 3068bpL.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Unofficial Non-LEGO Part 0 BFC NOCERTIFY 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 s\3068bs01.dat 0 // Pattern created by (...) (14 years ago, 4-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDPattern + LDS, Proof of Concept [DAT]
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Here's a thought LDPattern project file in pure LDS format: ' 3068bpL.lds ' LDS Source File created by LDPattern 0 Tile 2 x 2 with Red L Pattern 0 Name: 3068bpL.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Unofficial Non-LEGO Part 0 BFC NOCERTIFY ' Default (...) (14 years ago, 4-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: TRU sale June4-10
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(...) They are in Walmarts in Alberta as of Tuesday, but they weren't in all stores. -Chris Gray (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Possible (minor) contradiction in the specs
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Hi all, Not sure if this is the correct group for this, but I was wondering about a possible contradiction in the specs. I started working on a translation of my LD4DStudio renderer in C++ in means of a refresher course. While starting this up I (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDPattern [DAT]
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I just discovered the LDPattern project. (URL) to the ongoing delugnetization, I had no idea it existed until today. Anyway, here are my thoughts. In 1997, I made a DOS program called LDD (=LDraw Draw, to avoid confusion with TLC's Lego Digital (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés mercredi 2 juin 2010
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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 ---...--- ** Génération SW à Cusset ** par Jac, Pierre CHARLES (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Re: US Shop at Home Specials Discontinued
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(...) Jordan I appreciate your response. I considered the phone coverage aspect and you're right about phone orders for TLG and other stores eventually going the way of the dodo. It just stinks that this one break (and a nod of (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: US Shop at Home Specials Discontinued
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(...) ::snip:: (...) I have a different theory on this. I think that LEGO is merely streamlining its operations and recognizes that these days, orders by phone represent a very small portion of their total sales. I would guess that their call center (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | TRU sale June4-10
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This weeks TRU flyer is good from Friday June 4th through Thursday June 10th. 20% off all Technic, LEGOVILLE (DUPLO town) and Atlantis. On the front page they also have "NEW! GET IT HERE FIRST!" with pictures of some sets from world racers, city, (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | LdPattern (Was: Using Quad2Dat...)
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In lugnet.cad, Philippe Hurbain wrote: 8<-------- (...) It is available already, and yes, very promising! Google and ye shall find. /Tore (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: US Shop at Home Specials Discontinued
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(...) Thanks for the news, Dominic. This is a sad statement but not too surprising considering Lego's great financial returns (currently anyway) and the way their sets continue to be overpriced by 20-25%. They're making money (and keeping the (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.general)
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| | Perth Model Railway Show 2010 - This weekend!!
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Hi All, This Long Weekend (June 5th, 6th and 7th) the Perth Adult Lego Society is displaying it's annual train and town layout at the Perth Model Railway Show. Come along to the Claremont Showgrounds to see lots of scaled-up trains plus the all new (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.au.wa.per)
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| | Re: PALS on Today Tonight
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(...) The Today Tonight story is on YouTube here... (URL) (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.au.wa.per)
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| | Re: Toy Story Train comments?
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(...) Most folk call this a "tender", since it carries water as well (and often, fuel oil rather than coal if the engine is an oil burner) (...) If weight helps you may have some binding in the driver mechanism somewhere. (...) Steam engines are (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | Re: Toy Story Train comments?
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(...) I built a coal car over a 9v motor, and tried it out on a circle of track. It had serious problems running while pushing the engine in front of the motor. I tried adding some straights in to make an oval so it'd have a couple stretches without (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Using Quad2Dat on Windows Seven 64 bits
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(...) "Someone" is Il'dar Ismagilov (LDraw parts author Eldar). LdPattern should be usable soon, already very promising. If you try it, comments here will be appreciated! Philo (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | US Shop at Home Specials Discontinued
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I just called in to check the weekly LEGO Shop at Home phone specials. Unfortunately, this program has been discontinued. There will be no more phone specials. This was confirmed by speaking to a second LEGO customer service representative. Dominic (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jun-10, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Share a room
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Hi, my name is Don Cox, GtwLUG, and Lugnet#1239. I am in need to share a room at the Westin for Thursday thru Sunday night for Brickworld. I wasn't able to get a room and I prefer to stay at the Westin. Please contact me at: the1hugh@yahoo.com. (...) (14 years ago, 2-Jun-10, to lugnet.events.brickworld)
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| | Re: What do LDraw dev people use for multiplatform development
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(...) <snip> (...) Thanks for the insight, Actually the more 'local' feel to interfaces is the reason why I'm a bit more leaning towards wxWidgets at the moment, it uses native controls where possible on all platforms. But Qt is clearly more (...) (14 years ago, 2-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Using Quad2Dat on Windows Seven 64 bits
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(...) Apparently you'll need to email someone who already has it. Meanwhile someone is working on an open source replacement called ldpattern which does have a download available. I don't know what it does yet, but I'd suggest we all give the author (...) (14 years ago, 2-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Using Quad2Dat on Windows Seven 64 bits
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(...) Sorry if this is a silly question, but where can I download Quad2Dat? It seems every link on the web points to Chris Alano's long gone Geocities page, even the link in LDraw.org's downloads section... Remi (14 years ago, 2-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | PALS on Today Tonight
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Hi All, Today Tonight recently filmed a story on us and it's airing tonight! The show starts at 6:30pm on Channel 7. We are setting up our annual train/town layout in the next couple of days, so there should be more footage of us and our Lego (...) (14 years ago, 2-Jun-10, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.au.wa.per)
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| | Brickworld - Esther Walner Memorial Charity Auction
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(URL) Share - Learn - Explore - Discover 2010: Bricks In Space Brickworld is only a couple weeks away and you are helping us set records with this year's event already with a massive 795 registered attendees. While this is incredible, the one record (...) (14 years ago, 2-Jun-10, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.people, FTX)
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| | Re: Using Quad2Dat on Windows Seven 64 bits
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(...) Just as a note, since Ctrl+Shift+Enter might be hard to remember in the long run when doing this type of thing in the future, you can also right click on "cmd.exe" in the list that shows up after typing cmd in the search box, then select "Run (...) (14 years ago, 1-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: What do LDraw dev people use for multiplatform development
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I know you've already mostly decided on a direction, but I figured I'd throw in my two cents. LDView takes a different tack for cross-platform support: all the back-end code is cross-platform C++, but the UI code is platform-specific. So my Windows (...) (14 years ago, 1-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Microscale trains by LDD
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(...) There's some really nice models there. I've never got my head round using LDD/DesignByMe, but it looks like you have. I particularly like the Garrett Tim (14 years ago, 1-Jun-10, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Using Quad2Dat on Windows Seven 64 bits
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I switched to a new machine running Windows Seven 64 bits, and I had a bit of trouble installing Quad2Dat. Here is what I had to do: - Download and install Visual Basic 5 runtime (File msvbvm50.exe, get it from (URL) Place MSFLXGRD.OCX somewhere on (...) (14 years ago, 1-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés lundi 31 mai 2010
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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 ---...--- ** Résumé de l'exposition de la Foire de Printemps (...) (14 years ago, 1-Jun-10, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Re: What do LDraw dev people use for multiplatform development
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(...) <snip> (...) Hi Roland, I use Qt (free) with static binding for LPub4. It works pretty well, and is well organized, but the learning curve is big (but not too steep). Kevin (14 years ago, 1-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LETGUI update
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(...) There has been bugs in the app itself and the wrong version of rectifier has been packed in the installer. Therefore you will find at (URL) now the version 1.5.0.1 Thanks to Philo, who has directed me to that errors. cu mikeheide (14 years ago, 1-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad)
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