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(...) Hmm, skeptical. What exactly does it say? Even if Rock Raiders takes place on some other planet out in "space," it's not part of LEGO SYSTEM SPACE™. Rock Raiders is a theme within LEGO SYSTEM UNDERGROUND™. --Todd (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.space, lugnet.underground)
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| | Re: FS : Mars promo sets
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(...) *INCHING* toward acceptance of the metric system..." [emphasis mine] I saw it noted somewhere that the 2-liter soda bottle is a 2-liter bottle and not a 2.11-quart bottle *only* because the imperial measurement is not given as an alternative. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Pink spaceship
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<SNIP> (...) It´s Scala. And they have sparkle moulded into them, so I think that it would somewhat block the sight for the pilot. But maybe it is some new kind of protective windshield ;-) --Tobias (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Pink spaceship
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Well, in Ldraw once I took a ship I had there, and made a "girl" space theme. White and pink as main, and chrome for the details, then transparent pink windshields. --Tobias Paul Baulch skrev i meddelandet ... (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Interpreting the proposed FACE meta-command
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(...) Recognizing multiple forms of the command shouldn't add much to rendering. Each file can be parsed once, and then the post-parsing results cached, for later re-reference. The FACE meta-command would be stored as an opcode and a single (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: I'm famous (or infamous)
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(...) Joe, I didn't walk! I swear! :-, (...) I think that there's a large culture gap between the "Real World" and radio DJ's. (Tom? Are you there? :-) (...) I've always worried about this possibility...my "alter-ego" being discovered and broadcast (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
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Hello there I know that Busy Bee only order 300, I am a BB regular, they also be getting some 2150, 3225 in soon, i think they may be able to get more 4536, but that will have to wait. And i know that one person have order 200 of these hopper cars, (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Hidden surface removal, and vertex order in part/primitive DAT files [DAT]
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(...) Forgot the footnote: 1- There's an interesting distinction between 'valid' and 'well-formed' contructions. LDraw will allow line-breaks as whitespace in commands, so: 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3001.dat is valid, but it's not well-formed. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | For Auction, For Trade Technic
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I Have a the following to get rid of. 8839 With Box and manual 8856 With Manual Also i have a 8860 set with manual and box, but the box is in a bad shape (Drawing on the inside) So please send me your offers, or see my wants list on my web page (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!
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(...) Happy Anniversary! LUGNET is a wonderful community. I had reservations at first, because LUGNET news (so to speak) would be a drain on RTL. That is what has happened, and I miss the RTL'ers who haven't come over to LUGNET. OTOH, some neat and (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Comprehensive meta-command list
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Steve: (...) Yes. (...) Yes. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Blue Hopper Car Mania...
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So I know Busy Bee got in a lot (apparently several hundred) Blue Hopper Cars last week (or so)... and they're all gone now. I'm just curious about this phenomenon. Anyone know who found out first, and how? Who's our "patient zero" that started this (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!
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(...) Happy birthday, LUGNET! You are far more coherent than I was at one year old! :-, (...) It has far exceeded my expectations. Accessing RTL was hard for me -- our news server at work wouldn't send messages I posted to any other news server. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Track names (was Re: To Tore Eriksson)
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(...) I'm curious Chris, in what sets was that the case ? And do these gray ones have those "negative" tapered ends, just like the old blue track had ? In lugnet.cad.dev, Larry Pieniazek writes: (...) Gimme a set number for "the wildwest miningish" (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: FS : Mars promo sets
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Due to ingorance of the metric system, these candies will melt in your hands and not in your mouth... (URL) to .off-topic.fun Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrn7vhi1s.s9g.....bu.edu... (...) You're not alone. (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Standardized Inventory File Format?
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(...) Hmm, interesting. Are there any XML writers, to convert flat-ASCII to flat-XML? Steve (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: Comprehensive meta-command list
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(...) Yes, they do. In the example above, the first meta-command, 0 TRANSLATE 20 0 0, would persist until the end of the file. (...) I think I know the answer to this question, but just to be sure: is the 0 INVERT meta-command transparent to (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: CW/CCW, vertex sequence, co-planar, convex, (115kB)
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(...) I've been thinking the exact opposite -- mirroring should be a valid method for turning subfiles inside-out, and the software doesn't need to do anything special to deal with it (except to notice the inversion, and pass that info on to the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Interpreting the proposed FACE meta-command
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(...) Why not recognize it all ways: 0 FACE ACW 0 FACE ANTICLOCKWISE 0 FACE CCW 0 FACE CLOCKWISE 0 FACE COUNTERCLOCKWISE 0 FACE CW 0 FACE DOUBLESIDED 0 FACE DS 0 FACE UNKNOWN This adds a bit to the parser, but not so much. The recommended standard (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Hidden surface removal, and vertex order in part/primitive DAT files
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(...) No (like Gary said). Two reasons: 1. The 0 FACE directive would be an operative switch, not a global setting. This is convenient, but it is also necessary in some cases. Most importantly, it would allow the 0 FACE meta-statement to appear (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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