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| Here are raytraces of a sports car I built: (URL) let me know what you think. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo----(_)...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) Pretty darn cool, Bram. Which piece is that you have for the tire/ wheel? (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| Looks like the standard smaller Technic tire, with the white disk out of the small Extreme team set. BRAM - VERY cool. Now, uh, WHERE'S THE LDRAW DIRECTIONS? I NEED this car in red ;-) (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) Actually, it's the small airfilled tire: 30.4 x 14 VR, but I used the technic tire as a substitute, because the airfilled tire doesn't exist in LDraw yet. (...) Thanks! The file's at the end. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) I said it before (in another venue) Cool Car, Bram! This gives me an excuse to get used to Free Agent for newsgroup posting as well. :-) -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) Reading the same post in RTL, L-CAD listserv and Lugnet isinteresting, and the car is gorgeous! Paulo (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| Bram has OKed my posting of this model on my page, so I went ahead and used LDAO to create instructions for it. They should be up on (URL) sometime today. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | | Please do not (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| OK, that's at least two people (other than me) who have used LDAO's HTML generator. :) (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| Steve Bliss wrote in message <361e3433.12763437@l...et.com>... (...) I used it - it ate itself. More accurately, I got a lot of bitmaps and some HTML, but no usable output. I suppose I should run it again and get a better description of the (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| You to convert those BMPs to GIFs to make the HTML usable, as LDAO and LDraw do not output GIFs, but you really need GIFs or JPGs to be Web-centric. Just run them through a converter in the directory you dumped them to, then open the (...) (26 years ago, 10-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| Tom Stangl, VFAQman wrote in message <361F208D.DE89E033@vfaq.com>... (...) That I can do[1], but I had sort of hoped that the "generate HTML" option would be automatic. Moz [1] my web page, for instance (26 years ago, 10-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) "Generate HTML" will do the bmp-to-gif conversion, if you install ImageMagick and tell LDAO where it is. Steve (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) If you're going use LDAO's HTML generator much, you might edit HTMLGen.src in the LDAO directory. That file contains all the HTML fragments used to spit out the .html files. I figured if I hard-coded *all* the formatting, someone wouldn't like (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| Forgot a couple of URLs: To get ImageMagick, try <ftp://ftp.wizards.d...geMagick/> The Win95 and NT binaries are both under the NT subdirectory. For more info on using ImageMagick with LDAO, read through (URL) Steve (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| Steve Bliss wrote in message <3621feff.3360402@lu...et.com>... (...) And if ImageMagick will run, and likes your system (or something). I used PaintShopPro instead, which does batch conversion. Same effect, but this version worked OOB for me. Moz (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) Yeah, I have yet to figure out what the heck I'm supposed to do with ImageMagic. I ftp'ed it down and unzipped it. Couldn't find an "install program" of any kind (setup.* install.*, nothing), mainly just a lot of other .exe files and some (...) (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) As long as you've got the convert.exe program somewhere, you should have ImageMagick as setup as LDAO needs it. (...) I really wish I could duplicate this! I've had plenty of reports of it, but I just can't make it happen on my system. Anyway, (...) (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) Hrmmm, I can still generate this error simply by giving it the path d:\IM412\ for convert.exe (...) Yeah, I fixed it when I stopped trying to specify a directory (incorrectly even) for the Step images. Dunno, but it works now, so I don't care. (...) (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| Is the entire IM directory needed, or JUST the convert.exe? I'd like to delete all the rest if all I need is convert.exe, but I don't have the time to remove a file at a time until something breaks. Right now, it works, but that's an awful lot of (...) (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) Short answer: I don't know. Longer answer: start moving files out of the IM directory tree, and see what happens when you run convert.exe. Have fun :) Steve ======== Posted via the LUGNET discussion group web interface ======== (URL) Search, (...) (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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