 | | LCad Parts Update 2000-01 Now Available
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[FUT lugnet.cad] The LCad parts update 2000-01 is now available from ldraw.org. The first update for 2000 has arrived. Finally. :) Get it at (URL). Full details are available there. Steve (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Re: New to digital LEGO
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(...) I dunno about POV, but 'most any simple picture-editing application will allow you to "save as" from .bmp to .jpg - even the "paint" app that comes preinstalled on windows (if you have that). HTH! -Shiri (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: New to digital LEGO
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(...) Is (...) when (...) easy, (...) Thanks for the response. I am using LEdit. But, I don't get how to use the fake part line, or how editing the center of rotation will change the output to POV code. thanks, Chris (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New to digital LEGO
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(...) Thanks. (...) Doh! Uh, yeah...I guess with a fast net connection, I wasn't thinking. I figured out how to get POV-Ray to output a .png which is much smaller, but I don't seem to find any docs for producing jpegs. Do I need to use some (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: 1st Render
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(...) Yeah the planets are pov-ray objects. Just spheres with textures. The reason they're close together is that the blue earth-like planet in the lower corner is the planet and the other two are moons. The grean/blue and red marble looking one is (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: 1st Render
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(...) The figure is just a blacktron fig made in MLCad. I Then just put him in the cockpit of the Azreal dat file, and then converted the dat to pov. The fig sits with his legs at right angles to his torso, which is not how the fig in real life sits (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: 1st Render
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(...) Are the planets pov-ray objects, too? I know it's more dramatic that way, but the planets seem quite close together! --Bram (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: 1st Render
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(...) Sweet!! -- especially the shadowy fighter figure inside the cockpit -- how did you get POV to do that so beautifully? (...) go? Do you have a "wish list" for future POV renders? If you're taking requests, I sure wouldn't mind seeing a nose-on (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | 1st Render
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Hey all, I got my first rendering done and posted to the web. It can be seen here: (URL) welcome Jason (URL) (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: LDraw CD-ROM Update
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(...) Sure! The instructions on the web page are written for people who have some experience with Emacs already. This is not done to scare off people who are new to Emacs, but because I'm lazy and because I wasn't expecting people who are not into (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New Part: 777p05 - Flag on Flagpole Old with U.S. Pattern
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(...) Now I see a reason not to inline: The resulting file (777p05) became 82 kb large, 76 after trimming! What do you all say? Is it worth 60 kb to keep four files from the \s directory? About your LDAO problems, I'm not the man to help you, but (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: LDraw CD-ROM Update
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(...) experience with emacs whatsoever, I don't even know where to begin (how to I byte-compile ldraw-mode, for example?). Could you give me some advice? TIA, --Bram Bram Lambrecht.........Br...L@JUNO.com (URL) (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New Part: 777p05 - Flag on Flagpole Old with U.S. Pattern
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Tore Eriksson <tore.eriksson@mbox3...wipnet.se> writes in lugnet.cad.dat.parts; (...) LDAO V2.1.3 just exits with "Error 760: Path not found" - Am I doing something wrong here, or is there some part of LDAO missing? (BTW: The same happens when (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Sv: **** MLCAD V1.9 IS READY FOR DOWNLOAD ****
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I haven't had much time to use your program since the last release, but rendering speed seams to have dramatically increased. And that's really nice. I hate pointing at errors, when I really want to say that this is a absolutely great program. But (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LDraw CD-ROM Update
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Tim Courtney skrev i meddelandet <3914f579.14098842@l...et.com>... (...) Careful there! Including POVRay on the CD forces you to follow their price policy: "the total cost to the user is no more than $0.08 U.S. dollars per megabyte of data", or you (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw CD-ROM Update
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Tim Courtney skrev i meddelandet <3914f579.14098842@l...et.com>... (...) You can get many examples of simple models by exporting the BlockCAD models as .dat files. -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw CD-ROM Update
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Tim Courtney skrev i meddelandet ... (...) Of course you're welcome to put BlockCAD on the LDRAW CD! No strings attached. BlockCAD is already available on CD from many sources (CD-magazines, educational etc.), but the LDRAW CD is a most welcome (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw CD-ROM Update
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(...) When you say L2P, I suppose you've also included LGEO? I think L2P would be somewhat useless without the LGEO library... Other than that, you may include LDraw-mode, but I suppose there is only very narrow interest in that program, so it's not (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw CD-ROM Update
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Here are some more things to look at: the hoser spreadsheet l3pao ldrawscript max2dat rotate.xls the datsville project (the .mpd file would be a good place to start) (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Lego Technic Figurres Dats?
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I was wondering, has anybody made and parts for lego technic figures? If not, why doesn't somebody go out and make them! :-) Any info is very appreciated. Thanks! ~Nick (URL) (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad)
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