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With the latest update of the LDraw library (thanks, Steve Bliss!) we now have the flexible technic axles in Ldraw. But the ones in the official distribution are all straight. If you need bent ones in your models, you can use LDraw-mode to model (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: tire colors
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(...) Find the following section at the top of your POV file: #declare Color0 = #if (version >= 3.1) material { #end texture { pigment { rgb <0.301961,0.301961,0.301961> } finish { ambient AMB diffuse DIF } #if (QUAL > 1) finish { phong 0.5 (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | tire colors
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does anyone know of a good, flat black for tires or a way to make flat black in pov-ray? i'm just tired of seeing a shiny tire when we all no tires are far from shiny. any info will be readily accepted -Philip Kostka seahaus@znet.com (25 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Tie Fighter render
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(...) Try removing the NOSPAM. (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: reminder: bug in piece #2500c01
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----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> To: <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 2:02 PM Subject: Re: reminder: bug in piece #2500c01 (...) OK. If you don't find it I can send you another one, or (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: reminder: bug in piece #2500c01
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(...) That's odd, I don't think I received it when Terry forwarded everything to me. I'll look for it. Steve (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New Part #3010p20c -Brick 1 x 4 with Town Car Chrome Grille [DAT]
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This is the appropriate subpart for my version of 3010p20c Axel 0 ~Subpart Town Car Grille Pattern 0 Name: 3010p20.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Modified By: Axel Poque 2000-05-12 0 Un-Official Element 0 Frame 4 16 -35 5 -10 35 5 -10 35 6 -10 -35 6 (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part #3010p20c -Brick 1 x 4 with Town Car Chrome Grille [DAT]
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(...) Just in case you don't have the time ;-) here's my cleaned-up version... but since you were the first to post I'll stand back if you say so. Another thing... since I just modified the pattern of 3010p20b I cannot guarantee for the exact (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Parts Library Posted to ldraw.org
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(...) I agree that it can be useful to have larger, less frequent updates, and I wasn't trying to suggest that we stop publishing the files in that way. What I was trying to say is this: as things are right now, all part-changes are released at the (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Parts Library Posted to ldraw.org
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(...) I'm going to do that. (...) Terry Keller is working on cleaning up the original LDraw distribution. He is adding LCad-style headers to all of the parts and primitives. They will look similar to this: 0 Brick 2 x 4 0 Name: 3001.dat 0 Author: (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Parts Library Posted to ldraw.org
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(...) I really think that someone should contact the family about this. One thing we could do to make sure James is recognized for his efforts is to add the correct Author: tags to all the files. We could also include credits in a readme file (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Parts Library Posted to ldraw.org
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Hey, great idea! Having just entered LDLite into the www.sourceforge.net archive, I think CVS would be a good way to distribute and update parts files. It sure would be easier to make sure everything was up to date, and would make a nice clean way (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Datsville
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Datsvillains: I finally got around to use my HPFS partition for something useful. POV-Ray is currently chewing away with a 761 Mb block of memory containing the latest POV-Ray file of Datsville. Mem: 322772K av, 320344K used, 2428K free, 8780K shrd, (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Parts Library Posted to ldraw.org
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(...) There is however spomthing to be siad for having monolithic updates in that ensure consitency of part updates. Additonaly not all of us have acess to the Net on a regular basis. I understand what you are getting at but after I have spent 5 (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Parts Library Posted to ldraw.org
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(...) Good catch--I was making assumptions. I really wish the discussion you fired off a few months ago had gone through to completion. BUT, take a look at (URL). It plainly states that the terms around the original LDraw package: (...) The original (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Parts Library Posted to ldraw.org
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(...) How do you know that? I've never seen any formal terms of use statement for the community created part files. With this lacking, wouldn't it be natural for parts authors to assume that submitted parts follow the same terms of use as the (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: reminder: bug in piece #2500c01
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----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> To: <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 7:23 AM Subject: Re: reminder: bug in piece #2500c01 (...) primitive? (...) I sent a fix to Terry a long time ago (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts Library Posted to ldraw.org
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(...) Good point. I will check into this. In the meantime, don't anyone plan anything permanent around this function. If this is a problem, it would only apply to the parts in the original LDraw file library, not to additional work done by LCadders. (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Technic Flex-System Hose (Example MPD file)
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(...) Some parts-authors have been given a set of 3-digit numbers they can use when writing parts. I didn't remember if you had one or not. (...) Hmm. Looking at the minifig-bendy-hose parts, it looks like I gave you bad advice. The relevant part (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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