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(...) [snip] Urg. Why so wordy? Just do: 0 TEXTURE <position vector> <orientation matrix> <filename.type> [START <standard ldraw commands go here> 0 TEXTURE END] The <position vector> and <orientation matrix> parameters are identical to the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) No, that would be bad. If we're going to break compatibility with all existing programs, let's go a bit farther than just drawing bitmaps. Steve (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: an unusual request...
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Cool! We needed the number for the cattlehorns piece, in the current vote. :) Can anyone else confirm this 6029 number on the horns'n'headdress sprue? Steve (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: 30223 contains co-planar polygons
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(...) Yes, please. Fixes and improvements are always accepted! (...) Great! One more comment (to everyone, not Dave) about overlapping rectangles, and why not to use them. When this approach is used simply as a shortcut so the author doesn't have to (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 30223 contains co-planar polygons
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:G0ALp7.7D9@lugnet.com... (...) tag. (...) polygons. That sounds good to me, at least in this case. Since the overlapping polygons are the same color, they shouldn't cause any rendering (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: It's all clear now... (how to use 1-4cyls2.dat)
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(...) Thanks for explaining this again Steve - I am sure I tried to explain this when I created this primitive in Oct 1998. But it is really hard to get ones head around - it took me some time playing with the *cyls.dat files before I realised I (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Picture piracy on lego.com
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(...) The problem with this kind of mark is that it's easily lost if the the image is resized or even jpeg encoded. (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Picture piracy on lego.com
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(...) I think this solution loses more than is gained. Open file formats are a good thing and it'd be a shame to lose that -- especially when it'd be easy to "fix" any image with a graphics program anyway. (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Named rotation inheritance (Was: 2nd. Idea for a new feature to help rotation of parts in Ldraw
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(...) Not really. A subpart would need to "know" and "advertise" its own rotational axes to the tool; the tool would then offer these axes, and any others the user enters manually. The simplest approach for this is for the subpart to have special (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | And now my second program EMF9X a minifig maker
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EMF9X is a minifig maker for anyone that hates making a minifig on a lego cad editor. Go to download it at (URL) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 30223 contains co-planar polygons
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(...) tag. Happily, the "bad vertex sequences" were easier to fix than I anticipated, and the part now seems to pass the L3P check-test. I'll resend it to you, if you'd like. Other than the correction, the part is more-or-less identical to the one (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | It's all clear now... [DAT]
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This is one is for parts authors, I suppose... I never understood the relation between the original sloped cylinder primitives--1-4cyls.dat, 2-4cyls.dat--and the newer 1-4cyls2.dat. Both sets of files are the result of intersecting a cylinder with (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) Chris: Are you able to access this area yet? Steve (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Mark's Shiva .DAT file and rendering
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"Mladen Pejic" <milovan@netcom.ca> wrote in message news:G06F4J.At@lugnet.com... (...) a) I (...) with his (...) Wow. That Naboo cockpit sure looks much better in POV now that L3P recognizes all the cone primitives! -John Van (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Are fixes automatically included?
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(...) Currently, fixed parts are "automatically included", once the parts admin (ie: me) checks over the changes. And the fixed 2447 (the minifig visor) should look better with any color/treatment. Steve (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) Maybe it's the noise electronic components make when they emit smoke. Especially vacuum tubes, or anything located in a Mad Scientist's Laboratory. Steve (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Doing Patterns and Bitmaps in MLCad
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(...) Not quite. I've got an install/package which looks good, but I need to test it a bit more, before I ask for remote guinea pigs. Sorry for taking so long with this, but (a) I've been tied up with other stuff and (b) after releasing software (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Error Messages
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"Michael Lachmann" <m.lachmann@xpoint.at> wrote in message news:G0EBD1.Lwu@lugnet.com... (...) Thanks a ton!! :) -- Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com (URL) - Centralized LDraw Resources (URL) - Zacktron Alliance ICQ: 23951114 AIM: TimCourtne (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Picture piracy on lego.com
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One of the beauties of the 5x5 pixel idea is that there is no cost. It would simply be a small selection of pixels that would be put into the image by the author into a field of like colored pixels. this allows for about 32 million different (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Troubles with MLCAD
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There are some problems in connection with MPD, which I corrected in the next release - so stay tuned. Michael Jamie Obrien <jamien@interworx.com.au> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: G0CCt4.M0B@lugnet.com... (...) problem (...) model (...) as (...) want (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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