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"Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com> wrote in message news:GqqL5v.9IK@lugnet.com... (...) I (...) programs (...) been (...) jumpstarted (...) it. (...) Good idea! One of my other tasks (this email reminds me) is setting up URLs for the redirect (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Now that ldraw.org has a user-based rating system for software downloads, I think it would be a great idea if everyone here went and rated the programs they have tried out. As a software author, I know I'm curious what people in general think about (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I think that the shorthand abbreviations are much less cryptic than the single letters. Jimmy 8(:O)) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I dunno if this could apply or not, depends on how LEGO's format is written. (I don't know details) That's a question for the person who designed their format (and I doubt they'd discuss it here) ;-) (...) I believe its the same library, but a (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I would assume BlockCAD. Anton? Though compatibility problems might arise if my assumption is correct about center points on parts - if LCD is (and I believe it most definitely will be) designed around the LDraw library, and that is a factor, (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Depends. The issue really is the compatibility between the libraries, if I understand correctly. Different parts libraries have different center points for the parts, and that's the big issue. A conversion table would have to be made between (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's how the site works now, minus the <h1-6> tags. And, once a few other things get addressed - like the Download section updating, Variable-width tables on certain pages, etc, I'll address the <h1-6> issue of making headers. That will go (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I'm not entirely sure. It's actually a line segment with an emplied endpoint of <0,0,0>. I tried to duplicate the math that went into that vector, got stumped (I think there's at least one more assumption that POVRay makes with vaxis_rotate() (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) easier to follow than redefining L3Location in terms of itself. That made my head spin until I worked it out on paper. Perhaps if l3p put a comment before these lines it might be easier to follow: // Set the camera location. #declare (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Gah, my previous attempt didn't get through due to slashdot... (...) Thanks! (...) Again, thanks! (...) Okay, that's like 6 for, and 0 against. It's in there. :-, Thanks, - jsproat (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I shouldn't really second-guess Lars Hassing, but judging from a recent post he might be doing just that. (URL)My only suggestion for improvement would be to move the "How can I (...) I've been thinking on that, actually. I initially put it in (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Well, you could just use regular old HTML the way it was meant to be used: <H1-6></H1-6> for headers, and <p></p> for paragraphs and then use CSS and includes to make it fit the LDraw design... Or you could add an FTX interpretter to (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) That'd be Karim Nassar's "Artemis" project (URL) but I don't think it covers connectors. ROSCO (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That'd be Karim Nassar's "Artemis" project (URL) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's a good idea. I think I'll do that. :-, Cheers, - jsproat (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Not sure. LEGO(r)'s own internal format? There IS one but few know details. The LEGO Creator(tm) format? In fact one would speculate that a "good" Creator-like program would need this info to be workable. LEOCad(tm) uses same/different format? (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) OK, I see where you're at on that. Yes... it would be nice to just put it in the DAT file itself. Huge advantage to that is that it's there. No need for clunky lookaside files to correlate against. Huge disadvantage of course is that the DAT (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) How about Related Information? Jimmy 8(:O)) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Is there a contemporaneous format to which LCD could apply? (honest question) (...) LEGO is sensitive about the use of their name. [No different than GoB(tm)] (...) I think it now stands for LDraw, formerly it was something like LEGO Draw. (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Correct. I was not faulting the authors. I only intended to point out that the community needs to work with them to flesh out the model. I hate to throw in jargon and buzzwords into a discussion, but we will need to either build or adopt an (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Oh. I hope so. That makes more sense (at least in my head.) From some of what I read though, I got the impression that the modelling tool was supposed to get the geometry from the DAT file, but lookup the connectivity of the part in some other (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Absolutly correct! I was coming from the other end with the amount of work that is needed to format the pages. (...) If we could think of a way, I'ld be happy to help. I do have web page formatting and programming skills. (...) Again I agree, (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Would this hinder the non-webbuilder/non-HTML knoweldge from submitting tutorials. I agree that we need to unburden Tim from all the .txt file tutorials but just 'reading' the ldraw site it seems that he wanted txt files so that anyone can (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Don't forget the UldeaMediaStudio 6 (recommened)or other Video Editing software in the software requirements. Plus File Requirements: Authors may provide start files (model1-started.ldr, convertedfile.pov, etc) so the reader can follow along (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Kinda sorta. Note, replying to this out of order. (...) You're absolutely right here. I would like as many tutorials as possible to be hosted on LDraw.org. (only limited by author consent, but I doubt that will be a problem). FTX is great for (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) systems - especially once headsets/3d displays are in common use. It would also be great for writing AI software that could 'play' with Legos. Later, Gary (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I essintialy agree. The format of the tutorials was not the point of the original post. I do like the numbering, I think that it helps not to label the groups with an encoded prefix, I would prefer LDRAW ANIMATION 101 vs. LA101. (...) I think (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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I think you guys are missing Tim's point. Currenlty when you go to the LDraw tutorial section you have a list of tutorials. What Tim envisions is you go to the ldraw tutorial webpage and you see what? A list of categories, groups, etc... So when you (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Jeremy H. Sproat writes: [snipped] (...) Love it! But why not submit it to Tim Courtney of LDraw.org. He/they really want some user input/experience of LDraw related issues. Think about it! Jeroen (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I think that was the intent of the authors. When you get a chance to read the whole thing (and you should make yourself some clear time with no distractions, it's fairly intense reading but worth it) you'll see that they speak of things (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote: . . . (...) Hi, I first have to admit that I haven't read the whole proposal. However from what I have read, and the comments, I'm starting to think that what is being proposed is more of a standalone database that is popu (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I think this document is a good summary of the problem and solution. :) I've got plenty of specific issues, but I'd like to reserve comment for right now. First, it would be good to hear from the people writing programs (ie, Leonardo and (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I hate to respond to my own post, but I had another thought. Is there a format that would make your life easier to post and that fits within the ldraw.org layout? Maybe putting the entire tutorial into a html table. If we can find some way to (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I think that the directory way is the correct way to manage the files. I also like the numbering idea. That might help break down beginning or advanced nature of the tutorial. It would also help make a nice clean index page. I have some (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) This has probably been suggested before, but why not give each tutorial its own directory? Unless there's a very close limit to the directory depth, I'd recommend using the web server's existing namespace rather than inventing a new (and more (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I think your comment is correct, the connectability needs to encompass a minifig hat on a standard stud... where there may be weakness in their terminology is that they handle fields of studs as one... and while a minifig hat will NOT fit onto (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I think that the list of connectors/connections needs to be expanded from what is shown here. My specific concern after reading the draft is that it does not seem to cover the possibility of placing a mini-fig headgear piece on a 1x1 round brick. A (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Is it restricted in applicability to just LDraw parts? (that is, if there were a competing parts format, could the idea be applicable? Could the database (perhaps with coordinate transformation) itself? If it's not restricted (and I think it's (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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First of all, I think think this thread should be in the top stories section! Secondly,I want it asap! I would pay money for an editor with this implementation in fact I think it would be advantages if the lego group itself implements this or (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I've gotten quite a few tutoraial submissions recently, and a bunch more promised. This is so cool!! Keep it up, folks! For this reason, we need to discuss how we should store the tutorials on LDraw.org. We should develop a system now with room for (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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A note worthy of some serious consideration, I got a priavte email from Jude Beaudin, who suggested the name might infringe on LEGO's interests. He suggested the project be renamed to 'LDraw Connection Database' instead, preserving the acronym and (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hmm. I only copied that actual .lib files into lib and lib_debug, not any of the supporting files such as vc60.idb. I didn't have any problem simply copying them all in after building libpng (which also builds zlib in the process). (...) Well, (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Great! I've been experimenting with these values in POV-ray, this really helps! Critiques: orthographic, para 1, "as it is the camera type used by LDraw most if not all the other LDraw tools" is missing an "and" between LDraw & most. Maybe a (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Its after work and here's the speargun. As always, critique away (...) 30088 tatooed on the {back of their) trigger Thanks, -Chris 0 Minifig Speargun 0 Name: 30088.dat 0 Author: Chris Alano (calano@yahoo.com) 0 Unofficial Part 0 0 CATEGORY Minifig (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Wow, lots of good stuff in there! I especially liked the way you broke up the sky vector in the "How to roll the camera" section, and the way the camera_range declaration really clears up what the PCT values are doing. Perhaps we should add (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Okay, I've whipped up *something*. If you're intimately familiar with the L3P camera block, or if you're just plain curious, here's my L3P camera block tutorial ready for review: (URL) kinda beta-quality right now, so I'm soliciting criticism. (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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(...) it!! This is looking great! It seems like a good start on a difficult problem! It's something I (as a technic modeller) have wanted for a long time! I can see one limitation - the fact that technic axles are actually significantly smaller than (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yup! :-) (...) Never thought of it that way. In that case, it would go beyond the primary goal of making parts connectable in the editing of a model file. (...) For now, discuss here. (...) You are right. I fixed the error. (...) A couple of (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) WOW! This is VERY significant work. Building this knowledge into modeling tools would be awesome. People in the past have hinted at ways of doing this and at the vast and powerful new ways of analysing things that would result. I personally am (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hello! Ohhh.. this is great! you know i love the panning feature ;) Thank you! Carsten (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hello (...) advantages, (...) Yes.. i would agree to this method too... Sounds better to me! Play well Carsten (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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I was approached yesterday via email by a couple of LDraw fans, and attached was the document below, perfectly formatted in the LDraw.org page layout. After a couple developer responses, I decided to post it here for discussion. (URL) know its not (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev) !!
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This is one of the small town cars! 0 name : mini dumper 0 Orriginal name: 6507.dat 0 author : C.Daelman <cdaelma@pi.be> 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3795.DAT 0 STEP 1 0 20 -16 -10 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4531.DAT 1 0 20 -16 10 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4531.DAT 1 (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets)
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(...) Hmmm. I haven't done any extensive testing, but I tried to load a (relatively large) model into your app yesterday. It ran for over an hour without displaying anything. Win2k Resized my pagefile 3 times, and the JVM got up to 300MB (my machine (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Bernd Broich wrote: > "Kyle McDonald" <kmcdonald@bigfoot.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:3C519D02.204090...oot.com... > Hi, > for how I'm doing the internal creating: > > I did a depth search with hashing the files, create two shapes for > all (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Hi Franklin, (...) I may have this one in some (un)finished state at home. I'll post it to cad.dat.parts tonight after work. If it's in good enough shape, I'll send it to the parts tracker too. (...) I can't recall if I found the number for it. (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Just so everyone knows this is the NEW DivX4.12 version of the Codec. I'm sure many of you DO NOT have this one installed yet on your systems. If you have DivX4.11 installed you must first UNISTALL this version BEFORE you install Ver 4.12 otherwise (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) A few notes on compiling it from the source: I had to copy the libpng debug files *after* the zlib debug files to get it to link because the zlib files overwrote vc60.something that it seemed to need. Where did you get your wglext.h and (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I prefer a regular update, on a month base or so. This has some advantages, as some parts will be faster released than on a volume base, and the files to download will be also less large than on a volume base. Anyhow, every method has his pro (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(URL) must have the newest DivX codec installed to view (URL) everyone for your help/advice Chris (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: NTFS will LEGO CAD Porgrams work
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(...) (23 years ago, 27-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks for the update, Steve I think I'd prefer the "volume method", though it's not something I'd die for 8?) ROSCO (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Greetings, all. I'm planning on making an animated Lego movie soon, but I realised that I don't have the head required to make the main character! If somebody could make the head shown in the following picture, it would be greatly appreciated! (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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"Ahui Herrera" <jedi_agh@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:GqM986.AxF@lugnet.com... (...) thinking (...) All of the above work. I'm running NTFS and Windows 2000. -Tim (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
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LDView version 1.9.1 is now available, in both source and binary forms. You can download either from: (URL) note that the 1.9.x set of LDView releases are all development releases. Consequently, they are likely to be less stable than version 1.0. (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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reviving an old thread... Thomas Main wrote on December 17, 2001, (...) Thomas, I have written a tutorial which I am about to send to Tim regarding MPD's, exporting, and inlining. That should be of help. Best regards, --Ryan (23 years ago, 27-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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reviving an old thread... Andy Lynch wrote on December 17, 2001, (...) Here's another way, but it involves hacking a bit in the actual .dat code. In the main model file, insert the first brick of the sub model where you want it. Save the file. Then (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi, Has anyone tackled the minifig Speargun yet? If so, would you please direct me to the correct place? (URL) Also, what's the "official" part number for the speargun? Thanks, Franklin ===== Franklin W. Cain Programmer for Hire "fwcain@yahoo.com" (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Does anyone known if having the NTFS formatusing Windows 2000 on your HD affect the following programs: LDraw MLCAD 2.11 L3P L3PAO POV-Ray Thanks... I'm going to due the crazy and reformat my PC HDs and I'm thinking of finally moving over the NTFS, (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) This week has been a little busy. And I didn't want to do a lot of work in the Parts Tracker until I was sure it was stable and ready for use again. Steve (23 years ago, 27-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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"Bernd Broich" <bernd.broich@online.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:GqJq1r.7G4@lugnet.com... (...) I also tried out the stripifier, that cames with j3d: A Model without stripifying needs about 34MB, with stripifying 134MB. It's very interesting. So (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: 3D stereograms? programs?
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(...) Not for Windows (I've got several fun, free ones for Mac 8?P )... Here's two that I found after a Google: ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi...rds200.zip (URL) one found on Tucows: (URL) fun! Matt (23 years ago, 27-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hey y'all, Does anyone know of any cheap (read: free :-) stereogram generators? Dots or red/blue will do... Has anyone used L3P's stereogram-generator feature? Got any stereograms to show off? Cheers, - jsproat (23 years ago, 27-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Per comments on LDraw's Parts Tracker, I've changed the name of this part... ;-) Thanks, Franklin 0 Container Cauldron 0 Name: 4341.dat 0 Author: Franklin W. Cain (fwcain@yahoo.com) 0 UNOFFICIAL Part 0 0 CATEGORY Container 0 KEYWORDS pot, kettle, (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Steve?...
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Steve, I haven't heard back from you on this, yet... Thanks, Franklin (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Steve?...
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Steve, I haven't heard back from you on this, yet... Thanks, Franklin (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Parts List mis-ordered?
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Help! Every once in a while when I start a new model in MLCAD, the thumbnail view of the parts list is not in alphabetical order....any ideas why? How do I fix this? Thanks! Jake --- Jake McKee AFOL LUGNET Member #211 (23 years ago, 26-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: JAVA - Viewer for dat-Files
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"Kyle McDonald" <kmcdonald@bigfoot.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:3C519D02.204090...oot.com... Hi, for how I'm doing the internal creating: I did a depth search with hashing the files, create two shapes for all lines, quads, triangles, each (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: road baseplate errors
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(...) About bloody time that someone posted this, I was going to post it my shelf but I'm too lazy. Someone better fix this or else. (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(URL) I think this is the best free dat2dxf am I wrong? (URL) imports .dat among other formats exports .dxf among other formats demo and regestered version (URL) dat2lightwave (URL) don't know anything about this program its in german but it says (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Does anyone know any converters?
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Should be able to find some over at ldraw.org. Go on over and have a look. -Mike (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | road baseplate errors
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I have found errors on all road baseplates. The green line should be 12LDU (but is 16LDU), the white line should be 10LDU (but is 12LDU), and the gap between the green line and the rest of the plate should be 4LDU (but varies from 10 to 20 LDU). (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Does anyone know any converters?
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I use MLCad, and I'm wanting to convert the .dat files to .blend or .dxf files so I can load my models into Blender (a freeware 3D modeller). My brother had something that converted .pov to .dxf, but that was from older versions of POV-Ray....any (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: JAVA - Viewer for dat-Files
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Travis Cobbs wrote: > (Follups sent to lugnet.cad.dev.) > > In lugnet.cad, Kyle McDonald writes: > >>I'm curious if any of you OpenGL/LDraw guys do much in your code >>to generate strips from the DAT files to improve performance? I think >>I have (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(Follups sent to lugnet.cad.dev.) (...) Well you have to careful when you do this. The problem with strips and fans is that they can only be used for smooth surfaces. You only get one surface normal for each point, so any faces connected to that (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Parts Tracker Status
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After the site reorganization, I thought I should post an update on the Parts Tracker. Since yesterday, the Parts Tracker has been online and active. Everything seems to be running fine. There are a few layout details that still need to be resolved, (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New Parts in 2001
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Got a mockup already done - just wondered if anyone had done the whole thing yet. Might give it a try as far as the 'teeth' goes, but not sure am up to doing the 'open top' part of it yet. I'm still mostly a "modified what's already been done" kinda (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | L3p suggestion
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In a program called Leveller ((URL) it allows you to scatter a number of POV objects along a heightfield. I would like to do this with trees and stufff like that. I was wondering, can I do this with trees now? I was thinking that L3p outputs (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New Parts in 2001
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(...) I don't think so. Are you going to do it, or do you just want the part? I've got a mockup I can pass along -- just the boxes and bars, not the triangular parts or the crossaxle teeth. Steve (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: JAVA - Viewer for dat-Files
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Hi, I'm also currently working on a very similiar program. (...) Yes because of the way .DAT files are made, the most straight forward way of representing them in J3D is 1 triangle or quad -> 1 Object. J3D however does tremendously better on both (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones
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(...) Good point. But as long as the LDGLite source code is distributed in a ZIP file it does not make much of a difference. I will keep it in mind and do something about it at some point. Jacob (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 3D Myst III viewer of a castle
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(...) Yes, I'm pretty sure ldglite negates both the y and z coords just before calling any OpenGL functions. If I remember right, the reason the LDRAW coordinate system is so odd is because it started out in 2D screen pixel coords and the 3D view (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'll have to try it again with j3d 1.2. I did manage to register and download j3d 1.3, and directx8 and get it working with this command. java -classpath viewer.jar de/onlinehome/broich...pplet/Show PATH=c:\ldraw FILE=%1 It's pretty neat, but (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: JAVA - Viewer for dat-Files
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"Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam....away.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:GqG98z.Gsr@lugnet.com... (...) I removed the setCapabilityIsFrequent-method from code. I thougt, it has to be set for changing the view, but it don't. So It should work also (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Parts in 2001
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Has anyone modeled the Support 2 x 2 x 10 Girder Triangular (LEGO part #30517) yet? (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) This actually looks like the best solution to me. It gets around lots of unforseen problems. For instance, when I originally did the scene on the stairs, I tilted the camera by looking up the stairs with the look_at parameter. But that caused (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 3D Myst III viewer of a castle
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(...) I actually had to do something similar in LDView in order to get models to view properly using OpenGL (although I used a 180 degree rotation about Z followed by one about Y). I wonder if any of the other programmers out there had similar (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 3D Myst III viewer of a castle
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(...) Here is the new simplified camera: camera { spherical location <-320,-239,0> // position look_at <-320,-239,1> // view scale <0,0,-1> // flip it rightside up } I'm not sure why the flip works, or why it is needed. I think it is because or (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones
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"Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com> wrote in message news:GqGtr6.7Bv@lugnet.com... (...) distributions. (...) Looked on my hard drive, I don't have a tar.gz copy of the file. Otherwise I'd throw it up now. Jacob will have to fix that problem. (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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