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(...) My Lani project has a rotation matrix that takes the parameters x, y, z. The first thing it does is determine what rotation parameters are 0. There are 7 cases: x only y only z only x and y x and z y and z x, y, and z This is for speed. It (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I like the idea of CSG. Unfortunately I can not invest time in Rayshade and alternate ray-tracers. I know they can have attractive features but I am more a POV user. I must impose some limit to my (already too high) diversification. Of course, (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Stud4 primitive could be convex-decomposed just as Ring4 primitive is today. More generally, just as any LDraw surface is convex-decomposed with just triangles and quads (3,4 points respectively), I guess any LDraw volume can be (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) The rings aren't actually for POV- they're for LDraw. They are simply sections of 16-sided "curves" (and yes- they are in the "p" directory). The rotation/scaling matrix turns them and scales them up to fit onto the panel's surface. You can do (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I think we covered this a while ago in the thread about the ldraw oblique matrix. This one has a link to some Graphics Gems source code. (URL) seems to me though that you can't really produce 3 definitive X, Y, and Z axis rotations. There (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hi Bernd, Thanks for cooking this up, but erm... now I still don't know how it is done. Shure, I'm gonna have a closer look at it but all those disks and rings? I know L3P will replace them with proper POV primitives, but which one does what? (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Lani source code released with no guarantees. Was: Unmatrix
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OK, I am finally releasing the source code for my Lani application. I doubt I will finish it before Roland releases animation application. NOTES: It is Java. Source code included. No compiled apps are included. If you want to try it you will need a (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Track Designer Registry
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(...) Wish I had dot com hours, they have to be better than video game company hours. :) (...) Good news, last night I was able to find the source package at home but my ISP was not very helpful and I couldn't upload it anywhere. I'll try again (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Sorry, I must have been reading more into your example than you intended. (...) It's the former: the author intends to make a reflected object, but not an inverted object. (...) It depends on who (or what) you want to keep things simple *for*. (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Hi! (...) I don't have any pseudocode, but I would like to see the program that does this. If you give me a link to the program, I'd be willing to interpret it for you. Steve (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: panel with round windows (for 10020) updated [DAT]
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(...) Hi Jeroen, This would be the better solution with primitives: 0 Panel 1 x 2 x 2 with round window v2 (needs work) 0 Name: 4864p??.dat 0 Use this as Subpart s\4864s01.dat 1 47 -10 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 stud2.dat 1 47 0 44 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 1 (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) If only I would know how... (...) That can be managed. I "only" made this part 'cos I wanted to make a complete 10020. It is the first part I did. Sadly there is no (not to my knowledge that is) documention about creating parts, the different (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I would suggest using ndiscs and ring primitives. Also you may want to make use of the 4864S subpart that is the panel 1X2X2 without front face. (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Hello. I need (don't ask why) to pick the scale/rotation matrix from a dat/ldr-file into it's XYZ-Rotation/scale values. i.e. I need to get: Scaling/Rotation in the X-axis Scaling/Rotation in the Y-Axis Scaling/Rotation in the Z-axis I've seen a (...) (23 years ago, 4-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Tile with # 27 (for 10020) [DAT]
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Hi again, After reading a piece about a neat programm called BMP2Dat32 ( (URL) ) and tried to make a decorated part. It will never get official but again, it renders nice! (URL) Tile 1 x 2 with Groove and 27 Pattern 0 Name: 3069x027.dat 0 Author: (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | panel with round windows (for 10020) updated [DAT]
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Hi all, I updated he Santa Fe windows. It now has the silver (LDrwa chrome) and black borders. They are a bit out of proportion but it looks beautilful. Look at (URL) Panel 1 x 2 x 2 with round window v2 (needs work) 0 ROTATION CENTER 0 22 10 0 (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Parts as volumes (instead of surfaces)
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If you're interested, take a look at my old Rayshade libraries that made the bricks from scratch using CSG. I'm especially fond of the L3G0 40-tooth technic gear. I've thought it would be nice to have "bounding boxes" for the bricks, for collision (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | avi pov animation clockworks
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Hi, This is a low res/quality animation of my clockwork (URL) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.announce.moc)
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| | Re: GPF on manual zoom in MLCad 2.11
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(...) For those that can't download just yet, the zoom is a relatively easy fix to prevent the GPF! Simply click on a piece BEFORE you do any zoom! From what I gathered, the entire model isn't referenced before the zoom takes effect, thus, an (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: [Parts Tracker] More BFC Primitives
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Maybe I'm more confused now, or less who knows. But I don't think I made what I was trying to say clear in that last post. So here I am replying to myself... :) (...) That last sentance doesn't really get across what I was trying to say I think. (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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