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(...) Another positive side-effect of not using the registry is if you have to move the folder that all your LDraw related tools are stored in, you dont have to dig through the registry to fix all the path names. I had to do this and it was a big (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Another good thing is that it's much easier just to copy the ldraw.ini file from one installation to another than try to go through the huge registry file and search for LDraw related info. Thus I, for example, get all the viewing angles I (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I plan to eventually try out vertex array range, but since it's nVidia-specific, there has to be a fallback. I hadn't thought about the decrease in memory consumption, but considering the huge amount of memory sucked up by the display lists, (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I agree about using INI files instead of the registry, because it's easier/safer to directly edit INI files. And it's easier for other programmers to figure out the information. For sharing settings between programs, it makes sense (IMO) to (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) When using "Coarse" mode for rendering studs in MLCAD, any reference to a file like stud*.dat is replaced with the matching stu2*.dat. This method comes directly from ldraw's -FS drawing mode. :) To fix the problem, you should download (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Hi, I'm the author of those parts. I will try to explain what is happening: Every stud has a "Fast Draw" version. If you open the directory ldraw/p, you will see that there are the stud.dat and the stu2.dat, the stud2.dat and the stu22.dat. (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) The file Stud29 would be the fast draw version of stud9. The fast draw version is the same as the regular version but it uses 6 sides instead of 8. Go to Settings->General->Change... in MLCad. Click on the Rendering tab and under Edit-Mode (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Hello. Would it be easy to implement an "Explode" feature in MLCad? I.e. if you have inserted a "model" in your file, and explode it, it will be divided into the parts it's built up of. And then youy can explode, and explode till you're at the (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Yes, some of the parts in the LGEO library are wrongly oriented. I've also noticed that the technic triangle was wrong. I've reported these two parts to the author (IIRC), but in the mean time, you can add an ad-hoc rotate statement to these (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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I'm sure I saw something about this some time ago, but I can't find it 8?( When I render using the LGEO library, some parts are rotated by 90 degrees from their correct orientation, eg 6536.dat (Technic axle joiner perpendicular). What causes this? (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Ok well then we should all put the ini files in each program dir as u said. (...) I hate it too, specially as it a technic of M$ to control the user's pc. (...) Well some dll's like directX are ok and about delphi making an exe, well O love (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I downloaded this unofficial part from the Parttracker including all subfiles: 30179.dat (Door 1 x 4 x 6 Frame) stud9.dat (Stud 2 Small Hole) x213s02.dat (~Door 1 x 4 x 6 Glass) x213s01.dat (~Door 1 x 4 x 6) x213.dat (Door 1 x 4 x 6) Now when I open (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Nice to see that everything is ok. Those arms need to be fixed anyway. In the mean time I tried to speed up rendering using the vertex array range and fences extension on a geforce3. This seems to be about as fast as display lists but uses less (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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ooooh ya Mr. Sava - Oooooh yaH!!! e (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.cad)
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(...) dont do it it's not fair to the others who try to win. (...) Cool maybe you should do that treeman or one of you castles. (...) Well if you just givethem away everyone has to buy thier own parts so maybe if you sell it as a kit you make a (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.cad)
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(...) cross compiler supports ADA so I built the windows versions for you and uploaded it to ldraw.org. Look for /home/dheyse/mpd_fil..._win32.zip The new executables seem to have longer names than the buildmpd and splitmpd mentioned on the MPD (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Have you considered trying the mingw cross compiler to build Windows executables from a linux box? I'm kinda curious how well that works. I use the native windows version of the mingw gcc compiler all the time. But if this works well enough (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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A little while ago I wrote in lugnet.cad: (...) systems, so I can not compile the programs for MS Windows or for MacOS. If somebody has time to compile them, I would appreciate a copy the resulting executables, for posting them on the web site. Play (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I have updated my MPD tools, which among other things means that they now automatically search for both ".ldr" and ".dat" files, when putting together a MPD files. The newest version can be downloaded from: (URL) well, Jacob -- Wide-body freight (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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This is a good idea. Except forcing the user to a specific dir isn't that user friendly. So I think there should stay one tiny ini file in the application dir telling where to find the rest or something :) I seldom use the registry anyway because of (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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