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(...) This is technically due to bad dat code, not the algorithm. That edge shouldn't contain optional lines. However, given that they used a smashed half-sphere, they had no control over the presense of type 5 lines along that edge. And it's the (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Monkeypede [DAT]
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Hey guys, I present to you my Monkeypede. (A centipede made with left brown monkey arms.) This is my first LDraw model ever! I was very excited about LDraw after being present in Tim's tutorial at Brickfest '02. The model's quite small, but it was (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Syntactical colouring of .DAT files
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Hello Jacob, still there is only a version for Win32 yet but I am considering a port to Linux (using Kylix). Do you think that would serve you better? Still it would be using a graphical interface (windowmanager) because i am not so in that (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDRAW-MODE for EMACS question.
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Fredrik, Thanks for your help. I got it working. Turns out it was a combination of things that I was doing wrong. Dave (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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As anyone watching the Brickshelf recent pages will have noticed, I now have multiple pictures available for each of my 20 Spiffcraft variants, accompanied by dat files, and a short text description. (URL) set to space, but redirect as appropriate. (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space, lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) Not at all. It seems like a very sensible thing to do. I presume that the update will include the "NOFILE" meta-command (if we ever got around to agree on it). Please announce it, when the copy is ready, so I can change my web pages to point (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Jacob, Do you mind if I copy (and update) the information on your MPD page to www.ldraw.org/reference/specs? Steve (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 1.9.6 Released ***
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(...) No need for research, just steal the l3p dumping code from main.c in ldglite. I think I added a lot of comments so I could go back to it later and make changes for the next version of l3p. Don (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: * LDrawDesignPad LDDP 1.1 released *
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(...) Hey, Here's an idea for a plugin. Chris Daelman sent me a C++ hose generator program based on John Vanzwieten's spreadsheet. I'm gonna try to put it into ldglite eventually, but perhaps it might also make a nice plugin for your program. I (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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When I was implementing smoothing on part level using optional lines, I discovered an artifact in the smoothing algorithm. You can see what I mean by looking at the 'Space Radar Dish' 3960.dat using LDView 1.95 or later with primitive substitution (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Generating binaries of updated MPD tools
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Don Heyse wrote: > I was kinda hoping you'd do (...) :-) Be prepared to act as guinea-pig, once I get a cross compiler to work. ;-) Play well, Jacob (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: * LDrawDesignPad LDDP 1.1 released *
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I've made a C++ DLL (using borland bcc32.exe compiler 5.5) And can access it just fine using little delphi project but when I place it in your plugin dir and start lddp it closes again imedentenly. I've only implemended the plugin_info function the (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Syntactical colouring of .DAT files
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(...) But it seems to be limited to Win32 systems (although I had to download a large ".zip" file to make sure). Play well, Jacob (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 1.9.6 Released ***
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Looks stable. Perhaps you can use the smooth pattern suggestion to draw a pattern in the back buffer and use glCopyTexImage2D( ) to make a texture of it. Then replace the geometric pattern with a texture. This might speed things up considerably and (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 1.9.6 Released ***
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(...) I forgot to mention. I didn't miss your suggestion of redrawing polygon outlines smoothed for patterned polygons; I just haven't implemented it yet. It is on my to-do list: (URL) even on the top list, which is items I actually plan to (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: * LDrawDesignPad LDDP 1.1 released *
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Hello Adam, Works perfectly for me. Try to reload the page using the menu on right mouse button. Play well Carsten "Adam Howard" <abhoward10@hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:H0CppF.56y@lugnet.com... (...) and (...) v115b (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 1.9.6 Released ***
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(...) had walkthrough/flythrough on my list of possible features for a REALLY long time. Of course, one could argue that the longer a feature stays on the possible future list, the less likely it is to ever get implemented :-). On the other hand, I (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Cool, I'll have to check that out and see how it looks. Hey, since you seem to be taking my suggestions, how about implementing the camera controls I'm trying to work into ldglite? After talking about which buttons to use, I rediscovered the (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: MPD File Specs
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Don Heyse writes: ... (...) Thanks, Don! (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Carsten, Thanks for your quick update :) Unfortunately I just tried to download the new one and I received the dreaded 'File Not Found' error. I appreciate all your hard work. Thanks, Adam (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: MPD File Specs
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(...) Heh, this should be it, but it isn't. (URL) a short version of the specs here. (URL) it leaves out the 0 NOFILE bit mentioned here. (URL) think if you search for NOFILE on lugnet you'll find the discussion on scope inside an MPD file, which (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | POV Color Cheat? [DAT]
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Would it be possible to inline certain hard-to-achieve POV-Ray colors in a primitive file so that the color would be available in rendered models without having to tweak the output file? Something like this: 0 stud.dat primitive 0 L3P IFNOTPOV 1 16 (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | MPD File Specs
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Could anybody point me to the file specs for mpd files? I know I've seen them, but now that I need them, I just can't find them. (Yes, I have looked (at least ten minutes) for the MPD specs in both lugnet and ldraw.org without finding it). TIA, (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 1.9.6 Released ***
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FUT lugnet.cad.dev (...) This is by design, as the smoothing it performed at the part level. You can force other parts to be smoothed by adding the following line to the part dat file (near the beginning, preferably before any actual geometry): 0 (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 1.9.6 Released ***
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(...) Here's a couple a small ones: The smooth curves based on type 5 lines feature still seems to work only if the part is in the LDRAW\PARTS directory For some reason the sphere primitives are always showing up a light grey color (regardless of (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | *** LDView Version 1.9.6 Released ***
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LDView version 1.9.6 is now available, in both source and binary forms. You can download either from: (URL) main new feature of version 1.9.6 is: Added support for antialiased lines. Most of the other changes in this release are bug fixes, so (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 1.9.5 Released ***
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In lugnet.cad, Martijn Zwaal writes: ... (...) ... Well, I just checked at home, and two sided lighting is a relatively expensive operation on my GeForce3, even when the viewer is treated as an infinite viewer. (As I mentioned in my other post, all (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Old MS-DOS shell for Ldraw wanted (Ldl)
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In lugnet.cad, Don Heyse writes: [snip] (...) Here is the provisional outcome of this experiment, on startup it showed te following error message: visual = 397954 context = 39b9d4 set_color_depth = 16 screen = 0 Error setting graphics mode: (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: * LDrawDesignPad LDDP 1.1 released *
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Hello Adam, (...) Thank you very much! (...) figured (...) to (...) might (...) display (...) Thank you for your suggestion. I just implemented the support for L3Lab and polling-support for LDView and L3Lab. I just uploaded a new beta version to my (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: * LDrawDesignPad LDDP 1.1 released *
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FUT lugnet.cad.dev. (...) I haven't personally looked at it, but the thing to remember when writing C++ that is going to be accessed from another language is that you usually have to write C functions, and declare them as being WINAPI. You also have (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Duplo pyramid based on the pyramid.dat
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(...) No, I think you're the first to have that idea. Neat and nice. /Tore (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: * LDrawDesignPad LDDP 1.1 released *
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Hi Carsten, I like your program a lot. Very easy to use and has UNDO !!!! One feature/plug-in that I would like is to be able to work on a part and see the results in realtime. LDAO allows me to do this with L3Lab. I figured LDView is supposed to do (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Duplo pyramid based on the pyramid.dat [DAT]
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This is my first dat post please forgive me if this is not great idea or model hope no one made it before me. R.I.P. James 0 Duplo pyramid 0 Name: Dpyramid.ldr 0 Author: Eduardo Vazquez based on James Jessiman's original pyramid.dat 0 Unofficial (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Generating binaries of updated MPD tools
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(...) Beats me. I'm still using the old 2.95 compiler for windows. I might be motivated to switch when they get the java compiler working with the mingw toolchain. I was kinda hoping you'd do the all the legwork on the cross compiler after I pointed (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Brick by brick animation
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Hello to all, As I don't know what to do with all my LDRAW models "well I know but ... whould like to do a showcase of each model" so I was thinking to do an ainmation of each model showing it building piece by piece but I'm not sure what way or (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Generating binaries of updated MPD tools
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(...) Thanks. I suppose I should try to build a cross-compiler, so I can compile for Win32 and MacOS as well as for Linux and Tru64. The MinGW documentation you pointed to seemed to be based on GCC 2.95, which is too bug-ridden to use for compiling (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: * LDrawDesignPad LDDP 1.1 released *
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Hello, Thank you Roland for pointing this error out to me. I admit I am new to the DLL and pointer stuff. I think i fixed this problem now, created a 'beta' version and put it up on my website (URL) in the files section. I hope this time the plugin (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Syntactical colouring of .DAT files
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Hello Frerik, Just use LDDP ( (URL) ) . It had syntax coloring starting with the first version. Play well Carsten "Fredrik Glöckner" <fredrigl@math.uio.no> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:qrdk7n6bttm.fsf....uio.no... (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDRAW-MODE for EMACS question. [DAT]
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(...) I answered this in a mail to you, but I would like to quickly summary what I think may be wrong. When issuing the command with C-c C-b, it is important that the cursor is on the first of the end-points, that is, the first of these four lines: (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Syntactical colouring of .DAT files
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Just out of curiosity, I wonder if there are any editors (except Emacs) which offer syntactical colouring of .DAT files. I find this feature useful for quickly finding errors and seeing which coordinate each figure constitutes. Without this feature, (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDRAW-MODE for EMACS question.
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Hello all, I am new to LDRAW-MODE for EMACS and am having some difficulty working with the tutorial. I am trying to work with the bezier curve tutorial: (URL) have performed the following while working with the file: C-c C-b I get the prompt for the (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: * LDrawDesignPad LDDP 1.1 released *
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If you want, I Like to give it a try. Have to download Builder Personal of trial for it so let me know. But I have one question. I think there's a serious memory problem in the Plugin_Info function. Because you give the result pointer (pchar) of one (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: MOTM and SOTM winners for July 2002
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(...) I only saw one MOTM entry. Is that correct or am I having troubles? I would think if there was only one entry, it will win... why make us vote in that case? (although the automated system may not handle that very well I guess) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: * LDrawDesignPad LDDP 1.1 released *
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(...) That's cool, Thanks anyway. -Orion (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: * LDrawDesignPad LDDP 1.1 released *
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Hello! To be honest: I can't ;-). But i think that you can translate the dll-headers to C++ without problem. If they would be in C++ I would be able to translate them to Delphi ;). The dll funcs are very plain and should be easy to call. They only (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | MOTM and SOTM winners for July 2002
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Hi All, Sorry for being late. Vacation time. :-) Missing those margaritas on the Mexican beach already.... This months winner for Model Of The Month is Shimpei Ohsumi for a remarkably accurate rendition of the Honda Bite. Love that minimalist (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | Re: * LDrawDesignPad LDDP 1.1 released *
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(...) Carten, I know this might be a streach, but is there any way you could provide a C++ code sample? It's no big deal if you can't but I think I know C++ better than Delphi(Pascal). -Orion (22 years ago, 3-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | * LDrawDesignPad LDDP 1.1 released *
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Hello! New version is out now. Get it at (URL) ! + = New feature * = Bugfix - = Removed feature v1.1 2002/08/03 * Fixed shortcuts for Cut, Copy, Paste + Redid the search options / added 'search' menu + Added 'Find next' (F3) option + Undo now (...) (22 years ago, 3-Aug-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev) !
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| | Re: Old MS-DOS shell for Ldraw wanted (Ldl)
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(...) Ah, you should also try a google web search and/or a google newsgroup search. Works pretty good for me :^) (...) Apparently that's a 2MB OEM version of the Matrox MGA card. Any chance you could spend a few minutes and see if the DOS version of (...) (22 years ago, 3-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I must admid I only remembered that it existed, not that you where the one making it. I kind of "reverse-engeneered" your name from the link Don gave. (backspaced the "ldlaunch.htm" bit so I got to the homepage) But seeing your name there made (...) (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thank you, too. Yes, that was me. I'm surprised to see it mentioned again, and I'm impressed that Don could dig up the link and that Manfred remembered that I made it. (...) Tim contacted me a while ago and asked me if I know when I made the (...) (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) name. I've installed it and it works just as I remembered. Good old Tore Eriksson! (I believe that he's the author) Thank you Tore Eriksson and Tim Courtney, shouldn't a link to this tool be included on the DOS Users page of the download (...) (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: PovRay Error
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"Mike Walsh" <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:H08IDo.L01@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) I looked at the LGEO files for 3194 and 3195 and it turns out that at the beginning of 3194 it declares LENGTH like this: (...) (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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"Mike Walsh" <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:H08I45.Juq@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) [ ... snipped ... ] The error message from Pov is different when only this part is rendered. object { lg_knob } sphere { (...) (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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"Mike Walsh" <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:H046yE.4z1@lugnet.com... (...) with (...) for (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) [ ... snipped ... ] I started trying to track down this error. It was tedious process as I started (...) (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Strange thing with part 30179
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(...) No, I don't think changing the stud mode from course to normal in MLCad will affect LDraw or LEdit. MLCad stores it's settings in the Windows Registry. -Orion (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Old MS-DOS shell for Ldraw wanted (Ldl)
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(...) Is this what you're looking for? (URL) what sort of graphics card do you have on the DOS pc? If it has a 16bpp VESA mode you might be able to use the DOS version of ldglite. I'm not sure why you'd want to do that unless you like to spin the (...) (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Old MS-DOS shell for Ldraw wanted (Ldl)
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Hello all, I've installed Ldraw/Ledit on an old MS-DOS based computer, and now I'm looking for a very old program (I believe it was called Ldl.exe or Ldl.com) that acts as a MS-DOS shell program. It made generating input for the command line driven (...) (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Strange thing with part 30179
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(...) It will affect LDraw and possibly LEdit. Steve (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) It depends on a number of factors (machine speed, numbero of visible stud, etc...) but I guess the overall effect would be a slow down. I haven't noticed a marked change on my machines (P4, P3, P1). Also, this will only affect MLCad, not (...) (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: When Did Tiles Get Their Groove?
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(...) Yes. I thought about changing all the other tiles to match this one. :) (Most of the patterned tiles don't include the "with groove" notation, because they only exist in one form. And we can usually use those characters for better descriptions (...) (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: logos
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(...) all 1x1 bricks. Maybe someone from the ray tracing groups have some insight. Steve (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.org.us.indylug, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Strange thing with part 30179
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(...) 8. (...) and (...) Will this render faster or slower? Greetz, Sjaacko (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: I have some ideas / suggestions for all programmers
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"Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com> wrote in message news:H06tvn.HEA@lugnet.com... (...) similar (...) might (...) a (...) program (...) runtime (...) Being a VB programmer myself who doesn't have the time or the inclination to learn another (...) (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Site update
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(...) Send me the .doc version and I'll fix your .pdf version. I got the software to do it. =) -AHui (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Site update
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Hi all, I've updated my LD4DModeler site with a newer version of the simple project Tutorial (improved thanks to Ahui Herrera), a PDF Version of the tutorial and some info about upcomming Beta 3 (including a little test animation I did). The places (...) (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: I have some ideas / suggestions for all programmers
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I understand where you're coming from, but I personally feel that the registry does have its place, if used properly. Mind you, most programs don't use it properly in my opinion. LDView uses the registry to remember your settings, and to remember (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Strange thing with part 30179
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Right. Thanks everyone! "Jaco van der Molen" <jmolen@globalxs.nl> wrote in message news:H05LLH.6Bp@lugnet.com... (...) holes (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: When Did Tiles Get Their Groove?
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(...) Isn't the style for the other grooved tiles "with Groove", not "Grooved"? I think it would make more sense to call the other one "Tile 2 x 2 with Black Circle Pattern without Groove", since a) the grooveless tiles are more "exotic" and b) as a (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: When Did Tiles Get Their Groove?
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(...) Due to this information, I have deleted the unofficial, "~Moved to 3068bp17" version of 3068p17.dat from Parts Tracker. And I changed the title of 3068bp17.dat to "Tile 2 x 2 Grooved with Black Circle Pattern". Steve (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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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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| | Re: *** LDView Version 1.9.5 Released ***
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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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| | Re: Strange thing with part 30179
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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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| | Re: Strange thing with part 30179
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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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| | Re: LGEO orientation problem
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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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| | Re: I have some ideas / suggestions for all programmers
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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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| | Strange thing with part 30179
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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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| | Re: *** LDView Version 1.9.5 Released ***
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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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| | Re: Digital Griffness
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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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| | Re: Digital Griffness
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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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| | Re: Generating binaries of updated MPD tools
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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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| | Re: Generating binaries of updated MPD tools
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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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| | Generating binaries of updated MPD tools
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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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| | Updated MPD tools
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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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| | Re: I have some ideas / suggestions for all programmers
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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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| | Re: x342: ~Technic Flex-System End [DAT]
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(...) No documentation has been added yet, but it works the usual way. Here's an example. Try these two end parts: 0 1 8 50 0 0 0 0 -1 1 0 0 0 -1 0 x342.DAT 1 8 0 0 50 0 -1 0 -1 0 0 0 0 -1 x342.DAT 0 Put the cursor on either of the part lines, and (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | I have some ideas / suggestions for all programmers
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Hello to everyone, I'm working a small tool similar to l3p addon but it will be very simple, basic, won't need any dll and won't use windows registry. Well this post mainly is to say that I have a suggestion / idea for all ldraw related software (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Having trouble using LegoCAD...Please help!
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Hi Brendan, I hope my answers help some: (Long) (...) This is ldraw's root directory and contains the PARTS.LST file. (...) then you can use a program called l3p that will convert your model into a *.pov file. This a very basic description of the (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Tile 2 x 2 with Zebra Pattern
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(...) Looks good, here's a couple small things I noticed: 1. I really think that the stripes should extend all the way to the edge of the piece. 2. L3P -check revealed one quad w/ identical verticies (22 years ago, 31-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Digital Griffness
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I had a couple hours to kill so I sat down and ldrew my griffon. I may or may not submit it to MOTM at Ldraw.org, when it comes time to vote (those of you who do), I guess you'll find out then if I did. :) However, unlike my previous attempts at (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.cad) !
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| | Re: Tile 2 x 2 with Zebra Pattern
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Oh, what I forgot to mention is that I have this version which is mirrored from this one: (URL) van der Molen" <jmolen@globalxs.nl> wrote in message news:H04C1p.KAo@lugnet.com... (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Baseplate 16 x 16 with Driveway Pattern
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No, that is not it. Take a look at my part, it IS different... LMKWYT Jaco "Ross Crawford" <rcrawford@csi.com> wrote in message news:H03z8B.Av9@lugnet.com... (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Tile 2 x 2 with Zebra Pattern [DAT]
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LMKWYT, please. 0 Tile 2 x 2 with Zebra Pattern 0 Name: 3068zebra.dat 0 Author: Jaco van der Molen 0 Subpart 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 s\3068bs01.dat 0 Stripes 4 0 -13 0 19 -9 0 19 -10 0 12 -13 0 13 4 0 -7 0 19 -2 0 19 -3 0 6 -7 0 6 4 0 -8 0 -3 (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: PovRay Error
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"Sproaticus" <jsproat@io.com> wrote in message news:H04BGJ.I9L@lugnet.com... (...) you (...) [ ... snipped ... ] I made this change and it has made it through the parse stage. We'll see how it looks in about eight hours when it is done rendering. (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: PovRay Error
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"Sproaticus" <jsproat@io.com> wrote in message news:H04BGJ.I9L@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) there (...) The second error was almost straight from L3P. The only thing I did was to delete the light definitions and replace them with a (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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