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(...) I found some model which was (mostly) all 3001.dat, except only the first line gave the part number! All following lines were meant to be the same part (with different location.) I guess the author's viewer tolerates this? So, the rule would (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) What about program extensions that modify the DAT code in some way? Are you suggesting that the author of a plugin shouldn't credit himself in the form of a DAT Comment? -Orion (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldglite bug report (Was: Portable Ldraw system)
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(...) Oops! A quick visit to the L3P site reveals that's the camera position in polar coords relative to the look-at point. I'm not sure how I missed that before. But I like it because it avoids the weird LDRAW coordinate system. So I'm gonna have (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes, we seem to see a lot of this sort of thing these days. 0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 "Custom" I'd say leave it out unless it's actually being used. My guess is most of the time it's not. Don (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) does this include "don't add any new lines unless they're intentional"? As in, a program shouldn't add (and forgive me if this is incorrect dat format): 0 edited by dan with DatZap on Tuesday :) Dan (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldglite bug report (Was: Portable Ldraw system)
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(...) I did some work on the other solution, rendering in the background. There's a beta of this here: (URL) -n2 to render each part in the backbuffer, -n4 does the whole model. Also the backbuffer is retained for faster refreshes on window expose (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I don't have any comments, except to say that I agree with pretty much everything you wrote. And that I'd be very hard-pressed to actually implement some of it. And I didn't completely understand all of your points... (...) Yes! (...) Good idea, (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I would go for this. If a line is indeed edited, then I would preserve it's indentation, but remove trailing decimal zeros, and possibly clean up other things, like changing "-0" to "0". If the file has any exponential notation, e.g, "2e1", (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) This sounds counter-productive to me. Judging from the official LDraw files, it appears that many of the original files follow these guidelines with respect to indentation: o Comments are not indented o All other lines are indented by one (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) These 2 are the 2 biggest problems I have with MLCAD. For some reason MLCad changes the filename in the NAME comment block to an .ldr extension even if the source file is .dat. As more of a part author than a model builder, this is very (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: mlcad.log files filling my disk
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(...) I run WinME (on AMD Tbird 1.4, 512MB DDR) and I've had a couple of DATs with many thousands of parts not LEGO models, I was using MLCad to redesign my living room on a 1 stud to 1 inch scale!), and never had a problem with it. I find WinME is (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: I Still have models for Datsville (Was: Datsville rev 012.)
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(...) Great, Thank you! (...) I only remember about the Belvedere, John suggested to place it near the river, so that a visitor would have a nice senic view. You can place the other folly wherever it's appropriate. With friendly greetings, M. (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Does anyone have the *.dat files for datsville petrollium
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The version with the stickers and stuff, I lost it in a HD crash. All I can find so far is (URL) links to a zip file that is no longer around. Anyone got the dat files? I seem to rember that Paul Ester helped me with the pov-ray renderings for the (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Ldglite bug report (Was: Portable Ldraw system)
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Got to play with it some more today, some jumbled notes follow... (...) Ok, I changed this and the effect is like night and day. Thanks! I think I'm using the L3P parser. No parser options given, exe is named ldglite.exe. WHOOPS I'm not, -l3 gives (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | HELP Nedded: Datsville Petrol Station needs new hoses [DAT]
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All hoses at the Datsville Petrol Station have mysteriously disappeard. Some believe the hoses have been captured by aliens, others blame hooligans from the cricket ground. Miss Minnie Figg claims that the hoses were never delivered, but hasn't the (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: I Still have models for Datsville (Was: Datsville rev 012.)
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(...) I sort of remember those two files were discussed. They are even stored in some of my old backup cdr's. I can't recall why I didn't include them in my Datsville Apocryphy. Anyway, now they are now in the Pending folder for the next release. Do (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: My experience with user defined colors... [DAT]
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Steve Barile wrote... (...) (snip) (...) L3P turns all unknown colors into gray while notifying you: WARNING "ColorTest1.dat" Line 11: Unknown color, using 7: 1 64 0 -8 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3001.DAT The main reason why L3P does not support the COLOR (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | I Still have models for Datsville (Was: Datsville rev 012.)
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(...) Way back in 1999 I submitted 2 models for Datsville. John VanZwieten replied and even e-mailed me to ask if I agreed with the location that he intended. Shortly after that the project came to a halt, unfortunately before my models actualy (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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What consideration should an editor program make for unfamiliar content or eccentric style when it loads and saves an LDRAW file with changes? I am implementing the following general ideas in BrickDraw3D, based on various situations in test files. (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: My experience with user defined colors...
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(...) If you want to use 0-255, you can do: pigment { rgb <127,6,6>/255.0 } --Bram (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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