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Doesn't the BFC "spec" mention transparency? The renderer can easily tell when something is transparent, and do BFC processing (or lack thereof) appropriately. This is necessary for correct handling of standard parts that are sometimes transparent, (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Converting files to 3D Studio MAX-format
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Hello, Has anyone out there ever successfully converted a LDRAW (*.LDR or *.DAT) file to 3DS MAX (*.3DS or *.MAX)? I have tried the software 3Dwin which supports both formats (.ldr, .dat and .3ds) - and the freeware converter Dat2dxf as well. Non of (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | [Parts Tracker] Working on Update 2002-05
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I'm going to be working on Update 2002-05 this weekend. During this time, the Parts Tracker will be shutdown for file submissions and review posting. Thank you for your patience. Chris (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Capitalization of filenames
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(...) Basically, the LDraw filenames should be considered case-insensitive. The only time I'd want to have uppercase .DAT extensions is to references to STUD*.DAT that should always be drawn, regardless of stud-drawing mode. This is an old (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Glass... to BFC or not to BFC?
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(...) Right. For some renderers. Basically, in standard LDraw renderers, the backside surfaces can still be culled, because multiple layers of transparent surfaces look the same as a single layer. In renderers that produce darker/more opaque areas (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Downloadable Handbook?
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(...) reference-pages on ldraw.org. to me it is not (...) homepage, while the more useful specifications for (...) pdf-file and make it downloadable to get a sort of (...) Tim In my view most of the material Willy is speaking of is not really "PT (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LEGO Poem - The Darkest Color
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With the help of Joel Hoornbeek I have uploaded the latest LEGO poem to my webiste entitled 'The Darkest Color'. See it here: (URL) Lego Place (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Downloadable Handbook?
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The PT and the PT reference pages are not my responsibility, but I have suggested a few times that they be cross-linked with the general reference pages. My original plan for the re-organization of the site was that all reference docs would go under (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Downloadable Handbook?
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hi jacob (...) Okay, I'll do my best ,but I'll take a little bit 'cos I have never worked with acrobat. willy (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: ldglite broke in Mac OS X 10.2.2
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(...) Just making sure that we are on the same page here. In 10.1.x I had to click the menubar to activate LDGLite to received comands from the keyboard, but in 10.2.2, clicking the menubar does succesfully activate LDGLite to receive the commands (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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(...) Ahh... I see. I forgot that the three different ways of openning a file often behave quite differently. 1. Double clicking the mini.pov file 2. Dropping the icon for mini.pov onto the running POV program's icon in the Dock. This is my (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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(...) (URL) was playing with AppleScipts to do something similar to your lani program. I used l3p in VPC to create a .pov file. Then I used AppleScript and BBEdit to change the camera position in the .pov file. This all worked in OS 9 becuase I had (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: LPub 2.1.0.0 Available
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Thanks for pointing this out Jake. The examples have been restored. (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: Ldraw Viewer Update
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Ok, I know I am really chatty tonight. I promise I wont always be like this... Here are some practical feature requests for Ldraw Viewer: Large models get clipped really bad if they extend beyond the "camera". That is, I have to zoom way out before (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Ldraw Viewer Update
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I wasn't clear in the purpose of a pivot point. If a part has a pivot point, it would be cool if the user could rotate the part around the pivot point instead of the part's internal 0,0,0. In fact, it would be cool to rotate a part (or group of (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Ldraw Viewer Update
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I have some more comments/feature requests for the LDraw editors (inspired by Ldraw Viewer, but I think these would be good to have in any editor). I would like to have a parts list much like ledit does (and ldglite when running ledit emulation). (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: ldglite broke in Mac OS X 10.2.2
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(...) Yup. :-) (...) Well, it compiles. There are still warnings. I don't have a 10.1 box to test compiling on though. So I changed: GL_LIBS=-framework OpenGL -framework GLUT -lobjc To: GL_LIBS=-framework OpenGL -framework GLUT -lobjc -lstdc++ And (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: ldglite broke in Mac OS X 10.2.2
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(...) Interesting. (...) LDGLite Launcher sets the path every time it launches an instance of ldglite. So it will override any LDRAWDIR environment variable that you set. Too much of a hastle to do it any other way. (...) No, I have had the problem (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: ldglite broke in Mac OS X 10.2.2
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(...) Well, I program about as well as I speak German. That is, I can understand alot of what goes on, but people tend to laugh when I try it. :-) James (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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and I noticed something strange. I don't know if the problem is with (...) The problem is with POV-Ray 3.5 for Mac OS X. Check out (URL) Can you believe an app will crash every time it opens a new document? Anyway, within POV-Ray I just create a new (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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