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(...) I'm not in any rush to do so. I'm still gaining experience from doing more symmetrical parts. I can see that the Stormtrooper's helmet could take as long or longer than Vader's helmet. The Rebel helmet could be done in a much shorter time: (...) (22 years ago, 31-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: possible rendering problem with LDLite and transparent parts
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(...) Ok, but I just tested flat.dat with ldlite 2.3 and your command line: ldlite.exe -W2 -MS -S3.0 -C15 -A0.707104,0,0.70710...-0.650895, 0.390731,0.650895 -D1 -U02500,02500 -I-4 -K flat.dat It worked just fine on Win2K with only 192MB. However, I (...) (22 years ago, 31-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I am viewing them at full scale. It's related to the size of the work area, I'm pretty sure, rather than the resolution they're viewed at. 4000x4000 is a pretty good sized chunk of memory, I expect. Gyug sent me a note, he's looking into it. (22 years ago, 31-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) How are you viewing the resulting image files? Have you looked at them at full scale? Your problem may be aliasing in the resampling of the images when viewed at reduced scale, and not a problem in ldlite. Check with Jacob for tips on how to (...) (22 years ago, 31-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Help needed with cond. lines [DAT]
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(...) While investigating this, I determined two things. First, LDView does have a limitation that causes incorrect rendering of this file, but only when Primitive Substitution is enabled. Based on the way my smoothing code works, it's highly (...) (22 years ago, 31-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Happy Halloween Models
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A&M LWorks is pround to bring you yet another BI! It's a little late or a bit early depening on how you see it but here are some fun models that you can build with your kids. See the history page for more info on the models. Without further adue A&M (...) (22 years ago, 31-Mar-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: LPub and Lsynth page for tracking enhancement requests and bug fixes
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(...) Used to, not any more. I built in my own "renderer" -Orion (22 years ago, 31-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Art of Illusion
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Hey everyone - After some private email exchange with Wayne Gramlich and Kevin Clague, Wayne emailed me this (quoting with permission): (...) Wayne posted about AOI back in the fall, and I don't think it got many responses, if any. I know a few (...) (22 years ago, 31-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) And don't forget to visit the "Parts in process" section, they are all so incredible! Too sad I have no Vader Helmet, sure I would review your part, Thanks Paul, damien (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Lego colors measured using a Pantone spectrometer...
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(...) Great work, definitely a reference. Do you think the results are meaningful for software and screen display? Are screen RGB values and "real" RGB values the same thing or two different things (because monitor screens are bright or because any (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general)
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| | Lego colors measured using a Pantone spectrometer...
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Hi everyone, Part of my real work involves worrying about color matching for print and screen. My company recently bought a Pantone Color Cue device which does exact color matching by simply placing the device over the item to match and press the (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general) !
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(...) Here is a Link to an older posting showing pictures of the Helmet in process. (URL) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: LPub and Lsynth page for tracking enhancement requests and bug fixes
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(...) If you want an example of the quality you can get with this technique, take a peek at the Family Car instructions on this page. (URL) almost positive it was done with the edge thickening and scaling method described by Larry. Don (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Darth Vader Helmet on Parts tracker
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(...) Well, the Vader helmet has taken a very long time. Since about June of 2002. Keep in mind that there have been periods of several months of no ldraw... If you do decide to make one of the helmets, be sure to let us know so we don't take the (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Darth Vader Helmet on Parts tracker
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(...) FYI, I have fixed a few small errors on this part and have reposted it. Paul (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New BFC Spec
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(...) I'm not sure if there are any others, but the LTrax meta-commands are definitely not in all caps. And, according to Tore (the LTrax author), the LTrax program doesn't treat them as case-sensitive. --Travis (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) All of LDView's rendering code is actually already encapsulated into a static library. It's not a DLL because I decided that having the DLL complicated the LDView distrubution overly much (especially for screen saver support). It wouldn't be (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Gyug has said that LDLite and LDGLite are trying to share code, FWIW... (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Orion Pobursky uses LDGLite as a renderer to generate previews in his Bezier Curve Generator plugin for LDDesignPad. -Tim (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | MLCad's Spezification description of buffer exchange doesn't add up [DAT]
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Hi Michael, As you know LPub tries to support MLCad's wonderful rotation steps and buffer exchange. Using the two together in LPub uncovers some incorrect behavior between the two. LPub does not deal with images when doing buffer exchanges as (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LPub and Lsynth page for tracking enhancement requests and bug fixes
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(...) I missed this bit before. I thought Jake was asking about why I didn't use MLCad for rendering. (...) I agree with this approach, I don't think you should write your own renderer, we don't need YARenderer at this point. Just link them in as (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub and Lsynth page for tracking enhancement requests and bug fixes
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<snip> (...) I understood. It is a bug. (...) Yes, well there are numerous windows apps that can render LDraw files quickly on the screen, but just because LPub doesn't support it doesn't mean LPub has a bug. ;-) (...) Running a vote would be cool, (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub and Lsynth page for tracking enhancement requests and bug fixes
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(...) Looking into other renderers was just a thought of mine. Your requests for pause controls is indicitive of the cost of high quality rendering. For those who do not want to pay that price they have to lay out BIs by hand. I don't have a desire (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub and Lsynth page for tracking enhancement requests and bug fixes
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(...) Maybe the simple way covers all the needs. (...) Yeah, I just started typing... :) (...) Perhaps I should give a bit more detail. What I mean is even when operations are canceled, or you actually click the "Cancel" button in this dialog, the (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It's good enough for what I use it for, and it doesn't require POV, and it's way way way way faster. I'd never tie up my PC for two days rendering, that's just unacceptable. (...) Maybe. Read the help on the command line options to se what (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New email address
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I just found out what the trouble is. My swipnet.se addresses have been changed to tele2.se Found info on this at the www.tele2.se website. I don't think they have informed me, and if they did, the message must have got caught in my spam filter... (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.loc.se, lugnet.people, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub and Lsynth page for tracking enhancement requests and bug fixes
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(...) Seems simple enough. (...) Simple also, as long as it is at *every* sub-model. Careful what you ask for. (...) This is about 8 enhancement requests you know. Not just preferences per sub-model, but also global BOM inclusion/exclusion per (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub and Lsynth page for tracking enhancement requests and bug fixes
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(...) But is this only comparing MLCad to LDLite? While I would agree that the batch processing abilities seem cool, the quality just doesn't seem to compare if you also factor in MegaPOV to the mix. That being said... am I missing something? There (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub and Lsynth page for tracking enhancement requests and bug fixes
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(...) Here are a few more ideas: - Basic Pause function (this may be handled just fine by POVRAY, but I'm not that familiar with it. Reason: When you are working off of one machine that I share, either I need to quickly check email, or let my wife (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub and Lsynth page for tracking enhancement requests and bug fixes
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(...) Oh, I should also note that it's embeddable in batch files, since it has a command line interface. When you have hundreds or thousands of images to render across 30-40 submodels, that's very very important. (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Darth Vader Helmet on Parts tracker
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(...) Yes, please elaborate on you technique. I'm interest in how all part authors model complex parts. This is something I've been meaning to ask for a while now but just haven't remembered. -Orion (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New BFC Spec
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(...) Kevin did a pretty exhaustive search for meta command and all of the one's he listed were in all caps. The command word needs to be in all caps, the command parameters don't need to be. (if I'm reading the spec correctly) -Orion (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub and Lsynth page for tracking enhancement requests and bug fixes
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(...) If we could figure out a *fast* interface for getting images between a renderer and LPub (fast enough to be interactive like I know Willy wants) then yes. The ideal solution would to be to have one of these renderers as a DLL library that I (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub and Lsynth page for tracking enhancement requests and bug fixes
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(...) The reference to LDLite is really a generic reference to renderers other than POV-Ray. I've not done a lot of homework on LDLite, but if it can be an alternative renderer to POV-Ray it has a few advantages including rendering speed (as it is (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub and Lsynth page for tracking enhancement requests and bug fixes
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(...) Better rendering control. While I use MLCad for model capture and review, I use LDLite as a rendering tool for final instruction images, as it is much more flexible and gives me fine grained control over more things. YMMV. (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Darth Vader Helmet on Parts tracker
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Incredible. I've been interested in doing the Stormtrooper helmet (since I don't have quite the budget to be forking out $3+ for Stormtroopers) so I can model large scenes involving them. But I'm blanking on how to tackle such a small detailed part. (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: LPub and Lsynth page for tracking enhancement requests and bug fixes
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(...) Is this where LDLite might come into play? Jake --- Jake McKee Webmaster- B.I. Portal (URL) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub and Lsynth page for tracking enhancement requests and bug fixes
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(...) This may be a dumb question, but what exactly is the benefit of LDLite? From what I have seen (and this is probably wrong) LDLite simply allows you to look at a model in 3D space, much like the 3D view in MLCad. What am I missing? Jake --- (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) got it! to me "renderer" means raytracing, radiosity ... progs like povray, 3ds, bryce ... sorry for messing up. bye w. (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub and Lsynth page for tracking enhancement requests and bug fixes
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(...) Hi Willy, I understood you perfectly. Maybe you didn't understand me. LPub is not a renderer. I know all too well that hard for me means easy for you, but in saying that you are completely ignoring that it is *hard for me* :^( (...) Kevin (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub and Lsynth page for tracking enhancement requests and bug fixes
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(...) hi kevin, you probably "missundaztood" me. I was thinking of the following feature: loading a .ldr or .mpd it shows up in a preview-frame in the camera tab, like the hose, spring or minifig in MLCad. rotating the model in the preview-frame (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub and Lsynth page for tracking enhancement requests and bug fixes
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(...) Hi Willy, (...) Thanks for this one. (...) Please note that LPub is not a renderer. What you are asking for in this one is a renderer, which is no small change. It could take a *long* time for this one to get done (if it does). Might I (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | My mail seems to be down
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If you wish to mail me, please use this spare address: tore.NOSPAM@home.se DON'T remove anything! Spam-bots do ;) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.loc.se, lugnet.people, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub and Lsynth page for tracking enhancement requests and bug fixes
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(...) hi kevin, we've already discussed the following in the past via e-mail, but these features are missing in the list ;-) * mask-rendering or support for transparent background. * preview-window to check the camera-settings * color scaling of (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: edger utility
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(...) You need to download the Java Runtime Environment or JRE and install it. Once you've done that, open up the command line in the Edger directory. Here's the directions from the file: Usage: java edger input_file.dat >output_file.dat Edges along (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New BFC Spec
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(...) OK, I wasn't aware it was in there. However, according to the huge meta-command thread, people have created meta-commands with mixed case and some that aren't case-sensitive. Nobody mentioned there that this was illegal according to the LDraw (...) (22 years ago, 29-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Has anyone modelled any hoods?
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I've just started working with LDraw and I'm wondering if anyone has modelled either the new Star Wars hood or the old peasant/Wolfpack hood. I can't find any references to them, but it's possible that I'm just not looking for the right keywords. (...) (22 years ago, 29-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Darth Vader Helmet on Parts tracker
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Hi, I just wanted to let you all know that I posted the Darth Vader minifig helmet to the parts tracker last night. (URL) you download it, be sure to get all the unofficial primitives. Paul (22 years ago, 29-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Hello, I have downloaded the edger zip file. Does anyone have any idea how to use this thing? It seems to be a java program. I have not messed with any before. Any helpful tips? Thank you, Paul (22 years ago, 29-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Color problem- is this a bug in L3P?
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(...) I do this sometimes to show the part rendered from a different angle to make it clear what part is being attached... usually it's an assembly of more than one part but not always. (22 years ago, 29-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | possible rendering problem with LDLite and transparent parts [DAT]
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I have encountered a small problem rendering transparent parts with LDLite 2.4 and I am wondering if anyone else has run into it. consider the file flat.dat, attached It has a trans yellow, trans cyan and trans white brick in it as the first step (...) (22 years ago, 29-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: New BFC Spec
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes: <snip> (...) This is already in the LDRAW file spec. All meta statements are required to be in all caps. -Orion (22 years ago, 29-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New BFC Spec
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(...) I have to disagree with this (nice of you to say it, though :). Ultimately, the community has the final say. Here's my feedback & suggested revisions for version 12. You could've just dropped the old revision numbers. That would have made the (...) (22 years ago, 29-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Problem with PT File Queue?
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(...) Yes and no. I couldn't see any problem with the page (unless there's some subtle linux thing involved with one process reading a file, and another process overwriting the file in the middle of the first process' read loop). For now, I've (...) (22 years ago, 29-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Help with MegaPOV settings
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(...) Thanks for the suggestion. I decided to render the print res images and use trusty Photoshop to eliminate the problem. The weird thing is...when I rendered the model at LPub's preset 'Print Resolution,' it didn't shade the slopes! Also, at (...) (22 years ago, 29-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: LPub and Lsynth page for tracking enhancement requests and bug fixes
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(...) Paul, Because L3P doesn't know anything about buffer exchange or rotation steps, LPub creates a DAT for each step and handles all the rotation and stuff. Is there mechanism in LDLite that will let LPub interact with LDLite through interprocess (...) (22 years ago, 29-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub and Lsynth page for tracking enhancement requests and bug fixes
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(...) :-) (...) day about adding support for Buffer Exchange and Rotation Steps, etc. Maybe if LPub supported it, LDLite wouldn't have to make those changes. -Tim (22 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LPub and Lsynth page for tracking enhancement requests and bug fixes
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Hi All, I've been doing some building lately to recharge my tactile batteries, but LPub and Lsynth have been starting to stur up back-of-the-brain activity. I've gotten so many suggestions (especially from Tim Courtney who emails me almost every day (...) (22 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Help with MegaPOV settings
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I don't know if it will give you the effect you want, but you can probably improve that particular part by bumping up the ambient lighting term (assuming POV has an ambient term). You may have to also decrease the brightness of your lights if you do (...) (22 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Problem with PT File Queue?
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(...) Any good news on this yet? It's hard to tell what to review if you can't tell what needs it most. Thanks! (22 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | New E-mail address
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Dear fellow LEGO fans, I am sending this message to the groups I regularly read and post to, because since today my E-mail address that I used to post with no longer exists! It was jmolen@globalxs.nl... :-( My new adres will be jmolen@zonnet.nl and (...) (22 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.inst, lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Help with MegaPOV settings
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(...) LOL :-) I can't wait to be able to use the feature... (...) No problem. -Tim (22 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Help with MegaPOV settings
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(...) My suggestion is to use Lars' new outlining feature in L3P (which hasn't been released yet.) He told me that the new L3P would be out in spring, and it's spring :^P (note this smiley is panting waiting for the new L3P, not sticking its tongue (...) (22 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Help with MegaPOV settings
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Hey everyone - I'm having a slight problem with MegaPOV. I've gotten my settings down to where I want them, but one of my models encounters this slight problem. This step isn't perfect - I need to make the arrow white so it shows up more, and need (...) (22 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Help needed with cond. lines
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(...) this is good news ... at least for me ;-) (...) this will hopefully become good news. many thx for sorting this out and giving me a helping hand. bye, w. (22 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Observatory - revised
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Hi all! I am almost done ldrawing the revised version of my observatory. For now there is a render of the telescope: (URL) another teaser: (URL) > (...) I (...) but (...) (22 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: More Moonbase Madness ...
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"Xanthra47" <jmantor@nycap.rr.com> wrote in message news:HCAK19.1KGK@lugnet.com... (...) idea is a pretty good one. :) The huge corridor you made is a cool idea, but it looks so BIG! I could see where it would look good, though. It go great with a (...) (22 years ago, 29-Mar-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: New Poll on LDraw.org
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(...) Ok, the program cycled. It appears to be counting the votes for the 6th option, but the graphic still presents an error. I checked the references to the includes and they all line up. I wonder if Jacob and I didn't prepare a sixth set of (...) (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New Poll on LDraw.org
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(...) Tim, I just voted for '//' and not only is the error message still there for the newest option, but the '//' option still shows 0 votes also. -Kyle (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New Poll on LDraw.org
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(...) Results update once an hour. It says that in italics under the "Results" header. :-) -Tim (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New Poll on LDraw.org
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(...) Kevin (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New Poll on LDraw.org
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(...) the results. When I first created the poll yesterday, all entries were like that until the cylce came around. Then it reflected results accurately. I re-created the poll today with 6 possible answers. I believe that reset the data from before (...) (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New Poll on LDraw.org
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(...) still a little broken: (URL) (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New Poll on LDraw.org
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(...) Fixed. -Tim (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New Poll on LDraw.org
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(...) Ok, I'll update it soon. I figured since I heard nothing, I'd just post it. :-) -Tim (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New Poll on LDraw.org
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(...) saying "I do know what you're talking about, but I want a different option". (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | New Poll on LDraw.org
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Finally! It was a combination laziness and uh, laziness that kept the previous poll online so long. After hacking a few pages, I present you with a new poll. (URL) (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Color problem- is this a bug in L3P?
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(...) There are some valid reasons for putting a single part in a subfile, like to work around a part's awkward origin and/or orientation. (...) Whoa, there- I'm not getting down on LPub at all. I'm just saying that LPub has limitations when (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: MOC: Airwolf helicopter
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(...) Thanx! I will probably present my models in the future with instructions. Most likely of this 3 current models (airwolf and 2 supercars): (URL) haven't decided yet how to present them. I may put them on a new website, which is the most likely (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.cad, lugnet.modelteam)
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| | Re: Help needed with cond. lines
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(...) Looking at how the geometry is layed out, I think you've hit a limitation in LDView's smoothing algorithm. In other words, the lack of smoothness is caused by a problem with LDView, not by a problem with your layout. The basic cause of the (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) This document describes a method of scaling to fit a bounding sphere into a viewport, starting somewhere around page 30. (URL) would think you'd have to pick a camera angle first, or fix one of the other variables like the distance to the (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Hi Orion, The law of similar triangles comes to mind...... not that I consider myself much of a mathemetician. Pick an aribitrary camera distance greater than zero and calculate the size of the bounding box projected into a 2D plane (the (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Steve (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi all, After many years I finally found out that there was a program called LDraw in which I could put my old MOC airwolf, with retractable weapons. I'm working on the building instructions of the helicopter right now. (Yippie I can almost use the (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.cad)
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Maybe someone can point me in the right direction... I have an object with a known bounding box, how do I calculate the position of the camera so that the whole object is shown on a screen of known dimentions? In other words, how to I determine the (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Observatory - revised teaser pic
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(...) I (...) but (...) Actually it is a moonbase module. Stay tuned. Pictures and LDraw model will be up this week! Jaco (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Help needed with cond. lines [DAT]
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Travis Cobbs writes: hi travis, (...) thx for the tip. I remodeled the whole thing and were able to fix it, well almost... looking closely in LDView you can see a rough area where the two 2-4ndis meet the rest of the (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | More Moonbase Madness ...
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OK, I just spent 12 hours using MLCAD to create a whole bunch of Moonbase corridors, adapters, and inter-connection modules. After moderation pics and dats will be here : (URL) Carrol's "wide" corridors are *VERY* useful. The nice part is that it's (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) I this tread, we've got 3 so far; do we need a poll? BTW a technic figure generator like the minifig generator would be cool to try new colors, etc. Jeff (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Color problem- is this a bug in L3P?
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(...) L3P has a bug with part colors when there is a single part in a sub-file. In this case, you need to ask yourself why you have this case. It seems overkill to have side.ldr with just one part in it. None the less, it is a bug in L3P. (...) LPub (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Henry - L3P (or POV, I'm not sure) has a problem with color when converting LDraw files that contain single parts. To get around this, you can select the -c (Color) switch in L3PAO, and choose among the original 16 LDraw colors. You can also (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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| | Color problem- is this a bug in L3P? [DAT]
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The attached .mpd file is showing a weird problem with colors when run through L3P and rendered in POV-Ray. There is a subfile that contains a single part. In there, the part's color is set to trans-red (Color36). The parent file sets it to black (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.ray)
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All, I recently tried rendering a tan (LDraw #382) plate using MLCAD and L3PAO. As this shows: (URL) color! I have also tried this and other pieces in yellow and dark red (# 320). I should also note that I rendered things in August and everything (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad)
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"Jaco van der Molen" <jmolen@globalxs.nl> wrote in message news:HBwrBL.18Cw@lugnet.com... (...) (URL) jpg (...) Have you considered moon-basing this? It would make a very cool module! I suppose you'd have to make it air tight and add (...) (22 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: The DOS apps (was Re: Backwards Compatibility)
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Steve Bliss wrote: > Make sure you've installed LDRAW027.EXE -- that should resolve the runtime > 200 problem. > > Steve Ah, now it works! Thanks, Steve! Cheers, --Ryan ryanjf@ifriendly.com (URL) (22 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Printable Parts Catalog for LDraw updated
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In the wake of the preview page being updated, I've updated my Printable Parts Catalog for LDraw to include the newest parts. Download it from (URL) Sayre-Little patrick@nightsolo.net (22 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I did make a start on some of the parts for this some time back, but didn't get far beyond the drawing phase. How great is the demand for these? Chris (22 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.technic)
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(...) 9 1/3 bricks high, same as real fig (...) Agreed Jeff (22 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Latest BFC Spec?
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(...) ASAP means right now for the hard-to-read-but-rev...ion-marked version: (URL) not going to work on making an easy-to-read version until I've gotten some comments, though. --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com) (22 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | New BFC Spec
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I have created an updated revision of the BFC spec, available from the following location: (URL) create this file, I started with bfcspecv4.txt (which was actually revision 10), then remarked every line in the file to be revision 10, then made my (...) (22 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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