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(...) not at all! PNG will support transparent background - right? that's all I need ;-) w. (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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When authoring new elements, how important is the level of detail in LDraw format? That is, for more complex curves and surfaces, is it necessary to get as close to the real thing as possible? As an alternative, is it acceptable to get pretty close (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Preview of multi-level callouts complete with pointers
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(...) The callouts are placed relative to outside edges or corners of the step image: Corners: TOP_LEFT TOP_RIGHT BOTTOM_LEFT BOTTOM_RIGHT Edges plus justification to the perpendicular edges TOP (LEFT, CENTER or RIGHT) BOTTOM (LEFT, CENTER or RIGHT) (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) Draft Proposal
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As Orion posted earlier today, let's revisit the LDraw.org standards body idea. [1] Here is the draft proposal I mentioned earlier today on LUGNET. I'm posting it here for everyone to discuss. Several weeks ago, I worked with Kevin Clague, Larry (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev) !!
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| | Re: Preview of multi-level callouts complete with pointers
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Hi Kevin, You've done it again! This is a HUGE improvement as it allows a much needed "step hierarchy", extremely useful for generating instructions - your step 0 is actually two steps. This is really great. I am probably being too inquisitive too (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Some more LPub errors?
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(...) edges (...) Ah, this is different than what you first described. LPub tries to ignore primitives when making PLIs and BOMs. I wonder why it missed these. I can recommend a work around: PLIST BEGIN IGN PLIST END Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Some more LPub errors?
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(...) I did that already just to make sure and got no error. Here's some more info I've found troubleshooting This error seems to occur when LPub thinks the X-Xedge.dat primitive are parts for the Construction Images and BOM. In other words LPub (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | A&M LWorks presents a LEGO Poem called Crayons
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It's been a while since I last uploaded a LEGO Poem but alas here is a new one to add the to general collection entilted Crayons. See it at (URL) LWorks (URL) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Some more LPub errors?
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(...) Please try to run lpubtest.dat through L3P manually. I do not have a way to continue if L3P finds an error in the file. You may need to talk to Lars about this one. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Switching from BITMAP/JPEG to PNG
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"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:HDpB2o.oBr@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) all (...) Nope. I have been converting all of my raw bitmaps to PNG with ImageMagick so this is a welcomed change from my (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: Some more LPub errors? [DAT]
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(...) Try this: 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 stud.dat 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4-4edge.dat A little further investigation reveals that LPub quits on error no matter what the color of the edge. The exact error I'm getting is: 'L3P failed for file (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Switching from BITMAP/JPEG to PNG
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JPEG image format and the new callout capabilites in LPub (plus PLI background color non-white which I just fixed) are incompatible with JPEG because when you pack images together that are rendered with the same background color, not all the (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: LDraw File Format Standard Committee Update
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Hi Orion - I have a written proposal which covers the process for starting the standards committee, and the process for perpetuating it. It's almost ready to be posted to the public for comments. I put this together with the help of Kevin, Larry, (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LPub request
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(...) The short answer to your question is yes. Ldraw only looks in the PARTS, P, MODELS, or current folder. Two extension folders have been added to faciltate further separation: the PARTS/S folder is for subparts used by parts in the PARTS folder (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Some more LPub errors?
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(...) Example please. (...) Quite possibly. I'll run through all calls to L3P and see what I can come up with. (...) This is a good idea. Jennifer Clark first suggested this for pneumatic hoses. My first throught is to have a special end cap part (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub request
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Hi Orion, Why do we need to have the s\ in the DAT file? I'm probably showing my part definition ignorance here. Is it because LDraw does not know to look in s\? I'll fix the bug in LPub either way. Kevin (...) <snip> (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDraw File Format Standard Committee Update
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Now the furor over this topic has died down, here the list of people interested in being a member of the Standards Body: Orion Pobursky Kevin Clague Steve Bliss or Chris Dee Larry Pieniazek Ross Crawford Paul Gyugyi Jacob Sparre Andersen We were (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Some more LPub errors?
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(...) Some more on this, This idea doesn't have to confine to just color coded dots, it could also encompass lengths for pneumatic hoses as well. Maybe an added parameter to the PLIST BEGIN SUB meta command or an extension to LSynth. -Orion (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Edge line colors on img.lugnet.com
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This isn't a problem or anything, it just struck me as odd. I was browsing through the peeron inventories of the new Designer sets when I noticed that while the edge lines on most of the CAD rendered part pictures were black, some were rendered with (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad)
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| | Some more LPub errors?
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I found two more things that are styming my progress 1. LPub quits on error if a part has a color other than 16 for the X-Xedge.dat primitive. This shouldn't matter since L3P doesn't render edges and colors other than 16 aren't technically illegal (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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