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(...) I'm quite happy/comfortable editing the .pov file directly... it's just the values and directions I'm still trying to get a grip on. (...) Is this different than some of the .inc files that others have already suggested using? And if so, can (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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(...) Thanks for the update Lars. Tom, I have been playing a bit with L3P, but I have never used the LGEO parts. Are they worth the extra effort? (I have no idea how to use them, but I am sure that I can figure it out from the available info... that (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Is this part available?
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Bummer. Thanks for the info though. -Stefan- (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Can anyone help by suggesting some lighting tips?
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(...) (I don't know how much of this you can affect from LPub) One way is to add a 'light.dat' to your model at a position you want the light to come from. Not to close though... I usually put the lights far, far away from the model, to get more of (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Lpub error message "JPEG error #36"
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(...) This is a known bug in the Borland library routines for jpeg :-( It happens on jpegs in the size range 1-2MB, so the easiest way to work around is to generate BMP with LPub, and convert to jpg with some other program. Another alternative is to (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Using unofficial parts in LeoCAD
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(...) D'oh! There it is. Thanks! I'm sure it wasn't there before... honest. :) Regards, Allan B. (21 years ago, 30-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.leocad)
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(...) Go to the File menu and click on "Pieces Library Manager" in the main window then "Import LDraw Piece" from the new window. Leonardo (21 years ago, 30-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.leocad)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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I am sorry to interrupt your interesting discussion, but I would like to unsubscribe to this mailing list. Unfortunately, I have changed to a new computer so I've lost the info on how to go on with that. Again, sorry to interrupt. / Patrick Fridh - (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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(...) I'll try to get the fixed version of L3P Launcher out this or next week. Unfortunately, I got myself hooked on RPG's. So I haven't been too productive lately... WWDC was fun last week. I talked to the guy who wrote a Cocoa ldarw editor but got (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) No, it is not available, not even as unofficial part. - Damien (21 years ago, 30-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Using unofficial parts in LeoCAD
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I'm wondering if it's possible to import or otherwise utilize some of the unofficial LDraw parts in LeoCAD. I've recently found a few things I would like to use, but I can't find any way or reference to importing parts. Any thoughts? Thanks, Allan (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.leocad, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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(...) Lars, Thanks for the quick fix, and thanks again for supporting Mac OS X! Regards, Tom (21 years ago, 30-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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(...) You're welcome, nice to hear from Mac users. (...) parts (...) with (...) update 14 (...) slope (...) the (...) code (...) dish) (...) (some (...) the (...) Good investigation! An internal datastructure (Lgeo flags) with bit fields was laid (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Math questions
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(...) Cool, Thanks. --Orion (21 years ago, 30-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Is this part available?
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Hi all, Does anyone know if this part is available in .dat form yet? (URL) (21 years ago, 30-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | New SPORTS Parts on Parts Tracker, needs commenting
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Well, I finally have created some of the parts from the sports sets, specifically two field sections: (URL) 30489> (URL) 30492> They still need some editing (I'd like to change the pivot area from cones to a torus, for example), and in the larger (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | YogiCub Rover
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Hi all, With BrickVista up and running smoothly, (fixing the odd link, and typo here and there) I thought I would tell you about the first LEGO creation on the site - YogiCub YogiCub is a LEGO Rover powered by a Mindstorms 2.0 RCX. YogiCub (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.cad, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Math questions
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(...) (URL) Also, how about a reference to how to detect bow-tie quad? (URL) that the link inside above posting to L3Input.cpp is dead, please use (URL) much more info on quads, please read (URL) (21 years ago, 30-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lpub error message "JPEG error #36"
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Hi, I am getting this message often too. I think this is because it is such a huge file (BOM of entire rather large model). What I do now is generate BMP files and make JPG files afterwards. This way, you will never get a JPG error :-) It does (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: What'd Datsville look like?
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(...) Try this: (URL) (You must have been trying to get to it from the news.lugnet.com subdomain? That would've caused the links to break, because they were relative links. I made them absolute links now.) --Todd (21 years ago, 30-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) On the two "newer" (well...) versions of LDBoxer, I've abandoned the *.box extension and instead I use Parts\B\*.dat for boxed versions. Have you tried them yet? Maybe they don't have the same memory limits? I think I changed from Memo to (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: What'd Datsville look like?
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(...) rev017 available at: (URL) I've lost track of the changes. As usual. :( Documentation is not my strongest side. Keep rev014 in case 017 has errors. /Tore (21 years ago, 30-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | a little 3d puzzle
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some time ago my nephews fought over some 3d puzzle. my grandmother settled the fight by taking it away. so i found it besides her pc and i had ldraw on it . . . well i couldn't resist so here are the parts: www.tu-bs.de/~y00076...sgummi.zip doesn't (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas)
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| | Re: What'd Datsville look like?
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(...) The next major revision of LDView is far enough along to render Datsville. (The current version will crash no matter what your hardware is, while the new version seems to only use around 170MB of RAM to display Datsville.) It doesn't do so at (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Math questions
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Could someone point me toward a good reference on how to extract the angles from a transformation matrix? Also, how about a reference to how to detect bow-tie quad? Thanks in advance, Orion (21 years ago, 29-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: "the new way" (was: Re: Self-Certification in parts tracker)
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(...) [snip] I remembered this old post, and thought I'd post a followup. Better late than never. Here is a summary of part updates by year Year Files Updates 1997 128 3 1998 806 10 1999 685 6 2000 376 2 2001 224 3 2002 848 6 2003 81 1 So, based on (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: What'd Datsville look like?
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Looks great! BTW, if anyone's interested, I used LDBoxer to convert the bricks in Datsville to boxes. This speeds up considerably. It's available at my LDraw page - (URL) LDBoxer I was able to render sections of Datsville in LDView at 6-15fps! There (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Looking for someone who can print posters for Brickfest
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(...) I'm still looking for someone to help on this. Thanks Cale (21 years ago, 29-Jun-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: L3P Launcher for Mac OS X
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(...) James, I like the overall approach, and look forward to seeing the finished product. One note is that checking the 'Use LGEO Library' box on the 'Other' pane leads to an error from the LGEODIR environment variable not being set. For this (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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(...) I haven't used the LGEO substitution. I haven't seen comments from anyone else on this list that indicated they use them either. Sorry! (21 years ago, 29-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | What'd Datsville look like?
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About a year ago I read a post asking what Datsville looked like since the pictures on the Lugnet webpage are broken links. This inspired me to see if I could render Datsville on my competer. I ran rev014 through L3P and it spit back a 12MB (!) (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models, FTX) !
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| | BrickVista web site launch
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Hello All, Just a short note to announce the launch of my LEGO orientated site – BrickVista (URL) finally finished (A few days earlier than expected) After 4 months in development, and what started out as a ‘couple of pages’, BrickVista is launched. (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.space, lugnet.technic) !!
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| | Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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(...) First off, many thanks to Lars for making this tool available for OS X! L3P has been working very well overall, but I'm having an issue with LGEO parts substitution, which I'm curious to know if anyone else has seen. This is with the 20021209 (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Alternate 8458 MOC: Sportscar with instructions
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Hi! After a long time I've finally finished the instructions of my alternate model from the 8458 Silver Champion. So if you have a Silver Champion and maybe have seen the official models long enough, you may want to build this Sportscar. The (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.technic)
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| | Chameleobot the Quadruped: 4 and 1/2 foot MOC
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Chameleobot the Quadruped is a Mindstorms creation that is a bit bigger than your average quadruped. It is 4 and 1/2 feet long and uses 2 RCX's, 6 motors, 4 touch sensors, a light sensor, and a host of gears among some of the things. Chameleobot is (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jun-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.cad, lugnet.technic)
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| | Lpub error message "JPEG error #36"
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Hi Kevin (and anyone else who may be able to help), I was using Lpub 2.2 last night to work on generating instructions for my Crush MOC (see (URL) I was running an initial test using Proof mode, and everything went just fine until it was trying to (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Can anyone help by suggesting some lighting tips?
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(...) Sorry to take so long to respond. I don't post from work, and was away all evening. But I did see the work you'd done as soon as it was moderated on Brickshelf. Thank you so much for taking the time to help me understand this process. I will (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Minifig Generator Plugin for LDDesignPad Version 1.6
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(...) Absolutely no reason that I can think of. Unless a program deliberately wanted to have separate settings (or multiple settings). (...) Good point. (...) Or check both places. :) Steve (21 years ago, 28-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LPub request
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Kevin, Can modify LPub such that it will open a filename specified on the commandline? This will enable me to call LPub from another program and have the file already open for instuction generation. --Orion (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Announcing new Lego website: The Art of Brick
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There is a certain art to certain things. There is an art to painting, an art to cooking, yes, even an art to driving. But, did you know that there just might be an art to brick? No, I’m not talking about those heavy blocks that spiders like to hide (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Are any of these parts available as .dat files?
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(...) Duuuudde!! That sounds so totally awesome... -Scott (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.inst)
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| | New Mecha and LDraw File
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Hi all! I'm back to building with LEGO again. To all the MOC posters, sorry for the lack of replies, but please know that I do check out everything that you build and greatly admire your creations. Now that it's summer break, I'll have more time to (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build.military, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.cad.dat.models, FTX) !
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| | Re: Minifig Generator Plugin for LDDesignPad Version 1.6
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(...) Well, looking at the LDraw.ini, it apppears that we could swap over to using it. -Orion (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: portable version of mklist?
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(...) According to my "Sent Items" folder I sent mklist13.zip including both mklist.c and mklist.exe to you at July 3rd, 2000. On your request I resent it to you on May 14th, 2002. And today I'll send it for the third time :-) /Lars (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Minifig Generator Plugin for LDDesignPad Version 1.6
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(...) Hey, I'm with you. ldglite checks the environment variables first, then looks in the <windir>/ldraw.ini file before using a default. env_str = platform_getenv("LDRAWDIR"); if (env_str != NULL) strcpy(pathname, env_str); else if (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Can anyone help by suggesting some lighting tips?
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Hi Allan, You can find pictures of your (lovely!) model here: (URL) (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Can anyone help by suggesting some lighting tips?
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(...) No magic involved here. Best way is to be inspired by real photos. Take a good look at a picture you like (or where you like the lighting) and try to figure out where the light s coming from and where the camera was placed. A rough guide: (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: easy pattern creator?
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(...) Well, what can one say? You convinced me. Both your ratio and my urge to sometime create an 'official' brick. So, there I went, creating patterns by hand, byte by byte. Sure it was fun, but also took lots of concentration and time. All I did (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Feature Suggestion
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(...) If you could somehow inline-insert such 'submodels' it would be fine, too. Niels (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LDD Introductions
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I downloaded LDD immediately at the time, but I didn't get to responding before. My main regret is that the system requirements and program size (download time) are so bloatingly huge. After I dowloaded the whole thing and installed it, I was (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.lego.direct, FTX)
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| | Re: Minifig Generator Plugin for LDDesignPad Version 1.6
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(...) Was there some reason that y'all didn't use <windir>\ldraw.ini? If for nothing else, it has the ldraw path. Steve (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDraw & POV Parts (was: Re: Questions: 12 volt train track parts)
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(...) Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I *like* renderings with edgelines. They are very useful for building instructions, but even for non-building instruction images, the edgelines appeal to me. Maybe I've watched too many cartoons in my life. :) I'm (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Can anyone help by suggesting some lighting tips?
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(...) Hi Jeroen, (...) In fact, I dropped down to using radio_1. I'm not interested in 100% realistic pics, but I knew that what I was producing could look better. Thanks for the advice though. :) (...) light. Is there some magical way in which you (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Can anyone help by suggesting some lighting tips?
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(...) Actually, as long as you are rendering your file manually in POV, you can delete all of those command line options. There're really only used by LPub with it's generating instruction images and LPub will add them back in automatically. -Orion (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: Feature Suggestion
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(...) What I have done sometimes with an assembly of parts I use often is "hand" make the model in MLCAD and save it in the Models folder. When I want to use it in another model, I select Multipart>Import Model and choose the pre-made model. HTH, (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Can anyone help by suggesting some lighting tips?
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(...) D'oh! I'm such an idiot. I was so busy trying to find it in the code, I didn't even think to look on the interface for it. Thank you so much for saving my sanity! (...) Currently (with no manual intervention from me) it reads: LPub +W800 +H600 (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: Can anyone help by suggesting some lighting tips?
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(...) L3P generates color definitions based on the colors in your model. These are usually towards the top of the file after some declare statements. If you add the line: #include "lugnetcolors.inc" after the rad file include you should be good. If (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: Can anyone help by suggesting some lighting tips?
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(...) Yes, you got it exactly <snip> (...) In POV there should be a little drop down list in the upper left. It'll have something like 600x800, A.A. 0.3 displayed. This is where you set the picture size. Also, if there are any +W or +H commands in (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: Can anyone help by suggesting some lighting tips?
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(...) On your site, you mention the following: The declaration of this file should be made just before the color declares in you POV model file. Based on previous suggestions, I'm now using radio-1.inc for the radiosity settings etc. It includes an (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: Questions: 12 volt train track parts
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(...) This seems ok to me in theory: quick ldraw parts and more detailed ray trace parts. The practice however brings up the question how are we going to build up and maintain a quality ray traceable parts library. LGEO or Anton's or .... (and how (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Can anyone help by suggesting some lighting tips?
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(...) Ah, O.K. I think I see how this works. You're effectively telling POV-RAY, "here's a color file I want you to use. Now, here's what color you should assign that file to. In other words, when I say RED from now on, I want you to use that LUGNET (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: Minifig Generator Plugin for LDDesignPad Version 1.6
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(...) Are you planning to support plugins via dlopen and dlsym? That'd be fantastic. I just modified my plugin test program to take a plugin name on the command line and ran some more of the lddp plugins successfully. (I think the bezier plugin (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Minifig Generator Plugin for LDDesignPad Version 1.6
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(...) Not in the plugins directory, in the directory of the program that calls the dll (...) Yes, we are currently working on a Linux port. --Orion (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Minifig Generator Plugin for LDDesignPad Version 1.6
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(...) That's great. So it should work if I make a plugins directory off whatever directory ldglite.exe resides in. I take it that's where you'd look for the lddp.ini file as well. Is the lddp.ini file a replacement for the lddp registry entries? (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Can anyone help by suggesting some lighting tips?
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(...) Ok, I quickly whipped up an include file for all the LDraw colors in the LUGNET Color Guide library. Find it here: (URL) under the Program Addins Section. It's down at the bottom. (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: Minifig Generator Plugin for LDDesignPad Version 1.6
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(...) Unfortunately no. The component library I used for rendering, GLScene, is only available for Windows. Though I read that they were think of proting to Kylix. As soon as they relase a stable version, I'll work on it (...) I love for you to use (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Minifig Generator Plugin for LDDesignPad Version 1.6
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(...) Hey, cool. Is there a linux port in the works? (...) I have questions. I think these plugins are pretty cool, so would it be OK to use them as plugins for the LEDIT mode in ldglite? I did a quick and dirty feasibility test and it looks doable. (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Feature Suggestion
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Niels, "Niels Karsdorp" <nkp.nkp@hetnet.nl> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:HH133z.1nG4@lugnet.com... (...) Maico is right, with his suggestions. Your suggestion would more rely on parts with complete assemblies, where you loose the possibility to (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Can anyone help by suggesting some lighting tips?
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Allan Bedford wrote: <snip> (...) I found a much easier way to include these colors Add the following lines after the radiosity include statement. If you don't add them after the radiosity include, the colors will be overrriden by (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: Can anyone help by suggesting some lighting tips?
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(...) It's working but very,very slowly. If the POV clock hasn't stopped, then its still rendering. Like I wrote above, it'll take a long time to render on Rad Level 3. Try Rad Level 1 first and then, if you like the way the scene is set up, use (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: Feature Suggestion
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"Niels Karsdorp" <nkp.nkp@hetnet.nl> schreef in bericht news:HH24AF.GF7@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) I think you have to place them by hand the first time. Maybe a submodel is an idea? Make a second part as a submodel with your selected parts in it (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Questions: 12 volt train track parts
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(...) It seems to me that this is where we draw the line between ray tracing parts and ldraw parts. Extra details and rounded edges belong on the ray tracing versions of the parts, but not on the ldraw parts. Ldraw parts should render quickly (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: portable version of mklist?
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(...) Ok, I tried to recreate the changes for 1.3 based on the message strings contained in the executable. The -i and -o commands work for both windows and linux, but I couldn't tell what else may have changed or been fixed for 1.3. You can try the (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: portable version of mklist?
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(...) I asked Lars to add -i and -o functionality to mklist (so I could index various directories of part and primitive files). He sent along the EXE, but not the source. When LDraw 0.27 was being finished up, I included in the 1.3 mklist.exe. I (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Questions: 12 volt train track parts
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(...) What is the radius of the curved edges? On such a large part, anything below radius 2 or 1 would not really be visible in most cases. It would be nice if we could specify the part with sharp edge-lines for normal viewing, and rounded edges for (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Can anyone help by suggesting some lighting tips?
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(...) It seemed to be going along well, so I left it overnight. However this morning it appeared to have stopped. The clock on POV-RAY was still running, but the PPS rate was 0. :( (...) I found that file. Do I need to edit it? I've found the spot (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Can anyone help by suggesting some lighting tips?
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(...) <snipped> (...) Hi Allan, First of all, please do use the radio_2 settings. Radio_3 uses extreme high radiosity settings and radio_2 is a bit more CPU-friendly. Changes are that you'll get some artifacts (strange dark patches) but then, (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Well, just to warn you.. This picture: (URL) Took this long to render: (URL) On rad level 3 with a P4 2.0 GHz with 1MB of DDR333 RAM. Your's shouldn't take nearly that long since it is a much smaller file. (...) Yes they do alter some of the (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) I grabbed those files. I started it again with radio-3.inc and only a couple of my original lights. The radio file seems to include an ambient light setting, but by itself this still seemed a bit dark. I also commented out the line that (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) Hmm, that would be true - if the wrappers use the same names as L3P generates (so the object for the 2x4 brick would be named 3001_dot_dat). Right now, they don't - the names are like ar_3001. Even so, changing '3001_dot_dat' to (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Have a look at Jeroen's POV Radiosity includes at (URL) It's great, despite the long render times. --Orion (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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I've been working at rendering a more realistic version of my little 4-wide fire engine. I've gotten it to look much better than my first attempts, which did not use radiosity and were quite cartoonish. So... here's where I'm at so far: (URL) think (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Well, that was my suggestion about: placing the parts (like a windowframe and it's panes and shutters) without having to move the panes and shutters to their positions by hand. Niels (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hello Niels Place the parts in your model as you like. Then select all desired parts holding the control-key down. Then move the selection arround. When using Control-D the selected parts are duplicated all on te same position and you can place all (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I put some questions on my questions page about metal pieces: (URL) Bliss replied to those: (...) When I look at a real piece I see a hollow metal bar and a bar with a connector that fits in the hollow bar of an adjecant part. To match real (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Now *that* I can't wait to see!! Jake --- Jake McKee Webmaster - BIP (URL) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.inst)
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<snip> (...) Wow, thanks! I really appreciate the hard work that you have put into this. I am in the process of modeling/making insturctions for an MOC that I made of Crush from Finding Nemo. It is built entirely with pieces from 4101 Wild (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) And now 44301 is on the tracker (URL) its new primitive (URL) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) A quick check reveals the source I used was from mklist.c v1.2 That's the one included in the zip file inside ldraw027.exe and complete.exe. Oddly, I noticed that ldraw027.exe includes the v1.3 executable with the -i and -o options, but the (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Actually, I'd prefer it if you just make a separate .sit (or zip) file with source and put it in the same folder on the internet as the executable program. That way anybody can look at it. You never know when someone might come from nowhere (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Well, maybe you would know for sure, but not me :) (...) Just out of curiosity, disabling GL_Lighting before drawing lines is slower because you still have to do lighting anyway, and if it isn't GL_LIGTHING, then it is going to be slower? I (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) It doesn't appear to do anything with -i or -o command line options. Is there a newer version of the source, or were you asking me to add that? I only changed two lines of mklist.c (the rest was done in the missing include files), so it should (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I'll intersperse my answer with Don's observations. (...) You're dead right there - actually I've never considered altering GL_LIGHTING for Type 2 lines, it makes good sense. Actually I haven't altered the parsing and rendering routines since about (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Hi Rick and others, After reading your post, I took the challenge to make a render as realistic as the above mentioned picture. I took a standard LEGO engine from the 7xxx serie and placed it on a 9V track. If you look close to the Royal Train (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Steve Bliss wrote: <snip> (...) I like this quite a bit and if Lar's implements the request I made for L3P to wrap all the part defines in #IFNDEF statments, then these files should be drop in and go --Orion (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Another feature for MLCad (and other programs): Some sort of macro to insert more than one piece simulteneously and aligned to eachother (e.g. for windows with shutters and panes, or doorframes with doors), but each part gets its own line in the (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) OK, I've generated a complete translation list, matching up as many parts from Anton's library to LDraw as possible. I also worked through the colors/textures/materials, making as many matches as I could. I've started creating POV-Ray include (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Does this version include the -i and -o command line options, to control the source directory, and output filename? If it does, and if we could get a fresh DOS compile, I'd like to include the new version in the next parts update. Steve (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Paraphrasing the questions from your webpage: Is it better to model the plastic and metal elements in separate files, or have one file with a short section of both plastic and metal, and stretch them for the whole part. Stretching is alright, (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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Now that I got broadband cable internet thanks to Comcast I finally had the oppurtunity to unload my LDraw animations! Check them out here: (URL) me know what you think and enjoy. -AHui A&M LWorks (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad)
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