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(...) Please go here: (URL) the part about the undocumented error in POV-Ray. This should fix your problem. -Orion (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Actually I've been getting the same error whenever I use the LGEO library. It seems to be something in the colors.inc file, but im not totally sure. (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi, I've just reinstalled my Lego CAD utilities onto a new machine. I've installed Povray 3.5, but when I try to render one of my files that worked fine previously, I get the error message "Parse Error: Macros require #version 3.1 or later but (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad)
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'snip' (...) I'm in the same boat as you on this issue of "book topics". I'm still wrtiting tutorials on subjects that I already helped cover in a book with Tim but that does the general public no good, unless they buy the book. However as the LDraw (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Eventually, yes, the PT will authenticate against the ldraw.org login. At that time, you'll (probably) have to login to ldraw.org before accessing the PT's functions. Steve (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I can certainly appreciate why you suggested Direct3D, and I personally didn't interpret it to mean that you would be disappointed by an OpenGL renderer. I believe that the performance differences between OpenGL and Direct3D are fairly heavily (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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With help from Thomas Woelk, I uncovered a design problem in the TrackDraw file format. It currently assumes that numbers are localized; that is, it expects an angle to be expressed as angle="22.5" if the part description is in American English, but (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thanks for the response, Mr. Courtney! Iknew someone would understand my point! I don't have a lot of resources, but if there's anything I can do to help, let me know. Thanx, tim romine (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Actually, I didn't have a particular part in mind. I mean I want to know what the LDRAW users like me need the most in their Part Library. Currently there exists no way for me to find out. Any suggestions? tim romine (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'll be the first to admit : never even looked at LDView. Up until now I have done everything in MLCAD, and if I needed a nice image I'd use L3P and do a POVRAY. I'll look into LDView, who knows what I've missed :D (...) I don't even mind if (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I seriously would love to dive into this project, but alas, I have no monorail. (ominous silence) Uhmmmmmmm......... Sorry, I couldn't afford them. I was busy buying LEGO Space... GO .space! But, seriously, It would be unethical for me to (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Another thought WRT the completeness of this list... I suspect that the colors listed here are the ABS colors and do not take into account the various non-ABS colors being used in some of the Bionicle Krana masks. Those masks are using a (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Defining the "term" BI
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Overview Model - the entire design being described by the building instructions. Building steps - the sequence of steps where parts are added to assemble the entire model. Sub-model - portions of the model that are described as their own set of (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad)
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(...) I think I've already written a book that does this, which you haven't read :^) If you had you wouldn't have posted the original post that got all this going! Sure I'll add definitions for all the terms I use. (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Don't forget that Mac OS uses OpenGL as well. The entire Mac OS X window manager is an OpenGL app, which means that the whole GUI can do transparencies, drop shadows, rotations, etc etc and all be video card accelerated. Apple calls it Quartz (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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| | Re: Several questions about new LDraw.org pages
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(...) I am sure the new packages with the LDraw Parts Library eventually will show up outside the "/OLD/" part of the site. But if you are lucky (and with Dan at the sys-admin helm you usually are) old links will continue to work - at least for a (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I agree that cross-platform is good, and I also think that OpenGL is a more appropriate API to use because of this. However, I think it's only fair to point out that after releasing a Linux native version of LDView, I got exactly one piece of (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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ive begun to redesign the 4511 set in cad. heres a pic of the "cargo" car, (URL) to come soon, im going to do the head engine now on a side note for cad, ive completed mockups, they can be seen in the render (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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(...) I personally have several parts that would fall into the awol category... It sounds like what you want is similar to the parts status page Tore Eriksson had up for awhile. It was a very handy resource, but had a huge upkeep requirement. (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I say just create the part. My feeling is that the more complete the LDraw library, the better. This should be one of the driving forces behind all decisions to make a part. -Orion (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad)
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