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(...) Where can this be found? The latest I can see on ldraw.org is 2003-02 (from August 1). Or was that a typo? Thanks. --Travis (21 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.books, lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) I don't know that my post had anything to do with it, but in any event thanks to whoever updated the page for updating it. And my "way out of date" title was badly chosen, but I do think 7 months is a long time on the web. --Travis (21 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I just ordered it through the Amazon.com link on the lugnet.books page - only $27.97, and free shipping, too! I'm really looking forward to getting this book, I know I've only scratched the surface of what the LDraw family of tools can do... (...) (21 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.books, lugnet.publish, FTX)
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snip (...) Here is a rundown of what versions are on the CD-ROM in the Virtual LEGO book. LDraw Parts 2003-03 (latest version as of right now 12 Oct 03) MLCad 3.00 LDView (note 1) L3P latest version L3PAO 1.3.8 POV-Ray 3.1 (note 2) MegaPov 0.7 (note (...) (21 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.books, lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) I wouldn't say "way out of date" is a appropriate label, it's more like "some things have fallen through the cracks". As far as the missing items you have brought up, the issue is known and someone is assigned to fix it. Addionally, the (...) (21 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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I don't want to come across wrong here, but given that the new site was launched a little over a month ago, and given that the parts library is essentially the core focus of the site, I find it a little strange that the parts library updates page is (...) (21 years ago, 12-Oct-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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Hi Alfred - (...) Great! I hope the book helps you learn the POV techniques. Ahui penned those chapters, and I edited them. I learned most of what I know about POV from going through his work! He did a great job with it. (...) Ahui also handled the (...) (21 years ago, 12-Oct-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.books, lugnet.publish, FTX)
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Got mine in the mail today, and I am going throught it slowly. All looks pretty cool, and I keep finding things that I didn't know existed. I also can't weait to try rendering things with POVray, et al. I wanted to do that for a long time, but it (...) (21 years ago, 12-Oct-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.books, lugnet.publish, FTX)
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I am currently reading Virtual LEGO amd it is excelent!! I highly recommend it. Lester Witter (21 years ago, 12-Oct-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.books, lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) Nice model! Very nice! How about doing a more top-down view of the model to get an image of what it looks like? Did you use any radiosity setting in POV 3.5? -AHui A&M LWorks (URL) (21 years ago, 11-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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Mine, pre-ordered ages ago, arrived from amazon.co.uk today! I now have both Ldraw books, but it's too early for me to draw comparisons. I left it on the table today when my father-in-law visited, and after browsing through it for 1/2 hour or so he (...) (21 years ago, 11-Oct-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.books, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Hi Joel, Please email me a DAT. I'll try to look at it soon. Kevin (...) (21 years ago, 11-Oct-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hey, you're welcome! AFAIK we Swedes have now ordered three copies, not bad considering we're but a handful of AFOL's! /Tobbe (21 years ago, 11-Oct-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.books, lugnet.publish, lugnet.loc.se)
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Hello all, It's me again, with another LPub question. Do any of you have any examples of nested callouts (such as are referred to here: (URL) and here: (URL) but with the 0-1 placement instead of pixel placement? I've been doing a couple of tests (...) (21 years ago, 11-Oct-03, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi Tim, Congrats to all the co-authors on the long-awaited completion. As you can imagine, I have a highly intense "professional" desire to read this book 8?) It sure sounds intriguing. I'll definitely let you know my impressions. Keep up the good (...) (21 years ago, 11-Oct-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.books, lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) Thanks Tobbe! Also thanks for digging up the info for Swedish readers to purchase it. -Tim (21 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.books, lugnet.publish, lugnet.loc.se)
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(...) Thanks, Jake! Everyone here should know Jake spent hours going over rough edits of some of the chapters in this book with me. I have to partially credit him with helping me form the ideas and structure in it. You da man! (...) Go to BIP. There (...) (21 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.books, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Wow. Thanks, Kevin. This praise means a tremendous amount to me coming from you, friend and co-author of the first book devoted exclusively to LDraw tools. I'm delighted to be hearing so many good reports on the book, but this one is (...) (21 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.books, lugnet.publish, FTX)
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Hi all, Travis Kunce was recently kind enough to render The City of St. Lego Fire & Rescue's new Engine One, a 2003 American LaFrance Top Mount Metropolitan Pumper. You can see the render here (URL) tells me the picture is about 1/10th the size of (...) (21 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.cad)
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(...) (the broken file had a size of 1134 KB the working one 2793 KB). w. (21 years ago, 10-Oct-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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