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(...) Would that then imply that while you were tinkering with an existing part, you'd have to remove that line when first uploading to the Parts Tracker, and it would get added back in as it got released into an update? Or am I misunderstanding (...) (21 years ago, 8-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Automatic unofficial part detection?
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(...) Instead, can we not ensure that every official part has a line "0 Official LDraw part" or some such in the header? That way, it would be possible to just scan for that header, and you'd know whether the part is official or not. Only problem is (...) (21 years ago, 8-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Automatic unofficial part detection?
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Thanks for the info, Orion. I have to say I much prefer to create a 100% official ldraw setup to test the files and have the "working one" with official and non-official parts mixed up. For all my purposes (except when actually distributing the (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Animation posted now
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Hi again Mike, Very nice animation - I love the op-art background 8?) You should consider downloading windows binaries of the open source (URL) Xvid Codec> (and maybe (URL)) and re-enconde your avis before you distribute them. Xvid can knock well (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, FTX)
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| | Re: Automatic unofficial part detection?
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(...) You can put them in the MODELS directory. The drawback to this is that you see all the unofficial primitives as well but this is practically insignificant. The proper process to do this is: 1. Download the ldrawunf.zip 2. Unzip in a convenient (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Automatic unofficial part detection?
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(...) I guess that is the origin of all my troubles ... At the risk of testing your patience (a flu keeps me from being very coherent today) - how would I be able to see parts whose files are outside those dirs in the Mlcad parts library window? (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Animation posted now
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(...) Here we go. Very unlike the Superbowl version but it is a cool exercise in using PoV-Ray's animation features. Still a long cry from Steve's stuff. :) (URL) to maintain a fairly low bitrate (256KB) and high clarity I had to use the Indeo 5.1 (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: PoV-Ray ignoring 'translate'?
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(...) Miguel, Awesome, thanks a lot. I had boosted it up to 37 in testing and saw no increase...now I know why. Thanks!! Animation shall be posted soon, hopefully today. (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Automatic unofficial part detection?
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(...) You could just MPD the model. MPDWorkshop will include in the MPD any parts that are not in the P or PARTS folders. This is how I distribute my models the official sets. Note that this will only work if you haven't mixed the unofficial parts (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: PoV-Ray ignoring 'translate'?
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Hi Mike, Your increments are too small. Try translate <0,0,70*clock> It worked for me! (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Hi all, Some visitors to my site have asked whether it'd be possible to include in the ldraw model files that I provide the unofficial parts used in them. As this is a very sensible request, I was wondering if there is any way to do this (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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I'm sure you're all getting sick of me by now. Bear with me...this animation should look pretty cool when it's done. While we were watching the superbowl this year, one of my relations commented on the little animation used to introduce the players (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | 3 new primitives for Technic Link Chain Old [DAT]
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I forgot to include the three new primitives, I created for the Technic Link Chain Old: 3-8ring1.dat 3-8ring5.dat 3-8rin12.dat 0 Ring 1 x 0.375 0 Name: 3-8ring1.dat 0 Author: Niels Karsdorp 0 Unofficial Primitive 0 BFC CERTIFY CW 4 16 1 0 0 0.9239 0 (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Bylaws - new proposed clauses
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(...) Not sensing any disagreement here - so if no one's spoken up by the end of the weekend, I'm going to add these clauses to the drafts and call for ratification. -Tim (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: More color problems
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(...) That's a good idea. Unfortunately the sky sphere also creates a goodly amount of light, creating shadows of its own. The spotlight seems to have taken care of the stone look to the minifig, so I think I'll just stick with it the way it is. (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Minifig Ice Pick
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Hello everyone. Any body know if there is a dat file for the minifig Ice pick part # x170? Thanks in advance. (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | New part: Technic Link Chain Old [DAT]
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0 Technic Link Chain Old 0 Name: x.dat 0 Author: Niels Karsdorp <nkp@dds.nl> 0 Unofficial Element 0 BFC CERTIFY CW 1 16 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 16 rect.dat 1 16 0 0 10 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 stud.dat 1 16 0 0 -10 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 stud.dat 1 16 8.5 7.5 16 (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: [LSC] Colour Definition meta-statement
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(...) I'm not sure you're right there. I think Steve may have been trying to achieve a specific dithered look, different from the effect created by the pre-defined metal code in say ldview or ldglite, probably to better differentiate some static (...) (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [LSC] Colour Definition meta-statement
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(...) Whoops. Silly me. It's amazing the tricks memory can play on you ;-). (...) While this is still probably do-able, I think my original argument about the possible creation of future tags still holds (unless you're also agreeing to the enforced (...) (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, I don't think that qualifies as an argument for its inclusion in the new !COLOUR statement, since those are already covered by the more precise pre-defined materials. --Travis Cobbs (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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