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Hi Mike, I doubt it's the material definition you posted. It renders as a nice solid blue on mah machine. I have blown up the image and seen what you mean. It sure looks like a transparent material has been applied to it. ? (21 years ago, 4-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | First models
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Well, after having discovered the Lugnet, Brickshelf and Peeron services I found Ldraw and have had a few hours of fun doing these Space Classic models: 885: This was my first ever Lego kit, when I was 5 years old. It seemed appropriate to do this (...) (21 years ago, 4-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets, FTX)
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| | Re: More Transparency issues (was: "Illusions")
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Here I am again, pleading for help. I wonder if I'll ever learn enough that I can stop having to ask simple questions... This time the part won't show up, rather than the part showing up, um, *too* well. I'm working with that transparent sceptre (...) (21 years ago, 4-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: parts i'd like to see in Lcad/MLcad
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(...) Nothing as severe as that. If the origin/orientation changes between now and the time the part is officially released then the part may appear in an undesired position/rotation in your model. - Orion (21 years ago, 4-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: parts i'd like to see in Lcad/MLcad
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(...) SNIP (...) Thank you very much! what does it mean "This will break any model..." will the piece just disappear if it changes, or the whole file will be corrupted? Jeff (21 years ago, 4-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: parts i'd like to see in Lcad/MLcad
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(...) A few of these are already on the Parts Tracker. (...) I've made mockups of these 2 parts. When I find some time (maybe this weekend) I'll finish up work on them. (...) (2 URLs) (...) (2 URLs) (...) (2 URLs) (...) (URL) (...) (2 URLs) (...) (2 (...) (21 years ago, 4-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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(...) Ok, I can see where I myself might use this in a pinch because I almost always run things from the command prompt. However, even I would rather set an environment variable or use some other global setting in an ini file. Why? Because if I use (...) (21 years ago, 4-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: "Illusions"
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(...) worlds? But then, from the example renders I posted, that might not be the greatest idea either... -Mike (21 years ago, 4-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | parts i'd like to see in Lcad/MLcad
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I'd like to see all the new wedge & curved slope pieces; the ones in the designer sets: (URL) (Left & right versions, no pattern needed) (URL) (Left & right versions, no pattern needed) (URL) (Left & right versions, no pattern needed) (URL) (no (...) (21 years ago, 4-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: "Illusions"
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(...) Not exactly, but pretty close. The 100 looks like it might be about right, but the 010 is more purple than magenta, and the 001 is clearly yellow and not amber (the nofilter flames look closer to amber). It's almost as if you're programming (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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(...) Well to be usable, both must be implemented. (...) As I said it would only be for non-standard setups. I think the Lars' search list is ample for the vast majority of people. Those using networks, etc, probably would classify as "advanced (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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(...) And I'm pretty sure on Mac OS X, if you use the finder to activate your program, you have no control whatsoever over the command line. So you already need another way if you want to click on a LDR file or link and have something happen. Don (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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(...) I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Do you mean "USERS need the ability to specify", or "programs need the ability to READ"? Either way, that approach is for advanced users (software geeks) only. We're trying to improve things for ordinary (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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(...) Seems to me programs need the ability to specify the LDRAWINI directory (and possibly LDRAWDIR) on the command line, for non-standard setups. Maybe the library needs an Ldraw-specific getopt[1] function as well. ROSCO [1] (URL) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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(...) I'm logged onto an NT domain right now at work and it's set to this: ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users That's on the local drive. But I suppose you're right, a competent administrator could set it up somewhere on the network. (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: lugnet.cad.dev (2004.03.03.1000) #9551 (1 article)
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(...) Well, there is Mac OS 8-9 and Mac OS X. Mac OS 8-9: The search path for the ini/pref file is: /System Folder/Preferences There is no where else it should be saved. Andrew can tell you what the format is (I don't think it is xml/plist). Mac OS (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: debug statement - what's all about?
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(...) thx for the part number. odd that a non-code relevant comment like this made it through the PT with all the care about file size ;-) w. (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Animation using Datsville
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(...) Yes, I just did this yesterday. I'm now able to render Datsville using qual > 0 but without studs. I'f I turn studs on, POV-Ray fails with an out of memory error. This happens at about 2 GB of memory used. Even with my page file jacked up to 3 (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | MLCad.ini 2004-01Update Now Available
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Hi, I just updated the MLCad.ini file accordingly to the latest LDraw.org parts update 2004-01. The .ini file defines the parts available in MLCad's minifigure generator. Download the file from my website: www.holly-wood.it/mlcad-en.html The update (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.mlcad) !
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| | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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(...) You're welcome. I chose C rather than C++ because L3P is still also compiled with 1988 TurboC. L3Lab and LDrawSetup is C++, but can easily interface to a lib in C. You can write a wrapper class if you think it's necessary. (...) But of course (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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