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(...) I would recommend not to stretch stud.dat (for more justification of this advice, see the primitives reference - (URL) but to submit a studa.dat and stu2a.dat. Chris (21 years ago, 4-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Voting now open for April's MOTM and SOTM contests
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The voting for the April Model of the Month and Scene of the Month contests is now open at LDraw.org. Visit the (URL) voting page> to cast your vote. This is the first month of the new MOTM rules format. Any comment regarding this new format are (...) (21 years ago, 4-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | New Part: 3069bp55.dat - Tile 1 x 2 with Keyboard Pattern
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hi folks, I've just posted this part to the PT: (URL) w. www.holly-wood.it ps. the admins will proxy the vectorized version of 3068bp80.dat - Tile 2 x 2 with Instruments and Keyboard Pattern containing the ~Tile 1 x 2 with Keyboard Pattern subpart: (...) (21 years ago, 4-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: new and old colours (was: HDRI and radiosity (part 2))
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(...) All this has been taken care of with the ldconfig file and the !COLOR Statement: (URL) already supports the previous version of the LDConfig file's color statements. I'm pretty sure that the next versions of MLCad and L3P will the new (...) (21 years ago, 4-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Studa.dat or stretch Stud.dat?
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(...) Mark Kennedy wrote: (...) I just did a test and noticed that l3p stretches the logo on the studs, too. For new stud primitives (studa.dat and stu2a.dat) l3p needs to be updated to recognize these as studs and apply the logos. In meanwhile I'll (...) (21 years ago, 4-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | new and old colours (was: HDRI and radiosity (part 2))
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"Vince" <Vincent05@gmx.de> wrote in message news:HvMqC4.1Cxt@lugnet.com... (...) of a (...) Good point! Could we get a consensus about some "mssing" colours numbers in LDraw? I mean: light grey rubber: (URL) is semi-glossy?) light grey rubber (...) (21 years ago, 4-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Studa.dat or stretch Stud.dat?
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(...) Scaling the stud poses no problem. I have done it myself on some parts. (21 years ago, 4-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Studa.dat or stretch Stud.dat?
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Hello, I noticed that the 2x4 Train Bricks with Holder for Sliding Wheel have 6 LDU high studs instead of the regular 4 LDU high studs. Looking at the various stud primitives I saw that many studs have an variant without edge around base (stud2.dat (...) (21 years ago, 4-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: HDRI and radiosity (part 2)
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Jeroen de Haan wrote: (URL) (...) Hi Jeroen, I just found your new colours on brickshelf. They do look very good and I will test them as soon as I have access to the file. Meanwhile I have used the colours provided by ORION and (...) (21 years ago, 4-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: HDRI and radiosity (part 2)
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Hi Sven, You are absolutly right about the colour light grey. For some reason light grey has a bigger highlight than other colour. See for example (URL) the colours (in this instance red, light grey and dark grey) have the same finish. This means (...) (21 years ago, 3-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Lpub find edges
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(...) Cylinders would not resolve every edge lines, at curved surfaces that would be a problem. There are comercial renderes that do that line and flat surface stuff. They are used a lot to blend 3D CG with cell animation drawings. I have not (...) (21 years ago, 3-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Lpub find edges
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(...) Ok! Now I got it right: (URL) everyone. Paulo (21 years ago, 3-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Lpub find edges
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(...) This is so very true, and troublesome. POV-Ray does not support the concept of a line in 3D space, so L3P cannot directly translate LDraw lines to POV-Ray entities. Lars, at one point we talked about the possibility of having L3P use cylinders (...) (21 years ago, 3-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Pull back motor LDRAW parts available?
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Hello, are there any unofficial LDRAW parts of the new pull back motors (especially type 7, part-nr.32283c03 ) available? This is the motor: (URL) I'm also searching for a dat file of the Wheel 36.8x14 (part-nr: 44293): (URL) If anyone knew where I (...) (21 years ago, 3-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Library version 501 is now available!
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A new version of the Library is available now, version 501! 8 new pieces have been added, a few modified and all of the textures have been tweaked a little bit, so that they look even more realistical than they did before. Half the Gallery has been (...) (21 years ago, 3-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Part x224: Windscreen 8 x 6 x 2 Curved
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(...) There should be no conflict.[1] When this part becomes an official LDraw part it will (probably) have number 462, and Peeron and (hopefully) BrickLink will update to use that number. (21 years ago, 3-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Lpub find edges
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(...) Ok now I understand, these numbers are trick... (...) It is set that way. Thanks (URL) (21 years ago, 3-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Snatch it?
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(...) (snip)... (...) I'd be more comfortable if we knew who Gonta was... BUT (...) your point is well taken. If someone did that and gave credit and a bit of history in the remarks it would be hard to see how anyone could say rights weren't being (...) (21 years ago, 3-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Lpub find edges
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(...) You should note that the value for the line width is relative to the resolution of the image, not relative to the size of the object being rendered. So, if you render a brick that takes up almost all of the space in your image, your line will (...) (21 years ago, 3-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Lpub find edges
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(...) Paulo, the "right parameters" depends on what size resolution you are creating your BIs. I use a 1600x1200 image resolution for me BIs and then shrink them to whatever I need. Based on a 1600x1200 res, I have found that these parameters work (...) (21 years ago, 3-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Part x224: Windscreen 8 x 6 x 2 Curved
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(...) Here's the part: (URL) the number discussion I'll defer to Steve or Chris. -Orion (21 years ago, 3-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Part x224: Windscreen 8 x 6 x 2 Curved
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Peeron and Bricklink have this part under x224 but with no CAD image. But in the unofficial files on LDRAW.org, this part number refers to a piece of Technic rubber belt. Is anyone working on a DAT for this part? How do you resolve the conflict with (...) (21 years ago, 2-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Lpub find edges
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I am not getting lpub to generate nice edges. At this picture the windscreen is a blob with edges only around it: (URL) the wheel hubs have a series of ugly black dots: (URL) anyone know the right parameters to get well defined edges? Paulo (21 years ago, 2-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: March Model and Scene of the Month Contest Winners
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Wow, that Jorgen Andersson is a well deserved Pic of the Month! Er, how did you co that snow? Jeroen "Orion Pobursky" <orion@dontaddthis.p...ursky.com> wrote in message news:HvIrrH.1vK@lugnet.com... (...) contests: (...) Racer>¬ (...) Snowstorm> (...) (21 years ago, 2-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LPub Errors
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(...) I was unable to recreate this on my computer, but it did dawn on me what might have been happening...... I had Tim search his hard disk for all copies of L3P.EXE. I then had him compare this against his config.lpb in the directory where LPub (...) (21 years ago, 2-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Improved minifig heads [DAT]
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(...) Here's the same file with the torus primitive included. The left over quads you're seeing are part of the subfile, 3626bs01.dat. I didn't do anything about that, since this is just an example. 0 FILE 3626bp01.dat 0 Minifig Head - Stud Hollow 0 (...) (21 years ago, 2-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | March Model and Scene of the Month Contest Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the March Model/Scene of the month contests: (URL) MOTM, David Thomas, Williams F1 Team Racer> (URL) SOTM, Jorgen Andersson, Truck in Snowstorm> Due to computer problems, the April MOTM and SOTM contests are not yet (...) (21 years ago, 2-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | Re: Improved minifig heads
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(...) I can't comment, because I don't have that torus file (t04o6250). However, the stuff left makes it look like the posted dat isn't correct even with the file. (Some of the geometry that I would have expected to be replaced by the torus is still (...) (21 years ago, 1-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: LDView problems
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(...) I haven't heard of this happening before, but you might try turning off your mouse cursor shadow (assuming it's on) to see if that helps. There isn't any way to change the way LDView renders. On a side note, integrated graphics almost always (...) (21 years ago, 1-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDView problems
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Hi everyone, I've been having some problems with LDView (which is a great program, btw) and was hoping y'all could help. I've got an AMD 2000+ with integrated graphics and 256 megs of RAM, so I have enough power to run this, but whenever I move the (...) (21 years ago, 1-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Improved minifig heads [DAT]
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Is there any interest in improving the minifig heads by using torus primitives? For some of the patterned heads, where there is printing on the curved section, it would be somewhat difficult, but most of them could be fixed pretty easily. Andy 0 (...) (21 years ago, 1-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Accuracy of curved surfaces
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I have a parts-author question. I am working on 'Electric Train 12V Brick 2 x 4 with Power Pickup' (Step 8 in: (URL) part contains some curved surfaces that cannot be done with primitives (very odd angles, like 41.112 degrees, 36.082 degrees and (...) (21 years ago, 31-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: HDRI and radiosity
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"Vince" <Vincent05@gmx.de> wrote in message news:Hv4Ls6.19y5@lugnet.com... (...) found out (...) I can (...) yet (...) used (...) radiosity (...) source. (...) other (...) some (...) Hi Vince, I would like to help you, this also affects me and the (...) (21 years ago, 31-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD 2.2b1 New Release
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(...) Two quick things spring to mind... One is adding on the Deletion of objects for Powerbook users, right now we need to keep the Fn-key pressed down in order to be able to delete a selected piece. Perhaps you could map the Backspace key as well (...) (21 years ago, 31-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD 2.2b1 New Release
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Great stuff Jim, where possible I'll answer interspersed with your comments (...) I've noticed this too on some bricks. It has to do with the fact that some parts use negative scaling when drawing some primitives. Both OpenGL and LDRAW can handle (...) (21 years ago, 30-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Snatch it?
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(...) "Gonta" states clearly under the parts that they are to use freely. I have personally received requests for the wheels and tyres from others and have forwarded them on. These parts and others have been available from his site far quite some (...) (21 years ago, 30-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Business trip to Silicon Valley
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Hi, I'll be in the SF Bay area through Monday, and was wondering if anyone wanted to get together and talk LEGO? I won't be taking my usual traveling LEGO for this trip, but meeting other AFOL's in the area would be great. Drop me an email if you (...) (21 years ago, 30-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.cad)
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| | Numbers Report - 30 March 2004
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Stats for Unofficial Files 140 certified files. 346 files need admin review. 358 files need more votes. 514 have uncertified subfiles. 177 held files. Total Files: 1,535 Comparison with Prev. Report: 2004-03-30: 140 / 346 / 358 / 514 / 177 (1,535) (...) (21 years ago, 30-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Should *all* studs use a STUD primitive?
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(...) ... I was high that day? ... no, that seems pretty unlikely ... I think these should all be changed. Some/most would probably be candidates for the special STUD.DAT notation (ie, all caps), to signify no stud-as-line rendering. Steve (21 years ago, 30-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD 2.2b1 New Release
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Hi Andrew, I've been occupied lately but I was finally able to test drive 2.2b1 for many hours this past week. So, weighing in again... I'm absolutely enjoying MBC!... most especially now that I understand what you were saying about moving the field (...) (21 years ago, 30-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Povray with LGEO changes part 3464 into 3461
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(...) copy and make a new part for 3464, name it like 3464lgeo or something. when l3p coverts it part 3464lgeo wont be replaced with lg_3461. hope that helps (21 years ago, 30-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Povray with LGEO changes part 3464 into 3461
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When trying to render set 386 using LGEO I noticed that the wheels with stub axles (part 3464) were replaced with helicopter rotors (part 3461). I find some postings about this dating 2 years ago. Is there a solution or workaround for this already? (...) (21 years ago, 29-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Can I get a little help here?
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I have made a few of my own parts that were not available. Start with the file that is close to what you want. open it in ldraw and modify it. save it as a new part in your models directory. Looks like you can modify the existing ladder and get (...) (21 years ago, 29-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Minifig Ice Pick
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(...) Ah, patience paid off! Perfect Andrew. Thanks very much. David (21 years ago, 29-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Suitcase
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(...) That's actually an official part. It's in the official 2003-3 parts update at ldraw.org. --Travis Cobbs (21 years ago, 29-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Minifig Ice Pick
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(...) I've just completed this part: (2 URLs) (21 years ago, 29-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Suitcase
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Has any one done the minifig accessory suitcase, part 4449? I haven't been able to find it and wanted to use it in my train station model which can be seen in it's current configuration at (URL) help in finding the suitcase or suggestions regarding (...) (21 years ago, 28-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 4.5V Semaphore Signal
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(...) I came up with another solution for the two common color variants issue, without having four complete/shortcuts: Create the shortcuts without the baseplate, as the other parts share the same color. (all blue or all red) Thus having three (...) (21 years ago, 28-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Naming Technic Liftarms
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(...) Well the only problem that I have with that is that I don't think "beam" describes the short ones (1x2, 1x3) as well as "liftarm", (which I agree also isn't the perfect name). They are all basically the same shape, which is what I think led to (...) (21 years ago, 28-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Naming Technic Liftarms
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(...) Yes, except that there is still nomeclature confusion elsewhere, some systems use Technic Bricks for the bricks with holes and some systems us Technic Beams, I believe. So I think the rounded designation is helpful. (...) except that the 1x2 (...) (21 years ago, 28-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Naming Technic Liftarms
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(...) I'm not sure that rounded is needed. Brick vs. Beam is very clear. Besides for bricks the count is the number of studs (always even except for 1). For Beams it is the number of holes (typically an odd number, except in the case of 1x2.) Kevin (...) (21 years ago, 28-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Naming Technic Liftarms
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Personally, I think the naming should be like this: For parts with axle holes, use the Liftarm designation e.g. Technic Liftarm 1 x 11.5 Double Bent for part 32009 and Technic Liftarm 1 x 3 Thin with Click Rotation Hinge Half Socket for part 41679 (...) (21 years ago, 28-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Bionicle Parts?
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(...) Pretty much - they are BMP2DAT style, and I haven't chained myself to the computer long enough to redo them using quads, triangles & lines as appropriate. (too busy playing with too many LEGO models/cad projects :D ) (21 years ago, 27-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | New Animation
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Put up a couple new animations of set 8443. (2 URLs) They should be up in a while. enjoy (21 years ago, 27-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Bionicle Parts?
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(...) I can't find those yellow castle (375/6075) stickers for the vests and shields at the PT. (URL) are those work in progress? looks like they have been bmp2dated. w. www.holly-wood.it (21 years ago, 27-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Snatch it?
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(...) Good question. In my view, all efforts to contact the author should be taken (and it sounds like you've been doing just that) but I am not sure that "snatching" a part, even one that's very rough and strongly desired and really only good for a (...) (21 years ago, 27-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Bionicle Parts?
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Has anyone made any Bionicle parts for LDraw/MLCad yet? I've found these in Brickshelf, but they're old (and I had to do some re-engineering on them) and mostly mockups. (URL) some of the mockups on my brickshelf: (URL) particularly interested in (...) (21 years ago, 27-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Snatch it?
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hi folks, there are pics. at brickshelf (URL) some parts which have never been submitted to the PT. this site even contains the .dat file: (URL) some former investigation I ended up at the authors website: (URL) tried to contact "Gonta" through a (...) (21 years ago, 27-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Can I get a little help here?
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(...) (URL) could make a quick mock-up by shortening the current LDraw parts. But that wouldn't snap directly onto studs like the short version does. To make the part correctly requires changing the dimensions of the rails and rungs. A 1x2 stud (...) (21 years ago, 27-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Naming Technic Liftarms
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Not sure if this has been brought up before, but the naming of the technic liftarms leaves something to be desired. It seems mostly the thin ones have just the dimensions, thick ones have "straight" appended. Except for the 4L liftarms. Bricklink (...) (21 years ago, 27-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Should *all* studs use a STUD primitive?
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(...) primitives. Maybe the authors (Matt Schild, Franklin Cain, Steve Bliss) could comment. Rather than 3626bp00, which is not an official part, I think you mean s/3626bs00 which does have an inlined stud. I think this should be fixed too. Chris (21 years ago, 27-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Can I get a little help here?
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Has anybody made the following parts? Tile 2 x 2 with Gauges Pattern (3068bpx4) (URL) Hull Floating 8 x 22 x 2 1/3 Complete Assembly (x499c01) (URL) can anyone modify these parts to make the two-section ladder that is twelve studs long? (URL) in (...) (21 years ago, 27-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | LEGO and Genetic Programming
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Check this out: (URL) saw these guys a while back on PBS's Scientific American Frontiers. I forgot about it until something jogged my memory -Orion (21 years ago, 27-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: LDList version 4.0 on beta!
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(...) Sorry for that! It should be fixed now (I positively *hate* case sensitive file systems) -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (21 years ago, 26-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDList version 4.0 on beta!
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(...) Are you sure the zip file is updated? I got version 3.7 again. Don (21 years ago, 26-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDList version 4.0 on beta!
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Version 4.0 of LDList is about to be released - you're welcome to beta test it for me :-) LDList is a program for searching the LDRAW parts, using both part number, description and KEYWORDS as search criteria. It incorporates a viewer, so you can (...) (21 years ago, 26-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Should *all* studs use a STUD primitive?
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I'm in the process of updating my LDList program, including stud count as a searchable parameter. During tests I have found a couple of parts that have studs, but are not using any STUD primitive, and for this reason LDList cannot find them :-( At (...) (21 years ago, 26-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub Errors
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Tim, Please email me your file and I can havea look. I've fixed a few LPub bugs recenetly. Maybe this is another one. Kevin (...) (21 years ago, 26-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Part 3839a Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with Handles - Type 1 is wrong
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This part should have 'handles' that are slightly longer than two studs, see (URL) This is not reflected in the LDraw part. Tim (21 years ago, 26-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: LPub Errors
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(...) You know I was having the EXACT same trouble last week with LPub. I was rendeirng several files all where going okay except for my last 2! Gave up trying to figure out what it was and just rendered them manually. Now after reading your post I (...) (21 years ago, 26-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Last Week to Submit Entries for April MOTM/SOTM
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One week to sumit entrie for LDraw.org's Model of the Month and Scene of the Month contest. If you win you will have you entry displayed for a month on LDraw.org's website and you will be entered into the running for Model or Scene of the Year. (...) (21 years ago, 26-Mar-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub Errors
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(...) Nope, no 0 FILE statements whatsoever. -Tim (21 years ago, 26-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub Errors
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(...) Hi Tim, Does your Ldraw file have any "0 FILE ..." lines with absolute paths? I've found Lpub doesn't handle these very well at all. Try removing them. Or putting something in front of FILE to comment them out. ROSCO (21 years ago, 26-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LPub Errors
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I encontered some new errors when running LPub today. First, I tried running it on my secondary machine, which I've been LPubbing on successfully for about a year. On that machine were multiple installations of POV-Ray, and I had just recently (...) (21 years ago, 26-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: HDRI and radiosity
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(...) Hi again, I received the file and will try to use it with my next picture. I will let you know if it works for me. I have explained some things about hdri and povray here: (URL) If you have any further questions, feel free to ask. If I can (...) (21 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: HDRI and radiosity
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(...) I've forwarded Orion's email with the file and instructions on how to use it to you. I hope it helps somehow. What program are you rendering this with? POV-Ray, I presume? How are you doing the HDRI with POV? -Mike (21 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: HDRI and radiosity
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(...) Hi Mike, thank you for your quick answer. Can you send me the modified color-file? Or can you tell me a link for download? Would be great... I set ambience in the critical pictures to a higher level without any good result. Only if I use (...) (21 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: HDRI and radiosity
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(...) Sven, The easiest way is to reduce the reflectivity of the colors. I have a file around here somewhere that Orion once sent me with lowered reflection (Jeroen's colors, for the digitalbricks radiosity). However, if you're looking to use only (...) (21 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | HDRI and radiosity
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Hi again, I'm still working on a good way to use hdri with MLCad pictures. And I found out that grey is a "bad" color. Pictures with grey models are always too dark. I can only fix this if I place additional light sources. I don't know the reason (...) (21 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) Thanks for the offer though Mike Tim (21 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) rand() and seed() may be what you're looking for. -Mike (21 years ago, 24-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad)
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Anyone know hoe to generate a random number in povray? Doing an experiment. Steve (21 years ago, 24-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDrawIni API (was: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths)
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(...) Hmmm, POSTprocess eh? Yes, I think that'll work just fine. Now why didn't I think of it... Thanks Lars, Don (21 years ago, 24-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Web-based LDraw viewing
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How about ShockWave 3d? (21 years ago, 24-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw Testers Needed
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Still have the following slots open.... (...) Please help me out. Thanks (...) (21 years ago, 24-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Credit where it is due, please... that's Lars's post, not mine. LOL. (21 years ago, 24-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) Whoops, sorry, I hadn't seen Lar's post. Sorry! -Mike (21 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) Tim, Basically it involves a little simple tweaking of the POV file. I can do it for you (and teach you how to do it) if you can send me your file. -Mike (21 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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Cool, thats a very hassle-free way of doing it, thanks. I assume that as the colour specs are included with each part it will transfer to another installation of MLCad/LDedit/LDraw with no problems. I can also get rid of the troublesome custom (...) (21 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: LDrawIni API (was: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths)
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(...) The idea was to make it simple for ordinary usage. I guess most programs would call LDrawIniComputeRealDirs() with IncludeSkipDirs=0 and simply search the dirs returned. However, you can call LDrawIniComputeRealDirs with IncludeSkipDirs=1 and (...) (21 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDrawIni API (was: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths)
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(...) Right. /Lars (21 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Custom colours and POVRay
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(...) In stead of using color 95 (which L3P doesn't understand because it is a custom color) you can use color 0x026E99C9 which is understood by most programs. In the color dialog simply enter 0x026E99C9 as the color number. To calculate a number (...) (21 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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I have made a model using custom colour Medium Blue, I have given the colour the number 95 and the RGB value r110 g153 b201. I found both these figures from one of the colour chart on the net but I can't remember which one. The model gives an error (...) (21 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Thanx alot! Thanx alot! Thanx alot! Thanx alot! Thanx alot! Thanx alot! Thanx alot! I was waiting for this, since quite a while! Didier Hint: would be nice to have the files on leocad's website too (21 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.leocad)
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(...) Hi Martin and all others who have asked... you're right! You need a patched version of Povray that is called MLPov 0.83. It looks like the normal povray you all know. But you now can use the needed .hdr-files for luminance and you have some (...) (21 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | M10013 update [DAT]
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jeroen de hann did this originally, it is fixed with chains and such 0 FILE M10013.DAT 0 10013 MOT Flat car with 3 tree trunks 0 Name: m10013.dat 0 Author:Jeroen De Haan 0 updated by T.burger / fixed errors 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 -1 0 0 6584.DAT 1 9 (...) (21 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | New Part: Modulex\lin0112.dat - Modulex (R) Modulex Lintle 1 x 12 [DAT]
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0 Modulex (R) Modulex Lintle 1 x 12 0 Name Modulex\lin0112.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 REM Scale it down to 0.625 if using together with original LEGO 0 REM Peeron x723 - Modulex Lintle 1 x 10 0 BFC CERTIFY CW 1 16 0 2.5 -10 120 0 0 0 0 2.5 0 1 0 (...) (21 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: Modulex\b010104a.dat - Modulex (R) Brick 2 x 20 [DAT]
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0 Modulex (R) Brick 1 x 1 x 4 with Grille 0 Name: Modulex\b010104a.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 REM Scale it down to 0.625 if using together with original LEGO 0 REM Peeron x724 - Modulex Brick 1 x 1 x 4 with Grille 0 BFC CERTIFY CW 2 24 10 0 10 10 (...) (21 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Good point. That's why originally I was envisioning something like LDViewer running on a server with all the stuff it needs right there (so no installation is needed). Actually, maybe...I'll have to play with it later. In regards to Java, (...) (21 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: New Part: Modulex\brk0220.dat - Modulex (R) Brick 2 x 20
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(...) Modulex is designed on a 1x1x1 cube, different from System dimensions. They were never designed to integrate into the Lego system. It would be very unlikely, and certainly unintentioned, if a Modulex part fit a System brick. (...) That is how (...) (21 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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