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(...) Mike's unable to post to LUGNET right now, he asked me to post this in reply: ---...--- Thanks, all, for the great responses! I see a lot of good work here that I can't wait to display. I really didn't expect quite such a large response!! My (...) (20 years ago, 24-May-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.cad, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) I have a dedicated user of the Dat2DXF and of Bryce. You can see some of my stuff at ((URL) Now regarding the error that you received. I have seen this a few times, and it is a pain to fix. If you open a dat or ldr file you can see all of the (...) (20 years ago, 24-May-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) As others have said... all the pics submitted by me for this can be reused. (20 years ago, 24-May-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.cad, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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Hi, I have included Anton Raves POV-code in to my 590 file. See the difference here: (URL) (LDraw) (URL) (Raves) Jeroen "Mark Riley" <markril@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Hy6FL6.13JH@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) classic (...) on top (...) (...) (20 years ago, 24-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Because it is a bad idea. It requires that the parts authors put an enormous trust in those they sign over copyright to. (...) I have refused to do that for the GNU project and I will do the same for LDraw.org (but I don't think I have written (...) (20 years ago, 24-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) All pictures I posted to Jeroen for Zwolle are allowed to be used. Niels (20 years ago, 24-May-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.cad, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) what! no way... wow thanks man. yea i havent been really active here cus i been doin these things called mangacars. * www.mangacars.com * but i do plan to make all the nautica sets rendered. (20 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Also, I notice the technic pin on the bogie plate is shorter than it should be - the dat file has it as 12 LDU tall when I measure the actual pin to be 14 LDU tall. I think Ryan may have been alluding to this when he talked about the height (...) (20 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Hi Ryan, I just saw that your posting is 4 years old. And during all this time noone has ever fixed this bug in 590.dat And I'm sure it is a bug! Here is a picture that shows what is wrong with this part: (URL) I hope that after all this time (...) (20 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) I think your MOCs and your renderings are still among the very best in the LCad community. You are a true source of inspiration for me, and likely many more besides me. Keep up your great work! /Tore (20 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.cad)
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heres a sneak peak at an upcoming model: a bus station much like greyhound... the bus can be seen here (URL) bus 3 and 31. they use the new smoke tinted parts let me know what yall think (20 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw/POV-Ray Display at Garfield Heights HomeDays
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Hi, take a look at my brickshelf gallery. Maybe some of my pictures are useful for you. (URL) Greetings Sven (20 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.cad, lugnet.loc.us.oh, FTX)
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| | looking for a part
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Hi everyone, I'm looking for a part as a dat-file (URL) Does this part exist? And if yes - where can I find it? TIA Sven (20 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw/POV-Ray Display at Garfield Heights HomeDays
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(...) Feel free to use any of my renderings at Brickshelf: Playtable: (URL) ships: (URL) tree: (URL) Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (20 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.cad, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) If this is a feature that is used deliberately and often enough to motivate a software model for it, it would be possible to encode a combination of hard constraints, demonstrating the normal and preferred connection method, and additional (...) (20 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.lcd)
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| | 3D Cube : the spherical version
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Hi all, When I announced my previous MOC (3D-Cube wooden puzzle), Ross Crawford challenged me to make a spherical version of it. Well, here it is : The Cube: (URL) The Sphere: (URL) Check out (URL) my webpage> Let me know what you think, Maarten (20 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.loc.be, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw/POV-Ray Display at Garfield Heights HomeDays
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(...) If you need I can make larger sizes and email to you. I try to keep images small for downloading from the net. Larger sizes will work well directly from your computer. Steve (20 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.cad, lugnet.loc.us.oh, FTX)
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Mike You are welcome to use any of my animations for this project. (URL) Good luck have fun. Steve (20 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.cad, lugnet.loc.us.oh, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw/POV-Ray Display at Garfield Heights HomeDays
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Hi Mike, I still have the pictures submitted for Zwolle. If you like I can send them to you. Please contact me on info at digitalbricks dot nl Jeroen "Mike Thorn" <webmaster!@!robotic...urces.com> wrote in message news:Hy3EHH.sFo@lugnet.com... (...) (...) (20 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.cad, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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| | Re: LDraw/POV-Ray Display at Garfield Heights HomeDays
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(...) Awesome, Mike! Take some pictures, write up an article, and we'll be sure to get this up on LDraw.org! Please, shoot me an email about the event as well -- I'd like to know more about what you're doing and how people react to it. I've only (...) (20 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.cad, lugnet.loc.us.oh, FTX)
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| | Looking for Roborider parts
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Has anyone modeled or made a workable mockup of part #32306 Technic Liftarm 3 x 7 x 2 Fork 3 Fingers and the Technic Disc 5 x 5 that are used as wheels? (20 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | LDraw/POV-Ray Display at Garfield Heights HomeDays
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Hello fellow CAD/POV users, For the (URL) Garfield Heights Homedays>, I'm going to be taking my laptop along to display CAD images and LEGO Pov renders in a slideshow-type presentation (endlessly looping for the five hours we'll be there). I myself (...) (20 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.cad, lugnet.loc.us.oh, FTX)
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(...) would find most useful is technic axle in it's hole - there's quite a significant clearance between them. Not sure the best way to handle such things. ROSCO (20 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.lcd)
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(...) Hi I am currently working on my own version of LCD. (URL) was thinking of adding some kind over-ride to the angle of movement for each connection. This clinches it, I will. The format itself could hold single-studs that lock at 90 degrees or (...) (20 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.lcd)
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| | Re: DAT2DXF problems
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I had similar problems with DAT2DXF (never could get that to work to my satisfaction). Finally settled on 3DWin, though I also had problems similar to yours at first. Try this - do a complete uninstall/reinstall of 3DWin and make SURE you point it (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD and the Imerial Star Destroyer
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(...) Actually, the same thing can happen in Windows if you resize a window too big (say 1600x1200) on an older video card. However, I'm not sure you can tell that it has switched to software mode on Windows, because as far as I know it is still (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: DAT2DXF problems
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(...) I haven't had any problems in the past. You can try 3DWin; it's listed in the download database on LDraw.org. I've also had success importing into Bryce using LDraw2LWS (also in the download database). One more thing. Here's the link for the (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | DAT2DXF problems
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Hello all, Dark Ages don't wait for computer errors; that much I think is well proven. :) I'm having a few problems with (URL) DAT2DXF>. Whenever I try to convert an LDR file, it converts a couple thousand lines and then starts giving me errors (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD and the Imerial Star Destroyer
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(...) Yeah, watch out for that software rendering on the Mac. It sneeks up on you. I know it can switch you over while your program is running, but I don't know what causes it to happen other than resizing a window. You might want to query it about (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Just as a note, I found that Vertex Buffer Objects (VBOs) would crash my ATI card in Windows when used inside a display list. As far as I can tell, this isn't supposed to happen. Regular vertex arrays work fine inside a display list. General (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | LCD draft spec comment
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Nothing much seems to be happening with the LCD spec, but I read it through and have a comment, in case anyone is listening. If not, at least this lands in the archives. The "stud inlet" and the "turnable stud inlet" should not be distinguished in (...) (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.lcd)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD and the Imerial Star Destroyer
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(...) Travis Having done some experiments and research over the last couple of days, it seems that to get very fast drawing in OpenGL generally, vertex arrays are necessary. OpenGL has specific commands such as glBufferDataARB that will explicitly (...) (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Numbers Report - 20 May 2004
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(...) Sorry for the typo......... :/ (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New LDraw based editor... GLIDE.
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(...) Hi Actually I only thought I was using two-sided lighting. Turned out I had the code commented out which is why the lighting was a bit awry. Thanks for pointing it out. --Dan. (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Numbers Report - 20 May 2004
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Stats for Unofficial Files 105 certified files. 162 files need admin review. 412 files need more votes. 415 have uncertified subfiles. 214 held files. Total Files: 1,308 Comparison with Prev. Report: 2004-05-20: 105 / 162 / 412 / 415 / 214 (1,308) (...) (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New LDraw based editor... GLIDE. Version Alpha 0.73
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(...) Oh and you can rotate the bricks using shift + the right mouse button. It allows you to do rotation with finer granularity than 1 degree unlike the rotation key presses. (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Possibly not the best way I could have worded it. GLIDE in its current form is inefficient. There is some redundant sorting and a lot of list iteration that the CPU does before it calls on OGL. This is the main speed-limiting factor. With (...) (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Licenses... some background
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Longtime fans of the LDraw format and the LDraw system of tools know that this current discussion around licensing is by far NOT the first time the topic came up. The discussion is currently sort of disjointed in my personal view (and that of (...) (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | Re: Onion Dome (part 44511) from Orient Expedition sets
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(...) Roof ...'. Especially since the big sloped panels (30156) fit so nicely with 6121. They should be grouped together. (...) Yes, totally agree. Steve (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: library license
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(...) The only problem with that is getting permission from authors that have *already contributed*. Many are no longer contactable, and of those that are, there may be some that don't want their work owned by Ldraw.org. You'd effectively need to (...) (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Why dont we do what the Free Software Foundation does with the GNU project. Basicly, everyone wanting to contribute code signs something stating that they hand over copyright to GNU. We do the same thing, with gaurantees in the contract that (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) While this is true of the library as a whole, it isn't true of individual files. Even when an author gets a part officially into the library, I believe they are still the owner, and they're certainly the author. --Travis (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) This is only true to a point. As long as you have a reasonably modern video card, its on-board geometry performance is going to far exceed the geometry performance you could get out of the fastest CPU. I don't know how GLIDE does its drawing, (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: library license
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(...) There is a lot of misunderstanding about the general topic of copyrights. I strongly recommend that the SteerCo undertake the effort to learn more about copyrights, since copyright law is the fundamental underpinning of all redistribution (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) That's because most of the focus in Grahics HW the past few years has been in texture and shading performance, and *not* in raw polygon drawing that LCAD makes so much use of. We mainly have games to thatnk for that. For the most part (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Track Designer Registry
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"Cary Clark" <cclark2@nScP.rArM.com> wrote in message news:HxwtDp.uw0@lugnet.com... (...) that (...) in a (...) exactly (...) better (...) program, then (...) in it's current Alpha state is a better track layout tool than TrackDesigner is. But that (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That would (as I understand things) be impossible from a legal point of view. (...) Maybe. But that would then require that all the parts authors formally transferred their copyright to LDraw.org. This is possible, but parts authors living in (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) All the individual parts files authors. I.e. you would have to get aproval from each individual parts file author. Jacob (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Yes. Except that "public domain" is a concept that doesn't exist outside USA. (...) If you send Steve Bliss an e-mail, where you tell him that he (as LDraw.org Parts Library Head Honcho) is free to choose which license your parts files are (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Hi I agree its a shame about the incomplete BFC situation. Currently I use Two-Sided lighting in GLIDE you don't notice the performance hit because most of the processing effort is done by the CPU at the moment. That’s what slows it down rather than (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Anyone modelled the 4492 yet ?
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(...) Yeah, that's mine, done with mockups of the new wedge plates. The plates on Parts Tracker are better, and since I used the correct part numbers, easy to replace my mockups with the PT versions. Doesn't have the binoculars (left that off due to (...) (20 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, FTX)
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| | Re: New LDraw based editor... GLIDE. Version Alpha 0.73
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(...) Having written an OpenGL-based LDraw viewer (LDView), I'd like to point out that you can't rely on parts to contain BFC information. As time goes by, more and more parts are BFC certified, but many aren't, and many may never be. (I hope that (...) (20 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Introducing the 2004-2005 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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Introducing the 2004-2005 LDraw.org Steering Committee It is our great pleasure to introduce ourselves as the first elected LDraw.org Steering Committee. Over the past few days, we have been settling into our roles, doing housekeeping, and orienting (...) (20 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX) !!
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(...) I imagine we would define the author of the Parts Library as LDraw.org? The point for me is, parts authors are submitting their work towards the community effort. It makes much more sense to me that the community organization licenses out the (...) (20 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: New LDraw based editor... GLIDE.
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Hi Which would you lot like to see first: Lighting fix, Clicking bricks, or MPD suport? You can get the curent version from (URL) (20 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New LDraw based editor... GLIDE. Version Alpha 0.73
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Hi The next version is now out. ALPHA 0.73. There have been no big changes. They should be in the next version. New stuff: You can now select bricks by color. The drag selection now works. Some brick type tabs have been added. Next version will be (...) (20 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD and the Imerial Star Destroyer
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(...) Ah, that explains my mysteriously low load time. I did the measurement on the 2nd try. So, I'd say anything drawing in the fps range is certainly getting some benefit from the opengl acceleration. Don (20 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Would it simplify things for part authors who don't care about the license to declare their parts to be public domain? Because I really don't want to be bothered wrestling over a license for the handful of files I had anything to do with. Don (20 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Track Designer Registry
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In lugnet.trains, David Laswell wrote: ... (...) TrackDraw in its current state addresses all of the features you mentioned in a prior post: more than 4 connection points, 'true' rendering (baseplates exactly stitch), etc. I don't doubt though that (...) (20 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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(...) The only blurry point I see with those is the clause: "Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the author." Who is the author of the parts library? ROSCO (20 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Good point. Both of them are fine with me. I think I prefer the Attribution-ShareAlike license, if I have to make a choice between the two. It seems like if would be a good idea, if the parts library maintainers set up a poll among the parts (...) (20 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD and the Imerial Star Destroyer
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(...) Well, for what it's worth, here are my numbers on a P4 2.4GHz, ATI 9700 Pro 128MB: Load: 3437 ms Draw: 1907 ms It's worth noting that if I load the file a second time, the load portion drops to 313 ms, so the only way to be sure that disk (...) (20 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: library license
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(...) I know the license has been discussed for a long time, but to add my two cents; I'd really like to see the parts library use a Creative Commons license, specifically the Attibution-ShareAlike license ((URL)) or the plain old Attribution (...) (20 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Track Designer Registry
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(...) I was trying to find a comprehensive list of TrackDraw features (one that didn't require slogging through 300+ posts in a Yahoo group), and I ran across this post. In all this time, has noone else figured out that you can copy/paste elements (...) (20 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD and the Imerial Star Destroyer
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(...) Maybe you're running into one of those weird oddities of the Apple opengl drivers. For example rendering to the GL_FRONT buffer really renders to a hidden back buffer. There are times where this setup causes you to use triple buffering, which (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD and the Imerial Star Destroyer
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(...) Travis, Generally I have to agree with you: According to the Apple literature non-OpenGL aware graphics cars (such as the Rage128) gain significant benefit from vertex arrays but with OpenGL aware graphic cards (such as the 9000Pro ) this (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | MOC: cannon70.ldr - Firing Cannon From the 70's [DAT]
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So you think that firing cannons is something new in the wonderful world of LEGO. Well, you're wrong. Here's an LDraw model file of the cannon that killed so many maxifigs in the awful battles back in the late 70's... How it wored? Just remove the (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: library license
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(...) The initial step is to transfer these parts file to a special pool which continues to be distributed under the existing (but rather muddy) conditions that the parts library until now has been distributed under. Second, somebody (responsible (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD and the Imerial Star Destroyer
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(...) On my laptop with a Pentium-M 1.4GHz, 512MB RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon 9000: Timing: Load: 3325 ms Draw: 3164 ms On my desktop with a P4 3Ghz, 1GB DDR400 RAM, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB: Timing: Load: 2062 ms Draw: 1204 ms -Orion (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Since we seem to be talking about performance measurements, what do you think about comparing the the current yardstick: l3lab? On my fairly old 500Mhz PC with a TNT video card l3lab prints this for stats. Timing: Load: 1222 ms Draw: 8442 ms (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Do you have thoughts on how to deal with parts whose authors have been out of touch, and are unreachable? Any idea how many parts that affects, if say, we can't reach them and get them to agree to the license? -Tim (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD and the Imerial Star Destroyer
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One thing I've forgotten to mention in my previous replies is that it's really unfair to compare the performance of an editor (MBC) with a viewer (LDView), even if both are running on the same machine. A viewer doesn't have to worry about adding, (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Rendering problems
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"David Chiu" <cheesechiu@hotmaIl.com> wrote in message news:Hxu5zr.1Ixy@lugnet.com... (...) maybe this helps: (URL) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Your expectation is certainly justified. I don't know what the driver architecture is on the Mac, but I suspect that the video hardware manufacturers are responsible for the OpenGL implementation for their own hardware, just like on the PC. If (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD and the Imerial Star Destroyer
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(...) I have a few comments--based on my experience writing LDView--that I think could improve your load performance. First of all, I believe what you are saying above (and a little later in your post) is that you only cache complete bricks. If this (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Shortname and major focus of SteerCo (was Re: Steering Committee results
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(...) Yes it's deffinately there, I must have misread the page. I've tracked down the quote that was was looking for too :) "With LDraw-dot-org going more and more formal making sure that our hobby doesn't get ruled too much.", Willy Tschager. Peter (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Shortname and major focus of SteerCo (was Re: Steering Committee results
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(...) I removed the artilce form the front page as it is no longer needed. You can, however, access all the news articles via the News Archive link (you may have to click the See All link to get to the really old articles). -Orion (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Peter Howkins wrote: More on the rest of this later. (probably in a separate thread which focuses on the license issue) (...) I'm not sure what you mean. I just checked and the candidate summary article (290) is still (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Thanks a million! Jeroen "Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:Hxtw6r.7FC@lugnet.com... (...) file as a (...) blue (...) constraints (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Glad to hear there was a fast decision :) and you right it's not a big deal, it's just I hate the idea that stuff like this would take up lots of time. (...) The only issue I can see with PD is that the part authors might object to someone (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I think Steve Bliss already has prepared something very similar to the zlib license. It should basically just be a matter of getting all the contributors to agree on it. Jacob (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD and the Imerial Star Destroyer
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(...) I'm aware of this and you'll find that when you save and re-open the file, MBC will have truncated these very small numbers to 0, this code should however one day be incorporated into the rotation routines. Andrew... (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Yes, When loading I make a list of all the unique bricks in the model (colour and type) these are then cached as OpenGL lists of so when drawing, I then just call the various OpenGL lists. For the imperial star destroyer, this means even a (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I'd also recommend Public Domain, or something really short and simple such as the zlib license. Do you think it does enough to encourage contributions back into the original library? The zlib/libpng License Copyright (c) <year> <copyright (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Shortname and major focus of SteerCo (was Re: Steering Committee results
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(...) - We chose SteerCo as the short form, but we didn't think it was such a huge topic that it warranted a special announcement, so we didn't make a special announcement about it. (...) - We are focused on licensing as the first major task after (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Whatever it's called could it be called something quickly, before you reinforce every bad opinion I have about decisions made by committee. You have more important things to sort out such as a parts library license. My opinion is they should (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Onion Dome (part 44511) from Orient Expedition sets
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(...) This part has no figure 8 cross sections either. The horizontal (ie parallel to the Y=0 plane) cross sections all terminate with the normal to the curve at right angles to the open face and the widest part of the cross section is always at the (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Here is a *bizarre* (wink) OpenGL wireframe previewing patch for povray (URL) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) I'm not sure it's what you want, but you can render wireframes using LDView. It also allows you to render full wireframe, or just the edge lines, and allows you to choose whether you want hidden line removal turned on. LDView is available from (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad)
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Just out of curiosity, do you cache pieces once they have been loaded, so they only get loaded once? If not, you can speed things up rather enormously by doing so. --Travis Cobbs (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) David, that I am aware of there is no way you can just render the wireframes of your model using POV-Ray. Has anyone attempted this? (...) Read and follow this article for more info on radiosity. (URL) In a nutsheel radiosity is a function in (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Thanks for the MBC update! PowerBook G4, 400MHz, 512MB RAM, IBM TravelStar 40GN 40GB HD (4200 RPM), OS X 10.3.3 (build 7F44), 8MB Rage128. I don't have the .mpd extension mapped to MBC, so I dropped the Star Destroyer MPD on the MBC app. Timed (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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I got 2 problems 1.how can I just render the wireframes? 2.what is radiosity and how to use it? -David Chiu (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad)
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Following the comments by James with Orion Pobursky's version of 10030 (Imperial Star Destroyer), I took a look at the file. In it's original form there was 3 problems: 1. MBC is case sensitive when referencing sub-models (don't know if this is good (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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Thank you so much. Jason (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Onion Dome (part 44511) from Orient Expedition sets
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(...) I said idealised, not standard. (...) I am sure they did. But they didn't make things that had figure eight cross sections much of the way up, if I am not much mistaken. (...) It is more than that, it is a quarter of a *cylinder*, a geometric (...) (20 years ago, 16-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Hi Jeroen, LSynth does not recognize L520.DAT and L521.DAT as constraints. I was able to synthesize a hose like this: 0 Untitled 0 Name: lsynth2.ldr 0 Author: jeroen de haan ( info@digitalbricks.nl ) 0 Unofficial Model 0 SYNTH BEGIN (...) (20 years ago, 16-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | RE: Onion Dome (part 44511) from Orient Expedition sets
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(...) parts (...) actual (...) According to my dictionary a dome is any curved or vaulted roof. It does not have to be circular, or even regular. The fact that something doesn't exist in reality is hardly a reason to reject a name for what is a toy. (...) (20 years ago, 16-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Onion Dome (part 44511) from Orient Expedition sets
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(...) I would argue that two parts back to back make something that is not an actual dome, but rather some shape never seen in reality. (...) I would disagree, it is in fact highly relevant. If I take an idealised onion dome and divide it in half, I (...) (20 years ago, 16-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | RE: Onion Dome (part 44511) from Orient Expedition sets
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I would have to disgree. The part is half a dome - it takes two parts to make a complete dome, therefore one part is only half of the dome. The fact that the resulting shape is not half of a circle is largely irrelevant IMHO. Even if you remove the (...) (20 years ago, 16-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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