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(...) Well, probably won't make you feel any better, but have you checked any official LEGO instructions lately? They have the same problem, and they don't have to worry about shadows! But you should definitely use shadowless lights. And I haven't (...) (20 years ago, 27-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad)
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Apologies if this is the wrong group, but it didn't seem to fit too well under publishing. I'm using LPub to render a mainly black and dk grey model and its not working out too good. This is due to the fact that depending on orientation (and hence (...) (20 years ago, 27-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad)
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"Andrew Westrate" <loewe_29@yahoo.com> wrote in news:I4M37z.1Hox@lugnet.com: (...) Personally I really like this behaviour. Please don't simply change this back to the old style. An option would be fine, but sometimes it's invaluable to be able to (...) (20 years ago, 27-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Ahhh. Thanks. Go away for a few years and see what you miss? ;) (...) Thanks for the info, TC. I'll give it a try. J (20 years ago, 27-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: New parts: yellow drive rod and red holder [DAT]
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And the code for the yellow drive rod: 0 Train Steam Drive Rod 0 Name: xSteamRod.dat 0 Author: Niels Karsdorp 0 Unofficial Element 0 CMDLINE -c14 0 BFC CERTIFY CW 0 --Outer Edges 2 24 0 -9 -3.25 140 -9 -3.25 2 24 0 -9 3.25 140 -9 3.25 2 24 140 -9 (...) (20 years ago, 27-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Last weekend I finished the red holder part for the old yellow steam train drive rod. In this first version I ommited the small gap near the centre stud hole. For the real part this gap is used to make the hole stretch a bit to fit the stud of a (...) (20 years ago, 27-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Thanx for the update on this! I just have to be patient. (In the meanwhile I use a copy of the parts library, mixed with all the unofficial parts I need, at a different location on my harddisk, which I use for rendering now with the old L3P) (...) (20 years ago, 27-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad)
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First of all, the mirroring trick is the standard way to make pairs of parts like that. It uses the least number of bytes in the parts library, and properly behaved software shouldn't care. (Since I wrote LDView, I'm allowed to say that without (...) (20 years ago, 27-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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I've noticed something odd when using the two 2x4 wedge plates 41769 and 41770. 41769 appears to have been built using what I consider a rather bad method of mirroring 41770 by applying a scaling/rotation matrix "trick". The problem this appears to (...) (20 years ago, 27-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) It's coming! We agreed how it should work and I promised to make the software, which will be open source available to all CAD programmers. The software is done, I have integrated it in L3P and tested it and it works fine. I have also been (...) (20 years ago, 26-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad)
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Mine look purhaps abit 'edgy' since I don't like to use the lgeo library. Too many parts are not available and if I combine them with the standard parts it don't look all that good. (2 URLs) first attempt>> This is my first attempt with Nico's (...) (20 years ago, 26-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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A while ago there was a discussion about user definable searchpaths for parts. In meanwhile MLCad uses this, but how about other programs like L3P? I am using several unofficial files, but I don't want to mess up the P and PARTS folders. Niels (20 years ago, 25-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Some issues with the newest version of MLCad
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Michael, I recently noticed a couple of things in the newest version of MLCad, which behave differently from the previous versions. I hope you'll consider changing these back to the way they behaved previously. I was working with a file that had a (...) (20 years ago, 25-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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(...) Yours look good as well but the edges seem a little "jaggy". Are you using anti-aliasing? The good news is that Nico's setting are a snap to implement. -Orion (20 years ago, 25-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) 3041p01 is fine, but I like the existing peeron title "Slope Brick 45 2 x 4 Double with Blue and White Headlight Pattern" Please use your real name in the Author: line (...) Not necessary and IMHO undesirable if there are few patterned (...) (20 years ago, 24-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Aaaarrghh! I thought my renderings were the bomb (URL) galery>> but now I've seen Nico's pictures, I guess I'll have to start all over! :) (20 years ago, 24-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) I mostly meant that I knew what their windings had to be (because of the way the edges are constructed), but the code isn't aware of it. However, like you say, it's easy enough to find an extreme point and test the winding. Steve (20 years ago, 24-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas, FTX)
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(...) You lost me there. How could you not know which is which if they already go in the opposite direction? Just take a cross product at the topmost point. If it's negative, then it's clockwise and thus a hole. Don (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas, FTX)
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(...) OK. My edges already were counterclockwise. :) Umm, for inside outlines (inlines?) to be clockwise, that's 'clockwise' from a global view, right? If so, then my inlines are already clockwise. But I don't know which ones are inlines, and which (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas, FTX)
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(...) Err, reverse course. I peeked at the autotrace source and it says in pxl-outline.c "Outside outlines are traced counterclockwise". So if you want to make things easier for me, do it that way. ;^) (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas, FTX)
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(...) I'd imagine so. I don't actually use Cygwin. I use the (URL) mingw> version of gcc on Windows because I don't want to worry about the Cygwin unix compatibility DLL. (...) It's not too hard to detect holes while you're vectorizing edges, just (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas, FTX)
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(...) Yep, thanks for doing that. Then I turned around and installed Cygwin, so now I probably have gcc available -- I think. (...) Heh. Yeah, considering how raw my edge-construction code is, a few small math errors wouldn't be noticeable. And the (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas, FTX)
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(...) Hey, that's pretty cool. Did you use the Triangle executable I built? I replaced it with a new build containing the math fix Travis mentioned, but forgot to mention that I did so. I guess whatever you used must've worked though. (...) How does (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas, FTX)
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I've been messing around with a rendered scene for a music CD-R. I'm really happy with how it turned out, so I thought I'd share it. More on-topic, I used a number of LDraw tools in the creation process. (URL) Rendered CD booklet cover>> Bonus (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas, FTX)
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| | Re: New Part: 3041p01.dat Brick 45 2 x 4 Double With Headlamp Pattern
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Hi Niels, thanks for the comments. (...) OK, On the Part tracker they surely will suggest something if it isn't correct. (...) Good idea I will follow that. (...) Yes, I believe the pattern is correct. The part appears only in the Technic Supercar (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: New Part: 3041p01.dat Brick 45 2 x 4 Double With Headlamp Pattern [DAT]
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(...) I don't know enough about decorated parts to answer, try ask at Orion or Chris via the mail at Ldraw.org (...) to move the body of the part to subfile? (In the case of the (...) That's a really good idea, that way other can use it for patterns (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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Hi Mike, As it turns out, my laptop hard disk died since brickfest. Please send me all relevent files and some background on how to recreate. Life has been very busy. Thnks for your patience, Kevin (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi Everyone, 2 years ago a guy named Adam Howard posted that he was working on part # 40241 Harry Potter door with an arched window. Does anyone know what happened to this part ? (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub mask generation
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"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:I4EJ6K.154K@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) California (...) converted to (...) list (...) Any luck chasing down the problem we were looking at at BrickFest? Mike (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Documentation
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(...) Wow! That sure was a hearty laugh! So I guess it's easier to solo climb Everest without oxygen than trying to get documentation for the tools we use? Well, it's work and somebody's got to do it. Good thing I only have to document basic (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Creating 47457.dat 2x2x2/3 Sloped&Rounded
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(...) I try to stick to whole numbers whenever possible, or tenths if I must. That helps keep file sizes down. Keep in mind that 1 LDU is already 1/64th of an inch, making 0.001 LDU 1/64000 of an inch! No part file needs that level of detail. The (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Yah, I meant LEGO Digital Designer. I couldn't remember what you were actually teaching - whether it was FLL/bot/engineering/NQC programming or graphics programming. Since I now realize the graphics programming part is important to your class, (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Err, no. That would have required some RTFM on my part, which seriously conflicts with the coefficient of laziness. Somebody turn off that firehose, pronto! (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) I was looking too hard in the wrong place. I've got access to it now. I've installed the component, but I think I have to write a header file for it, so that I can use it under C++ builder. It looks very nice to use. I'm really looking forward (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Do what? Get the source code, or use the png classes? At least for me, clicking on the link takes me to the sourceforge page for PNGImage, up left is a "Download" link which gets the .zip archive ((URL) I just downloaded it again, to make (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Converting Polyline to Mesh
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(...) the instructions on (URL) this page> when you compiled it? ;-) --Travis (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) OK. If some makes commercial/research software that outputs LDraw format, it'd be good for us to know about... (...) Well, there's also the bit about Triangle wanting *me* to tell *it* about holes in the area to be filled -- that was one of (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Err, twisted is probably a good call. I followed a few links and did see some with free windows executables, and I thought I saw some that mentioned other "normal" formats like STL and/or DXF? Anyhow, I compiled triangle for windows if you (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Converting Polyline to Mesh
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(...) You have a twisted sense of 'lazy'. ;) Or is there something obvious I'm missing? Steve (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, just in case you change your mind on gcc, it really is easy. (URL) Anyway, thanks for the link. Once I have results, I post them somewhere. Speaking of links and firehoses, here's a short list of alternative triangle mesh generators. (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Creating 47457.dat 2x2x2/3 Sloped&Rounded
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(...) Yo Darrell, By LDD, do you mean LDDesign Pad or Lego Digital Designer? If it's Lego Digital Designer, then I am still unable to get it to work on my PC. It loads the parts, then just sits there. I guess I need to go figure out what's going on (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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I have found a cool computer generated lego pics on the net: (URL) M (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | New Part: 3041p01.dat Brick 45 2 x 4 Double With Headlamp Pattern [DAT]
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Dear reviewers, I attach the new mentionned part. Before submitting to Part Tracker I have some questions: 1. Is the naming of the part acceptable? 2. Since this is the first patterned version of the base part, is it necessary to move the body of (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: LPub mask generation
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I forgot a few things. First of all, you'll also need the TCImageFormat class. Second, in TCImage, you'll need to comment out the line that looks like so (unless you want to use my TCBmpImageFormat class): addImageFormat(new TCBmpImageFormat, true); (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Creating 47457.dat 2x2x2/3 Sloped&Rounded
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(...) I'm willing to experiment with anything as long as it helps kids learn concepts in math, science and engineering. Of course, I'll first have to learn LDD. Sooo, I'll pick it up tomorrow. At the moment, I'm hacking away at Game Maker 6.0 beta. (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Converting Polyline to Mesh
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(...) Uh. Wow. Yeah, that should do what I need. If it can fill in Lake Superior, it should handle my little de-rasterized figure. I suspect that using Triangle on my little polygon-filling exercise will be like using a firehose to water a flower (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Oops, found it. (URL) in case I lose it again: Delaunay, triangle, vectorize, mesh, polyline, voronoi, and tesselate! That oughta do it... Don (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I coulda sworn I mentioned this here before. (URL) I can't find the reference (something about stained glass window patterns). Oh well. Enjoy, Don (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Converting Polyline to Mesh
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Heya, Can anyone point me to an algorithm for converting a polyline to a triangle mesh? The polyline must be allowed to be highly irregular - concave, definitely. Maybe not ... ummm ... fully connected. I've been doing some googling, but so far I've (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub mask generation
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(...) Hi Anders, I have not been able to gain access to the source. Do you have any suggestions on how to do it? Thanks, Kevin (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hey Edwin, if you have time/resources could you experiment with showing kids LDD too? Or would that undermine what you're trying to do? Darrell (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Both classes are in the TCFoundation directory: TCImage and TCPngImageFormat. To use them directly, you'll also need TCObject and TCAutoreleasePool. However, the only thing they use out of there that I know of is my reference counting stuff, (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Radiosity example (F1 Ferrari) once again
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Am Donnerstag, den 16.09.2004, 12:09 +0000 schrieb Tim David: (...) Yes. But remove the lights as we're working with global illumination here. Ah, and if you like, you can replace the default floor with something better, try to set "ambient 0 (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Radiosity example (F1 Ferrari) once again
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Hi Trevor, (...) The full resolution image is available at (URL) 11min + 4h13min (2 passes) on my Pentium 4) The LDR file is at (URL) like I forgot to upload it to the "mpd" folder where all my other LDR files are). Nico. (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Creating 47457.dat 2x2x2/3 Sloped&Rounded
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(...) So if (...) I'm going to try some experimental pedagogy on elementary school kids starting this Tuesday. I'll be teaching about 6 Lego Robotics classes this fall where I hope to employ Virtual Lego. After I get some experience under my belt, (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Creating 47457.dat 2x2x2/3 Sloped&Rounded
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(...) I'm not a kid any more (I'm 37) and am quite new in the community. One of my deep desire is to contribute to the community by starting part authoring. So if you plan to write a tutorial (for kids it is perfect), easy to follow, about your (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Creating 47457.dat 2x2x2/3 Sloped&Rounded
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(...) My goodness, that was one massive scary part! I'm going to look that up and see how many lines it took! I would have chosen the click rotation joint. I figured I needed a very simple part to warm up. Talking about "not too far off", should I (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Hi Travis, I've downloaded LDview, and gotten libpng and zlib built under C++ Builder. What classes do you have for reading and writing PNG files based on libpng. I'd like to give them a look. Thanks, Kevin (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Creating 47457.dat 2x2x2/3 Sloped&Rounded
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(...) Ah, conditional lines! I didn't even think about those. Thanks! I'll look into it and see if I can figure it out. I'll also learn how to use Show All Edge Lines. By the way, the part is common to 3 of the large good guys of Knights Kingdom. I (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Creating 47457.dat 2x2x2/3 Sloped&Rounded
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Congratulations on initial completion of your first part. (...) I don't have this part (at least I don't think), so I can't comment on the accuracy of the geometry. However, I can comment on three things I saw. First, it looks like you used color 16 (...) (20 years ago, 19-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Creating 47457.dat 2x2x2/3 Sloped&Rounded
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(...) submission (as soon as parts@ldraw.org lets me). (...) Looks good. You chose a relativle simple part for your first, unlike me: [LDrawPart 2618:7] (...) Don't worry about those. They're non-funtional and insignificant (...) Guessing is fine as (...) (20 years ago, 19-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2004-03 Parts Update Now Corrected
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(...) I sent Edwin an email direclty as LUGNET was not allowig me to post for some reason. =( In any case my response was that the AIO installer is only updated once a quater (every 3 months) so for the time being it would NOT have the latest parts (...) (20 years ago, 19-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Creating 47457.dat 2x2x2/3 Sloped&Rounded [DAT]
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Finally, my fair (if not terrible) first attempt at part authoring is ready for submission (as soon as parts@ldraw.org lets me). What a learning experience! It took 12 version saves to get "close". And I'm sure there's more to learn after the (...) (20 years ago, 19-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2004-03 Parts Update Now Corrected
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(...) I'm not aware how this is packaged, but to my knowledge it has not been updated, yet. Chris (20 years ago, 19-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | MLCad.ini 2004-03 Update Now Available
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Hi, I just updated the MLCad.ini file accordingly to the latest LDraw.org parts update 2004-03. 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 (...) (20 years ago, 18-Sep-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Me and my LDRAW ideas
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Hello, everybody!!! , don't say hi doctor nick lol I'm still on the ldraw rpg or what ever online idea but I haven't cancel the idea as I normally do I'm working on another similar project but for now just single player , well is not a game is an (...) (20 years ago, 18-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Playing around with Colors
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I decided to see what my (URL) TC-510> model looked like in different colors. So today I made up a few variations. (URL) That's the only one where I dropped a pilot in there. I also looked at (URL), (URL), (URL), (URL), (URL), and (URL). Which do (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub and white on white
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(...) Ah! I didn't realize that submodel level 0 was the "root" level. I guess as my file doesn't really have submodels I didn't think to try these settings. Thanks! And BTY, the link to the installer on you main page says it is for 2202 but it (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: LPub mask generation
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(...) This project seems pretty old, but you've set me on the right track. PNG provides compression like JPG and no loss of image quality like BMP. Plus POV-Ray supports alpha channel with PNG. These three combined set me off on the task of (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2004-03 Parts Update Now Corrected
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(...) Is the All-In-One installer also updated? (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) If you're interested, LDView has two C++ classes that together allow you to write a PNG via libpng. They have the advantage of being much easier to use that libpng itself. Take a look in the LDView source at TCImage.{h,cpp} and (...) (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I just upgraded to Borland C++ Builder 6, and there is a good PNG library for it. I'll use that and convert LPub over to use PNG (instead of BMP and JPG?). Alpha channel will be nice, allowing for semi-transparency. Kevin (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The most recently released version of LPub lets you control this: Building Instructions->Submodels provides background color controls for up to four levels of submodels. Submodel level 0 is the top level model in you design. (...) Man I would (...) (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) LPub is written in Borland C++ Builder, which is the C++ version of Delphi. The programing language is different, but the libraries are the same. I'd like Alpha channel, instead of binary bitmap, because it might provide some help with (...) (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I am trying to use LPub to generate a set of building images where most of the bricks are white. Unfortunately, they blend in completely with the background at the tops of the bricks. I have found the setting for setting a BG colour for the part (...) (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) LPub is written in Delphi, if I'm not misremembering? Have you looked at (URL) can't say I understand all of the code at a quick glance, but it looks like all you have to do is setting the Alpha channel to a suitable value for every pixel, and (...) (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Careful! A *Windows* color value uses the high bit to indicate that the rest is an index into the 'System Color Palette' and not a RGB value at all (In Delphi you have ColorToRGB() to get the RGB value from such a 'color'). I'm not at all sure (...) (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) What about jpeg 2000? It seems to have some sort of support for alpha channels. Don (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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No-one seems to have mentioned this yet so I thought I'd post a link (URL) text size on the page is a bit small by default for some reason. The animation is well worth downloading if you've got the speed (80Mb) Tim (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Radiosity example (F1 Ferrari) once again
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(...) That looks great, I'm going to steal your radiosity settings! As I'm a bit new to radiosity (I've attempted it a couple of times), do I just paste the contents of your .txt into the beginning of my .pov file? tim (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2004-03 Parts Update Now Corrected
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(...) I would just like to say that this parts update contains my first created part from scratch (264.dat). My parts in previous updates were fixes of existing parts or new patterns. This encourages me to continue creating parts in the future. (...) (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2004-03 Parts Update Now Available
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(...) Now fixed - see (URL) Many thanks for reporting this so promptly. Chris (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad)
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There was a problem with the self-extracting archives for lcad0403 and the new complete archive that created the files in c:\windows\temp. This has now been corrected in the versions of these downloads at (URL). If you downloaded the original (...) (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Certifying sub-parts (was: LDraw.org 2004-03)
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(...) Maybe comments could be left by the submitter somewhere to prompt you when preparing an update? Still relies on it being seen, I guess. (...) Yes, I see. I could re-submit them as x170 and x171, but I don't know if the system would let me? And (...) (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2004-03 Parts Update Now Available
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(...) Is that just the exe? The zip appeared to work fine. ROSCO (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2004-03 Parts Update Now Available
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(...) Sorry - this is a problem with the archive. I will try and get it fixed. In the meantime I have temporarily withdrawn the update. Chris (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2004-03 Parts Update Now Available
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(...) Maybe I am going batty, or there is something strange with Windows XP SP2. I don't know, but when I installed this update, the new files were written to C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\LDRAW rather than C:\LDRAW. Needless to say, the files can't be read by (...) (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Certifying sub-parts (was: LDraw.org 2004-03)
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(...) We could, but I'd rather not; this is an exceptional case. In general circumstances, we'd consider x170c01.dat to be broken. It'd be nice if there was an easier way to tell the tracker about groups of files that need to be released together. (...) (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Certifying sub-parts (was: LDraw.org 2004-03)
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(...) Yeah, I'm more worried about how much more difficult it becomes to certify, because reviewers need to modify all the references manually, and if they don't know to do that, they think it's broken and put a hold on it (like steffen). Is there (...) (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Certifying sub-parts (was: LDraw.org 2004-03)
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(...) Yes, generally we would release files like this as a group. But that is a manual check, and it is possible to miss occasional items. In the long term, it will work out alright -- we could resubmit x170c01.dat with fixed references. If we don't (...) (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Certifying sub-parts (was: LDraw.org 2004-03)
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(...) Thanks Chris! But that reminds me of something I noticed recently. Quite some time ago, I submitted the parts x170, x171, x172 and x173, which together make up x170c01 (URL) the time it was decided they should all be in Parts, as they are all (...) (20 years ago, 15-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub mask generation
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(...) I'm not entirely sure, but I'm pretty sure you can create a 32bpp BMP file. Normally, 8 bits in each pixel would then be ignored. However, I don't see any reason the data wouldn't be there for you to interpret yourself. --Travis Cobbs (20 years ago, 15-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LPub mask generation
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I added mask generation for assembly images into LPub. It now can generate a specific mask for each assembly image. I plan on using this for the layout process, where you provide a backdrop image for a page, and LPub uses a mask to superimpose the (...) (20 years ago, 15-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDraw.org 2004-03 Parts Update Now Available
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The 2004-03 parts update has been now been released. Whilst nowhere near as large as 2004-02, this has cleared most of the certified backlog on the Parts Tracker. What remains are mainly primitives which are not yet in use by certified parts. This (...) (20 years ago, 15-Sep-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad) !!
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| | Re: Castle Knights helmet
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(...) Hi everyone. I have posted images of the Knight's Visor and large feather on: (URL) (20 years ago, 15-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: 47457 2 x 2 x 2/3 Two Top Studs, Curved Slope End
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(...) I think I'll just create one part of it all. I don't think a primitive nor a sub-part would be necessary. Thanks. (20 years ago, 14-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | OK, I'm torn
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Today I had a first - -Student brings in a set of BI to show what he wants to make for his first project in my 3D AutoCAD class. -It's a Megabloks kit. :( Cool model, though. :) Darrell (20 years ago, 14-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.edu, FTX)
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| | Re: 47457 2 x 2 x 2/3 Two Top Studs, Curved Slope End
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(...) Are there many parts that will need this surface? It doesn't seem like it would be that common... If it would help you to have a subfile, then create a subpart file rather than a primitive. If I've totally missed the point of your question, (...) (20 years ago, 13-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Question on part naming
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(...) If you look at what group this is (and the group charter), you'll see that my question applies only to the LDraw parts library, and not to any official LEGO naming convention. I'm looking for an official LDraw answer. As it happens, I am an (...) (20 years ago, 13-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Question on part naming
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(...) [snip] (...) Since the dimensions matter with wedges -- a 3x4 wedge is going to be a different shape from a 4x3 wedge -- the order of dimensions in wedge names should be fixed by axis, not given in "smaller x larger" order. For slope bricks, (...) (20 years ago, 13-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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