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(...) Hi Sean, I did the first Trainposter on a Rev B iMac running VPC. I did the building and L3P converting under Windows and the rendering under MacOS. Yes, it is tiresome build things under VPC (hey, I have an 233MHz G3!), but I don't think you (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
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(...) Thanks, that did it. Yuck! (...) Let's see if I understand what's going on here. When I antialias the edge lines, the RGB colors buffer gets blended, and so does the alpha channel. If alpha was all zeros, now instead of all ones, it gets (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
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(...) At least part of the reason is that Gray is a fairly common color; Clear is more rare (for most parts). When parts where shown in gray, it was sometimes confusing whether it was gray-the-actual-color or gray-the-default-color. Using a (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
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(...) I'm curious why the switch was made from Grey to Clear. As noted by Ross, some of the parts look funky in a transparent color as opposed to a solid color. -Orion (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: A small correction to 2004-03 distros
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Gaah! Preview only works, if you work it! ;) (...) There should be a "not" in that line, "would not make". Steve (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | A small correction to 2004-03 distros
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I noticed yesterday that the ldconfig.ldr file included in the current complete.exe/complete.zip distribution files was incorrect, and did not match the file in the lcad0403.exe/lcad0403.zip files. I updated the complete.* files with the newer (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
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(...) One extra note to this: for parts which Peeron has inventories of only one color, that color is used as the default color automatically. 3001p01 is one example of this. I suppose we could enhance the system to track parts with CMDLINE settings (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Steve was comparing "PNG" with "Transparent PNG" which affects the background of the image. The LDraw images used by peeron are generated in multiple colours, including trans-white (LDraw colour 47). I think(?) the peeron admins control which (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
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(...) Oh, yeah, it works. :) Of course, I'm just doing parts, not models. So maybe we'd run into more trouble if we were doing more complex rendering... Steve (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Peeron has (by preference) use the Clear as the 'default' color for part images for awhile now. The default color is shown on the part-information pages, and anywhere that the part-color doesn't have an LDraw-equivalent. Before switching to (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'd think twice about making all part images transparent. Especially patterned parts don't really work, look at the images for these pics (URL) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New colours in Ldraw?
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(...) Knight Bus, mini Knight Bus, and any set featuring Sir Danju. Looking at Peeron inventories, I see the same color listed as (URL), (URL) Purple>, and (URL) Violet>, while Bricklink seems to exclusively list it as (URL) Dark Purple>. It's (...) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: New colours in Ldraw?
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(...) I believe that is the color from the Harry Potter Knight Bus, color number 89 on Bricklink, and Lilac on Peeron. I also have it listed on my Color Tree Roots Page: (URL) were some quality control issues with this color, so the actual shade (...) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
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Note that I'm sending followups to lugnet.cad.dev. (...) All I did was create an HTML document real quick and looked at it in Firefox. The following is the content of that document: <HTML> <HEAD> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FF0000"> <IMG (...) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
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(...) Eeek. I was just wondering about that. Do you have a link, or a quick html snippit. Is there a different opengl alpha blend fn that I should perhaps be using? I guess I'd better read up after all, opengl, and png. (...) Yeah. (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) That would change things. (...) That color is used when you display it in a program that doesn't have any better color to use. In other words, if the image isn't put over some kind of background, the color in the image is used. (...) that the (...) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
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(...) Heh, maybe in ldview, but not in ldglite. You give me too much credit. I don't do real transparency for transparent parts. It's all dithered. And the only values I output to the alpha channel are fully transparent (with the png background (...) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) That's an interesting point. We generate all images at a 3x zoom (3x of the final target render scale) (with fat lines), then use ImageMagick to reduce the image to 'normal'. So the transparency of transparent parts will depend on how (...) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: ptreleases.cgi - Ready to Roll?
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(...) It works for me, and I don't remember anyone saying they're using the old one (other than myself), so I say go for it and make it official. This will kill that functionality in the private LDView 3 Alpha that a few people have, but that (...) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
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(...) One thing to remember is that the background color almost certainly still matters for transparent parts, because they'll be blended with it, even if they are partially transparent in the PNG file. So be sure to choose a background color that (...) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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