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(...) right click in the part preview window and select "Find...". this will open the search dialog. you can either search in part numbers or part names. also a match case function is available. once mlcad has found a part matching your criteria (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) By "partial description" I was thinking more on the lines of just bringing up any and all "2x2" parts. Anyways, I'm not sure being able to sort by full description is all that helpful. You've got "_Animal" vs "Animal", "_TECHNIC" vs "TECHNIC", (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) You can click on the "Part Description" header to sort by description, at which time you can also start typing and it will take you to the next part in the list matching what you've typed. ROSCO (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Can I make this a feature request then? This program is SOOOO addictive :) I'm just trying to model a Garratt locomotive from: (URL) its 4:30 AM! Thanks again. (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Whoops, the same feature is available for adding new parts by clicking Edit/Add/Part. I often have the Mode set to Pan instead of Edit (which disables the Add Part function, but not the Modify Part function), since you can still click/drag new (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) There isn't, but there's a way to work around it. If you drag any random part into the display panes, you can right-click on it and select Modify. This will bring up a list of parts in alphabetical order (not numerical order, so 410 will come (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) First, all your model, including all sub-models, as well as unofficial parts *must* be in the MPD file. Some MPD generators put the full paht name of the file in the MPD. This is unfortunate, because when you try to unpack it stuff can end up (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi all. Is there a part search box anywhere in MLCad? It would be useful to search on part of the description as well as the number without creating a custom part tree group. Thanks (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LDraw Birds of a Feather session at the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Oct. 25th
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(...) Good luck! have someone take pictures and write an article for the site :-) -Tim (20 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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I'm mentoring several First Lego League teams. I built a sample lifting device using MLCAD to illustrate the principle of a parallelogram. I had it in sections and uploaded the mpd. I soon realized that I needed to upload the sub-models and have the (...) (20 years ago, 20-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: ptreleases.cgi - Ready to Roll?
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(...) Good. :) I've moved the changes to ptreleases.cgi, so that can now be considered a 'production' script. I'll write up some information about it, and add it to the Official Library page. (...) You're welcome. Though I must say, it took me long (...) (20 years ago, 20-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDraw Birds of a Feather session at the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Oct. 25th
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If anyone is going to the O'Reilly Mac OS X conference next week, please come to the LDraw BOF, hosted by me! :D (URL) (20 years ago, 20-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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Per Admin request..... Am sending to Admins via email, as well..... 0 Hinge 6 x 3 Radar/Blade/Spoiler/Panel 0 Name: 2440.dat 0 Author: John VanZwieten 0 Official LCad update 98-08 0 KEYWORDS Space, MTron, Blacktron, Blacktron 2, Blacktron II 0 (...) (20 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Hi Steve, "Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@earthlink.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:I5Kr1I.D49@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) (URL). (...) new (...) This looks perfect! Thank you! Michael (20 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thank you, it's so nice to read all these comments :) You know, I was few times in Germany and I think you can find that kind of atmosphere at German train stations too. Am I right? Bye, -- shaggie (20 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) I've tried with spotlight, but then the interior of the building get dark. Spotlight creates light like a reflector, not like a bulb. (...) This is much better idea, I have to try it. Thanks! (...) Oh, this is smart. I've used "light.dat" in (...) (20 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) That's cool. I didn't mean to actually cause you any work but thanks for the effort. -Orion (20 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Cool ... and full of atmosphere at the same time. Greetings from Germany Horst (20 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I always thought solid colors were confusing, especially where the pattern on the part happend to be of the same color. However, I just added support for a new user preference, allowing you to choose what color to use: (URL) that helps! Dan (20 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Maybe you could use a spotlight, so that the light from inside the building is not directed at the post? Or you could experiment with fade_distance and fade_power so the light doesn't reach that far, I did that in my 1998 Christmas Card, (URL) (...) (20 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) The default color is also used in inventory lists, when there's no matching LDraw color for the part-color. For example, this set has a lot on non-LDraw'n colors: (URL) (20 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I have to say I think a trans colour is better as it allows you to see the interior detail of the part, some of the default orientations for parts don't allow you differentiate between similar parts when in a solid colour. Tim (20 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Postcard from Poland
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(...) Whoa, this is great. It's honour for me that one of my renderings is used as desktop background. (...) Well, I'm still novice with POV-Ray and I have some troubles with lights. Middle lamppost is probably lighted by light sources located in (...) (20 years ago, 17-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Postcard from Poland
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(...) Very nice! Now I have a new desktop background. The only 'negative' thing I could think of is the fact that the middle lamppost is too much lighted itself (the actual light seems to be in front of the post), but other than that, just great! (20 years ago, 17-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thank you, I'm glad you like it! Bye, -- shaggie (20 years ago, 17-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's September Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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(...) Congratulate with the scene Ben, it's really nice and the cows look very cute, but I think you should work a little more with the background, hiding the big concrete field in the background by adding another layer of houses, trees or landscape (...) (20 years ago, 17-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Postcard from Poland
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In lugnet.trains, Andrzej M. Szlaga wrote: -snip- (...) Wow, I think that's wonderful! e (20 years ago, 16-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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Hello, It's hot summer night, 1979, small train station somewhere in Northern Poland. SM48 with short train is resting on the sidetrack, passengers are waiting for night train. One of the lamps suddenly fade, so they have a little privacy to say (...) (20 years ago, 16-Oct-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
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(...) It's not really a votable issue since it's ultimately Peeron admin's decision. I don't want to twist the Boger's arms on something trival like this. -Orion (20 years ago, 16-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Let's have a vote! I'm with Orion btw :) (20 years ago, 16-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Not that my opinion goes for everyone but I think a solid color looks better. A transparent render show all the back edge making the image appear jumbled. To be honest I don't see how using grey, yellow, red or any other solid color is (...) (20 years ago, 16-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) How about a transparent brown? TLC already has an official trans-brown (smoke/trans-black), so there's not much risk of them ever using that. (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) LDView has a nice feature where you can specify the default color for parts. I use rgb(128,128,80); it's close to grey, but tinted enough to easily differentiate grey parts from color 16. Andy (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Ahh, nevermind. That didn't really work either. Applying the opaque/transparent only filter right before dumping the png is simple, and looks good enough for me. I'm going with that and forget about the icky sharp outer edges for now. They (...) (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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(...) Ok i did a quick once over of glBlendFunc manpage and it looks like switching line antialiasing from: glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA); to glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_A..._SATURATE, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA); eliminates the problem (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LEGO CAD with Mac OS X & Virtual PC?
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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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(...) 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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| | Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
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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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| | Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
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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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| | Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
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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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| | Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
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(...) Oh oh, does it still work? I remember I compiled it out at one point to save memory when I discovered IE didn't support transparent pngs. This is way back when I built the DOS version of ldglite, so maybe I put it back in since then. Don (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
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(...) Doh! Thanks for mentioning this. We've been wanting to make transparent LDraw part images (for use by Peeron, et al). And it's been there, all along. Double-Doh! It's a nice, simple command-line option, too. :) The parts images are being (...) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | ptreleases.cgi - Ready to Roll?
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A couple of months ago, there were a number of changes implemented for the ptreleases.cgi script, but they were never confirmed and put in place as the final version. The latest cgi is available at (URL). To see a list of all the options, try (URL). (...) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New colours in Ldraw?
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(...) I haven't heard of this color. What sets does it appear in? (...) 320 (...) 272 (...) 288 Steve (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New colours in Ldraw?
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(...) How about dark-purple? I was looking for that a while back and I ended up having to match it by hand. I used R119/G34/B119, but I'm not sure how to translate that into numbers like Bernd posted. I can also guarantee that those numbers don't (...) (20 years ago, 7-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub mask generation
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Kevin L. Clague wrote: [ ... snipped ... ] (...) Awesome. When you have a build you think is stable enough please let me know and I will put it to the test! Thanks for continuing to work on this for me. Mike (20 years ago, 13-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub mask generation
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(...) I remembered that the issue we ran across at BrickFest was a simple one, but I couldn't remember the specifics. The fix is a two character fix. I forgot to put a semicolon after AMB and DIFF in the POV-File. Right now I'm running through your (...) (20 years ago, 13-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
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(...) Well, according to the readme.txt it takes a -cg and ca like L3p and can generate transparent png files (works in mozilla, but not ie): (URL) there may be some issues. A long time ago I set out to make ldglite useful as a quick and dirty scene (...) (20 years ago, 13-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDGlite and LPub
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Hi Don, Orion and I have been kicking around the idea of LDGlite as a renderer for LPub. We are under the impression that LDGlite takes the same command line options as L3P. Is this true? If so, it would be wonderful. Primarily LPub needs the -cg (...) (20 years ago, 13-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: MLCad feature request
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(...) All the colors in LDraw are desiganted by numbers. The current list of official LDraw colors and numbers is maintained at LDraw.org: (URL) (20 years ago, 12-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | MLCad feature request
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I am trying to model a train depot near where I work, and would like to use dark red, but I couldn't figure out what color to choose in MLCad. I did a quick search of the cad group, but didn't see anything that seemed to answer my question. I did (...) (20 years ago, 12-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New to MLCad - some questions
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(...) There's 2 other ways: - Hold down ctrl-shift and then left click the window you want to zoom. Now let go of the keyboard buttons and as long as you hold down the left mouse button you can move the mouse up and down to zoom in or out. - Use the (...) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Anyone know Brick Builder?
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Hi All, Sorry if this has been discussed before (I tried a search, but all it came up with were posts by Bert Giesen!). At the LDraw presentation at SIGGRAPH 04, someone in the audience asked whether LDraw could take a 3D model created in another (...) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Do you remember what LDraw.org looked like back in 1999?
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(...) Yeah its a pretty cool tool. Its also useful for finding individual's Lego sites from back in 97-2000 when every man and his dog was creating them. I spent some time a while back reading through early Lugnet posts and many of the site links (...) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | RE: New to MLCad - some questions
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click the part (in any view but the 3d view), press F5, drag the mouse up and down to change the zoom (or right click and select the zoom factor) then press F3 to revert to edit mode. -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com (...) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | RE: New to MLCad - some questions
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(...) be that (...) a way I (...) angles. I (...) a weird (...) Oh yeah, its fun turning the 3D view. I use the following process 1) right click the 3d window and select zoom to fit 2) click and hold on the very bottom point of the model 3) move (...) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New to MLCad - some questions
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One more thing: in the views, can I zoom in and just see the part where I am working? Sure can, just how? (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New to MLCad - some questions
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(...) This takes a lot of getting used to. The problem is that when you rotate the plate 90 degrees, the arrow keys continue to work as though it was stud up - left moves it 1/2 stud left, up moves 1/2 stud back etc, instead of 1 plate or whatever (...) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | New to MLCad - some questions
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1: The grid: When placing components as normal, I dont have any problems. But when I tried to use the light holder and adding a light to it (just as the example car, with 1x1 plate on the 1x1 brick sideways), I am lost. I cannot get it to snap, nor (...) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Idea for a new feature in a Lego CAD program.
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(...) Sounds good.. But i would like to see some technic compatability as well.. Technic pieces are the hardest to position. Thank you, though. :) (20 years ago, 9-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Use all your Windows PC’s as one, to render POV-Ray at once and real easy (SMPOV)
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Hello, Over the past few months I have been working on making a mini-supercomputer with several servers running Linux and PVM (parallel virtual machine) with MOSIX. All for Rendering in POV-Ray. After weeks of learning Linux and trying to figure out (...) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Do you remember what LDraw.org looked like back in 1999?
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Doing a mindless internet surf today and bumped into a website that is archiving the internet! So I decided to give it a try and typed in www.ldraw.org and look what I got. (URL) Enjoy... BTW the website is called: WayBack Machine (URL) -AHui A&M (...) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: New colours in Ldraw?
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(...) That doesn't mean dithered colours cannot be used in a part, just that any area that requires such should be devolved into a subpart. There are plenty of examples of this technique in the official library - e.g. 973p39.dat Chris (20 years ago, 10-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | RE: New colours in Ldraw?
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(...) Ah, but according to the Colour Chart ((URL) "LDraw can render mixes of the basic 16 colors. This is commonly called 'dithering'. You can use dithered colors for any part reference, but part authors cannot use them to color polygons or lines. (...) (20 years ago, 10-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New colours in Ldraw?
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(...) I understand your point, but I think that it's a bad idea to release an official part that's guaranteed to look wrong in all current renderers. All that's going to do is confuse the novice users, and I think that's a really bad idea. I'm not (...) (20 years ago, 9-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) BlockCAD (see sig.) has snapping. In fact it's impossible to put parts inside each other there. OTOH, BlockCAD has many other limitations (studs up only, 90 degrees turning only, limited part library) so it's usability depends on what you are (...) (20 years ago, 9-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Strange part/file conversion problem
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I've been working on model 8872, the forklift transport and I've again found some parts that do not convert the right way from Ldraw to LGEO: part: 6536.dat / Technic Axle Joiner Perpendicular is rotated 90 degrees part: 2905.dat / Technic Triangle (...) (20 years ago, 9-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Idea for a new feature in a Lego CAD program.
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(...) Wonderful. Glad to see someone already thought about this and is implementing it into a working program. Thanks for the information, Travis. :) (20 years ago, 9-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: New colours in Ldraw?
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(...) Good Idea. That's also my opinion. There should be a break with the backward compatibility. That would solve many Problems with the old DOS-Program. And it would be easier to generate new standards. CU Bernd (20 years ago, 9-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: I want to become a reviewer
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(...) While I don't stick religiously to any formula, I do usually try to group "logical" sections together, sometimes even with comments! But I think generally I've found it easier to do the polygons first. ROSCO (20 years ago, 9-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Idea for a new feature in a Lego CAD program.
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This has been talked about in the past. There's even a lugnet group devoted entirely to one of the proposals: (URL). I believe that the author of the Glide app is the only person to announce an intention of producing an LCD-based implementation. I (...) (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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I was thinking about how difficult it is to build things in MLCad. It's not technically difficult to build them, but it is difficult to position things properly. Even when you think you have a piece positioned properly, it ends up coming out wrong (...) (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: New colours in Ldraw?
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"William Howard" <william@howard-fami...rld.co.uk> wrote in news:I59Dy4.1q5u@lugnet.com: (...) What I would personally like, is an LDraw colour chart that includes every official colour from (URL). For my own personal use I've made include files for (...) (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | RE: help with ldraw
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right click in each window and select "show scroll bar" from the menu -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf Of vineethonkan Sent: 08 October 2004 16:12 To: lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com (...) (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | help with ldraw
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Hey y'all- I was just working on my LDraw when I experienced a problem. On the four small dimension windows, the up-down, left-right scrolls have vanished. Is there a way I can retrieve them? (I don't know what I did). (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Working on 6032.dat Brick 2 x 3 x 1 & 2/3 Octagonal offset
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(...) This is in my "delvolopment" queue for LDraw.org features. Unless Steve adds this to the PT, I think I can whip up a website module. -Orion (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Working on 6032.dat Brick 2 x 3 x 1 & 2/3 Octagonal offset
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(...) Yes, that's true. I do drop a mail to this list when I'd like to announce a part (in those rare cases when I have time to do some part authoring). The problem is that you get only feedback if the other part author working on the same part (...) (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Starting with LDraw - or something like that.
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(...) That works, thanks! The same was in the other posting, which linked to a FAQ Sonnich (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | RE: Working on 6032.dat Brick 2 x 3 x 1 & 2/3 Octagonal offset
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(...) "Working on" (...) duplicate (...) I thought that was one of the purposes of lugnet.cad.dat.parts ?!?!?!? (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Working on 6032.dat Brick 2 x 3 x 1 & 2/3 Octagonal offset
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(...) I join to Niel's opinion, it would be useful to have a so called "Working on" list to announce if an author is working on a certain part, to avoid duplicate efforts. The precursor of present day Part Tracker (I don't remember its proper name) (...) (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) There's an FAQ entry on LDraw.org that specifically addresses this issue: (URL) (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: I want to become a reviewer
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(...) Great! :) Steve (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New colours in Ldraw?
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(...) heh - I hadn't really caught the irony that the new codes will look alright in ol' LDraw, but will (currently) bomb in almost any newer program. :) (...) Especially since we've now established an official way to communicate LDraw.org color (...) (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I think, from memory, that the path (in your case) should just be C:\LDraw. Can anyone confirm or correct? Tim (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: I want to become a reviewer
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(...) I think I can have something for you on Monday -Orion (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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