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(...) (I'm going to try not to sound like a jilted lover here, bear with me) If you're not already a parts author, you have to ask for permission to submit a part to the Parts Tracker. I've been told translated-from-other-CAD (i.e. messy) parts (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: need help with instructions
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(...) Do you have Adobe Acrobat or Macromedia Fireworks? These are NOT freeware or shareware programs, but can get a trial version of Macromedia Fireworks to use for 30 days by going to the Macromedia Website. Macromedia Fireworks is a graphical (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad)
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I have used LPub in setting up the instructions. Could you tell me how you have used these other programs (Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Fireworks) to create the backgrounds and arrows and how you create the box call out things? I am not very well (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Parts editing made easy, anyone?
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(...) No DAT part can provide a perfect render without using some substitutions - flat polygons just can't do perfect curved surfaces. But that's another issue. I have recently finished re-authoring Ben's wheels (URL) (waiting for his OK before I (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I should probably find then for what is LDraw library aimed at. If it's something like as perfect as possible renders or some quick mockup prototyping. (...) Wouldn't it be possible to be the parts as accurate as possible and then (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Cross platform GUI
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Well I'm kind of of pissed. ** begin rant ** Curious to find an acceptible substitute for Java, I was looking into cross platform GUI toolkits. GTK+ came to mind but alas no Mac support for the latest version. Then I thought of Qt. I visited the Qt (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well, rendering time gets affected too, right? It's harder to build a model if it takes MLCad 20 seconds to redraw once... Oh, you mean for the rendering in POV when doing the animation? Well, file loading time, memory consumption, etc. etc. (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: need help with instructions
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(...) <<Talking as the LDraw Help Desk Coordinator>> Are you using LPub to create your building instructions (BIs). LPub has some functionality to make your BIs look more like LEGO Offical BIs with the call outs and such. I would suggest you start (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) A nice thing about open source would be that it would be possible for other people to work on ports to different architectures other than the microsoft-based platform. While emulators may exist to allow people to get by for the time being, (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) If for nothing else, to permit them to be used as the basis for the manual creation of similar parts, and abstraction into resuable sub-components. Not a strong reason, but worth considering. (...) To use just one example - the STUD primitive (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts editing made easy, anyone?
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(...) Yes, since it is text based. Also, a most new authors learn by examining the code. (...) Unneccessary memory usage and file size. (...) L3P (and other converters/viewers) detect these primitives and convert them to smooth objects (e.g. L3P (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: l3p as open source (was: Re: Anatomy of a POV file (e.g. L3P suggestions))
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(...) Why don't you create your main scene file that never changes and then just include the l3p output file into your scene file. I believe Lars is working on options that leave out the povray code that is required to be in the main file (like (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts editing made easy, anyone?
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(...) Why? Is the .DAT file supposed to be readable by humans? Why? ;) What's wrong with the larger number of polygons? What positives (from the side of the automated rendering process) does bring the existence of primitives? What's wrong with the (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | need help with instructions
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Hello all- As many of you may know, I have been working on a virtual crane since last year, managing to put pics up of th erendering just recently. Anyway, my question is this; does anyone know how I can set the instructions to look a lot like the (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: l3p as open source (was: Re: Anatomy of a POV file (e.g. L3P suggestions))
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(...) Hi Kevin Thanks for your tip, but even though it seems to solve the amb/dif/reflection-problem, it unfortunately doesn't cover the need for special pov-ray objects like special lights, fog etc, as it's also based on L3p. Another thing I just (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: l3p as open source (was: Re: Anatomy of a POV file (e.g. L3P suggestions))
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(...) An alternative to open source is to post process l3p output to change things the way you want. This is what I do in LPub. L3P output is simple text and extremely consistant, making it easy to modfiy the contents. Kevin (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | l3p as open source (was: Re: Anatomy of a POV file (e.g. L3P suggestions))
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I don't know if this is besides the topic, but what I would really like was the ability to edit the "text" with the default settings l3p uses to create the pov-file (after all, it's a program that converts a textfile into another textfile). When (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BigBen Bricks! (Was: Parts editing made easy...?)
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(...) Tore, those are parts made on Stratasys and zCorp Rapid Prototyping machines. Rapid Prototyping is a way of using machines to take digital data and create models in an additive fashion, built up layer by layer. zCorp machines build the layers (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: BigBen Bricks! (Was: Parts editing made easy...?)
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(...) Sorry Tore, I thought you read the article. Here's a brief summary: Mike Pique of Scripps Research Institute, Molecular Biology Department, did some LEGO bricks in the rapid prototype machines in his department. He plans on using them to teach (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BigBen Bricks! (Was: Parts editing made easy...?)
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(...) My eyes see the most beautiful things, but yet they don't understand. I looked for some text that explained who/where/how this lovely sight is made possible. Please let me have some more information! /Tore (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BigBen Bricks! (Was: Parts editing made easy...?)
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(...) Ahem... (URL) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts editing made easy, anyone?
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(...) If you look up my posts on LUGNET, you'll find that's all I've really ever talked about here. (Damn, I'm boring. Well, OK, I also talk about trucks) You've touched on the critical issues I've found over the years: - LDR/DAT files created by (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | BigBen Bricks! (Was: Parts editing made easy...?)
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(...) Like, wow! Triple wow! Fisrt LCAD, and now LCAM! I wonder how expesive that could be! And I wonder if they are willing to make some custom size Classic style windows and not only train wheels! And I wish that LEGO would offer the same service, (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts editing made easy, anyone?
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(...) Hi Stefan, yes I believe there would be interest in such a utility. And yes, I believe most people still used text-based programs to edit parts. There are tools that make it a bit easier, like LDDesignPad, but it's still basically just a text (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Parts editing made easy, anyone?
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Are parts authors really using text editors to compose new parts? I find it hard to understand that a text editor is still the tool of choice for this relatively complicated modeling task. I might be wrong and could need an update on what tools (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Anatomy of a POV file (e.g. L3P suggestions)
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(...) When you really get into POV-Ray, you have to deal with multiple files. If you ever include a graphic as a texture, or a height field, there is nothing you can do. You can't combine an image into a text file and have it work well. If you have (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Render of a Pelican (model by Toshiya)
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Hi all, I found this nice model of a pelican on Brickshelf and found it so cute, I made in LDraw and rendered a picture. The original model is done by a BS user called Toshiya (9765). Link: (URL) is the image: (URL) goes also to Jeroen de Haan, (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray) !
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| | LEGO Factory Judge Pages Archived?
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One side benefit to LF (IMO) has been the spotlight pages on the judges. It's fun to read each judge's background, childhood favorites, etc. and then try to see how that reflects in his/her designs. From a teacher's point of view, I also loved the (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.edu, FTX)
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| | Re: Anatomy of a POV file (e.g. L3P suggestions)
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(...) Hi Lars, I'd prefer that the format is unchanged. Right now LPub post-proceses the one file, greying parts as needed, adjusting camera settings for orthographic, and creating new colors for the greyed pieces.... I'd really rather *not* have to (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Anatomy of a POV file (e.g. L3P suggestions)
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(...) I am anything but an expert on this area, but will not the parts, 3001_dot_dat and so on, also be defined multiple times? (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Anatomy of a POV file (e.g. L3P suggestions)
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(...) For newbies I think it's nice that the POV file is self-contained and ready-to-render. However, using certain coming options you can exclude camera and lights. Why would you like submodels in separate .inc files ? Only to have a smaller (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Anatomy of a POV file (e.g. L3P suggestions)
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(...) Optional, yes that would be nice. But I also see the strength in the fact that all data needed are gathered in the same file. I have downloaded so many pov-files just to discover that they have references to inc files I fail to find on the (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Anatomy of a POV file (e.g. L3P suggestions)
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Here are the basic components of a POV file, as it is generated by default by L3P. Materials Color declarations Stud-tops Finishes Render-Detail Options Qual SW Bumps etc. Scene-Level Objects Camera Lights Floor Background Parts & Primitives Models (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Automated Inventory Ordering through Bricklink
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(...) If you go into BrickLink's "Search", then "Find Stores", you can upload an XML file of all the parts you want, and it will find the stores which have all (or most) of those parts. There's a help file on how to build the XML file (URL) here>. (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.market.brickshops, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw Animation Behaviour .dat Files?
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(...) So what is the status of the LCD? I haven't heard from it for quite a while. /Tore (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Spline-based Road Creation
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(...) Ooops. I forgot to update the link. The new URL is: (URL) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: LDraw Animation Behaviour .dat Files?
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(...) You should try and merge/append this with the connection database, e.g. model behavior vs. part behavior. No sense coming up with two different ways of doing basically the same thing. (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Ldraw Minifig "Machinima" POVray include file
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I was wondering if anyone else had released similar include files? (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA2001 Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) Don't get me wrong. Story based is exactly what I have in mind. (...) ... (...) The Siggraph movie is exactly what you see it is, showcases of models. Specifically, they are a collection of animations that are showcases. No attempt to tell a (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2005 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) Just to clear up a bit of confusion. This nomination is for the Ldraw.org Steering Committee (SteerCo) and not for the LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC). The difference is the SteerCo is responsible for the overall governence of LDraw.org (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2005 LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) Thanks, Ross and Timothy, for this (unexpected) nomination. I must decline though because of lack of time. Maybe next time, having a LeoCAD user at the LSC would be nice... Philo (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Povray is not rendering the whole picture
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(...) Thanks for the help, it looks like I had spaces in the names and that was the problem. I forget that these programs are old outdated software that cant handle a little space in the name. Thnanks Dave (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Automated Inventory Ordering through Bricklink
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(...) Yes. the sheer number of combinations can quickly get ridiculous and it gets hard to evaluate which is "best." I cheated by making a few asumptions. I'll share them when I dig up the code, I don't remember the details off hand. -JSM (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Re: Automated Inventory Ordering through Bricklink
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(...) SNIP (...) Yeah I had to have a look up table for that. It was annoying but not insurmountable : ) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Re: Povray is not rendering the whole picture
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(...) It seems like L3P does not find the path to the submodels(?) Are they all in the same folder? How are the files named? Any spaces in the filenames or paths? (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Povray is not rendering the whole picture
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Hello all I have built a multi part model in Mlcad and then use L3P add on to make a POV file. But it never renders the submodels. What am I doing wrong that makes POV not see the rest of the model? Dave (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: New Program for Handling MPD-Files
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Ok! Here is a new Installation with all necessary files! Please first uninstall and then install the new version. Here is also a link for direkt download (URL) (approx. 2.5 MB) Michael Heidemann (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New Program for Handling MPD-Files
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(...) OH DEAR! I am a little confused with my dll's. I have to upload a new version. Sorry for that! Upload will follow within the next 2 hour. best regards Michael Heidemann (20 years ago, 18-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA2001 Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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In lugnet.animation, Stefan van Zwam wrote: [snip some stuff] (...) You're going off on James because his cool, amazing, exciting animation didn't tell a story? And then you're going to get down on the idea of creating new software tools to make it (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA2001 Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) What we try to do at brickfilms.com ("we" as in "most stop-motion animators", though I am somewhat more involved in Brickfilms.com's operation than some others) is to create movies in a more classical sense: story-based. What you have shown me (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: New Program for Handling MPD-Files
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(...) In lugnet.cad, Michael Heidemann wrote: (...) Good work Michael.. I was going to suggest you send a request to have this program added to the LDraw.org 3rd party software list but I'm afaird that it might not be ready for [PRIME TIME] just (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA2001 Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) The coming L3P has also these new options: -ic[<file>] no camera, optional include file -il[<file>] no lights, optional include file So, l3p -ic -il model.ldr model.inc might just do what you want, assuming you still want color and primitive (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | New Program for Handling MPD-Files
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On my homepage (URL) you can find the download for this program. Here is also a link for direkt download (URL) (approx. 2.5 MB) The program language is english only. If you have whishes for new releases please let me know. Michael Heideman (20 years ago, 17-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Extracting the length of a flexible part from an LDraw file? How?
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Topic pretty much says it all here.. when a flexible element has been synthesized with LSynth, how can one extract which length (presumably a standard length) of that element would be most appropriate for the model? Thanks >> Mark (20 years ago, 17-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Automated Inventory Ordering through Bricklink
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(...) The problem with this (and with Briktrak) is that there are a few Bricklink parts whose numbers are not the same as the LDraw parts. There was an attempt a while back to normalize the numbering system across the main part cataloging sites but (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA2001 Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) Yeah, it'd be very cool if L3P had an option to generate include files instead of full scenes. That way, people could run all their various model files through L3P to generate the definitions in include files. Then they could use all those (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Automated Inventory Ordering through Bricklink
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(...) I beleive that this is the hardest part of the automated 'from-CAD-to-shop' process. There are so many variables, obviously element avaialability but also price and geographical location. Also when using the By Shop sorting feature in (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Re: Automated Inventory Ordering through Bricklink
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There is of course the option on Bricklink of uploading an XML file into your wanted list. If you could make a program that reformats an MLCad parts list into the required XML format you would be halfway there. I have tested this function with a (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) I think I mean... I don't remember! (...) Maybe, but that's not really the problem to me. (...) output files) is having to hunt down all the include files! (...) I'd say let's start with camera.dat and lookat.dat. If we make them with lines (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) I had no idea that L3Lab had POV output, in spite the fact that I've been using it daily for years! Hmm, very intersting. The alternative approach that comes to my mind is: * LDA creates a static MPD file and runs it through L3P. * The output (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: File queue of hold voted parts?
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(...) As an admin I will handle the renumbering of ####.dat to ####b.dat, but only if it is brought to my attention. At present I do not get automatically notified of all holds, but this is an enhancement I am working on. Please indicate (either (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) I'd agree with this. But what I do with an L3Lab output (which is how I generate my static images in POV from LDraw files) is immediately strip the camera and viewpoint stuff out and make it into an .inc file, my main file just includes what (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: What does MLCad check to determine if the "Original LDraw Package" is installed?
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Right, did not think of that. Leaving both P and S dirs does the trick. What I did now was a full new install of all parts, both official and unofficial in another directory than my official LDraw dir. I created a temporary directory for only the (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LPUB - POV problem
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(...) Hi Ludo, Actually there is a check box the lets LPub automatically overwrite files when splitting MPDs. I'm not at my LDraw computer right now, so I cannot tell you what it is called. Kevin (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: File queue of hold voted parts?
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(...) Relatedly... 1) The only part I've uploaded thus far, a ####a, got a hold vote because it'd require moving the existing #### to ####b (with a ~Moved) file. Is this a valid reason to hold, or something the admin would do if it got approved? I'd (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) You mean LD4D and you or POV-Ray and you? (...) You really need to look at how POV-Ray does animation. It has all of this built in. I think one reason why animation is so hard is because L3P's output is overwhelming. It is not good for newbies (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPUB - POV problem
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(...) From my use of LPUB, it seems when you have an MPD file that the program splits it into its individual LDR files before it renders everything. If you go into the directory where the mpd file is, you will probably find the LDR files that LPUB (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) Yes, that's why I also make this little humble program to see if my ideas work put to practice. (...) ... and that program crasches on all of my PC:s, expect the very first beta version he released... :(( (...) Maybe, maybe not. I recall James (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | File queue of hold voted parts?
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hi, would it be possible to add a second queue to the PT, listing just parts with a hold vote to have an overview how long they are already hang around there? it would be easier to sort out the orphans. w. (20 years ago, 15-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) I have no idea. Anton always include the ini with the pov file, so perhaps whatever tools come from this can just auto create the ini file as well. (...) Hey! Cool! I know the syntax alone wont be much good. If there aren't tools that use it, (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Automated Inventory Ordering through Bricklink
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---snip--- There are two soultions that I know of. 1) Create a .LDR file with the parts you want to buy 2) Download and install (URL) 3) Upload your .LDR file to briktrak and it will link to bricklink and provide you a list of stores that have your (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Re: What does MLCad check to determine if the "Original LDraw Package" is installed?
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(...) And on that point... Even if you want only the unofficial parts, you'll still need a fair amount (if not all) of the official files in the P directory. -Orion (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Automated Inventory Ordering through Bricklink
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I wrote a utility, for my own use, about two years ago that takes a .dat file and attempts to find "best" way to buy the parts via BrickLink. I'd planned to produce custom sets and source the parts for them this way. It was working well when last I (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) I already am. :) I noticed that L3P already marks the beginning of these blocks: // Camera (Latitude,Longitude,Radius = 45,45,0) and // Lights: Now, I've asked Lars to let L3P also mark the ends of these blocks. (...) No it isn't. Btw, I'm (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: What does MLCad check to determine if the "Original LDraw Package" is installed?
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(...) I think the only required file is STUD.DAT in the P directory. (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) In the coming L3P each section is tagged with POV comments like //// ModelObject //// Camera //// Lights exactly to help cutting out the interested POV code. (...) I'm reluctant to adding too much complexity into L3P to suit different special (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Since L3P is released only every four years or so, it shouldn't be a problem :-) /Lars (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Does your ldr file have a line "0 FILE ...." containing the full path to the file? If so, try deleting the path and just leaving the filename. ROSCO (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Hi all, I downloaded the complete instal file with my 56K modem, witch took abouth 4 hours. Now i can render pictures using LPUB, but i encounter some problems. I would like to create 'Instruction Images' of my model, but i get an error message, and (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) You could try BrikTrak. If I recall, it has a DAT file upload feature and it interfaces with Bricklink. (URL) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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(...) I guess we would have to work with Lars on that. Because your app is in Delphi, I would be interested in the syntax you develop. Implementing on different platforms is not as big of a deal in my opinion. I am mostly interested in this because (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Greetings all, I was discussing some time-saving MOC parts ideas and I came up with an idea for a software utility that could significantly reduce the amount of time spent digging around for loose parts. Currently, to the best of my knowledge, when (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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Hi all, I was trying to create an installation of LDraw and MLCad with only the unofficial parts. So I thought to create a new directory on another drive, copy LDRAW.EXE and LEDIT.EXE into it, unpack the unoffical parts in directories PARTS and P en (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Very small triangle and a quad that thinks its a tri
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(...) Silly question time. Where can I download the latest versions from. My usual place (the zip files on your web site) are still dated sometime in 2001! thanks William (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I've been thinking a lot about that. I think you can find a couple of threads here if you perform a search on "post-processing" or "post-processor". But... What if a futureversion of L3P has some new improvement and changes the syntax of the (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's a small triangle! Side lengths: 0.0684 0.0671 0.0132 The reason it doesn't show in L3Lab is that you have color coded it in your file! Back in 1998 PovRay would crash if it was given a triangle with collinear vertices and a texture (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA2001 Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) That is what I was going to do too. (...) I guess what I was thinking was exporting a file that could either be povray format, a format that l3p could convert (preserving unions, macros, etc), or a format that I would use with Anton's library (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA2001 Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) Thanks for the response. Just a qiuck reply, got to go back to work... LDA outputs both .dat files for the indiviual frames but also one master .dat that has references to the single-frame files, separated by CLEAR and STEP. L3P supports (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) L3Lab allocates at least 7*WindowWidth*WindowHeight bytes, which seems to have failed. Also in case of a complex model a lot of additional memory is allocated for that first. Are you low on memory ? Does it happen all the time ? On any model ? (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA2001 Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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(...) Tore, I think I know what you could do that would meet even my needs. Here is my idea. Output one pov-ray file. Have it export valid pov-ray format using unions, macros, clocks, switches, ranges, etc. Then, with that, it will be easy to add (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I know it doesn't look realistic. But we are just starting! (...) Cool, I didn't know any of that. Maybe I should read that book. (...) Yes, I wanted to imitate that look. Not sure how I'll do it yet, but I'll figure it out. By "we", do you (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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(...) I've been able to open with 7-zip. Our version of Winzip obviously has issues with it. I've also had success with Rendering with the correct colours. Thanks for your help Orion and Rosco! (20 years ago, 13-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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heres what my screen says before it crashes (URL) anyone help? (20 years ago, 13-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I just downloaded it and opened it fine with Winzip, maybe you had a download problem, you should try downloading again. ROSCO (20 years ago, 13-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Unfortunatly tgz is the only file available. 7Zip can handle this files and it's free: (URL) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Thanks Orion, but I'm unable to open the lg_colors tar file. I've tried to open it on a couple of machines with winzip but it reports an 'invalid header'. Is there a standard .zip version of this I can use? Thanks, Matt. (20 years ago, 13-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) It sounds like you are using my lugnetcolors.inc file. If so, have you downloaded the Lugnet Color Guide definition files? If not here's the link: (URL) you have downloaded and unzipped the above file you have to modify so POV-Ray settings: - (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Hi, Being new to all this, this may be a silly question but - When running Pov-Ray, I keep getting the following message - "Parse Error: Cannot open include file lg_color_n06.inc" I've looked for this include file and can't find it anywhere. Can (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Hi all, Thanks for all the words of support regarding the LDraw.org Contributer Agreement. We've received quite a few responses but would like to wrap up this issue as quickly as possible. For those who haven't heard of the CA here's the (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Restart of LDA2001 Project (using LDraw models - L3P - POV)
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Hi everyone, (...) convincing to at least try to mimick obedience of the laws of physics. Walking, as Richard Williams states in "The Animator's Survival Kit", is controlled falling. You let yourself fall over and just in time catch yourself with (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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