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(...) Actually, one can bring the number of transformations down to 1 for the entire _object_. Interesting what can happen when an idea sits in the brain and percolates for a couple of days. A new idea I had was to just transform the camera position (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I ran into this too while betatesting. If you were using, for example, MLCad, it might be a problem with the color definitions that MLCad is aware of. Bricksiac is getting its color info from the ldconfig.ldr file in the install dir, I think. (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hello, I'am working on LD4DModeler V2 (see (URL) i want to make it better in every aspect over V1 am looking for some artist who is willing to make some (mostly) 16x16 pixel icons for me. I think people who used V1 know why I rather don't do it (...) (20 years ago, 28-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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(...) I knew I'd forgotten something in here! That function sounds interesting and could help a bit, but I'm not sure it's possible to turn an .inc around, but I'll look into it when I get the time. Thanks -NB (20 years ago, 27-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Part request: Propellor 3 Blade with 24t Gear Complete Assembly - 2740c01
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Well, I've done a request for this part more than a year ago, but to no avail.... Since I'm an airplanefreak I would really like to use it in some MOC's So if anyone is working on it or is planning to do so, please let us know! (20 years ago, 27-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I don't see it. Are you sure this works in the perspective projection? Because I can't quite figure out what the magic view vector is in that case. I think you'd need to calculate one view vector for each edge endpoint, which brings the number (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Parts display strange in LEGO Digital Designer
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Hi all, After a new full install of my PC, I cannot seem to get LDD to run properly. The parts display like this: (URL) have not seen this before. It worked on the previous install of my machine, which is exactly the same! Anyone else having this (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad)
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Okay.... having had a day to think about it and a night to sleep on it, I think I've figured out something.... But it would only work if the optional lines were incident to edges of polygons that are part of the object being drawn. I'm not sure if (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm not 100% sure, but I believe most (if not all) of these outlining algorithms expect you to know the difference between the front faces and the back faces. It could be that they could be adopted for use when you don't have this information, (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm not sure it's possible to implement for real without serious slowdowns. It might be possible to implement in a vertex program, but I haven't studied vertex programs, so I really don't know. (I'm pretty sure you can't throw out a vertex (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The look and feel is one of the reasons why I rejected GTK (...) To me, compile times are a non issue. However the non-free nature of Qt leaves a bad taste in my mouth (and I not even a Open Source zealot). I can however develop a Qt based (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Experimenting with camera.dat and look_at.dat
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(...) It would be nice if there were also a part used to store points. It would then be declared at the end of the .pov file as a uniquely named vector. (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Spline-based Road Creation
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(...) The next things I'm working on are the superelevation calculations, as well as an automatic intersection generator. (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) You're right about the performance hit. We've discussed this issue previously on lugnet, because quite a few of the renderers out there use opengl (ldview, leocad, ldglite, Mac Brick Cad...) Source code is available for all of these if you (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: need help with instructions
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(...) When you make your LDraw model add STEPS for each image of the BI you want to create. Once you have that use LPub to create the BI images. Depending on the number of STEPS you have in the model, LPub will create "x" number of images each one (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Someone once suggested to me (Dan from Microsoft maybe?) that given today graphics libraries, one could probably get away with ignoring op-lines altogether and use edge detection. This would present a potential problem since edge color is (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I was envisioning how an LDraw renderer would be implemented if it were done with OpenGL, and I've arrived at some questions that I can't answer for myself. I'm particularly wondering about line type #5, the optional line. According to the LDraw (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Experimenting with camera.dat and look_at.dat [DAT]
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(...) I updated the camera.dat and look_at.dat so they don't need to be REMmed out: 0 ~Camera Position 0 Name: Camera.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Un-official part 2 24 -4 0 0 4 0 0 2 24 0 -4 0 0 4 0 2 24 0 0 -4 0 0 4 0 L3P IFNOTPOV 1 0 0 25 37 1 0 (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes,I am very well aware of the multitude of camera settings POV offers, and I haven't yet decided which way to go. The fastest way may be to run my own race using my own META statements: 0 LDA CAMERA.POSITION x y z 0 LDA CAMERA.LOOKAT x y z 0 (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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Personally I don't think using GTK under Windows is a good idea. I've worked with it before and even released an application that used it and you won't believe the amount of people that have trouble using a Windows application with controls that (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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