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(...) You could also define an escape character, to accept the character following (including spaces) as part of the string. However, as the standard allows both / and \ as directory separators, it would require some character other than \ (a common (...) (20 years ago, 11-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) There are other possibilities too, for example: 7. You can exceed 8.3 but don't embed spaces or other sorts of whitespace 8. Limit filenames to only the character set legal for BrickShelf folders Not meant to be exhaustive, just to get (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I used them until I got a VERY bizarre image of the 10016 tanker in L3p/PovRay. I promptly switched to using hyphens prefixed by the model id :) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Well, technically ldlite has been around since well before MLCad, and it supports the double quotes, but MLCad is more widely used. So I guess you could make that argument either way. (...) I only asked for a recommendation, not a requirement. (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Version 513 of the Library can be found on my website now, 9 new pieces have been added. As always you can find all of the changes to the Library in the included "considerations.txt" file. The address is: (URL) Anton (20 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I'll do the same. (...) Hi Don, Nice post. GROUP commands are defined outside the LDraw spec, but I'd guess that the naming issues are the same. I just made a minor change to: 0 PLIST BEGIN SUB <file> // depricated 0 LPUB PLI BEGIN SUB <file> (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hmmm, I'm not sure if this effort is actually making things more compatible. (...) I just did a little testing myself. MLCad seems to strip off any whitespace (tabs and space characters) at the end of the line when it grabs the filename. Is that (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I am currently going through the L3P code and I have now added support for filenames with spaces, both in linetype 1 and in "0 FILE xxx". It now uses the rest of the line as the filename. It also accepts filenames in double-quotes. /Lars (20 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) (URL) only is white on red easier to render than blue on black, it will probably show the detail better in print. Thanks for the suggestions though, --Bram (20 years ago, 9-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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"Bram Lambrecht" <lego@bldesign.org> schreef in bericht news:IEL8K5.36t@lugnet.com... (...) Ah c'mon Bram, don't give up so easily! Show us your secret project! Jeroen (20 years ago, 9-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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"Bram Lambrecht" <lego@bldesign.org> schreef in bericht news:IEKDJ4.ro1@lugnet.com... (...) Hi Bram, The secret is: don't use radiosity! Haha. But seriously: as far as I remember the Hudson posters are done without radiosity. It can be done but you (...) (20 years ago, 9-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Looking for scans of the stickers from the Treasure Raiders set, #2879 (also listed as #5909 & #5948). Appriciations and thanks in advance. (20 years ago, 8-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hi Don, Using MLCad as a benchmark, the name with blanks is *not* enclosed in quotes. I use the remainder of the line, sans end of line as the file name. Alas, my efforts are for naught. L3P quietly ignores the lines that have names with (...) (20 years ago, 8-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I think you made the right decision, but I have a question. Do the filenames with embedded spaces have quotes around them, or do they just use up all the space to the end of the LDRAW type 1 command line? The reason I ask is because I seem to (...) (20 years ago, 8-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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In lugnet.cad, Allan Bedford wrote: snip (...) snip (...) snip (...) Allan, Your opinions are valued. Thanks. I decided to take the pragmatic way out, and adjust my parsing to support file names with blanks. I think that warnings will lead to just (...) (20 years ago, 8-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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| | Re: Question for the LSC. Blanks in file names legal?
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In lugnet.cad, Orion Pobursky wrote: <snip> (...) Is there anything that I can do to help get this ratified? (...) Kevin (20 years ago, 8-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) I think I've decided just to use different colors instead of worrying about rendering black. I'll be easier to make it more photo-realistic this way. --Bram (20 years ago, 7-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) I've had some success with black parts and radiosity. You can view the results (URL) here> and let me know if you think the radiosity settings that I used would be helpful. Forgive me for inserting unofficial elements into the conversation, (...) (20 years ago, 7-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) Right...I was just wondering if anyone had particular settings they used in POV-Ray that worked well. Otherwise it's just that much trial and error on my part, which is really slow when you're using radiosity. --Bram (20 years ago, 7-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) Hi Bram, I'm not much of a ray tracing expert, but this is an issue that even LEGO has addressed. When I look at building instructions by LEGO, they translate black parts to a dark gray, almost the same color as the original dark gray. Many (...) (20 years ago, 7-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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