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In lugnet.cad.ray, Lars C. Hassing wrote: <snip> (...) Hi Lars, Before you release, would it be possible for me to have an advanced copy of L3P, so I can adjust LPub to handle the new format? LPub does post processing of the L3P generated POV file (...) (20 years ago, 13-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) That is excellent news! I missed the first post (ref'd above) but that is exactly what I meant. Would it be possible to include a file in the directory with a name like L3Colours.inc or something that declares any modified colours one wishes (...) (20 years ago, 13-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) You'll be happy to know that the coming L3P (yes, I know I've said that too often) has #ifndef's around everything, e.g.: //// Primitive stud.dat #ifndef (stud_dot_dat) #macro stud_dot_dat(L3ArgTe...,L3ArgMat) L3MacroBegin("stud_dot_dat") #if (...) (20 years ago, 12-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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OK, you did that on purpose! Given the title of the folder, I've gotta ask - What Magazine? (great renders, btw) James Wilson Dallas, TX (20 years ago, 12-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) You got it. 0 L3P IFPOV meta-statements are probably the way to accomplish what you want. Hmm, thinking more about it (I could just go try it), you'll probably still need l3p's -p parameter, or l3p probably won't even look at the primitive (...) (20 years ago, 12-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Sorry! I guess I didn't make my question clear enough. I'd like to substitute the primitives still, but with those of my own creation, rather than those that L3P creates. For example I think a stud looks better with a slightly rounded top (a (...) (20 years ago, 12-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) Yep. -p Don't substitute any primitives in the P directory with POV equivalents ---...--- In order to have a nicer looking image some parts (primitives) in the P directory are by default substituted with POV equivalents. E.g. 4-4cyli.dat is (...) (20 years ago, 12-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Dear Lars (and anyone who can answer my questions) I was wondering if there was a way to use L3P so that it does NOT include its primitives in the final .pov file? The reason for this question is that I'd like to be able to adjust some of the (...) (20 years ago, 12-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Searching for LDraw file for part #30395 (hook with towball)
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Hi, For a BI I'm working on, I'm searching for a LDraw file of part #30395 (hook with towball). (2 URLs) I did not find it among the LDraw unofficials parts. Someone working on it ? Any help welcome , thanks Regards, Didier (20 years ago, 11-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Trouble creating building instructions using lpub and mpd file
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"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message [ ... snipped ... ] (...) [ ... snipped ... ] I highly recommend the O'Reilly "lex and yacc" book, I found it very helpful for a project I did at work a number of years ago. The moderated (...) (20 years ago, 11-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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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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| | Re: Raytracing a primarily black model
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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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