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(...) Right. Set the lines REALLY fat, render REALLY huge, then shrink the image which gives you nice antialiasing effects... LDLite now lets you set infinite canvas How closely does LDGLite mimic the switches/flags, etc? (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) If you don't have ImageMagick for OS X yet, I imagine you will soon. It wouldn't surprise me if it's already there though as it might be installed with the underlying *nix OS programs. Tim (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Can you post the file? Otherwise it's kinda hard to tell... (...) Thanks, and with the FatLines ™ trick Larry mentioned you should be able to get even prettier output for publishing instructions, although I've never actually tried it on OS X. (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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So, I got LDGLite working on my Mac, and dragged a file made with Bricksmith onto it. This file has a subassembly (submodel?). LDGLite renders nicely, except that my submodel doesn't appear where it should be on the final model; instead it's sitting (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Can anyone get LDGLite for OS X?
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(...) Hmm, now that you mention it, it looks like I got 147456 bytes the first try, and 94208 bytes the second — I should have thought to look whether it's the same size. In both cases Firefox thought the download was complete. It was an extremely (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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(...) In this context - a very simple or basic extension language could be used to add an animation block with keyframe/timecode information. Then, when you need to break out the big guns, you can embed POV code into it for complex techniques. The (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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(...) I could email you a copy, but first I'd like to see what's wrong with the download and fix that. I just grabbed it from the sourceforge link and it seems to unpack ok here (on a Windows box :^) The .gz file is supposed to be 613774 bytes. How (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Factory impressions (US Only?)
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(...) I must have missed the US only announcement too, my understanding was that it was a North American launch initially, however I get no prices with my location set to Canada either... Oh well, hopefully it will be available around the world (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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At Larry's suggestion, I'm trying to get LDGLite (for OS X, in my case). The (URL) LDGLite page> provides a link to an (URL) OS X app bundle>, but I've downloaded it twice now, and both times it fails to unpack, saying: "gunzip: (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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All right, the new LDD and LEGO Factory have inspired this idea, which is a dumb one but I have to get it off my chest anyway: Somebody with reasonable technical skills and a decent amount of time on their hands could set up a service similar to (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Announcing Bricksmith for Macintosh
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(...) Look into the MegaPOV enhancement, I think that adds edge lines. (that's about all I know, I render using LDLite with fat edge lines configured in when I am doing instructions. I THINK maybe LDGLite supports that too? not sure) Hope that (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Thanks, Anton. I tried your converter the other day, and it gave me blank files, so I gave up on it and just downloaded L3D (which worked fine). But now I'll give your converter another try too. Incidentally, though, I don't find POV-Ray (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Yep! (...) Yes, (URL) Meshwork>. I also wrote a little mini-LEGO-CAD program in (URL) once. In fact, I think you'll find it among the 3D examples that come with REALbasic. (...) Alas, no, though it would really be just a recompile. But then (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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(...) If we followed that logic, LDraw would never have existed in the first place. When LDraw started out, there were already plenty of 3D modeling systems. Heck, there were already lego-brick subsets of 3D modeling systems. Yet LDraw does exist, (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: LEGO Factory Terms Of Service
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I'm guessing they dont want 'Lenny shot' photos. (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LEGO Factory impressions
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(...) I brought in a nifty little microfig (1) hoversled/skycar that Nik had doodled up in 1.3 into 1.4... it told me about missing parts, so I had it fetch them. Then I tried uploading it. It would not let me upload it to the Factory gallery (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) It's already there in the CVS archive. Check out the (URL) SourceForge project page> by clicking on the link at the bottom left of the bricksmith homepage. Then scroll down to the (URL) Browse CVS> link if you just want to take a peek. The (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD Help Needed
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(...) I got word from an e-mail I sent to the LDD team at Lego that this feature is being considered for a future version of the product. -- Thomas Main thomasmain@myrealbox.com (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LEGO Factory impressions
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In lugnet.cad, Joe Strout wrote: <snip> (...) I guess it goes back to the intended audience. I get way too frustrated trying to use it (the no movement in x and y kills me). However, my 8 yo son used it for over 30 minutes to build a model he (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Factory impressions
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(...) Kelly, Enjoy v. 1.3....just think, you can still build with an unlimited parts palette(which users of 1.4 cannot) and, according to some, has better automatic brick placement . I am going to experiment with getting 1.3 back on my computer, (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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