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--snip-- (...) Just to be clear it's not the render time I'm worried about... it's the authoring time. Tim (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Much as I'd like to agree on this, I don't think the fact that nobody posted back then disagreeing with my statement really counts as consensus. I pointed out the problem, but didn't ask for opinions on whether parts should be modeled that (...) (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) There are T-junctions there, but the ones that produce the most visible dots are between the white stripe and the moon. Both of those colors are light, so the dark background showing through is much higher contrast, which makes the dots much (...) (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) It's not really constrained to high zoom. If you have a 1% chance of any given pixel along any given T-junction boundary edge resulting in a hole, then you'll have the roughly the same number of holes at any zoom level, since in general the (...) (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Good call. I ran it with -n4, and that makes things visible during rotation. The status bar and final appearance of the model (after you stop rotating, if your rotation style is different) don't get drawn until obscured by a menu, etc., so (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) [...] (...) Oh, I thought you got no model displayed when launching the Mac bundle. I figured that with the environment.plist file, you'd at least get the the model displayed. On my old PowerBook I used this as a environment.plist <?xml (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I haven't followed all of this, but I suspect this is probably a driver issue. Ldglite is getting pretty old. It's so old that when I wrote the opengl bits the hardware (and software opengl) of the time was typically unable to render the model (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) This is a really old issue. I think the previous consensus was that (URL) T-Junctions are bad.> Look at the bottom of the message for the comments on T-Junctions. Actually this is such an old issue, I could swear there was an ASCII art (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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"Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com> schreef in bericht news:JECt3F.ED0@lugnet.com... (...) Which is indeed true. The GF2 was not MX. (...) This is dissappointing... I assumed a GF4 would be better on all fronts than an GF2. (...) Thanks (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) OK. I've set up a proper .MacOSX/environment.plist now, but I can't see that it's made any difference. The [mis]behavior is the same. This and the video information your provided supports my gut feeling that the problem is limited to the (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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Hi, Perhaps it is just me, but I am often confused when trying to find matching parts. For example, there is a wheel center 50944 or 42610, which is named 11 x 6 mm. In fact it is 11.2 x 6.4 mm which also more fits to LEGO dimensions. That is not (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) in all the parts I've made so far there is just one with a t-junction: (URL) (if I remember correctly it's where the two red quads are surrounded by the white border) but it is forgiveable I think, as it was one of the first parts I've ever (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Jim, I'm not a programmer, but as it was explained to me by Don Heyse, that the only way for a double-clickable Mac application to get information about unix-like environment variables is if that variable is specified in a file called (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) It's possible that by setting up meshes POVray can largely avoid the problem as it rotates points and then joins them. My opinion is that Part Authors should stick to keeping the polygon count down rather than jumping through hoops to try to (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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If you are a part author, I'd appreciate it if you read this post. I know it's long, but it needs to be in order to correctly describe the issue. When looking at one one of the parts in the inaugural Part of the Month contest in LDView (on my work (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Hmm. I'm curious how it works on your machine. There's not a problem with my LDraw directory or $LDRAWDIR definition; it's an environment variable, regardless of where it's defined. The problem isn't with the LDraw parts, its with the visible (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Odd... one of the first things I did was check to see if LDGLite worked on my MacBook, and it worked without a problem. My first guesses are that your LDRAW dir didn't get copied over from your old computer, and/or your (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I don't know off-hand the performance characteristics of those two cards, but if your GF2 wasn't an MX, then it's actually possible that the new card is actually slower at geometry processing (despite being two full generations newer). In (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I believe that the (now nearly mythical) "next version" of L3P has been announced to support ldconfig.ldr. --Travis (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) If you want, I can send you an alpha-quality Intel Mac binary of LDView 3.2, which can render the files (even from the command line), but I don't think it will be any easier to use than ldglite if you get ldglite to work. LDView doesn't (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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