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(...) Ones that don't limit themselves to Windows newline sequences eg. Mac based editors, Linux based editors, good Windows editors. In that case it looks like it's a Mac newline sequence since Notepad recognises one character (probably carriage (...) (20 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) What kind of editor program produces for us Notepad users such unreadable files? (URL) (20 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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Hi all, It's a day late but we changeover from RACHAL 1 - Atmosphobic to the all new RACHAL 2 - RACHAL Impossible today. Thank you very much to everyone who submitted an entry. I really enjoy seeing what you've all come up with and it we some (...) (20 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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(...) Allen presented BrickSmith, the Mac LDraw editor that he authored. He also went into the history and motivations behind BrickSmith's features and functionality. He also previewed some upcoming idea that he's been working on including LSynth (...) (20 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Cool! What was his presentation about? (...) OK. What shall I send you, just the compiled lsynthcp program? I expect to be busy the rest of this weekend, so I may not be able to follow up until Monday or so, but I look forward to working with (...) (20 years ago, 31-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Hi Jim, Allan Smith also got LSynth running on the Mac. He announced that during his presentation here at BrickFest PDX. I'm game to make Mac executable available on my website, where Don and I make lsynthcp executable available for WinXP. (...) (20 years ago, 31-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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LDD no interaction with mouse When there is no internet connection, the question "would you work offline?" cannot answered by mouse. Buttons can not be pressed. Also when there is an conection in startwindow there appear no models and "load another (...) (20 years ago, 31-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) Awesome, thanks a tonne for this info!! J (20 years ago, 31-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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(...) Thanks. Happily, I think all these things are already available for Linux or Windows - but of course they are nicer on a Mac. :) Two key Windows-oriented tools, MLCad and LDraw Design Pad, do work in the (URL) CrossOver> demo (more or less): (...) (20 years ago, 31-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Oh, OK. I could as well, but I thought I'd check if they wanted to put it on the same site as the original. Any way is fine by me. (...) I had no idea there was once an actual LDraw for the Mac Campaign! I don't think I even knew about LDraw (...) (20 years ago, 31-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Sweet. I can host stuff. (...) Sweet. I guess I've kinda fallen off. Incidentally, the last few days I've been cleaning up my old files and I ran across the old LDMC website (LDraw for the Mac Campaign). Its been 5 years since I took the site (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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I've posted the movie showing how to add a minifig to the model. (URL) minutes Here is a list of the topics covered: * Where to find the minifig macro * Image maps (faces, shirts, etc) aka lib_decorations * Using an existing minifig * Hiding bricks (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Wow. You're a one-man Mac compatiblity machine. I almost wish I had a Mac so I could play with all the toys you've ported. Tim (20 years ago, 30-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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I just realized today that the (URL) LSynth source code> builds fine on Mac OS X. Apologies if this has already been established, but it's news to me. I'd previously only been aware of the PC binary version (URL) available here>. The Tk GUI works, (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Thanks! i'm on firefox too, but all i could see of the secon radio button was "Windows 200"-the rest must have been cut off as the font size in my firefox must be too large for some sites or parts of sites. I'm SO glad you pointed that out- i (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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Orion Pobursky schrieb: (...) I have also looked at www.retrojunk.com. Very interesting. cu mikeheide (20 years ago, 29-Mar-07, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.cad)
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(...) That's a nifty scanf trick. But don't forget, you might still want to (URL) trim leading and trailing whitespace> (tabs and space characters) from the parsed filename (and maybe even surrounding quotes). Don (20 years ago, 29-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Thanks for the info - in a coincidental sequence of events, QT informed me there was a new version and I had downloaded it, less than 24 hours after I had unsuccessfully tried LDD 2.0. Unfortunately, I hadn't tried LDD again after installing (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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(...) Based on the rest of this post, I assume you're not on a Mac. While it used to be that the only way I could find Quicktime without iTunes was to do a Google search for standalone quicktime, the standalone Quicktime installer is now on the main (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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(...) SNIP I got it to work fine by doing what Brad74 on the Lego.com forums said: (URL) "I had the same issues with v2.0 Stalled at the initial selection screen. I did however get it working. What I did was after initial install I un-checked the (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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| | Re: Getting rif off the 8.3 nomenclature??? (scanf tricks)
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(...) <snip> (...) Hi Jim, Thanks! I'll use it. Kevin (20 years ago, 29-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Here's a collection of YouTube links: (URL) Looking those up was way more fun than I expected. (20 years ago, 29-Mar-07, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.cad)
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(...) misparse file names with blanks or tabs in them. (...) will be backward compatible and not cause problems (at least not for (...) I have no idea whether this could be worked into your sscanf usage, but it is possible to read whitespace into (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) OK, that makes a lot more sense. LDView had the same problem with whitespace in filenames until I specifically added support for that. (LDView now gives you a warning when it encounters whitespace in a filename.) --Travis (20 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Sorry for posting to my own post. In particular if the "longer file names" cannot have blanks in the names, then there is no problem for LPub or LSynth. 20.3 would require no changes at to LPub or LSynth. Given that sscanf splits things up by (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Travis it has to do with parsing. For type 1 lines and 8.3 I can simply use sscanf. Kevin (20 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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I have some tv-spots from TLC. Does anybody has also some from other countries than germany. mikeheide (20 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Well, I still do ocasionally, when I'm using my remote MS-DOS based platform. And on my other platform, running on a Windows NT operating system, (URL) this nomenclature test> failed on the second line. (Although I do not fully understand the (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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I have just updated DATheader with some features. According to the actual discussion with long filenames I have tested long filenames also with spaces in the name and all worked fine. But keep in mind that this is only for windows systems. mikeheide (20 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) We are talking about official files in the parts library here. They're not going to have Unicode or special characters. If this isn't already explicitly in the spec for library filenames, we can certainly add it. As a side note, UTF-8 and (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Couldn't that be dealt with by restricting the filenames to alphanumerics + the usual suspects (_ etc.)? My understanding was those were unchanged in any character set. Tim (20 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Call me paranoid, but long filenames make me nervous because of the other worms packaged along with them (like unicode or UTF-8, blech!). Sure your filenames might look great on Windows, but try to bring them over to another filesystem, or (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Or, we should start by introducing the new standard, use it in a few (relatively obscure) instances, and give the various software authors a chance to sort it out. Considering the general pace of parts releases, a long-named file would be on (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) This suprises me. Can you elaborate on this? If we in the LSC are going to make an informed decision on this issue, understanding why this is the case with LPub/LSynth would help us greatly. I know all Win32 API calls work fine with long (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I'm personally undecided on the issue of long filenames. On the one hand Willy is entirely correct that we probably shouldn't disallow them purely because of ldraw.exe/ledit.exe. On the other hand, Kevin's post that LPub/LSynth would both have (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) While I am a current member of the LSC, this hasn't been discussed there. It has always been my understanding that this format for meta commands was never intended to require existing meta commands (official or otherwise) to be changed. (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) As the author of the meta command section of the 1.0.0.0 spec, my intention wasn't to twist the arms of developers into adopting the "!" prefix or the program name requirement. For non-official LDraw.org programs, I meant for these rules to be (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) To elaborate: Suppose you have a part abcdefg.dat with loads of subparts (Too many to name with the 8.3 restriction). Just make a new subdirectory LDRAW/PARTS/S/abcdefg/ and put the numbered subparts in there (like (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Darn! In that case I'd suggest making a short filename preparer as a backwards compatibility measure. Perhaps it would bring all longfilename parts into an MPD (with shortened names) or something similar (eg. creates short name versions (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) That's an interesting approach, but I don't know if it'll work for the subpart files that started this thread. I think mklist only handles files in the PARTS directory. The subpart filenames would be embedded in the part files that use them, (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Well I've just spent some time on another way. You can make a new version of mklist that works as follows: scan through the parts, if a filename is long then make a new copy of the file with a standardised short file name (possible assigned in (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Yeah, but there's always another way. One that preserves the precious backwards compatibility. In this case you could make more subdirectories in the official library. Like the LDRAW/P/48 directory that was created to avoid name conflicts (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Willy, I agree completely on this point. That is why the LSC created the LDraw file format specification 1.0.0. I have never used LDraw myself, but I know that for some very influential people in the LDraw community this is an issue. I did not (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Hi Kevin, frankly I never understood how and why a program (I've never used BTW) can set a standard! I don't use Office progs from Redmond but I doubt that the file format for Word2007 has to be compatible with Word for DOS 5.5. Hang on! (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I am no longer on the LSC, but I'll give my opinion. Given that the LPUB, SYNTH and MLCad's ROTATION meta's were defined before there was ever an LSC, before the LDraw file format 1.0.0.0 was officially ratified, or before the discussion in (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Need LDD 2.0 Help from the Experts on Making Instructions
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(...) I think 10183 instructions were done by hand. I believe the system follows the order you add your pieces but it will not preserve step statements in LDraw files any more :( Tim (20 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: LDD 2.0 immedeately locks up
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(...) Here's my me too post. I have the same issue on my P4 2.26GHz w/ ATI Radeon 8500 card. I had issues running earlier versions of 1.x on that hardware as well, but 1.6 runs okay. Incidentally, on my PIII 733 w/ GeForce2 card, after repeatedly (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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(...) Do you have on-board video, or a plug-in card? I have been informed by LDD QA that many motherboards with built-in video have problems running 3-d applications. Your PC is exhibiting the same symptoms as mine, which has on-board video, see (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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I start LDD 2.0 & it opens to a selection of pre-built models, free play, etc. Selecting any of these slows the computer to almost a dead halt. I'm running Windows XP sp2, with 3 Ghz & 300 Gb & updated DirectX. Anyone have any idea what's going on? (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: Getting rif off the 8.3 nomenclature???
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(...) Hi Willy, Nice explanation about naming. The issue of 8.3 nomenclature falls under the purvue of the Standards Committee. Before they can remove that constraint, they will have to work with the community of tool developers to understand the (...) (20 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Need LDD 2.0 Help from the Experts on Making Instructions
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How do you control building instruction steps with LDD 2.0? It doesn't seem to preserve them when you upgrade 1.6 models or import LDraw models. I assume there must be a way because the 10183 hobby train models have organized instructions. Does (...) (20 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Getting rif off the 8.3 nomenclature???
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guys, I'm currently working on 004219b.dat - Sticker System with Australia Flag Pattern. unfortunately there is no rule for subparts in the sticker standard: (URL) to the PT references: (URL) are subparts numbered? A: Subparts, which are stored in (...) (20 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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guys, flicking through the specs I got a bit confused and seek clarification (preferably from the LSC) we have the list of Official META Commands: (URL) list of currently known META Commands: (URL) LDraw File Format 1.0.0 proposal (oddly there is no (...) (20 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Moscow in the 80s - diorama
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Uh, oh, you may have an argument to model the underside of baseplates in LDraw: (URL) (It may not be obvious, but I'm being at least somewhat tongue-in-cheek here.) --Travis (20 years ago, 26-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) In my 1998 Christmas picture (URL) (go to the end of the page) I hand adjusted the lights (one inside each candle) quite a bit. One important part was the material settings (Color46_t), as the clear L3P parts are much *too* clear. Most of the (...) (20 years ago, 26-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Wow! Thank you! I didn't know that. I tried some different options, and found that the "black" light (color 0, which isn't really black) surpringly produced the best balance between taillights noticably on and not spreading too much red light (...) (20 years ago, 25-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) I just did before I read your post! (Just called it test.dat instead...) And it really works, the problem is POV will not inline the light into the position of SOFLIGHT.DAT but rather <0,0,0> of the POV world. This makes it more complicated, (...) (20 years ago, 25-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I notice you're using white as the color for light.dat. Since L3P pays attention to the color of the light, you can use a much darker shade of gray. The following was done with a light inside the trans red brick with a color of 0x02141414 (...) (20 years ago, 25-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: Light is too bright! [DAT]
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(...) Hi Tore, Try something like the following Tim ------- SOFLIGHT.DAT ------- 0 Soft Pov-RAY Light Source 0 Name: SOFLIGHT.DAT 0 Author: Tim Gould based on work by James Jessiman 0 Unofficial part 0 L3P IFPOV 0 light_source { <0,0,0> color rgb (...) (20 years ago, 25-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Thank you, Anders, I think that should do it. But the thing is, in LDA I try to do everything before running it all trough L3P. Adding post-processing to the steps already involved in LDA is not very appealing to me. And after the most (...) (20 years ago, 25-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: instructions needed
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Orion Pobursky schrieb: (...) Thanks Orion, but I need not the instructions for the sets itself because I own all of them. I need the instructions for the extra models (combinations) that are shown on that picture. Those instructions are not in the (...) (20 years ago, 25-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.znap, lugnet.technic.roboriders, lugnet.technic, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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| | Re: LDD questions
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(...) I remember searching for that in 1.6... how frustrating! Try to hit the arrow on your keyboard when placing the brick (it should not just be selected, but be ready to place (moving with your pointer thus) Hope it helps, Jean-Marc (20 years ago, 25-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | LDD questions
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1. How do you rotate a brick in LDD? - it does't mention it in the help - I must be stupid! 2. When I export to Ldraw I just get the 1st 2 lines, the other export formats look OK? Thanks, David (20 years ago, 25-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: instructions needed
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(...) (URL) (20 years ago, 25-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.znap, lugnet.technic.roboriders, lugnet.technic, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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(...) They should probably be less bright, you can multiply the whole RGB triple by a constant less than 1: ... 0.4 * <r, g, b> It would also help changing the 'fade_distance' and 'fade_power' to make them not shine so far. Or you could change them (...) (20 years ago, 25-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | instructions needed
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Does anybody has instructions for these models of the roborider series? (URL) help is welcome. mikeheide (20 years ago, 25-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.znap, lugnet.technic.roboriders, lugnet.technic, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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Mark Kennedy schrieb: (...) I think this is not necessary. The other stud groups are created mainly for the baseplates and there are no underside studs. mikeheide (20 years ago, 25-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Problems with Online Hobby Train Instructions
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(...) Thanks, I never would've gotten there without a nudge. Mike (20 years ago, 25-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: Light is too bright!
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(...) Maybe it shows better how dominating the red light is in this frame: (URL) (20 years ago, 25-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Light is too bright! [DAT]
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Hi all! Is there a way to make the red tail-lights shine a little less brightly? I use the following code, 1 36 -50 -55 108 -1 0 0 0 0 -1 0 -1 0 4073.DAT 1 36 50 -55 108 -1 0 0 0 0 -1 0 -1 0 4073.DAT 1 15 -50 -53 108 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 light.dat 1 15 (...) (20 years ago, 25-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Does anybody think that there should be stud groups for the undersides of plates made up of STUD4 type studs? Was wondering how much support there is for such primitives before submitting any to the tracker. (20 years ago, 24-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Problems with Online Hobby Train Instructions
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(...) Please check out Paul S. D'Urbano's response to my same question: (URL) Paul's method worked for me. Joseph (20 years ago, 24-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: 10183 postponed?
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(...) [...] (...) ctrl+4 on Windows. command+4 on a Mac [...] (...) (20 years ago, 24-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Problems with Online Hobby Train Instructions
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Anyone have any pointers for successfully downloading the instructions for the new Hobby Train set (10183) (Windows XP) ? I've already downloaded LDD 2.0. When I click on the 'Download' icon at the instructions page, a new window briefly flashes (...) (20 years ago, 24-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) Well, it seems I may have spoken too soon. By going through and updating all of my drivers (I suspect the graphics card driver was the critical one) I've been able to get it to run on my Windows 2000 Pro machine. It freezes occasionally when (...) (20 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: 10183 postponed?
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(...) Actually, from my fooling around with the software so far, I can say that there is some compatability between LDD 1,6 and LDD 2,0. When you try to load a file created with version 1,6 with version 2,0 it asks you if you want to try to import (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Conversion file for ldraw to ldd
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Hi all, I've converted the old conversion file from LDD 1.6 (with Jason Railton's adaptions) to LDD 2.0 format. It is far from perfect but is also far better than what is currently available. To install it just quit LDD 2, go to (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) :: snip :: (...) I share Jason's sentiment - I wish they would have kept compatibility with all but the most recent versions of Windows. I guess the software people decided that was the best thing to do. But it does pose an inconvenience for (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) Did you actually get this to work? It has been my experience that it doesn't work yet. Mike (20 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) On the plus side, it does seem to run on older hardware. I could only run 1.6 on my wife's laptop which she bought last year. Last night, I was able to install and run 2.0 on my 5+ year old machine. -Elroy (20 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) Unfortunately, LDD 2.0 no longer runs on earlier versions of Windows. LDD 1.6 ran quite happily under Windows 2000, but the new version crashes as soon as you place a brick. It's also a bit mean to write off all the previously uploaded models. (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd, lugnet.trains)
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(...) LDraw support is under the Import and Export options. Sadly, only flat LDR files are supported, not MPDs. (20 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Worked like a charm! Thank you. Now...can we save these 2.0 files into LDraw like we could with 1.6? First attempt with simply apending .ldr to the file name in a 'save as' yield run errors in MLCAD. Joseph (20 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yeah, the Factory web site has been doing that to me for a while now. When I click on the light-blue download button IE blips at me and I get nothing. You can work around it by going to the instructions in the factory gallery itself. Click on (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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This is wierd. For several months, nothing has been posted about LCad CGI animation in Lugnet, and suddely the resuluts from three very different projects are published in I think less than a week. And even more funny: Without knowing of the other (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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It has been posted that the 10183 plans are supposed to be available on the 23rd...but they are currently shown on the LDD site with a download button. When I try to download one, something pops up on my screen, makes a sound and goes away. When my (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Screen space is a bit of a problem indeed, it runs out very fast :) That's why I support dual (or even more in theory) screens. But every screen can also have multiple desktops, and for each desktop you can choose from 'windowed' or 'tabbed' (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) What about those of us that only have one screen? Can you show an example of how it would look there? It seems to me the UI with the large sliders is a bit space consuming. Maybe just a numerical display of the current value (the top part of (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) So far I think that may be the only thing. I only see 8-10 % CPU. So much for wishing they would have improved LDD with all the recommendations they got. Back to Ldraw again for me. (20 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) It is significantly faster and less of a hog. Apparently some people are running into graphic card problems but it's a huge, huge, huge improvement of 1.6. Featurewise 2.0 has a lot of cute things like right-click view rotation and other (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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Anyone figured out what the differences are between LDD 1.6 and 2.0? Does it still hog every available CPU cycle? --Bram (20 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) I believe they have. With luck it will be back in the next version. Tim (20 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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In lugnet.trains, Mike Walsh wrote: [ ... snipped ... ] (...) [ ... snipped ... ] More "Wanted Notices" arriving today - several BrickLink sellers are now listing them for $4 each! Can't imagine those prices will last long although I am sure some (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) Is it me or have they remove mpd import? (ldr support is still there) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) The price of red train doors just dropped significantly! I have been watching this on BrickLink and red trains doors usually run anywhere from $4-$8, the left hand doors being more expensive. Now they are $0.32 a piece! I already purchased a (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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Hi all, After quite some time I think I got the basic control system / and interface working for the succeeder of LD4DModeler. I would appreciate any comments / suggestions from animators / developers concerning first impressions on the interface. (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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(...) Hi Anton, Thanks for the info, I'm from the Netherlands to, and I agree using mm's is very logical. Not saying LDraw units are 'bad', but I think they are quite 'large'. Anyhow it's nothing conversion can't solve. I was just curious on which (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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In lugnet.trains, Jordan Schwarz wrote: hours (...) Looks like more elements are available in online P@B as well. Jonathan (20 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) The website is back up, and LDD 2.0 is now available! Cheers! (URL) -Jordan (20 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) Roland, I started on my Library way back in 1992, not even having Internet in those days (just Compuserve) so didn't even know about 'competitors' if you could call it that. The many different libraries can be used together if you should want (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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