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(...) Jeramy, I haven't really used LDD. Is there a way to limit the parts to only those in the Hobby Train? And, while I'm at it, what exactly is the Hobby Train? (...) Sounds cool. I may have to give it a try. Thanks Steve (...) (18 years ago, 4-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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This summer at Brickworld, I'll be hosting a train building challenge. Through this challenge, you will get a taste of what it is like to design a set with limited parts availability, much like the designers underwent while working on the 10183 (...) (18 years ago, 4-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX) !!
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| | Re: A question about an animation scene
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(...) --snip-- (...) Hi Eduardo, The spline macro would be useful too ;) Tim (18 years ago, 4-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | A question about an animation scene
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I have made a scene where a car follows a spline this is the main co ---...--- object { car_dot_dat matrix <0,0,1,0,1,0,-1,0,0,0,0,0> #if (version >= 3.1) material #else texture #end { Color7 } //translate<-960,-24,1860> rotate -90*y (...) (18 years ago, 4-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Getting rif off the 8.3 nomenclature???
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(...) I just don't want people confusing naming conventions in the part library with naming conventions in Linetype 1 part references. I was mostly replying to Kevin saying his applications choke on spaces in part references, which is something I'd (...) (18 years ago, 4-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Need LDD 2.0 Help from the Experts on Making Instructions
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(...) I suspect it's a camera angle. Whether or not it's actually implemented at the moment is a different matter. Tim (18 years ago, 4-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: Need LDD 2.0 Help from the Experts on Making Instructions
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(...) OK, but why would those things be specified in the directions area? The directions refer to a part ID, and the part ID is defined in the model group. Where the part ID is defined is also where the location of the brick is defined. Just (...) (18 years ago, 4-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: RACHAL Changeover
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(...) Which may or may not be an issue. It's irrelevant if you're just editing existing lines, but if you add new ones, vi will add them in the file-native format (CRLF for a DOS file), while emacs will add them in the machine-native format. Dan (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: RACHAL Changeover
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(...) You have my pity ;) (...) I think it leaves them alone. Certainly I've never had any troubles with it converting one way or the other before. If you edit a Windows text file on a UNIX emacs it will show the extra ^R (or whichever is unused on (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-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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--snip-- Nice reverse engineering. (...) I know this one :) Well some of it anyway... tx, ty and tz are the translation from the origin, ax, ay, az define a unit vector and angle defines a rotation angle (in radians IIRC). (tx,ty,tz) and angle (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: RACHAL Changeover
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(...) Being a vi user, I'm drawn to the natural conclusion that emacs must be the culprit ;-). (On a more serious note, I actually don't know what emacs does with line endings. I know that vi leaves them alone unless you specifically tell it to (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-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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(...) Because automatic building instructions are less then optimal, I have started uploading subassemblies of models to my gallery. Hopefully, if someone buys one of my models, they'll check my gallery for the subassemblies. In the descriptions for (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: RACHAL Changeover
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(...) Well from your two reports it sounds very much like the files are uploading and downloading correctly. I guess we write the RACHAL one off as a strange quirk and I'll use NoteTab to ensure all future ones are DOS formatted before upload and (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: RACHAL Changeover
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(...) Same results here. L3LAB: In addition to this info, I wish to add that with DOS, UNIX, and Willy the bricks showed up fine in L3Lab, but from the Mac file, L3Lab just showed an empty window. NOTETAB: All four look idential and correct in (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: RACHAL Changeover
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(...) no just MLCad and LDDP on win2000+SP4 (...) it is. the only problem I had with linefeed was when Allen Smith fixed some entries in der MLCad.ini file. w. (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: RACHAL Changeover
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(...) The upload is via an html form so I'm pretty sure it's not ftp (unless there's a way for this to be automated from a form?). Willy made the original file in MLCad by the looks of it, I then edited in MLCad and emacs for WinXP, Willy then (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Maybe it's a downloading problem. On windows .mpd files are associated with microsoft project by default. Perhaps because of this, some sort of translation occurred on downloading the file? Or more likely it's an uploading problem. If you used (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: RACHAL Changeover
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(...) hi folks, since no Mac or UNIX was involved in the creation of the mpd file we are trying to understand what has messed up the end line character. we uploaded four files and would like to know how they turn out in notepad. please screenshot: (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDD Heavyweight passenger train cars
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(3 URLs) LDD Heavyweight passenger cars (URL) Full Gallery> I've finished my first take on Heavyweight passenger car designs in LDD and have made gratuitous use of the dark red bricks. I've made a set of five different cars. These cars were common (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Getting rif off the 8.3 nomenclature???
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(...) You should also consider stripping trailing whitespace from the end of the filename. I believe MLCad and most of the other programs do this. Whitespace in filenames has been supported by many Ldraw programs for quite a while, but it does not (...) (18 years ago, 2-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Getting rif off the 8.3 nomenclature???
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(...) I very strongly support allowing the inclusion of whitespace in LDraw filenames, provided the first character is not whitespace. Bricksmith has always allowed users to do this. When parsing a line, I get all the matrix numbers, skip all (...) (18 years ago, 2-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: RACHAL Changeover
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(...) Windows expects it (CRLF). unix mostly (always?) use just LF, Apple use CR. Get a free text editor that can handle such lines. I have used EditPad ever since I found it - never looked back for Notpad: (URL) Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LSynth on Mac OS X
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(...) Well, I can't remember the name of the first guy who started it I think back in 1999. I promptly took it over and he disappeared from the web. Then Matt Gerber pitched in but I haven't seen him in a long time. Here is a blast from the past: (...) (18 years ago, 2-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: RACHAL Changeover
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(...) Thanks!! I hope it ever gets finished, or at least before my computer crashes.... :-) (18 years ago, 2-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: RACHAL Changeover
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(...) well ... you know the saying: "The exception proves the rule!" or was it "There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception!" :-D anyway send it over to Ldraw.org and I'll add it the old gallery. w. (18 years ago, 2-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: RACHAL Changeover
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(...) Damn, I really wanted to enter the previous contest, as I worked pretty long on my contribution. The truth is, however, that it is still being rendered. It is already running for 70 hours now, and it is only at about 45% done!!!! :-(.... When (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's March 2007 Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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(...) ups! my bad. it's indeed a copy'n'past artefact. usually I prepare the contest posts offline because of all the links. I simply forgot to delete the SOTM entry used in february. sorry about that. beside all these we haven't got any SOTM entry (...) (18 years ago, 2-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's March 2007 Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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(...) That report is what I like to call a "feature", please ignore it. -Orion (18 years ago, 2-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: OS dependent newline issues
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(...) I think that's quite reasonable. (...) Indeed, most if not all of my part library files are DOS formated. They work fine with Bricksmith, L3P, lsynth, ldglite, LDView 3.2 (from source), and even Mac Brick CAD. Any serious text editor such as a (...) (18 years ago, 2-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: OS dependent newline issues
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(...) No testing necessary. I believe all versions of LDraw software all the way back to Brickdraw 3D have been able to read DOS format lines as that has been the shared format. So they have always been able to read them. In fact, I just opened a (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | OS dependent newline issues
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(...) And in light of this I'll give some cheerleading for some formalising of the newline character in the Ldraw specs. If LDraw software has problems then that is reason enough for a formalised rule IMO. Could someone test DOS format files on the (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: RACHAL Changeover
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(...) Thanks Tim, here are the initial results of my testing: Platform ldraw/ledit MLCad DOS No problems No Problems Unix Part: Not displayed Model: Cannot open No problems Mac * No problems Part: load error Model: Load error * This is the old (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: RACHAL Changeover
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(...) Following further information about compatibility in some LDraw software I will ensure that subsequent MPDs posted to the website are in DOS format. I assume something will be posted about these compatibility issues soon. Tim (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's March 2007 Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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(...) Hi Dean, I suspect the SOTM bit was an accidental bonus from a copy-paste. AFAIK there was no SOTM for March due to a lack of entries (I know the one linked to on the side of the front page won last month's competition). (...) Weird. They just (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's March 2007 Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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(...) Are these supposed to be the same URLs? The links don't appear to be anywhere obvious on the main site. (...) Both these report "failed to read database" then show the content as normal. (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: RACHAL Changeover
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(...) If "decent" means powerful and powerful means a 20Mb+ installation file and 30 seconds loading time, I say thanks but no thanks to your strong suggestion. /Tore (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: RACHAL Changeover
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(...) Yes. The software developers of Notepad. Do you really expect a Mac text-editor to work the Microsoft way because MS Notepad can't read a text file properly? I have very grudgingly updated the file and will probably not do so again (my (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | LDraw.org's March 2007 Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the March 2007 Model/Scene Of The Month (MOTM/SOTM) contests: (URL) MOTM, Armored Snow Transport by Petar Potocnjak> (URL) SOTM, The Forces of Isengard by Philip Heinrich> Congratulations also to the winners of the (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | Re: RACHAL Changeover
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Timothy Gould wrote: I'd be amazed that Notepad still can't deal with it if (...) Amazing or not, that's the way it is and software developers should have that in mind. /Tore (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: RACHAL Changeover
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: RACHAL Changeover
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(...) What kind of editor program produces for us Notepad users such unreadable files? (URL) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | RACHAL Changeover
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | Re: LSynth on Mac OS X
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LSynth on Mac OS X
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 31-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LSynth on Mac OS X
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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. (...) (18 years ago, 31-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | LDD 2.0 for win (germnan version) no mouse input possible
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 31-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: LDD 2.0 immedeately locks up
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(...) Awesome, thanks a tonne for this info!! J (18 years ago, 31-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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| | Re: LSynth on Mac OS X
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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): (...) (18 years ago, 31-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LSynth on Mac OS X
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 31-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LSynth on Mac OS X
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 30-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Dancing Mech Modeling/animatino LDraw/POV-Ray Video Tutorial Series
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 30-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LSynth on Mac OS X
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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 (18 years ago, 30-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | LSynth on Mac OS X
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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, (...) (18 years ago, 30-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD 2.0 immedeately locks up
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 30-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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| | Re: searching for tv-spots from TLC
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Orion Pobursky schrieb: (...) I have also looked at www.retrojunk.com. Very interesting. cu mikeheide (18 years ago, 29-Mar-07, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Getting rif off the 8.3 nomenclature??? (scanf tricks)
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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 (18 years ago, 29-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD 2.0 immedeately locks up
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 29-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD 2.0 immedeately locks up
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 29-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD 2.0 immedeately locks up
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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 (...) (18 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 (18 years ago, 29-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: searching for tv-spots from TLC
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(...) Here's a collection of YouTube links: (URL) Looking those up was way more fun than I expected. (18 years ago, 29-Mar-07, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Getting rif off the 8.3 nomenclature??? (scanf tricks)
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 29-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Getting rif off the 8.3 nomenclature???
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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 (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Getting rif off the 8.3 nomenclature???
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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 (...) (18 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 (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | searching for tv-spots from TLC
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I have some tv-spots from TLC. Does anybody has also some from other countries than germany. mikeheide (18 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 (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | DATheader
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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 (18 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 (...) (18 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 (18 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 (...) (18 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 (...) (18 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 (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Getting rif off the 8.3 nomenclature???
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Prefix character on meta commands?
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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. (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Prefix character on meta commands?
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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 (...) (18 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 (...) (18 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 (...) (18 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, (...) (18 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 (...) (18 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 (...) (18 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 (...) (18 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! (...) (18 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 (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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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 (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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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 (...) (18 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 (...) (18 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? (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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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 (...) (18 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 (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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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 (18 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 (...) (18 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 (...) (18 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, (...) (18 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 (...) (18 years ago, 25-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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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 (...) (18 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 (...) (18 years ago, 25-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 25-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.znap, lugnet.technic.roboriders, lugnet.technic, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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