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(...) Philo, Check out this thread in lugnet.cad. I had the same problem a little while back. David Perdue was kind enough to help me out. (URL) want to read the whole thread. John (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad)
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Is there some project to extend LDconfig.ldr to include some recent colors such as Light Stone Gray? Case in point: NXT parts are presently coded in color 383, which works fine with most CAD program but is - as intended - shown as chrome (shiny (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Hello Willy, (...) ...as well as lines starting with a space. Webpage updated. (...) Done... (...) No, but Richard should upgrade the tool when he has some free time (though I doubt he will write a gui...) Philo (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad)
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As noted (URL) here>, there is a BSBackup utility for Windows that helps you batch download the contents of Brickshelf galleries. (This is of interest at the moment due to Brickshelf's imminent closure.) I've written a quick hack to accomplish the (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Ok I finally got this to work. Now I just need to figure out why the renders are taking so long and find out how to make the lines look better. I think I'm headed in the right direction. You rock, thanks for the help! (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) From the (URL) web site... "We are currently experiencing problems with the automatic update of LDD for Mac users. You can download a Mac installer here: " (URL) downloading it as I type. Chris (17 years ago, 16-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: James Jessiman's Unofficial LEGO® Pages - The Original???
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(...) Wow, I had no idea these were still online! I was thinking about this the other day, wondering if someone had kept an archive. Yep, they're the originals. IIRC, in the early days of LDraw.org, there was an archive on the web site. I the site (...) (17 years ago, 14-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Workarounds for two crash bugs in Mac LDView 3.2 Beta 1
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So far, two bugs have been found in the Mac LDView 3.2 Beta 1 release that cause it to crash, and then subsequently crash every time it is launched. I'm posting a workaround for each of these problems here in the hopes that it will reduce people's (...) (17 years ago, 14-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: James Jessiman's Unofficial LEGO® Pages - The Original???
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(...) Yes they are authentic. If you browse the RTL archives, you'll find many links to them. ROSCO (17 years ago, 13-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Optional Lines Calculator utility [DAT]
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(...) hi philo, please add that empty lines are not supported as well. a code like this: 4 4 -4.266 10.961 0 -8.96 10.961 0 -8.96 9.086 0 -4.266 9.086 0 4 4 -10.693 10.44 0 -8.96 10.961 0 -8.96 9.086 0 -10.693 9.607 0 0 // white 4 15 16 18 0 15.239 (...) (17 years ago, 13-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad)
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hi folks, tell me that I'm not dreaming: (URL) some of the oldtimers please confirm that they authentic? w. (17 years ago, 13-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Roland, Actually the errors wouldn't be a problem. I wasn't thinking of performing transformations on already-transformed data. I was thinking of performing transformations on the original vertex data, then storing that (as a separate set of (...) (17 years ago, 13-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks Travis, that's *exactly* the info I was looking for. I think I'm going to go ahead and store each object's matrix, as well as the camera and projection matrices, updating any of them only when adjustments are made to the appropriate (...) (17 years ago, 13-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Hi Roland, Thanks for the input. Has anyone else implemented the mechanism the way Roland has? Kevin (17 years ago, 13-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well thanks for spoiling my day :) I tried orions file and discovered a design flow in my new LD4DStudio renderer. It looks like this: (URL) seems Orion uses the rotation matrix to mirror some parts, this totally F-ups my normals :( And there (...) (17 years ago, 13-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Sorry. I guess I didn't fully understand why you wanted to do the pre-multiplies. Hopefully this reply will be closer to what you are looking for. LDView 1.0 did exactly what you suggest. It calculated the final coordinates for every single (...) (17 years ago, 13-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Travis, Thanks, but that answer is exactly what I was trying to avoid in this discussion. I understand about creating a transformation matrix, a camera matrix and a projection/perspective matrix. I understand about compositing them all for a (...) (17 years ago, 13-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Actually, based on what you write after the above, this is a "How do you draw in 3D?" question, which is fairly close to "How do you do 3D?". The implementation details of how 3D gets drawn to the screen tend to answer all your questions. When (...) (17 years ago, 13-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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Basically you keep 1 copy of the object with its vertices in their original position (local or model space). You take the local to world, world to view, view to projection and projection to viewport matrices and multiply them to get a single (...) (17 years ago, 13-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) The way I understand the file handeling system, this should not load. Because every file's references must be handled relative from the file being loaded (not to the main file). So calling sub/sub2.ldr from sub/sub1.ldr will look at (...) (17 years ago, 13-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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