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(...) Hey those look nice. Just for kicks I ran off a test with the ancient method of ldglite at 2x scale followed by ImageMagick mogrify 50% to shrink it back and antialias. (URL) I like your edge outer edges better. Very nice. I'll have to look (...) (17 years ago, 10-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) I forgot to mention, but while the above page looks very similar to the page I posted recently on a lugnet.cad.ray thread, it is different in a very important way. The image on the above page was saved out of LDView at 800x600, which is the (...) (17 years ago, 10-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Well, it's certainly long past LDView 3.0 RC 2, but I did finally come back to this. After spending a few hours getting nice alpha data into the image file for transparent parts, I realized that the same set of steps would probably work for (...) (17 years ago, 10-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Why LDraw.org doesn't use ldconfig.ldr ???
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(...) It looks about like this: ldglite -a<matrix> -ld -Q -b15 -i1 -MS<outfile>.png <infile>.dat Lugnet is insisting on eating the matrix text (I seem to remember this happening before, sometime). So the matrix looks something like: 0.7071, 0, (...) (17 years ago, 10-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Looks better to me too. What's the rest of the command line look like? I wonder if maybe we can tweak it one more time to convince the edge lines to meet at the corners. Don (17 years ago, 10-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Déjà vu: (URL) goes to show there's always more than one way to peel a cat. Jim (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) There's an even better "poor man solution" at the bottom of this page: (URL) axis are labeled in addition to the color coding. You can see what it looks like in an old version of LDView on the "part in process" screenshot. Enjoy, Don (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Seems reasonable. Please note that I'm now actively using SourceForge.net's Tracker for LDView bug reports and feature requests. I entered this one here: (URL) can enter a bug report or feature request (without having to first create a (...) (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You're fast! :) If my memory serves my well, I think my ldfilter utility did that - even though it wasn't its main purpose. Check out the "Color Filter" frame. (URL) (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) That'd be useful. Here's my "poor man's solution": 0 FILE XYZ.ldr 2 4 -1000 0 0 1000 0 0 2 2 0 -1000 0 0 1000 0 2 1 0 0 -1000 0 0 1000 0 NOFILE Scale to suit. Jim (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) With a customized ldconfig file, you can use PreL3P to convert color codes directly to the hexadecimal equivalents of other other colors. For example, here are the default gray definitions: 0 !COLOUR Gray CODE 7 VALUE #C1C2C1 EDGE 0 0 !COLOUR (...) (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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I can not find a possibility to show the axes in a model or a part in the way that I can do with L3Lab with "View" - "Show Axes". Because I use LDView a lot for reviewing parts it would be very helpful to have such a feature also in LDView. cu (...) (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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PreL3P 1.1 is now available: (URL) Added a "done" announcement that includes a summary of how many lines and colors were modified. * Added an alternate usage syntax. Given the name of a single file, PreL3P updates it in place and creates a backup of (...) (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Here's a page that shows the 800x600 image in front of various backgrounds (including yellow and black warning stripes): (URL) --Travis (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) You can always make your own "include file" with colour redifinitions in a .dat, like this experimental file I made some time ago. It redifines pink into medium blue and corrects the horrible L3 light green: To use it, all you have to do is (...) (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Well yes, it would, and it would surely have had its advantages to leave the "source" file completely untouched. But I think it would be even better do like I suggested, with the implementation towards L3PAO (and my own LDA application) in (...) (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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It would be interesting to be able to have a secondary remap file other than LDraw.ldr. For example, stone colors are not well supported by several programs other than L3P. If I want to build with these colors I generally use old greys, but it would (...) (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: PreL3P 1.0 - Ping Onyx!
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(...) Thanks! I'm glad you find it useful. Your list of L3-supported colors was instrumental as a good default behavior. (...) I am pleased to hear it works well on Windows. Good suggestion regarding the done message. I'll add one. (...) Neat. That (...) (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Fantastic piece of software, just what I've been looking for. Thanks Jim! I just can't believe your post isn't highlighted, but I guess it has to do with bad timing; all attention on LDraw.org committee elections... I've tried the Windows (...) (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I think it's really good. Maybe you should ship LDView with an "instructions" preference set configured for this kind of output! Jim (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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