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(...) It is quite possible that one number is for transparent bricks and the other is for regular solid ABS. IIRC they are different molds. The LDraw parts library tries to be as inclusive as possible. Tim (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Previous step color scaling
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--snip-- (...) That's an excellent trick. I may have to bookmark this thread and download the program when I have CAD running again. Tim (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Until then, here's another little example. (URL) 1>> (URL) 2>> (URL) 3>> (URL) 4>> (URL) 5>> (URL) 6>> (URL) 7>> (URL) 8>> (URL) 9>> (URL) 10>> (URL) 11>> (URL) The current step is drawn with (URL) colors> (the defaults) and previous steps are (...) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: New POV-dat: 3062bL46.dat - Brick 1 x 1 Round Yellow with POV Light
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(...) It depends. Do you want the light to act more like it would through LEGO parts or do you want it to imitate a real car's headlights...? Anyway, the choice the user's. All you have to do is write the spotlight definitions ans run it through (...) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New POV-dat: 3062bL46.dat - Brick 1 x 1 Round Yellow with POV Light
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(...) strange when the headlights cast shadows backwards :-) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Previous step color scaling
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(...) Sure, you will be able to. I used a modified version of PreL3P, my little tool for replacing color codes. I'll post version 1.3 which will include this ability (loading different configurations partway through a model) soon, once I take care (...) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Wow. That looks nice. Can I do this too? You mentioned creating separate files for each cumulative step in the model - as Bricksmith exports. Isn't Bricksmith Mac software? I have a PC with MLCad... Jaco (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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It seems L3PAO doesn't save the prefered defualt settings correctly from the Seam Width value field. If I enter "0.6", then exit the program and start it again, the field shows "0,6" which gives #declare SW = 0; // Width of seam between two bricks (...) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi there, I got a question from a Dutch user of LPub. He is not able to render pictures with either POV-Ray, LDView nor LDGLite. LDView and LDLite (and LDGLite) do work without using LPub. He gets this error: "The handle is invalid". Pictures that (...) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: PreL3P 1.2
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(...) No, it doesn't. It seems you fixed that little problem, too. /Tore (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yeah, that's a workable strategy. It's what I did here: (URL) assume LPub makes it easier for the user by coming up with the scaled colors automatically. Jim (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Travis, You are correct. LPub does this as a POV post-process. LPub could instead, do this in the step-dats with hexidecimal coloring, but I've not gotten that done (yet?) Kevin (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: PreL3P 1.2
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(...) Jaco's (URL) question> about color scaling gave me the idea for this. By allowing meta commands anywhere in the model to be applied as it is processed, different color substitution schemes can be used for different parts of the model. So, if (...) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Highly confused about Library Updates for MLCad
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(...) According to comments in my copy of the 6141 file, 0 // Part 6141 is the counterpart of 4073. Visually, the two parts seem 0 // identical. This file is provided to make it easier to locate part files 0 // when using the numbers used in LEGO (...) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(URL) far, only TransYellow illumination is defined. (in attribute file L46.ldr) No command line input yet, just an old-fashioned dialog. Improvemnts to the L46.ldr file are very welcome, as well as more POV attribute definition .ldr files! More (...) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New POV-dat: 3062bL46.dat - Brick 1 x 1 Round Yellow with POV Light
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(...) At least, Jonathan's car now has gotten its original headlights back now - yet yellow instead of white. (URL) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Hello everybody! For years I have been using MLCad, and I am grateful for the great service and support of the software. I recently installed the official parts updates for MLCad offered at the relating website. But now suddenly I have 2 1x1 round (...) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Previous step color scaling
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(...) Pitty. Then the images MLCad produce will have to do. Thanks! (17 years ago, 15-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) That's too bad. I was just reading an article the other day that would've been perfect for this. (URL) was actually looking for something better than glzoompixels to rescale the image buffer, not the colors in the buffer.) Oh well, Don (17 years ago, 15-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: PreL3P 1.2
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(...) Great! I've been waiting for this new version. Can't try it out tonight, because sleeping pill is starting to work... zzz...zzz (17 years ago, 15-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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