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Adrian Rohnfelder schrieb: (...) Do you have had a look at this side (URL) you found what you are looking for. As far as I know this is side with the most sets made for LDraw. cu mikeheide PS: What you are searching in at present not available. (17 years ago, 24-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) modeled it. I decided modeling the actual gears inside was not appropriate for this part, mainly because I didn't want to prise my only one apart, but also because I couldn't think of anyone ever wanting to see them in a model. Having decided (...) (17 years ago, 23-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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I'd like to hear opinions about the discussion raised for 55967 part: see (URL) (17 years ago, 23-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Part 905.dat and 905c01.dat done! (sometimes it takes a bit ;-) I have updated the page at ldraw.org - (URL) as well as the Wiki - (URL) please give the Re-writes - (URL) high priority! w. (17 years ago, 22-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) For what it's worth, that is the error message that version 1.1 would report given the -help argument. Otherwise, you appear to be using it correctly. Do either of the synonyms "-h" or "--help" work? I can't seem to reproduce the problem. (...) (17 years ago, 22-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) ==== 8< - - - (...) Too busy with my latest project, I haven't tried PreL3P that much yet. I may have misunderstood the -help option, because I tried the v1.3.1 both from DOS Prompt Box as well as from a batch file, with same result: ---...--- (...) (17 years ago, 22-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New Project: DatShine, LDA, PreL3P, L3P, And POV Involved
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(URL) just updated. So far, I've written 4 "chapters": * Brief Presentation and Preparations * Creating the Static Scene * Let There Be Light! * Let There Be Light, Part II Next step will be to improve colours using PreL3P. I don't know if it will (...) (17 years ago, 21-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Bad form replying to my own post, but I figured out a way to make Track Designer work. I can ctrl click an object to select it (light it up blue). and then I ctrl+arrow to switch to the blinking cursor. It's not perfect, but it's better than (...) (17 years ago, 21-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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So, I installed Darwine on my MBP, and I was excited, at first, to see that TD.exe worked. I've tried using it a bit, and I've discovered that using the mouse to select things doesn't quite work right. Ctrl Clicking selects multiple objects, and (...) (17 years ago, 21-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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I have decided to set aside at least one hour a day to the project I just started today by writing this post. The three main goals are: 1. Create a short animation, using the tools mentioned in the subject line above. 2. Write a diary that explains (...) (17 years ago, 20-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) FWIW I'm pretty sure ldglite saves with a newline (of some sort) after every line. And my opinion is that all programs that *create* ldraw data should do that. It's just common courtesy. After all, we have no control over third party (...) (17 years ago, 20-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) I echo Mike. This is a programmers issue (is it honestly that hard to check? I would say no) and not something that should be put into the spec. -Orion (17 years ago, 20-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) I agree fully on this. A text line is not complete until you have specified the end of it (with EOLN). A LDRAW model consists of text lines, and should IMO end with EOLN. Windows expects 'text' files to end with EOLN, and mistreats them if (...) (17 years ago, 20-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) We had a discussion about this item some times ago. I can not find the thread right now. The conclusion was: The user should not mind about that, the programer should. So if you write a prog for LDraw compatible files, you should check for (...) (17 years ago, 20-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Thoughts sought on final newlines
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A (URL) recent discussion> lead me to observe that Bricksmith saves models without a final newline (ie, CRLF - no "line ending"): (...) Since one line that ended differently from others lead to complications here, I wondered if it might elsewhere. I (...) (17 years ago, 19-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Instruction Step Fading with PreL3P
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I have posted an article (tutorial?) about using PreL3P for fading previous steps in instruction renderings: (URL) on some comments I infer that this effect may be old news to LPub/POV-Ray users, but I think it may still be of interest to some Mac (...) (17 years ago, 19-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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I posted the new version of PreL3P today. The only addition, of course, is support for meta commands at any point in the model. (URL) commands at the beginning of the model are still "special" in that they override the default command line options. (...) (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election is open
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(...) The intent was for it to be a announcement vehicle but this was neglected for 2 reasons: - There's a problem with automatic subscription to the list when you sign up as an org member that I haven't ferreted out yet. - 99% of the active org (...) (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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All previous posts look promising! If you guys could use your precious time to write some Windows tools to do things like executing the script and stuff I can't wait to try it out! (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election is open
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(...) I think I should point out here that while LUGNET and LDraw.org are very complementary to each other, they are two completely separate organizations. That being said, it's understandable to assume that having an ldraw.org site login (for (...) (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election is open
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(...) Yeah, I saw that. I just didn't realize there were so many distinct layers on the LDraw onion. I figured since it's being discussed on Lugnet instead of some internal LDraw mailing list, it fell into the same "members" category as the (...) (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election is open
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(...) Jim, I just checked your status. You only have user rights, you're not an .org-member: "Only LDraw organization members may vote..." If you are not registered as a member of the LDraw organization and would like to join, follow the (...) (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election is open
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(...) Ha, nope. In Safari, Firefox, Camino and Opera, I can see all four ballots listed when I'm not logged in, but once I log in to vote the LSC ballot is no longer listed. I guess I just misunderstood the eligibility for voting. Sorry. Jim (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Right. Well, maybe I've found some sort of caching bug in Safari 3 - it only displays the first three polls, even after resetting the browser. Everything comes up fine in FireFox, though, so no worries. Thanks, Jim (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election is open
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(...) Elections on LDraw.org are driven by Orion's MOTM postnuke module. You should actually see 4 polls: the MOTM, POTM - Best part, POTM - Most desired part and finally the LSC election. (URL) (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) That's really a page of active ballots, the LSC ballot is at the bottom of the list (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Is that ballot link correct? It just takes me to the model of the month ballot. Jim (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Previous step color scaling
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Here's a slightly tweaked version that seems to work OK with paths and filenames containing spaces: #! /bin/sh prevfile='' for thisfile in "$@"; do if "$prevfile" = "" ; then echo 0 !PREL3P -ldconfig normal.ldr > "faded.$thisfile" cat "$thisfile" >> (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Previous step color scaling
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(...) I tried the script out in Windows using cygwin, and it seems to work. Some observations: Until prel3p 1.3 is released by Jim, I can't be sure it works. The output is a mixture of DOS and Unix line endings. The files generated by MLCAD have DOS (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Updates to Sticker Generater
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(URL) Thanks to everyone who provided constructive input on my Sticker Generator Software. The following improvements / changes have been made: More keyboard-user friendly Ignore White Color is more accurate Ingore Black Color is more accurate (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Previous step color scaling
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(...) If you have access to a *nix machine, or have installed the appropriate cygwin components on a Windows box, the following script should take a bunch of step files spit out from MLCad and insert the appropriate PREL3P commands in. #! /bin/sh (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Previous step color scaling [DAT]
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(...) Correct. Technically, the prel3p commands affect color substitution on following lines, so you'll need to insert code in two places: once at the beginning of the model to use the "faded" colors, and again at whatever point you wish to restore (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Highly confused about Library Updates for MLCad
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(...) Hello Christopher, I will not go into the same level of details as previous replies in this thread, but rather reply in a more general way. First of all, you make a mistake if you call it "Library Updates for MLCad". In one way, yes they are (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I have given Jim access to submit this change directly into Bricksmith's source code. Thanks, Jim, for wanting to improve my software. If a good, well-integrated, well-presented (and already coded) idea comes along, there's no reason for it (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Previous step color scaling
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(...) think it would be easier to just futz with the data during parsing. --Travis (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub error
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(...) Hi Jaco, I don't see why not. How much RAM? I just got a bug report that greater than 1G of RAM on Vista caused problems. I don't have Vista, and don't plan on buying it for a *long* time. Kevin (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: L(EGO)Draw part discrepancies
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(...) hi folks, we still seek some input on the parts above. if you have the real version of those please measure/compare and let us know. w. (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Highly confused about Library Updates for MLCad
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(...) Indeed, while opaque parts are made from ABS, thansparent ones use polycarbonate. These plastics have different behaviour that require slightly different molds to get the tight tolerances you appreciate from LEGO bricks... Philo (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) Election is open
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The 2007/2008 LDraw Standards Committee[1] election is now open. To vote, please visit (URL) and log in with your user account. Next, visit the ballot page on LDraw.org here: (URL) LDraw organization members may vote and you may vote for up to five (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Re: Previous step color scaling [DAT]
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(...) Thank you! I will eagerly await and try it. (...) MLCad is able to export every step, but it exports steps without information at which line the previous step ends and were the next step begins. For example when I export the CAR (still a great (...) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Highly confused about Library Updates for MLCad
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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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--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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| | Re: Previous step color scaling
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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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| | Re: Previous step color scaling
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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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| | L3PAO Bug
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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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| | LPub error
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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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| | Re: Previous step color scaling
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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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| | DatShine v1.02 [DAT]
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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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| | Highly confused about Library Updates for MLCad
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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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| | Re: Previous step color scaling
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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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| | PreL3P 1.2
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(...) PreL3P 1.2 is now available: (URL) added "-map" option to renumber color codes - added meta commands to specify options in config files or the model itself As always, bug reports are welcome (as are suggestions for a more accurate name, (...) (17 years ago, 15-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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(...) Sorry, don't have the time to make models right now. I am currently writing a program to automatically create dat files of "shining" parts. I call it datshine.exe and I am very excited over it. Well, here's one quite strange model I rushed (...) (17 years ago, 15-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2007/2008 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC)
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(...) Thanks to Travis for nominating me and to Orion for bringing the nomination to my attention. Unfortunately I gather that the deadline to formally accept or decline has passed. However, as I just explained to Orion, "since I'm not very familiar (...) (17 years ago, 15-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New POV-dat: 3062bL46.dat - Brick 1 x 1 Round Yellow with POV Light
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(...) Pictures, we want pictures :-) (17 years ago, 15-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Previous step color scaling
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(...) I can't be sure, but it appears that LPub modifies the POV files that come out of L3P in order to get that effect, instead of modifying the LDraw files it sends to L3P/LDView/LDGLite. So until this is changed in LPub, it doesn't appear that (...) (17 years ago, 15-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Previous step color scaling
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Hi all, I am looking for a way to render fast top view images and thus creating images like the original LEGO instructions they use in the Statue of Liberty. To do top view rendering was answered in another question I asked. Would it be possible to (...) (17 years ago, 15-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: SR 3D Builder Version 0.2.2.3 Available
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(...) I'm sorry about your graphic card, but I try to write the shader in a previous version without success. To run the program you have to follow the link created in the windows StarMenu.SergioReano.SR3DCad. I haven't try to uninstall the program (...) (17 years ago, 15-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | New POV-dat: 3062bL46.dat - Brick 1 x 1 Round Yellow with POV Light [DAT]
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(...) Thanks Anders! Only took half a year from idea to completion on this part ... /Tore 0 Brick 1 x 1 Round with Hollow Stud Yellow with POV Light 0 Name: 3062bL46.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Unofficial part 0 // based on work by James Jessiman (...) (17 years ago, 15-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Reminder: 2007/2008 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) closing tomorrow
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Hi folks, as outlined here: (URL) will close tomorrow, at 11:59 PM GMT on 14 October 2007 and elections will start October 17. Only those candidates that have been nominated and have accepted as outlined (or volunteer), will be eligible for (...) (17 years ago, 13-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: PreL3P 1.0
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(...) Well, I lied. I've implemented the meta commands instead of an INI file after all. I've also added a -map option to renumber color codes. This can be done separately or in conjunction with conversion to the hexadecimal color format. The (...) (17 years ago, 12-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Bricksmith patches
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I'm not sure if anyone else has built Bricksmith from the (URL) source code>, but if so you may be interested in this. I've written two small patches that provide some minor features I find useful. (URL) in LDraw Units:> (URL) Dimensions panel with (...) (17 years ago, 12-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: PreL3P 1.0
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(...) ;> (...) For portability I am inclined to look for the configuration file in the model's folder (or the current directory if using stdin). Otherwise I realize I'd have to start coding special cases for Windows, Linux, and the Mac. (...) It is (...) (17 years ago, 11-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: L(EGO)Draw part discrepancies
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(...) against official or non-official (...) differences. (...) comment? (LUT version may not match real parts, see (...) I measured the real part and confirm that the LUT-part is correct! Matching the PT-Version (Trans-White) with the LUT-Version (...) (17 years ago, 11-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: PreL3P 1.0
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(...) No, but I can easily add some PreL3P options, just like I've added L3P options, in my LDA program. In that case, the command line options are better than the .ini way. (...) The Windows directory. But if there is one in the same folder as the (...) (17 years ago, 11-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: SR 3D Builder Version 0.2.2.3 Available
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(...) Looks like a *very* interesting program. Unfortunately it didn't like my graphics card, NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 ("Could not get a device"), so there's no way I could test it :-( Some notes: - It's a bit unclear what to click to start the (...) (17 years ago, 11-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: PreL3P 1.0
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(...) True. You can still give options with this syntax ("prel3p +codes 4 model.ldr"), but I suspect there is no way to do so when using it by drag and drop. (...) If it could use a configuration file, what would be a standard place to look for it? (...) (17 years ago, 11-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: PreL3P 1.0
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(...) Just a little thing I've noticed on the previously discussed long filenames issue. (Not that it really matters to me.) The original version of colortest.ldr was saved as COLORT~1.LDR.bak on my Win98SE PC, while the long name colortest.ldr was (...) (17 years ago, 11-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | SR 3D Builder Version 0.2.2.3 Available
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Hi everybody, it seems that i have resolved my problem with Lugnet posting, so now I'm able to post in newsgroup. I'm happy to announce that a new and hopefully stable version of my Cad has been released. It should solve some crashing problem when (...) (17 years ago, 11-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I think there should only ever be one primary author - nowadays, the one that takes the responsibility of submitting to the Parts Tracker. During the CA header migration, where I have encountered this and assessed that it was a true (...) (17 years ago, 11-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: PreL3P 1.0
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(...) I'm glad to hear that. Please note that I cannot update my Swipnet pages after changing ISP to Telia. The swipnet provider is kind enough to let my pages remain as long as I use their mail services which I prefer to. My more recent projects as (...) (17 years ago, 11-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: PreL3P 1.0
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(...) too, like LDS and LDA. Anyway, does the new "prel3p model.ldr" syntax work with the drag and drop mechanism you mentioned? Jim (17 years ago, 11-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: PreL3P 1.0
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(...) Great! Thank you for the suggestion. Jim (17 years ago, 11-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: White noise around model with colored background
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(...) I just tried again here at work with the line filter hint set to NICEST. To be honest, I like it better the other way. To my eye, it's more blurry when set to NICEST: (URL) The difference is best seen by loading both images in separate tabs of (...) (17 years ago, 10-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: White noise around model with colored background
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(...) I don't set the filter hint. It was rendered on an nVidia 7800 GT. My ATI at work does a reasonably good job with the same settings, but it leaves a few small gaps in the edges (around some studs): (URL) (...) Actually, based on this you'd (...) (17 years ago, 10-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2007/2008 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC)
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(...) I accept. Thank you. /Lars (17 years ago, 10-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: White noise around model with colored background
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(...) Wow, those lines are much smoother than anything I remember getting with simple antialiased lines. Was that rendered by ATI or Nvidia, or do they both give you results like that? Does the SMOOTH HINT make a big difference? I think I set it to (...) (17 years ago, 10-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations: 2007/2008 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC)
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I nominate Jim DeVona (author of BitSticker and PreL3P). --Travis Cobbs (17 years ago, 10-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: White noise around model with colored background
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(...) The image on the above page was rendered with antialiased lines, but no FSAA. FSAA would have brought the halo back, since there's no way to have FSAA on part of the scene, but not on other parts. In theory I could render the image twice, once (...) (17 years ago, 10-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: PreL3P 1.0
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(...) That was exactly my point - perfect! (...) Probably outside prel3p scope indeed. Both LDDP and MLCad can change colors, but not if they are inside subfiles. To me the modified ldconfig is a good solution. Philo (17 years ago, 10-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Why LDraw.org doesn't use ldconfig.ldr ???
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(...) I think I had some issues with the GL_POINT implementation on that version of OSMesa OpenGL. If you're bored, you could try adding a line width to see if that makes the line endpoints come out right. Something like -w1.3 or -w1.1 or maybe even (...) (17 years ago, 10-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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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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| | Re: White noise around model with colored background
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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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| | Re: Why LDraw.org doesn't use ldconfig.ldr ???
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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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| | Re: LDView feature request
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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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| | Re: LDView feature request
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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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| | Re: PreL3P 1.0
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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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| | Re: LDView feature request [DAT]
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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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