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(...) Fixing this one group of rarely important special cases in an efficient manner is probably not the most valuable use of your time. You could always offer 'condition point compression' as a user-selectable option. Tim (16 years ago, 16-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Philo just informed me that both versions that I have packed into the setup are the old versions. So I compliled it again with the current (above mentioned) versions of that tools. I am sorry for any trouble this may have caused on your side. (...) (16 years ago, 15-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi All, time to release an updated LGEO library. Here is a list of changes since the last update: lg_30552: added lg_30553: added lg_30554: added lg_41532: added lg_3645: added lg_49059: added lg_55013: added lg_3647: removed unreferenced (...) (16 years ago, 15-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) OK, I applied this fix (pulling the control points to be 1 LDU from the first point of the conditional line), and it seems to work. It makes the "Show control points" option under conditional lines less useful, but that's a price I'm willing (...) (16 years ago, 14-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Well, I know where the camera is, and I can create vectors from the camera to both end-points of the conditional line, and to both control points. I'm pretty sure that the calculation could be done with just this information. However, I'm not (...) (16 years ago, 14-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) In the case that exhibits the bug, the control points are outside the frustum, but the conditional line itself isn't. So I still need to decide whether or not to draw the conditional line. In this case, it was being drawn at times that it (...) (16 years ago, 14-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) I think you're right. I'll look into that. It seems like the most straightforward, and since it's just a pre-processing step, it shouldn't affect the performance for anything other than model loading. --Travis (16 years ago, 14-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Is there some 'easy' way to determine if the control points are in or out of frustum? Is there any other way to transform points, without considering the frustum (Well, obviously there is at least one, but it's the long way of calculating the (...) (16 years ago, 14-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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For anyone interested, I will hereby share my experiences with Leocad under Linux (Ubuntu 8.10 32-bit) I write this because I stumbled across some issues which might be related to LeoCad itself or just my complete lack of experience. This being said (...) (16 years ago, 14-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.leocad, FTX)
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(...) OK... I think I understand what I was getting at here. When you introduce perspective then the distance of the conditional point from the line becomes important. Eg. if you have a point that is directly behind its line in a perspective free (...) (16 years ago, 14-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Hmmm... Though I can't quite pin it down I have a suspicion that this has something to do with the spatial reduction cause by projection. What projection matrix are you using? Would a simple solution just be to move the conditional points (...) (16 years ago, 14-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) I am not the best in 3D, but if something outside the view frustum, you do not need to draw that. If you have the special case that only parts of what you should draw are outside the view frustum, I would go to calculate that values for a (...) (16 years ago, 14-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Actually, the projected points are all that I am checking, and that's how it's supposed to work. (...) No. The way that conditional lines work is that if the two control points lie on the same side of the conditional line on the screen (in (...) (16 years ago, 14-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) If I understand correctly you shouldn't be checking on the projection, only on the full 3D transformed points. That means you should check after stage 2.5. You'll need the Z value to work out which side things lie on. Tim (16 years ago, 14-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) I think I need help. I thought I was using gluProject for the conditional calculations, but discovered that I'm not. I multiple the projection matrix by the model-view matrix to get my transformation matrix, then run the points through that to (...) (16 years ago, 14-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) OK, I'll go on evaluating cedge interest when you have fixed this issue. (...) Could be workable indeed. Philo (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Of course I start counts from zero ;o) (...) OK! My setup seems to work anyway... Philo (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Looks like you found another LDView bug ;-). Zoom out and it works fine. It only doesn't work when the control points are clipped by the edge of the window. I'll have to figure out a way to fix that. (...) It's difficult, but by using polling (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hopefully you have primitive substitution set to two (second notch), since 1 provides 8-sided circular primitives. As for separating the stud logo from the primitive substitution, the logo is an implicit part of the substituted stud. It's not (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: BlueBrick
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(...) Hi Michael, I've just released a new version of BlueBrick that fix the problem for the 4.5V and 12V rails. But you will need to upload some unofficial LDraw parts from the LDRAW.org part tracker, especially the new shortcuts created by Philo (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: x210c01 ChromeSilver Drill 4 x 4 x 7
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(...) When the curvature is the only concern, then yes, but I have to take the screwshape into consideration, the closer I am to the ideal curve, the easier it is to calculate the screwshape and avoid holes in the part. Furthermore when thinking (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Conditional Ring primitive? [DAT]
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I made a quick try - and it doesn't work very well, even when it should (between a cylinder and a cone). Example: (URL) (cedge primitive is here included). Cedge seems to behave correctly on the more sloped cone, but not on the other, it appears (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) I'll need to keep 3 dp in this case. But since it didn't smooth anyway I had no incentive to enlarge the file... (...) OK, we'll see if there is downsides to this. Maybe for very small details? Have a look at some fine mesh parts such as (URL) (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Something to try. If it works it would help for several shading issues I have seen. See for example around peghole going through curved surface of (URL) Could you send me the LDraw file used to generate 61069s01a1.png? I'll see how (...) You (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) triangle has had its surface normal pulled down. So the triangle isn't co-planar with the quad as far as the lighting is concerned. With curve smoothing, all polygons who share a smoothed vertex use a common surface normal for that vertex. But (...) (16 years ago, 13-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LD4DStudio suggestions?
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Hello all, I was wondering if people have some minor suggestions / bug reports for my current LD4DStudio version. Work on the 1.1 version is taking longer than expected so I was planning to release a bugfix only version this month. Any additional (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) My comment about needing twice the geometry for the edge was based on a misunderstanding of what you wrote. Based on what I now assume you meant, two wouldn't be required for each joint. However, your solution would only work if the cones on (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) It sounds like it would work, but I'm not sure if people would go for it. Of course, if the POTM competitions are anything to go by, you're making a majority of the complicated parts right now, so if you go with it, that's probably all we need (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Mmhhh... maybe by setting 2 conditional rings on the junction. Each condring would be set between a cylinder and a cone. Scaling the ring would adapt to various cone slopes. Of course 2 rings would be needed, one for converging cones, one for (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) That's a primitive I have been longing for... but I realized it is impossible to build: where would you put the control lines? The top control points would need to be scaled differently from bottom ones to match various cylinders/cones (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Conditional Ring primitive?
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(...) I just noticed something else while investigating a fix for the above problem. The above model could really use a circular conditional edge primitive. I would vote for x-ycedge.dat as the filename (ie 1-4cedge.dat, 4-4cedge.dat, (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) I played with the settings, and I had to set the precision all the way down to 0.133 in order to get it to fully smooth. (0.125 failed to smooth properly.) (...) .005. I think I'll set the precision to .01, to hopefully give it some leeway. I (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LETGUI new version 0.1.0.18
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(...) Thanks! For the record: - Ytruder 1.2 is no longer limited to Y direction and can extrude along x, y or z directions - Intersector 1.3 has a new scaling option that improves result for small parts. Philo (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) It makes sense! (...) An example, this button: (URL) I rounded condlines to 2 decimal places since I couldn't get smoothing anyway. I did more experiments, with full precision in condline it works: (URL) but after rounding to 3 dp there is no (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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A new version of LETGUI ((URL) is now available. Support for new commandline options for Ytruder1.2 and Intersector1.3 are added. Have fun! cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: x210c01 ChromeSilver Drill 4 x 4 x 7
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(...) Welcome back! (...) I agree with Mikeheide, since the total curvature is low I think 6 cones would be more than enough! (...) Seems a good approach. As for the edge line between screw and cones, Isecalc will provide it instantly! (It would be (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I do not understand correctly what you are saying. If you use a cone primitive you can stretch it in all direction. There is no need to use "about 40 cones". A maximum of 10 should do the same! You should use for this the program "cones and (...) (16 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: x210c01 ChromeSilver Drill 4 x 4 x 7
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(...) Just to refresh my memory ( I haven't done any parts since 2951) The 48 primitives divide a circle in 48 straight lines, right? That would for a 60 LDU diameter mean that each straight line is approx 4 LDU's long, so using coneshapes each 4 (...) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: x210c01 ChromeSilver Drill 4 x 4 x 7
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(...) None I know... (...) The official way is to ask a number to a LDraw admin. That said there are numerous parts on tracker named px... (would be px210c01 here) (...) Yes you should be able to use stacked cone primitives. As Travis suggested the (...) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) If you do find a way to use primitives, you'll probably need to use the \48 ones. I don't think 16 segments is enough for the thicker part of the drill, and switching from one resolution to another part-way along seems like it would be tricky. (...) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) Not that I know of. I'll think about adding a page to the LDView web site. (I don't think it's really appropriate to add it to ldraw.org, since it's LDView-specific.) (...) The precision is 0.0001. I multiply the coordinate by 10000 and then (...) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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Has anyone been working on this? I used the Peeron partnumber, would that be correct? I have determined that the shape of the "body" of the drill is extremely close to 5+(x+3)^(1/1.58), does any primitives exist that are useable for such a curved (...) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) Thanks, Travis. BTW, are there guidelines for part authors that would improve smooth shading? What about precision in coincidence between conditional lines and matching polygon sides? I have seen _many_ instances where a quad should blend into (...) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) I looked at LDDP sources (very clear BTW!). Threshold is compared against square of cross product of each angle of quad. So it depends of size of quad to 4th power! Not very good imho, but since it works for such a long time I used the same (...) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: SR 3D Builder version 3.2.2.3 just released
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(...) MLCad keyboard controls are not supported since the user interface is totally different and parts are by far much more easy to place and connect MPD saving is not supported, but .L3B format is compatible with .LDR except for some metacommand (...) (16 years ago, 10-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Creator Adventcalender 2004 - Xmas Blog
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(...) Oooo! What fun! Thanks for sharing this. I must admit, I miss the advent calendars like this, with simple pieces because I used to enjoy designing alternate models as the days went on. Remember 1998's set 1298? wow. ten years ago now: (URL) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Rendering for liberty
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(...) Nice! You could also try wrapping a real photograph of the sunset around a sphere. -Mike (16 years ago, 10-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Rendering for liberty
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I've been working on honing my skills at the whole rendering thing using many of the tools written by members of this forum and with knowledge gleaned here. I thought it was time to share! I asked my kids which model they would like me to use for a (...) (16 years ago, 10-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) It depends on what your threshold is but taking the difference (as you do in a cross product) of two big numbers is less accurate (very much so sometimes) than taking the difference of two smaller numbers. Even without this issue it means that (...) (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) No, I just take the cross product, and if the length (squared) is 0, I give an error. I don't see how normalizing the length of the two vectors that I feed into the cross product would improve things much here. Sure, it might mean that my (...) (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: SR 3D Builder version 3.2.2.3 just released
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(...) Wow! Very impressive! I will definitely have to try it out. A couple of questions: are MLCAD's keyboard controls supported? Can I export back into LDR/MPD format? What does the model tree look like? -Mike (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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--snip-- (...) I assume that you divide by the vector lengths first (as in normalise them before taking the cross-product) but if you don't then you should. Tim (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) If they're on a curved surface, you'll get higher quality out of LDView half the time if you split them into triangles. (I say half the time, because OpenGL splits them into triangles in order to render them, and half the time they'll be split (...) (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) As far as I can see the threshold is the number of digits that are used to determine wheather a value is the same as the other. So if you use 6.0 and 6.0001 with a threshold of 0.0001 the value are interpreted to be the same. That makes sense (...) (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Opinions needed for Color and Edge Values
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(...) Good timing on your response. We are going through the transparent colors now. I also agree that the transparent colors look washed out. I believe that the RGB values are how they would appear on a white background, but they do not render well (...) (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | SR 3D Builder version 3.2.2.3 just released
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Hi everybody, here is my just released new version of SR 3D Builder As usual you can download for free from (URL) many big or little news to list. Read history for detailed information Enjoy building Sergio (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's November 2008 Part of the Month Winner
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(...) Thanks, Joshua! I just hope to have more competition, from as many contestants as possible ;o) Philo (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Colinear Vertices
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I am struggling to improve Intersector that sometimes creates quads with _almost_ colinear vertices. An obvious solution is to split quads into two triangles, but this increase size of generated file. Converted the quad into a single triangle by (...) (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Opinions needed for Color and Edge Values
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(...) Are we sure about the RGB values for the transparent colours? They look awfully washed-out to me :-( TrDkBlue in particular looks more like TrLtBlue. Alex (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) As it happens, I've also been experimenting with changing MLCad.cfg, and I've discovered something which may be of interest here: MLCad appears to check only that the _name_ of the colour has not been altered from its in-built setting, not the (...) (16 years ago, 8-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's November 2008 Part of the Month Winner
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(...) Um, yeah... OK. So why does this even COUNT any more? You should just assign it to Philo automatically from now on! :-) (this is more to say that Philo's efforts rock, than in any way to denigrate the contest) Philo, you and your efforts rock! (...) (16 years ago, 8-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 4.0 Beta 1 Released ***
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(...) I second that. I've been using it for all my latest renders and it's eliminated almost all hand-editing of POVray files. Top stuff! Tim (16 years ago, 7-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Using Unofficial parts in seperate folder
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(...) Indeed, it does! (...) OK, I understand. So the information is not written in any partslist file? Jaco (16 years ago, 7-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Multiple instances of CAMERA.DAT and LOOK_AT.DAT
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(...) Knowing where the look_at point is actually located is necessary with certain camera types and if you want to do things like add focal blur. Also, it would be needlessly difficult for users to have to try and calculate the proper rotation (...) (16 years ago, 7-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Using Unofficial parts in seperate folder
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(...) A "version" meta tag might work too. It could be used for any part--not just betas. IIRC, some parts were already released as "official" parts, but were updated at some later point in time for one reason or another. -Mike (16 years ago, 7-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Using Unofficial parts in seperate folder
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--snip-- (...) Adding a beta meta (hehehe) would be a nice way to deal with parts that have enough votes to be released but haven't made it to an official release. Tim (16 years ago, 7-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Using Unofficial parts in seperate folder
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(...) Ah-ha! I thought that we were talking about random unofficial parts culled form the ether. But if LDraw's at the wheel, then how about including something like "BETA" in the unofficial part's description: Brick 2 x 4 (BETA) That would add only (...) (16 years ago, 7-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Using Unofficial parts in seperate folder
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(...) Ah--I get it. I was thinking that it would be sufficient to include it somewhere in the hidden text of the file, but if we're talking about the actual part name, then I can see how that might not work. Dave! (16 years ago, 7-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Render Effects, (Was: Re: L3P Question)
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(...) The color doesn't seem to have a large impact; ambient, diffuse, phong, phong_size, reflection, refraction and ior have. (16 years ago, 6-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDCalc 0.1.0.4 released
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I have just finished version 0.1.0.4 of LDCalc. The changes are: Option Tab If you change the number of digits that should be used all values are recalculated immediately. Triangle Tab Fixed the error if you changed to another tab and back again and (...) (16 years ago, 6-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LGEO update
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(...) It turns out these issues were fixed in the latest POV-Ray beta. Sorry for the false report. -Mike (16 years ago, 6-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Posable minifigs
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When I'm done with my current project I think I will see about starting to create a bones system for LDraw minifigs so that they can be posed in a manner similar to a lot of official Lego software. I think I will do this in Daz, which AFAIK is free (...) (16 years ago, 6-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LGEO update
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(...) I've tested them with PTViewer and Panorado (both Java apps), but I think I will make the switch to PanoSalado (Flash) since Flash is supported by Photobucket. -Mike (16 years ago, 6-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Render Effects, (Was: Re: L3P Question)
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(...) Your bulbs have a yellow tint, which may cause the "glow" to be more apparent. It has been suggested to me elsewhere to use HDR, so I might try that. -Mike (16 years ago, 6-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 4.0 Beta 1 Released ***
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Bravo! Thank you very much for the great improvement! Although not specifically listed, it fixed several bugs the older versions had for me. The background color chart always appeared in the background and the preferences menu never disappeared once (...) (16 years ago, 6-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Blender to LDraw exporter (Blend2Dat v0.2)
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(...) export script still available for download somewhere? (16 years ago, 5-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Using Unofficial parts in seperate folder
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(...) It's not all that rare, and becoming less rare all the time... (...) The UI could display a small "unofficial" icon beside unofficial parts in what part tree/list/pallette is offered by the software. Steve (16 years ago, 5-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Using Unofficial parts in seperate folder
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(...) I believe that MLCad scans all files in unofficial directories at startup. So having a whole bunch of parts in unofficial directories slows down startup, but allows the directories to be used without having to rescan for parts every time a new (...) (16 years ago, 5-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Using Unofficial parts in seperate folder
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(...) Part names have a maximum length of 64 characters. Some rare parts run up against this limit. Consequently, I don't think adding "Official" to official part names is a viable solution. (To be honest, it would also by really annoying to see (...) (16 years ago, 5-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Multiple instances of CAMERA.DAT and LOOK_AT.DAT
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(...) If there were a real camera dat file that included facing information, look_at.dat would then be unnecessary, and the pairing problem would go away. --Travis (16 years ago, 5-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Tool to reconstruct models from POV files
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(...) I wasn't trying to give you a guilt trip. You asked for "potential problems", and I saw that as one of them. I apologize if I came across as implying that it was a bigger "potential problem" than it really is. --Travis (16 years ago, 5-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Render Effects, (Was: Re: L3P Question)
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(...) Did you look at my render? (URL) say there is a definite glow in the lights there. It's all a matter of reflection and refraction. (16 years ago, 5-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I see your point. However, in this case (AFAIK) he is using unofficial parts that have been uploaded to ldraw.org. These files are just as much under our "control" as the official parts. Further, if the model in question does not correspond to (...) (16 years ago, 5-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Philo (16 years ago, 5-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I would suggest that the "official" elements should have "official" in their descriptions, instead. "Unofficial" elements can come from any of a zillion sources impossible to oversee, but the "official" elements come from a single, (...) (16 years ago, 5-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) And here are three renders of the same model with the following command lines: -cg45,45,0 -lg45,0,0 -lg30,120,0 -lg60,-120,0 -fg -bu -sw0.5 -q3 -lgeo -ar -o -cg45,45,0 -lg45,0,0 -lg30,120,0 -lg60,-120,0 -fg -bu -sw0.5 -q3 -lgeo -o -cg45,45,0 (...) (16 years ago, 5-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Maybe all unofficial parts should have "(Unofficial)" in their descriptions. That should remove any ambiguity. -Mike (16 years ago, 5-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Here are the renders in which I noticed the problems: (URL) (16 years ago, 5-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi all, Recently I started working with the unofficial part files in a folder "Unofficial" in the folder of LDraw. I added this folder to the MLCad.ini file in the section [SCAN ORDER]. Next I deleted the parts.lst file and let MLCad create a new (...) (16 years ago, 5-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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L3PAO currently supports CAMERA.DAT and LOOK_AT.DAT for determining camera information. I'd like to see more programs support them. However, I'm wondering how best to handle cases where multiple sets of the files are defined? There's no way I know (...) (16 years ago, 5-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Please, no guilt trips. Thanks. The program has had, what, one update in seven years? I'm supposed to refrain from developing my own software based on that? -Mike (16 years ago, 5-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks to everybody who voted for this part! I'm afraid that the part author range be a bit narrow again next month ;o) Philo (16 years ago, 5-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) I noticed that a lot of the MPD files were out of date or incomplete. I've updated them all to the latest and most complete versions. You can also now download them all in a single archive. Sorry about that. -Mike (16 years ago, 5-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) I am interested in doing this, too. I used the lookslike statement, but as you said the bulbs themselves don't light up. Adding a glow won't help in my case since the bulbs are transparent. It appears I will have to model the actual filaments (...) (16 years ago, 4-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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Congratulations to the winner of the November 2008 Part Of The Month (POTM) contest: (URL) POTM - Best Part, Wheel 62.4 x 20 by Philippe Hurbain (Philo)> (URL) POTM - Most Desired Part, Wheel 62.4 x 20 by Philippe Hurbain (Philo)> The voting for the (...) (16 years ago, 4-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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All right, I'm finished. You can download it from my LDraw tools page: (URL) works with version 1.3 and 1.4 beta of L3P. You need to have the Windows Scripting Host installed in order to run it, which should already be the case with nearly everyone. (...) (16 years ago, 4-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hehe. I'm almost done already. :) Only a few more hours to go. Luckily, the relevant syntax hasn't changed between L3P 1.3 and 1.4 and the process overall is surprisingly simple. -Mike (16 years ago, 3-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Such a tool already exists (with limitations), although it is probably a bit old by now. Take a look at the bottom of this page: (URL) written in Delphi (Pascal), and you're welcome to have the source if it can help you in any way. (16 years ago, 3-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Render Effects, (Was: Re: L3P Question)
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(...) This sounds quite a lot like my Christmas tree lights, a render from 1999, (URL) go down the page a bit. This render is only illuminated by the lights in the Christmas tree, no external light sources. Please note that I have not tried this (...) (16 years ago, 3-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Got it. So although there is a "-ar" flag, it is not fully capable yet. I assume therefore that any of Anton's parts I wanted to use I would have to extract from his library and insert into my POV file, along with any required rotations or (...) (16 years ago, 3-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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