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Ok, I have n00b question for LPub. I am using a Mac with Bricksmith 2.3. I have the latest LDview installed and LPub 4.0.0.1. I have 2 issues (they might be related. 1. When starting LPub I get this error: failed to open (...) (15 years ago, 10-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New parts and color definition
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(...) I created a command line-only version of LDView and got it built on the peeron server, but nobody took the next step of creating a new LDView-based image generation script. I'd be happy to help out anyone who has the access to do this and is (...) (15 years ago, 10-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New parts and color definition
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(...) Travis has worked on a switch after this post: (URL) I do not remember why there was no happy ending. w. (15 years ago, 10-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Something to consider for the discussion; ldglite still uses dithering to render the part images for the tracker. If for some reason you decide to move the clear glass color from 39 to color 47, you may want to also move the clear light grey (...) (15 years ago, 10-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: New parts and color definition
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(...) This explains a lot of things - thx Tore for sharing. I'm going to discuss this in the LDConfig workgroup and see if we find a solution for the problem. w. (15 years ago, 10-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: New parts and color definition
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(...) Sorry if maybe I repeat something already said about color 39, but this is how I recall it: In Original LDraw, clear looked better with dithered lightgrey than white, so James and I decided to use color 39 for window "glass", instead of 47, (...) (15 years ago, 10-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: New parts and color definition
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(...) LDraw handling of transparent colors. Colors 32-47 are simply transparent versions of colors 0-15. So, color 39 is a transparent version of color 7 (light gray), and color 40 is a transparent version of color 8 (dark gray). This seems to have (...) (15 years ago, 9-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: New parts and color definition
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(...) Please see also the comments about this issue on (URL) (15 years ago, 9-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New parts and color definition
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(...) OK, understand! So using lDraw colors is the right way for the future. MLCad color in parts have to be fixed. Anyway I think it should be a good practice to disallow new (official or unofficial) parts using other than official lDraw colors. (...) (15 years ago, 9-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New parts and color definition
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(...) BTW, could it be possible to update Parts Tracker image generator to use the new LDConfig.ldr? Case in point (URL) the front should be trans orange (color 182), not dull grey... Philo (15 years ago, 9-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)
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