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(...) Voila! Mac universal binary now available at the above link for download! ROSCO (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 4.1 Released ***
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(...) I like a computer graphic. I make models for rotating it in LDView not for instructions :) . This is a huge work. Thank you, Travis. (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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LDView 4.1 is now available for download from the LDView downloads page here: (URL) Some notable changes: Curve smoothing in POV-Ray exports. Customizable toolbar on Windows and Mac versions. Note: the default toolbar is now missing some features (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Minifig Accessory
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(...) If I've understood it correctly, !CATEGORY precedes title in order of importance. So the shield is a Minifig Accessory. (if it didn't, why there would be that category entry.. ?) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I like to draw your attention to the following part which is only a sample: (URL) the guidelines in the FAQ and the Article 340 (see above) then this part belongs to the "Minifig" category as this is the first word of the description. But (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Ad for Honda Jazz using virtual bricks
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(...) Apparently they're Mega Bloks by design: (URL) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.cad)
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| | LDConfig Manager 1.0
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Because of the current discussion about the LDConfig.ldr I needed a tool to visualisise all the used colors. So I just coded LDConfig Manager. It is far from beeing complete and maybe buggy, but it works for me. Maybe you are also interested in (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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(...) I'm gonna explain (and quit afterwards) why I hesitate adding new and old - what I call "MLCad" - colors to the LDConfig.ldr file: * The current LDConfig.ldr contains only colors you'll find in official LEGO Bricks (with two exceptions (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Ad for Honda Jazz using virtual bricks
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(URL) that the video description mentions Mega Bloks even though they are virtual... ROSCO (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.cad)
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(...) I thought "Minifigure Accessory" was already an official category. (URL) haven't gotten around to implementing support for the !CATEGORY directive yet, though. I still just read the first word of the description for the category. (...) Is (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Official alternative model of set 8671
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(...) I hunted down the old LEGO racers site on the web archive (www.archive.org), and found it there, and then deciphered what the old link must have been when it was "available" from www.LEGO.com, and found that the file is still available and in (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) I'm not sure what you mean by this. Both LDView and ldglite have ways to share the coordinates used for a particular viewpoint. Something like this: (URL) do you just want a way to set the "look at" point on the command line. I believe that's (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Official alternative model of set 8671
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(...) Thanks Joshua. How did you find out the link to that? (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets)
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(...) Hm... wouldn't it be relatively easy to implement (yet effective) just to have the possibility to define the crop window for a certain assembly step? That would then work independently on the renderer. And if the coordinates were given in % (...) (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | txt2dat 0.2.3 released
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Version 0.2.3 of txt2dat has been released, you can download it (URL). Changes in this version: Upgraded to Freetype 2.3.11 Fixed -f option to generate "0 Name:" instead of "0 FILE" as per Ldraw spec. Thanks Philo! Added -g option to generate glyph (...) (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) I guess I dropped that ball. Someone contacted me about Lunix patches for LPub, and I ignored them. I should have encouraged him to put those patches onto sourceforge himself and join the team. I'll work on that. (...) Kevin (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) In the case of L3P and POV-Ray, there was the ability for look at coordinates so that you could control what is the center of the viewed image. If such a mechanism were to exist in LDView and LDGLite, LPub could support that. This combined (...) (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) I'm on my way, thanks! Kevin (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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(...) Hi Steve, good to hear from you again. Would you mind lokking into this: (URL) (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Tore, Feel free to add any color, RGB, name or number you like to the LDConfig.ldr. file. I really won't stand in the way of 100% backwards compatibility to L3Lab. w. (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Minifig Accessory
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I just saw that we have parts that description starts with "Minifig Accessory" while others only starts with "Minifig". As I like to have things conform to each other I like to hear also other opinions to this than mine. I think we should keep that (...) (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) You know I could swear I pointed you towards a potential candidate for this, like a month or so ago... https://retracile.ne...0/10/16.45 Did you ever get a chance to follow up on that? Don (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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(...) Oh. Oh. I... I wish somebody had told me this before, instead of arrogant and provoking things like: "Welcome to 2009". Or maybe someone has tried, but I've been the write protected that time? /Tore (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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(...) Yes, exactly. 48 is rendered as trans-black, 65 is blue, and 133 should be dark pink (or whatever we're calling color #5 today). Steve (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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(...) Do you mean that original LDraw accepts color 48, 65, 133 without error message? I didn't know that. Pity L3Lab (and L3P v1.3 which I no longer use)don't act that way. If so, I guess I stand corrected. And blushing. But yet, with a little (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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(...) Just to be clear: all colors from 0 to 511 (except 16 and 24) are true LDraw colors. For color codes less than 256, LDraw would use the lowest 4 bits to determine the color value. The sixth bit would determine transparency. The other bits were (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Official alternative model of set 8671
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(...) Not to take away from Jaco's work (which is most impressive), but the original can be gotten from: (URL) those who want to compare before and after, perhaps? :) -- joshua (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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(...) I for one would have been very happy with that approach. That's exactly what I have tried to tell over and over and over again. Could those of you who have their intellectual write protection on, pretty pretty please unlock it for just a few (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) models, so it is quite common for the assembly not to fit on the page. The workaround I have used so far is to make my own custom assembly images from LView and them manually put them in the final PDF file. That's what I did (URL) here>. Eric (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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Nobody ever listens to me on the issue of colors, but that doesn't mean I'll go quietly... (...) I don't see why they need to be added to the ldConfig file as long as they're documented somewhere and accepted as the standard default LDraw pallette. (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Official alternative model of set 8671
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Hello, In the instructions of set 8671 (Racers - Ferrari F430 Spider 1:17) it says there are buildinginstrucions of an alternative model to be found on (URL) Alas these instructions were removed. The topic of missing or removal of official building (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets)
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(...) OK, here goes. When an assembly is too large to fit on the page, LPub crops the image. When one drags the assembly image to another position LPub does not redraw the image. See: (URL) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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(...) Sorry, but I really cannot understand the need to encode dithered colors. Personally I think that only colors used for parts should be coded, while, when you create a patterned part you can choose to use a "good enough" already coded color or (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) It might fix it (I think it would still gum up the PT with over-zealous hold votes); but why break anything when we're just talking about adding fewer than 200 lines to the config file? I think it's a terrible idea to make dozens of (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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(...) I have had parts on the Part Tracker held because they used one of these colors. That means it is limiting. (...) Color numbers 32-47 and 256-511 is not every color under the rainbow. (...) This is exactly the problem. (...) If this is the (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) Well, I'm interested in helping to maintain current builds for the Macintosh. We're still at 4.0.0.1. If you update the SourceForge page with the current code, I will work on that - and then my interest might be rekindled enough to delve (...) (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) Hi Willy, This is not the kind of help I was asking about. I was asking if anyone was interested in helping with the software development of LPub. It is getting too large for one person to work on alone. If would seem you have issues with the (...) (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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(...) There are already two very old ways to specify RGB colors in LDraw files. One comes from ldlite with somewhere between 12 and 15 effective bits of color information, and the other from L3Lab/L3P with 24 bits of color information. If we're (...) (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Color page updated
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(...) Of course it would - as well as it does LDView. But after adding x, y, z coordinates and correcting RGB code syntax would work fine with both LDView as well as L3Lab! 1 0x02F2F2F2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 part.dat Don't know about MLCad, but I (...) (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) Does finger pointing to bugs count? (URL) (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad)
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