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I was wondering if anyone here had experience with creating the style of minifig animations found in official TLG movies/cartoons/video games. I.e. ones where the parts are not only articulated, but also bend. Are there any free tools to do this? (...) (14 years ago, 25-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Taking shortcuts
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(...) You, sir, are the cad's meow:-p JOHN (14 years ago, 22-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Taking shortcuts
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(...) Acually, I think you moved it to lugnet.cad, BICBW 8?) ROSCO (14 years ago, 22-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'm used to getting called Ronald by 'new' people all the time. :) (...) Those studs merely touch the surface, that's not going to be a problem. But when two polygons overlap, how their pixels end up onscreen can be frame/driver dependent and (...) (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'm not worried about disk space so much as I am worried about render/move/edit time. Unnecessary polygons, even after being read in and converted into internal models, take time to process. I think you can see the difference in POVray render (...) (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad)
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Indeed: "bad" overlaps (and in particular flase intersections that are bleeding trhough to the site of the part where they are not supposed to be visible) cause disturbingly bad render errors. But on the other hand, "good" overlaps don't generate (...) (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'm replying here in part because your anagramatic names compel me to do so. Anyway, I asked this same basic question a little while back: (URL) given the intervening span of time, I suspect that the prevailing wisdom has changed. However... (...) (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDRAW / MLCAD on Windows 7 - 64 bit
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(...) Just install them. They should both work fine. I'm puzzled, though. If you honestly thought there was a high enough chance that they wouldn't work that you felt you had to ask here, why in the world did you get a 64-bit version of Windows? As (...) (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I doubt that it is anything to do with file size, but more with the time needed to create a "perfect" part. With a very small number of active authors, there should be a compromise between quantity of parts being created and the quality of (...) (14 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) My first PC had no hard drives, just two 360 kb floppy drives. One for the OS and the other for applications and documents. My second PC had a 10 Mb hard drive that took the physical space of two 5 1/4" drives. The Michelangelo virus took its (...) (14 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I've never really understood that either. Okay, my first computer came with a 16GB hard drive, so yeah, space was pretty cramped then. My second computer came with a 100GB hard drive, but even after I bought that I was still seeing people (...) (14 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDRAW / MLCAD on Windows 7 - 64 bit
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How do i install LDRAW on a Win 7 - 64 bit machine? Can MLCAD V3.3 be installed on Win 7 - 64 bit? Regards, Ludo (14 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'm not a part author, but from a rendering engine author's point of view. Those kind of overlaps can cause very ugly artifacts during rendering, so imho saving a couple of bytes (on harddrives containing 1.000.000.000.000 bytes these days!) (...) (14 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) There is no correct answer to this, just a lot of personal opinions and shades of gray. The LSC did ratify additional restrictions on library parts which mentions this - see (URL) (14 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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As I've recently started creating parts I've been taking a closer look at how other parts have been made. I've noticed that sometimes there are overlaps that keep the file smaller. My question is: what is more important; having 'correct' parts or (...) (14 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v2.1 beta
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(...) I'll fix that in the next update (...) Looking into this (...) Removed it temporarily. Not that useful anyway. -Orion (14 years ago, 19-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2010-02 Parts Update Now Available
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(...) You can find other programs for doing stickers in this post: (URL) --Travis (14 years ago, 17-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2010-02 Parts Update Now Available
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Thanks for the summary of tools. Following on from my recent post "Lego - Anakin's Jedi Starfighter 7669", what's the best tool for adding a sticker to an existing part? I've started experimenting with BMP2Ldraw32 to create a sticker DAT file. (...) (14 years ago, 17-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2010-02 Parts Update Now Available
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Congratulations on the massive parts update! (14 years ago, 9-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Design Pad v2.1 beta
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* After launch I get the following error: (URL) Win2000, Sp4. * Loading an .mpd file the prog does not load ans stops working. * The toolbar for search and replace is gone. w. (14 years ago, 15-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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