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Simply replying would have been fine without the rant. ;) (...) (14 years ago, 31-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hi Mike, To my knowledge there are no tools to provide what you want. We have tools for "flexible parts", but these are limited to hoses and rubber band type parts. Kevin (14 years ago, 31-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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64776.dat (the cube center from LEGO Games sets) should be re-partioned a bit. Currently, there's no way to specify the stud colors separately from the body color. The tail-end of the file should be separated out into a distinct file, so that (...) (14 years ago, 25-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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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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(...) You, sir, are the cad's meow:-p JOHN (14 years ago, 22-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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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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(...) 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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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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* 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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(...) Not too many surface changes but I changed the whole back end to set up for a possible cross platform port. I'm looking to make sure that all functionality is restored and working as intended. -Orion (14 years ago, 15-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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Hello everyone! I've created another Lego model based on set 7669 - Anakin's Jedi Starfighter. For details see: (URL) can download the 3D model in various formats (including POV-Ray scene files and ldr file) from the link above. I had to use a (...) (14 years ago, 15-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Philo (14 years ago, 15-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi all, I'm up from the depths for a few day of R&R in Sasebo, Japan. I've done a lot of work on LDDP in the past weeks. Please try out the beta for LDDP v2.1 found here: (URL) depart soon so if you have any comments, email me. (14 years ago, 15-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You're welcome ;o) (...) This is a possibility, using (URL) stl2dat converter>. But the problem with this kind of tools is that it requires careful planning to make good use of (URL) LDraw primitives> that provide compact code and better (...) (14 years ago, 13-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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Well done to everyone who's contributed to the parts update. Keep up the great work. I've just had a quick browse of the updated parts and I can already see a part I need for my Police Car model - (URL) is the preferred modeling tool for creating (...) (14 years ago, 12-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi everybody, the new release of SR 3D Builder has been published. [b]Now with a basic (really basic) support for flex parts[/b] refer to video for how to use it! Available as always from (URL) (14 years ago, 11-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Damn! And the whole discussion is too esoteric for me to jump in>:-( JOHN (14 years ago, 10-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2010-02 Parts Update **IMPORTANT REVISION**
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(...) Actually Lars is the real author. I've just done some minor updates because the LEDIT emulator in ldglite needs a parts.lst file. (...) For the one guy still using LEDIT (you know who you are) -8 is all you need. I assumed the only reason (...) (14 years ago, 9-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2010-02 Parts Update **IMPORTANT REVISION**
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(...) The version of mklist.exe packaged with the early versions of this download was not able to cope with long filenames, and running it would not have updated your parts list. With a fast response from Don Heyse (the author of mklist) the (...) (14 years ago, 9-Jul-10, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, FTX) !
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(...) To be more precise 'with the legal blessing of the Jessiman's and everyone who has ever contributed a part.' As I pointed out elsewhere in this thread one of the benefits is that someone could release a perfectly legal version of the library (...) (14 years ago, 9-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Hmm... This is reminding me of deja vu. Did you email me about this, maybe five or six years ago? Okay, okay. I'll give it a try. But if it doesn't chase those pesky kids off of my lawn, I'm going right back to the full-screen obsolescence of (...) (14 years ago, 8-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I'd agree, if that was the only benefit of the "discussion and hand-wringing", however the primary benefit of it was to get a library that could be freely distributed with the blessing of the Jessimans. (...) I don't see that it does. (...) (...) (14 years ago, 8-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Ah Ha! I knew it! When I suggested you were probably "still running the original LEDIT program on some ancient 386 ... stashed in an attic somewhere", you only denied the 386 part. You *are* still running LEDIT in somebody's attic! So I know (...) (14 years ago, 8-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I'm guilty of that blank-space-deletion in my own parts, I confess. I do most of my authoring in Excel, and sometimes it becomes helpful to sort by linetype. This has the effect of stripping out the blank lines or at least moving them around (...) (14 years ago, 7-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I agree to some extent. But now it's there, like it or not. I have very little (if any?) use of it and yes it annoys me a little. The deleting of extra blank lines (used to group lines some way related to eachother) that makes the dat code a (...) (14 years ago, 7-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2010-02 Parts Update Now Available
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(...) HUGE thanks, guys!! i've been using ldraw since the beginning and it's always a little exciting to see what new parts are coming out. i've been wrestling with the lego digital designer software (not as an alternative to ldraw but because i (...) (14 years ago, 7-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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