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(...) Hi Rolf, Maybe you can submit it to Parts Tracker with a Needs Work notice? It certainly looks good enough for many uses! Philo (14 years ago, 29-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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This is the part I was seeking. It works great; it looks great. TNX * 10**6! Joseph (...) (14 years ago, 29-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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Hey Joseph, I think I have a mock-up; the bottom is unready. Rolf 0 Cylinder Half 3 x 6 x 6 with 1 x 2 cutout 0 Name: 87926.dat 0 Author: Rolf Osterthun [Rolf] 0 !LDRAW_ORG Unofficial_Part 0 !LICENSE Redistributable under CCAL version 2.0 : see (...) (14 years ago, 28-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) (After an almost two months break, I'm back in business again...) It's not "my" light settings, but L3P's automatic settings. I have tried to tweak them, but I experience extreme difficulties to find a way to make it work decently all over (...) (14 years ago, 27-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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Hello Joshua How does one aquire these building instructions? With friendly greetings, Manfred Moolhuysen. (14 years ago, 25-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) ALE = Adult LEGO Enthusiast (as pointed out) By "arrived," I meant BI so close to official that it's hard to tell apart from the "real thing," and so good that TLG (or, at least, a part of it) allowed me to use LEGO enthusiast-created tools (...) (14 years ago, 25-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Well it's possible Joshua was actually referring to amber fluid, however I think he probably meant "Adult LEGO Enthusiast". Or maybe both. ROSCO (14 years ago, 25-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) <snip> (...) Hi Joshua, What does ALE stand for? No offense, but in the world of BI's, I thought we'd been here for quite a while?!?!? Kevin (14 years ago, 24-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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Does anyone have a dat file or a mock-up for the referenced part? TNX Joseph (14 years ago, 24-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) SNIP If I am right, this file would have error messages with L3P and DATHeader as the two lines are identical. So one line has to be deleted. cu mikeheide (14 years ago, 23-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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LEGOLAND California's Ambassador Pass Master Model Builder classes start today for the 2010 season. While I'm not a passholder, I have seen examples of past work, and I have to say that I think Gary has "outdone the brand" this year. This year's (...) (14 years ago, 20-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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(...) Use the 'net, Luke! (URL) -- joshua (14 years ago, 19-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Dang, I wish I knew French! That is a pretty intense web page, and the results look amazing! Someone's been busy adding new belt and hose types! Also, Don, you've done a great job on the trickiest of the math bits. Thanks! Kevin (...) (14 years ago, 19-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) There's a tutorial in French here that appears to expand on Willy's tutorial. (URL) on the pictures it looks like there are plenty of examples of rubber bands and belts. Have fun, Don (14 years ago, 17-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) LeoCAM had a really rudimentary "snap-to" functionality added to LeoCAD. It didn't work entirely well, and was never entirely completed (as it was an academic proof, rather than an actual attempt to create a functionality). The sources have (...) (14 years ago, 17-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Hi Andrew, This is not really a detailed tutorial, but the usage example I posted on this page shows rubber bands, including sample files: (URL) this helps. Jim (14 years ago, 17-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I have been playing around with MLCAD and LSynth, and have had lots of luck when generating point-to-point and point-through-point items like cables and hoses. However, I have had exactly no luck trying to generate rubber bands and belts. I see (...) (14 years ago, 17-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Thanks for the awesome set of links!! Saves me a ton of work! I will have to see how well they integrate with LDraw generated models. Mike (14 years ago, 16-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You could try to track down a copy of leoCAM. Maybe that'll do it. Or perhaps some of the leoCAM features have migrated back into leocad? I don't know, but it might be worth a look. Good luck, Don (14 years ago, 15-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Someone has already created a rigged Lego character for use in Blender. Take a look at the following link: (URL) fun! Reuben (14 years ago, 15-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hi there, You could try experimenting with Unity3D. This is a free download. It looks like the Unity suite of tools was used to create the online game Lego game "The Quest for R2-D2" (URL) are some tutorials on how to create characters with (...) (14 years ago, 15-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Well, after a long discussion with Sergio via e-mail and a period of trying different things, it appears that SR3DBuilder will only run (both now and in the future) on a native installation of Windows (not even a virtual machine) that has a (...) (14 years ago, 14-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I'm sorry I don't have any real experience with the software, I just happen to hear about it through the "big bunny buck" short film. Roland (14 years ago, 10-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Wow, you're right! I was able to import an OBJ version of my minifig created with LdrDat2Obj. It didn't like the 3DS version I created with LDView for some reason, however. I'm reading one of the tutorials on animation right now. I have a (...) (14 years ago, 8-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) A warning though: When you download the trial version of Poser 8 they ask for your credit card number. And in my case they charged $1 to it despite the trial version being free and the invoice showing $0. Mike (14 years ago, 8-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'm pretty sure you can do these kinds of things with blender (URL) it has a steep learning curve, and you'll have to create the minifig models from scratch. Roland (14 years ago, 8-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I did a little research. You can create bones and poses in Daz3D Studio and Poser. Poser 8 costs $250, but you can buy Poser 7 for $50. Daz3D Studio is free, but you have to buy a $30 plugin to create your own bones and poses from scratch. (...) (14 years ago, 8-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Some of the details on the face are messed up too, though things are definitely a lot better. Mike (14 years ago, 4-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Jim, Very nice indeed! May I have the list of quirks, or are you looking into them? Kevin (14 years ago, 5-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, FTX)
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(...) It does work rather well (MeshLab does support 3DS)... (...) Indeed, it seems that invertnext statement is ignored. On the minifig, only front and inside of hands are shown backwards in MeshLab (other inverted areas such as cap inside are (...) (14 years ago, 3-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks! Just to be clear, the first image is an actual photo (although I did post some other images and test renderings of the LDraw version on Flickr). (...) Yep. My standard procedure is to build a model with real bricks, then to rebuild it (...) (14 years ago, 3-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, FTX)
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(...) You may have borked the link, but your render is simply stunning. Well done, and thanks for posting! Did you use Bricksmith to create it? JOHN (14 years ago, 3-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, FTX)
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(...) Ah, Lugnet. Looks like I borked the image links. Let's try that again. Here's the model, including links to the instruction images: (URL) And here's the first page of the instructions themselves: (URL) (14 years ago, 3-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, FTX)
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Thought some of you might appreciate the instructions I posted for a simple little starfighter model I built from two sets, the new Space Police "Raid VPR" and the Star Wars "Separatist's Shuttle". Here's the model, including links to the (...) (14 years ago, 3-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, FTX)
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(...) If MeshLab suppors 3DS files, you might try using LDView to convert the file to 3DS format. Load the file in LDView, then select File->Export, then select "3DS: 3D-Studio File" in the "Save as type" pop-up. Unfortunately, LDView's 3DS exporter (...) (14 years ago, 2-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: BFC problems, model or converter?
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(...) Cup, head and arm are BFCed and look all green in LDView: 0 Minifig Cap 0 Name: 4485.dat 0 Author: Thomas Burger [grapeape] 0 BFC CERTIFY CW 0 !HISTORY 2003-09-24 [westrate] Fixed gaps and inner radius; Replaced quads with primitives; BFC'd 0 (...) (14 years ago, 2-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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I converted a model of a minifig to OBJ format using the LdrDat2Obj program found here: (URL) when I open the model in MeshLab the model appears to suffer from lots of BFC issues. See image here: (URL) this an issue with the original LDraw models or (...) (14 years ago, 2-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) certified since the last update. To get the full library, you must install one of these: (URL) (14 years ago, 31-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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I'm a little confused about the installation procedure. Are the parts updates cumulative? I mean, do they contain all the parts of the previous updates, or do I have to install them in a particular order? The LDraw.org website doesn't explain this, (...) (14 years ago, 31-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) How about via exporting to a different format? I'm not that familiar with 3D modeling software, but some of them support "bones" and skeletal animation. Not sure though if there are any free ones. (14 years ago, 31-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDRAW / MLCAD on Windows 7 - 64 bit
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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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| | Re: L3P Warnings
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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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(...) For me, the argument comes back to process vs. product, as was discussed in the previous thread. Additionally, it raises the question of whether LDraw is a tool for the end-users or a tool for the reviewers. The extended period of discussion (...) (14 years ago, 7-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I'm intrigued - the only point in that last sentence that differentiates the "indecipherable gobbledygook" from the inline POV is that the latter "yields a greatly superior output image". It's certainly no less invisible to the end-user, nor (...) (14 years ago, 7-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Despite indications of a steady - if not increasing - rate of new file submission. The post-CA parts updates have shown a steady trend of reducing the backlog, bravo to Chris and the reviewers and the authors! (...) Thanks for the link. Could (...) (14 years ago, 6-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I think you need to add some clouds to Datsville ;) Your light settings are very bright! I have just done some test renders that look decent. I agree that these colors may not be perfect for Pov-Ray rendering, because I'm not a rendering (...) (14 years ago, 6-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yes, the total number of files on the Parts Tracker is now at it lowest since Sep 2007. The u* decision was ratified by the LSC on 5 Feb 2010 and a link to (URL) was posted to Latest News on the LDraw.org home page. Chris (14 years ago, 6-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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In lugnet.announce, Chris Dee wrote: [snipped announcement of 2010-02 parts update] Nice! You *have* been cutting the backlog (based on the PT history graph), awesome! BTW, was there public info about the u* part numbering? I saw that u* parts were (...) (14 years ago, 6-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks for your kind words. I guess I forgot that this update is the first to include files that exceed the 8.3 naming, and we needed a new version of mklist.exe. I'm not sure what happened to the version 1.6 beta annouced at (URL) contact Don (...) (14 years ago, 6-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Another great update and a promise of a third in the making. Your hard work is much appreciated - more than you may realize from the number of replies you get here. I have announced the update on a couple of forums and people are axcited to (...) (14 years ago, 6-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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First of all: once again thanks to all who made this possible. Very impressive update! The thing is now that my mklist does not create a new parts.lst file. I can choose between Number of Description. It starts counting x parts found, but no new (...) (14 years ago, 6-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) That's quite a massive update! Thank You All, part developers, reviewers, organizers, pushers, whatever-s! This is definitely appreciated. (14 years ago, 5-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi, I just updated the MLCad.ini file accordingly to the latest LDraw.org parts update 2010-02. The .ini file defines (among other things) the parts available in MLCad's minifigure generator. Download the file from my website: (URL) w. (14 years ago, 5-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.announce)
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(...) ... links now fixed. Chris (14 years ago, 5-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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Thanks for the hard work, Chris! (...) ...the links to the dat files in parts preview do not work... Philo (14 years ago, 5-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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The 2010-02 LDraw parts update has been now been released. This update includes 950 files in the core library, including 471 new parts, and many more files updated with improvements for Back Face Culling support. A further 10 parts have been (...) (14 years ago, 5-Jul-10, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad) !!
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(...) Well, that depends on where you use it. In L3P, I think black is much better in your version, while lightgrey still looks white and green is maybe better but still way too bright. (URL) there any LDConfig optimized for L3P out there? Or is it (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) The LDConfig_Alt file has more realistic colors. To use it in MLCAD (version 3.3 or higher), you need to rename LDConfig.ldr to something like LDConfig_BlackEdges.ldr and rename LDConfig_Alt.ldr to LDConfig.ldr. MLCAD will read the file and (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I know, I know. Fair call. I should have learnt years ago never to claim I'm taking my bat and ball and going home. That is lame. Please pretend I murfled both hissy fits. I find it much too difficult to resist attacks against my person and (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Nowhere have you presented an argument that differ in any way from the "collective dogma," so I don't see why your argument should be treated any differently. (...) Don't tease. In your previous reply you said that you were done with the (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) --snip-- So pretty much you're saying you think that anyone who disagrees with you does so not from their own reasoned perspective but because of some collective dogma. Well now that we've cleared that up I'll know never to bother with you (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Speaking of ray-tracing then, I prusume... (14 years ago, 3-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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