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Re: easy pattern creator?
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Tue, 27 May 2003 11:13:13 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> A more general answer is that there is a pattern creator, quad2dat...
> although the author seems to have stopped working on it and it has some
> annoying bugs, it's very useful.
I'll try and look into that one. For the moment I'm totaly
happy with Carsten Schmitz's "BMP2LDRAW32" which I found
yesterday on the LDDP homepage. This coverts images into
ldraw readable .dat files.
> But in your specific situation you'd be starting over, so that's not a good
> approach, since there already is a pattern that says what you want. I think
> what you need to do is find the section of the dat file that has the pattern
> and use that section, perhaps as a temporary subfile, in a brick 1x4...
> Position it centered and you should be all set. You may then want to use an
> inliner to undo the subfiling.
Carsten's neat little proggie has the "Span Option": copy paste
a quadrilateral line, so that the conversion will be done within
the limits you want. This works PERFECTLY!!
This is what I did:
I went to Peeron.com to find a good picture of the part:
http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/3010px9
I captured the pattern and edited it into a 2 color bitmap.
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Stinky/Parts/transport.bmp
I converted this .bmp into .dat with Carsten's tool and then
implemented this with LDDP into a 1x4 brick.
I asked Steve Bliss to add me to the parts creators elite.
Since it is prefered, if not mandatory, to be an actual
owner of the brick created, I went to EBAY.com (yes) and
started bidding on a 335 set for sale in of all places
Germany.
And here are the results of the Dutch jury:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=410734
happy renderings,
Jan Folkersma
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| (...) One thing to keep in mind -- parts created with BMP2LDRAW32 (or any other bitmap-to-LDraw converter) are not really encouraged. They're very handy when you need a part quickly, but the quality of the pattern is usually not the best, and the (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: easy pattern creator?
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| (...) I think for quick and dirty patterns, this is a fine approach. It works best with patterns that are monochromatic, I think. For things like minifig torsos it may not work as well as sitting down and figuring out the polygons would. Plus, as (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) A more general answer is that there is a pattern creator, quad2dat... although the author seems to have stopped working on it and it has some annoying bugs, it's very useful. But in your specific situation you'd be starting over, so that's not (...) (21 years ago, 26-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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