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Re: Lego Digital Designer
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Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:29:42 GMT
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Well, my 10 year son learned practically instant how to use it, without any
help of my own. And while I was unable to find how to rotate the parts, he
showed me how to do it (shame on me, the adult !): when you're in drag mode,
press the arrows keys on your keyboard, left - right will rotate around y
axis, up - down will rotate around x axis.
Regarding the file format, I hope there will be a document describing it. As
it is now, it's not usefull at all for us. On the other side, the parts
seems to be described in much more detail then ldraw counterparts, and it is
included also a LOD (level-of-detail) feature which will be perfect for
large models.
Last comment: it worked perfect at home, on a 1.5 MHz P4 256 MB RAM with
GeForce 4 TI 4600 graphic card, but it was disapointingly slow on a 800 MHz
P3 512 MB RAM with GeForce 2 MX 32 MB computer. So, you DO NEED a good
hardware to run it. It's not for low end computers. By contrast, LDView
seems (visualy) to be 3-5 times faster (!!!) with a similar complex model.
Kind Regards,
Florin Herinean
"Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:HG2w4u.1GJA@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.cad, Rodney Hester wrote:
> > Does anyone know what LEGO's intended market is for this product? • Perhaps
> > they will consider an 'advanced' version at some point. Of course, the • big
> > win would be to have interoperability with the CHUNK format parts, where • we
> > could mix and match DAT parts with CHUNK parts in a single model, but I
> > shudder to even consider the technical difficulty of such a feat.
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> My understanding is that it doesn't have a target market, it has a target
> audience. Based on posts made here on Lugnet by Jake McKee, I don't • believe
> they plan to charge money for it (although I could have misinterpreted • what he
> said, and I'm not sure he ever really stated one way or another; just that • it
> would always be gotten by download).
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> According to one of his posts, though, the target audience is kids around • the
> age of 7 or 8. Note also that this beta seems to lack many necessary • features.
> At least on my computer, you can't rotate parts in any direction, which • makes it
> pretty much impossible to create any useful models. If you look at their
> screenshot, you will see that it was taken with a different version that
> contains more functionality.
>
> --Travis Cobbs
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| (...) MHz (...) My 2 Eurocents... While I have a 2.0 GHz AMD with 512 Mb and WinXP Pro it runs slooooow... I think this is because I have a non 3D accelerator card (NVidia 64 Mb). This is really a pain, because LDView runs _very_ smoothly with (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) My understanding is that it doesn't have a target market, it has a target audience. Based on posts made here on Lugnet by Jake McKee, I don't believe they plan to charge money for it (although I could have misinterpreted what he said, and I'm (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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