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Re: Hold on primitives by pneaster
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Date: 
Wed, 11 Jun 2003 21:10:15 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Niels Karsdorp wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Paul Easter wrote:
> 
> > The agreed upon method is r* round( sin( Angle ),4).
> > 
> > I am still not fully sure about another final rounding.
> > in example;  round( r* round( sin( Angle ), 4), 4)
> > This is the current method I am using.
> 
> 
> > Here is a reason for doing this this way.
> > How many times have you actually calculated the true points and made a new
> > primitve Only to find out that when another rescaled primitive will not match up
> > and render correctly. This is the reason why the method I have shown above must
> > be used.
> 
> Thanx for the explanation, it's clear to me now.
> I'll update my primitive generator and reupload the
> primitives I have put on the PT
> 
> Niels
Sounds good. Make sure your generator is using spaces and not tabs. I have not
checked to see how the original Ldraw responds to tabs as number seperators.

Paul



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  Re: Hold on primitives by pneaster
 
(...) My generator (just an excel sheet with some visual basic code) uses spaces as seperators. I hope it's not a problem that values as 1 are written as 1.0000 I also fixed the generation of type 5 lines. (It generated one too less for partial (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
  Re: Hold on primitives by pneaster
 
(...) Just for the record, LDRAW.EXE and LEDIT.EXE both allow tabs as separaters. But they also allow line breaks as number separaters. :O Steve (23 years ago, 21-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: Hold on primitives by pneaster
 
(...) Thanx for the explanation, it's clear to me now. I'll update my primitive generator and reupload the primitives I have put on the PT Niels (23 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)

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