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Re: Questions: 12 volt train track parts
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Wed, 25 Jun 2003 02:46:02 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Niels Karsdorp wrote:
> After I announced that I created the straight blue 12 Volt conductor track, I
> received an email from Steffen that he has already created the gray 12 Volt
> conductor tracks (straight, curved and cross) and to avoid doing doubled work.
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> Comparing his parts (his parts are on the PT already) with mine raised some
> questions about the creation of metal pieces.
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> I put these questions on my questions page with rendered pictures of both his
> and mine parts:
> http://home.hetnet.nl/~niels-karsdorp/ldraw/question.htm
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> Answers can be given in reply to this post, so everybody can read them and
> respond when needed.
Paraphrasing the questions from your webpage:
Is it better to model the plastic and metal elements in separate files,
or have one file with a short section of both plastic and metal, and
stretch them for the whole part.
Stretching is alright, but the metal needs to be in a separate file from
the plastic, because it uses color 383 (or it should).
The metal rail is a formed, hollow 'square tube' of metal. Does this
detail need to be modeled, or is it alright to model the rail as a solid
bar?
I'm OK with modeling it as a solid bar, but the extra detail is good,
and since you've made it, we should use it. The curved edges of the
rail are probably more detail than we really need in LDraw -- they'll
tend to have a very 'soft' look when rendered in a non-raytracing tool,
because there won't be any edge line drawn on the edge closest to the
viewer.
Steve
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| I put some questions on my questions page about metal pieces: (URL) Bliss replied to those: (...) When I look at a real piece I see a hollow metal bar and a bar with a connector that fits in the hollow bar of an adjecant part. To match real (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| After I announced that I created the straight blue 12 Volt conductor track, I received an email from Steffen that he has already created the gray 12 Volt conductor tracks (straight, curved and cross) and to avoid doing doubled work. Comparing his (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)
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