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Re: Custom Color question/request
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lugnet.cad
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Sun, 25 Jan 2004 01:00:46 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Joel Hoornbeek wrote:
> > Now that I've used it a bit more, another question comes up. I just defined
> > some new colors that correspond to the new gray colors, and tried to render the
> > file in LPub. However, the bricks that I had assigned my new colors to all came
> > out as plain gray. Does LPub recognize colors other than the standard colors or
> > "custom" colors? (For instance, for a previous model, I added a custom color
> > for Sand Green. In MLcad those pieces showed that the color was unused, but the
> > file rendered correctly in LPub.)
>
> L3P doesn't support the type of custom colors created with the define button.
> When you use a custom color in MLCAD, it uses an extended color number that
> defines the actual color used. This extended color number format originated
> with ldlite (as far as I know), and was extended by Lars in L3P. Lars
> definitely supports it in L3P.
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> When you use the define button to define a color in MLCAD, it puts a
> meta-command in the file defining the color and mapping it to the color number
> you chose. (I believe this color meta-command also originated with ldlite, but
> I could be wrong.) This meta-command isn't supported by L3P, so it uses color 7
> instead. Lars may update L3P in the future to support this meta-command. (He
> might even already have the support in his current un-released version.)
> However, the current L3P version was released quite some time ago, so I don't
> think it's real safe to expect a new version imminently.
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> Alternatively, Kevin could update LPub to recognize these color meta-commands
> and replace the color number in the output file LPub sends to L3P with an
> extended color number defining the actual color, which would also solve the
> problem.
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> At the moment, though, it looks like you're better off not defining custom
> colors in MLCAD if you want to render your output in L3P. Note that I only
> added support for the color meta-command to my most recent release of LDView.
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> --Travis Cobbs
Thanks for all of the information, Travis. It does sound like I'll be better
off with un-named colors that render properly instead of named colors that are
all the same. :)
-Joel
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| (...) L3P doesn't support the type of custom colors created with the define button. When you use a custom color in MLCAD, it uses an extended color number that defines the actual color used. This extended color number format originated with ldlite (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad)
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