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RE: New colours in Ldraw?
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lugnet.cad
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Sun, 10 Oct 2004 07:36:57 GMT
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> In this case, the current color seems reasonable for the short term
> (dark gray dithered with dark gray)
Ah, but according to the Colour Chart
(http://www.ldraw.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=
93) "LDraw can render mixes of the basic 16 colors. This is commonly
called 'dithering'. You can use dithered colors for any part reference,
but part authors cannot use them to color polygons or lines. Just
typeline 1 commands."
So here be demons, as the dithered colour was used on (non-rectangular)
quads. Which was one of the reasons I asked for a hold on the part
until the new colours were resolved as I knew I'd broken that rule.
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) That doesn't mean dithered colours cannot be used in a part, just that any area that requires such should be devolved into a subpart. There are plenty of examples of this technique in the official library - e.g. 973p39.dat Chris (20 years ago, 10-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New colours in Ldraw?
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| (...) I understand your point, but I think that it's a bad idea to release an official part that's guaranteed to look wrong in all current renderers. All that's going to do is confuse the novice users, and I think that's a really bad idea. I'm not (...) (20 years ago, 9-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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