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Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
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lugnet.cad
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Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:51:08 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Steve Bliss wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Ross Crawford wrote:
> > I'd think twice about making all part images transparent. Especially patterned
> > parts don't really work, look at the images for these pics
> > http://www.peeron.com/cgi-bin/invcgis/psearch?query=971&limit=parts&anyword=0
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> Yeah, there really isn't one perfect color to use in general.
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> Peeron has (by preference) use the Clear as the 'default' color for part images
> for awhile now. The default color is shown on the part-information pages, and
> anywhere that the part-color doesn't have an LDraw-equivalent. Before switching
> to Clear some months ago, Gray was as the default color.
I'm curious why the switch was made from Grey to Clear. As noted by Ross, some
of the parts look funky in a transparent color as opposed to a solid color.
-Orion
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Message has 1 Reply: | | Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
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| (...) At least part of the reason is that Gray is a fairly common color; Clear is more rare (for most parts). When parts where shown in gray, it was sometimes confusing whether it was gray-the-actual-color or gray-the-default-color. Using a (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
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| (...) Peeron has (by preference) use the Clear as the 'default' color for part images for awhile now. The default color is shown on the part-information pages, and anywhere that the part-color doesn't have an LDraw-equivalent. Before switching to (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)
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