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Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Fri, 15 Oct 2004 22:26:03 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Steve Bliss wrote:
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 less-common color reduces the amount of confusion.

The only way to completely avoid confusion would be to find a color that
would not be confused with an actual LEGO color.  That's a challenging
proposition these days.

How about a transparent brown?  TLC already has an official trans-brown
(smoke/trans-black), so there's not much risk of them ever using that.



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  Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
 
(...) Not that my opinion goes for everyone but I think a solid color looks better. A transparent render show all the back edge making the image appear jumbled. To be honest I don't see how using grey, yellow, red or any other solid color is (...) (20 years ago, 16-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: LDGlite and LPub (and maybe ldview?
 
(...) 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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