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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Willy Tschager wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I overhauled the Brick 1 x 6 x 5 with Rocket Launch Pattern - 3754p90.dat.¬
>
> <<http://www.holly-wood.it/images/3754p90.gif>>
>
> Although this is the re-engineering of an existing LEGO part, it will NOT be¬
> submitted to the LDraw Parts Tracker for certification. It would never make¬
> it through the certification process, because the dithered color 257 hasn't¬
> been separated into a subpart for being backwards compatible with Ldraw
> 0.27.¬¬ In fact I don't want my parts any longer compatible with an 8 years
> old¬ DOS-prog I haven't ever used. The pattern looks fine in MLCad, LDView
> and¬ L3Lab; also the Povray-rendering through LPub didn't cause any trouble -
> that's¬ all I want. It's no news that the more subparts a part uses the long
> it will¬ take to go through certification. Subfiling in order to reducing
> file size is¬ fine - to work around the color issue of an outdated prog, with
> many¬ and better alternatives available, definitely not.¬
> ¬
> Therefore please download it from
> my personal website¬ <www.holly-wood.it/ldraw/authored-en.html>.¬
>
> Bye, w.
Willy,
You really got a good point here.
I don't know if there is anyone that still uses original LDraw. And, I don't
think the LDraw parts library is LDraw compatible anyway. At least not running
under DOS - I think there was a limit of 2000 files in a folder, and the Parts
directory is much larger than that, almost 3000 files.
The critical question in preserving subfiling dithered colours is: Are there
still users of original LDraw?
And, even if answered with a 'yes', we could easily make a DOS utility that
splits those parts into subparts for the few(?) who need it.
I'd say, either way, we can quit subfiling dithered colours.
(Hmm, well, we could have a META tag in the header saying that "this part
contains dithered colors" to help that utility skip scanning those part files
without that tag, like "0 COMPABILITY DITHERED_COLORS" or something shorter...
)
/Tore
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