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Re: LDraw Animation Behaviour .dat Files?
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lugnet.cad
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Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:21:10 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Tore Eriksson wrote:
> Sorry, no progress so far with the LDA2002 project.
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> But I had a new idea today, mostly useful for making libraries of minifig
> animation.
> The basic idea is to make it viewable in any LDraw viewer and portable for
> different LDraw animation systems or utilities. Sorry not POV, I'm afraid -
> but who knows...!
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> The idea is based on using the STEP metacommand in a little different way.
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> The colour and the part numbers could of course be ignored or overridden by
> the program calling the behaviour file.
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> In my system, most animation related .dat files are named matching "@*.dat",
> and I would suggest that minifig animation behaviour files hould be named
> "@mf*.dat".
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> I don't think this system is useful in all objects, for example vehicles
> have different sizes and distances between their wheels. Yes, even different
> number of wheels. Hopefully I'm wrong and this can be solved, too. Maybe in
> a distant future, a model file can carry the information that enables any
> animation program to make basic animations.
You should try and merge/append this with the connection database, e.g. model
behavior vs. part behavior. No sense coming up with two different ways of doing
basically the same thing.
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| Sorry, no progress so far with the LDA2002 project. But I had a new idea today, mostly useful for making libraries of minifig animation. The basic idea is to make it viewable in any LDraw viewer and portable for different LDraw animation systems or (...) (22 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad)
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