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Re: New Building Instructions from the latest LPub
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst
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Fri, 6 May 2005 08:03:05 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've been making good progress with LPub development. I've been putting it
> through its paces for testing purposes, and finally finished the LDraw file for
> my small pneumatic walker Pedmatic (due to a typo of mine, it is also sometimes
> referred to as Pendmatic).
Hi Kevin. Any idea when this new release will be available for download? No
hurry or anything, but I've got a couple of instruction I want to generate
sometime this year or the next, and would like to have a go at it. Do you want a
beta tester?
> Here is the original MOC:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=46671
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> Here are the building instructions for Pedmatic:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=126902
Awesome. I'm not too keen on the psychedelic background, but I see the
potential. I never could figure out how to make the background transparent. Can
you see the background through transparent pieces? Can you get it to reflect off
chrome pieces?
> The building
> instructions use a few new LPub and LSynth features:
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> - LSynth now has the ability to create synthesized results into a MLCad group.
'kay.
> - LPub now has the ability to remove previously defined groups, as an
> alternative to buffer exchange.
'kay. What was the point of that again?
> - LPub now has support for multiple steps per page, and this reduces the
> number of pages from 93 down to 31.
Woohoo! Is it customisable?
> - The use of POV-Ray's transparent background (alph-channel) is fabulous for
> providing background images as the backdrop to building instruction pages.
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> For those interested, the backdrop used in Pedmatic's BI's is generated by a
> fractl program I wrote a few months ago.
I guess that answers my question above. Again, woohoo!
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> I'm working on Inno setup now for LPub and LSynth. Gotta figure out how to run
> an uninstall before the new install and then I'll be ready.
I don't know an Inno from an Outo, so I say, whatever, go for it. It'll be grand
whatever it is.
Allister
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