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I am heavily testing and playing with LPub. This is sooo coool. I render using ldglite = FAST! I (still :-) have some questions though... A. Callouts See: (URL) How to get the second set of lights (front light) into the picture? 2. How to get an (...) (19 years ago, 26-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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"Jaco van der Molen" <jmolen@zonnet.nl> schreef in bericht news:IH44Bp.4zn@lugnet.com... (...) I meant backlights :-) Another thing: How to combine parts that are actually subassemblies? Like the minifig parts arms+hands+torso and hips+legs? See: (...) (19 years ago, 26-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks! (...) LPUB CALLOUT PLACEMENT LEFT CENTER ASSEM LPUB CALLOUT POINTER <SIDE> <OFFSET> <X> <Y> <SIDE> is which side of the callout the pointer should start (TOP, RIGHT, BOTTOM, LEFT) <OFFSET> For TOP and BOTTOM, this is how far from left (...) (19 years ago, 26-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Create a new LDR file (inside your MPD if you'd like). Lets call it minifig.ldr. LPUB PLI BEGIN SUB minifig.ldr add all your parts here. LPUB PLI END All of this stuff is in LPub/Extras/LPub.html Kevin (19 years ago, 26-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi Kevin, (...) Indeed, I found this file in an old LPub install folder, but it doesn't seem to be included with 2.3.0.7 version... Philo (19 years ago, 26-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) While we're on the topic of the help file, I'd like to point out that "CSI" (without the quotes) doesn't show up in the help file anywhere. And I, for one, don't have any idea what CSI means. --Travis (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) It either means Crime Scene Investiation, or, in case of LPub, Construction Step Images :-) Jaco (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Right! I will try this. (...) I would not have looked for the help file there :-) but I found it, printed it and reading (learning) it right now. Jaco (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I confirm, I made a new install on a "fresh" computer, the extra folder contains only the three half-size, color and orientation ldr files. No Lpub.html elsewhere on this computer. Another detail: as neither LDgLite nor LDView does previous (...) (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) This is also available from LPub's Help -> LPub Documentation menu :^) Kevin (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Agreed, but this menu entry does nothing for me (most probably because the help file is not there ;o) Philo (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Is this an lpub issue, or something that should perhaps be added on the ldglite command line? How is this done with the l3p/pov renderer? Does lpub manipulate the intermediate files or the rendering programs? Just curious, Don (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Don, LPub modified the POV file creted by L3P to support previous part color scaling. Some amount of this could be done at the DAT stage, not the POV stage, but the color spectrum would be greatly quantized. Kevin (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'm not so sure about that quantizing bit. It may not be the best way, but I think the current beta version of ldglite could be controlled by lpub inserting a block of 0 COLOR macros at the beginning of each temp DAT file to dim the colors, (...) (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) <snip> (...) Ooohhhhh, I like this last one. (...) Kevin (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) LDView supports 24-bit extended colors (color numbers 0x02000000-0x03FFFFFF, see (URL) here>). Does LDGLite? If so, just specify the RGB color, instead of the LDraw color. If not, you could still do this for LDView, and use the 12-bit dither (...) (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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I had that problem until I installed an unknow version. If the helpfile is not found, perhaps a warning could be displayed? And while you're at it, perhaps a link to the file for download? "Help files not found. Download them here." Is it even (...) (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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In lugnet.cad, Travis Cobbs wrote: <snip> (...) Yes, they are the same DATs that go through L3P. L3P leaves the steps in the POV file as comments. I then use those to determine what parts need to be grayed and which not. (...) Kevin (anyone notice (...) (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) I am getting this error: Cannot find user part image C:\LDRAW\MODELS\MISC...s_c.PNG_c. Did you create create construction images? What could be wrong? I have posted my MPD file on Brickshelf here: (URL) (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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OK. I am getting there :-) (...) This was a succes, though I do not have a pointer yet: (URL) further, I get an error: pack_callout: accumulated height too large And: layout_page: Failed to open file LPub\Layout\truck_0_05_co_0.png for reading Then, (...) (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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How can I get something like this on the first page of the instructions? (URL) (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I found and fixed a bug in PLI. (...) It contains this: 0 Torso & arms 0 Name: torsoarms.ldr 0 Author: Jaco van der Molen 0 Unofficial Model 0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 "Custom" 0 ROTATION CONFIG 0 0 0 LPUB PLI BEGIN SUB torsoarms.ldr 1 1 0 0 0 (...) (19 years ago, 28-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Jacko, This is because hinge.ldr references itself in a LPUB PLI BEGIN SUB hinge.ldr. I removed the offending LPUB PLI BEGIN SUB/LPUB PLI END. I copied the parts listed in hinge.ldr to the places you used hinge.ldr. I then surrounded those (...) (19 years ago, 28-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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Hello Kevin, (...) I have a similar problem: pack_callout: accumulated width too large but AFAIK it is not a recursive call problem... The mpd file is here (the problem occurs when generating layout 5) (URL) purpose of the callout (and tentative (...) (19 years ago, 28-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I got this one fixed: it was caused by the "0 ROTSTEP END" at the end of the subfile (actually a plain 0 STEP at the end also brings on this behaviour) Philo (19 years ago, 28-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) There are a couple of things that throw LPub off and I'm trying to figure out how to make it "do the right thing". You have: ROTSTEP part part part STEP ROTSTEP END This is equivalent to: part part part ROTSTEP ROTSTEP END LPub ignores STEP (...) (19 years ago, 28-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Good luck, I guess that the overall code is quite involved! The last problem remaining for me (the results I have so far are very good!) is the step number placement: (...) Any idea? Something on the documentation too: - I found no information (...) (19 years ago, 28-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'll wrestle with it. (...) I have to kill that example. (...) Reasonable. (...) L3P is required for LDView and ldglite to help me understand the camera distance needed. (...) Kevin (19 years ago, 29-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I have this fixed and it is available in LPub 2.3.0.9. (...) Great! (...) I just updated the documentation with this: LPUB STEP_NUMBER PLACEMENT edge justification relative_to - The step number can be relative to the step image using a (...) (19 years ago, 29-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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Hi Kevin, (...) Great! (...) Kevin, I think there is something broken in your installer build process about the help file: 2.3.0.9 lpub.html is identical to the one I got with 2.3.0.8. (...) Not in the file I got here: the following item is LPUB (...) (19 years ago, 29-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) This was not a documentation problem... in fact all my pages were multi-step, and LPUB STEP_NUMBER PLACEMENT doesn't seem to work in that case. I reverted a page to single step, and it works fine. Philo (19 years ago, 29-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Philo, In my code and the documentation I posted yesterday, STEP_NUMBER can only be placed relative to PLI or PAGE. It currently cannot be placed relative to the ASSEM image. Therefore you cannot do what you want. In LPub traditional form (...) (19 years ago, 29-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I think I did this, but the picture I get is this: (URL) parts at all for the hinge? With the code like this: 0 STEP 1 1 -30 -16 70 0 0 1 0 1 0 -1 0 0 4085C.DAT 1 1 30 -16 70 0 0 -1 0 1 0 1 0 0 4085C.DAT 1 1 0 -16 -110 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 (...) (19 years ago, 29-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) OK... Note that unfortunately I still don't have that updated documentation (installer problem, see (URL) In LPub traditional form (which is annoying), the "mistake" of using ASSEM, is (...) Yes, that deafening silence is annoying. After (...) (19 years ago, 30-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I rewrote all the layout parsing so that it checks syntax and reports errors yesterday. I've wanted to eliminate the silent parse errors. I've got to debug this before I can release. Kevin (19 years ago, 31-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Jaco, I've backed out my efforts for metacommand syntax checking, and fixed this problem. I'm trying a second approach. In the meantime, LPub 2.3.0.10 is available with this fix for PLIs. Kevin (...) (19 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.cad)
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Hello Kevin, (...) Thanks, this time I got the updated documentation! I tried the command "0 LPUB STEP_NUMBER PLACEMENT BOTTOM_RIGHT ASSEM INSIDE", though it works fine for single step layouts, it is still ineffective when there are several steps (...) (19 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.cad)
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