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Re: LPub Orientation and Half-Size LDraw files
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Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:27:55 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> One of the "features" of LPub is to create part list images and bill
> of materials images, modeling those concepts found in LEGO building
> instructions.
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> One of the issues I noticed years ago when I first used LPub for
> book authoring was that not all the LDraw parts are oriented in a
> way that gives a consistent orientation feel within a PLI or BOM.
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> To overcome this issue, LPub uses a file called orientation.ldr
> provided with the LPub install package. When LPub needs to render a
> given part/color, LPub looks to see if the part is listed in
> orientation.ldr. If it is found there, LPub uses the part
> orientation found in orientation.ldr. If not, the default
> orientation is used.
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> The problem is that each release of LPub overwrites orientation.ldr,
> erasing any changes you might have added. It leaves me wondering if
> there isn't some way to manage this file better.
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> I wish there was an easy way for people to update a global (in the
> real world sense) version of orientation.ldr so that all could share
> in the modifications of the file. I do not know of any easy way to
> do this for non-programmers. Making the file available through a
> source code control system makes sense for us programmers, but is it
> a workable solution for non-programmers?
If you use the sourceforge, the files in CVS are automatically
made available via http by the CVS web interface. I think a
web page could be constructed that always points to the latest.
> I want to write a little program to let me walk visually through
> parts.lst and orientation.ldr, displaying a rendered image of the
> part. The tool would then let you perform simple rotations and
> rerender, until you are happy with the orientation. In the end, you
> have a new orientation.ldr file for all the parts in your system.
> However, this still leaves all the orientation process local for
> each of us who invest in orientation.
You could do this by launching any of the viewers in polling mode.
> I realise as I write that I should add the overwrite of
> orientation.ldr as options at install time, to at least avoid
> overwriting local changes.
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> half_size.ldr lets you select parts to render at half the size of
> the natural render. For large parts like base plates and RCX's
> reducing the size makes for better PLIs. It suffers the same
> maintenance problems as orientation.ldr.
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> Anyone got good ideas on how to better manage these files?
Make a sourceforge project and add a link to it from "Ldraw Utilities"
page at ldraw.org.
This sounds like it may complement the functionality of the mirror.ini
file we developed a while back. It also shares the same maintenance
problems.
http://news.lugnet.com/cad/?n=11677
Perhaps a sourceforge project could hold both.
Enjoy,
Don
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| (...) <snip> (...) Yes, but I want all to be able to update it. Do you really think CVS is the right thing to use for non-programmers? (...) Yes, I know that I can use the current viewers to display the rendered part, but I still need a bit of code (...) (19 years ago, 30-Jun-05, to lugnet.cad)
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