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(...) I'm still going through Tim Courtney's (et al) "Virtual Lego" book, so it will be a little while before I know enough to make something worth contributing. But I will eventually :) Rob (19 years ago, 27-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Last minute LDraw.org contest reminder
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Since LDraw.org now requires at least five entries to proceed with each Model and Scene of the Month contest ((URL) I just want to encourage everyone with any interesting LDraw models to send them in so the show can go on. Rules and submission (...) (19 years ago, 27-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 3.2 Released ***
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(...) As a fellow software developer, I understand the need for people to report issues they come across. Sadly, we just do not have the time, money, hardware, patience, etc to test every scenario while still writing all the new stuff as well. On (...) (19 years ago, 24-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 3.2 Released ***
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Haha! I love the thumbnail feature! Too cool. Awesome work. -Stefan- (19 years ago, 24-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 3.2 Released ***
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(...) Thanks. Glad to hear that the problem has corrected itself. And even though that happened, I'm still glad that you reported your problem. I actually don't get enough bug reports from LDView. I'd say about half the bugs that I see and fix are (...) (19 years ago, 24-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 3.2 Released ***
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(...) Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation Renderer: GeForce4 420 Go/AGP/SSE2 Version: 1.4.0 (...) It was 3.1 beta 1, but feel free to ignore all this. I went back to 3.1b1 to test and then reinstalled 3.2 and its fine now. I'm not sure what happened (...) (19 years ago, 24-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: MOTM Contest Questions and a Proposal
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(...) As the person who wrote the current rules here's my reasoning behind this. The issue is not the fear of models being sold or something like that, it is simply not forcing someone to do something they don't want to do. The MOTM contest doesn't (...) (19 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw File Format Spec 1.0 DRAFT - Call for Public Comments
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(...) I replied on another message but they are taking almost an entire day to show up. My reason is simply consistency: spaces are used to separate fields, but when it comes to file names, spaces are part of the field. If we used commas to separate (...) (19 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw File Format Spec 1.0 DRAFT - Call for Public Comments
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(...) Are you authenticating by replying to the "Message awaiting authentication" email? If so, see my thread in lugnet.admin.general (and lugnet.-off-topic.test) about the very long delay I experience when auth-ing via email. Doing it via the web (...) (19 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw File Format Spec 1.0 DRAFT - Call for Public Comments
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(...) Those matrices would be wrong in both cases (assuming xyz is the translation), you probably swapped those with the next matrices. :) (...) The first one here is a column major and the second is a row major matrix, and you are right, they are (...) (19 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw File Format Spec 1.0 DRAFT - Call for Public Comments
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(...) My issue with spaces is not with programs supporting them or not, it's that the elements inside a line are delimited by spaces, you have 1 <space> color <space> x <space> ... <part> but then when it comes to file names that rule is broken. I (...) (19 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: MOTM Contest Questions and a Proposal
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(...) OK. I will probably do this. (...) ;> to entirely custom alternate models as well? (By "alternate models" I mean (...) Right. Sounds good. (...) Ha, a good point! Sounds like LDView is used for the contest renders, so it probably wouldn't be a (...) (19 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: MOTM Contest Questions and a Proposal
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(...) OK. I think I will stick to the conservative naming scheme for now, just to be on the safe side. LDView's automatic part downloading is just killer. I suppose a reason to use submodels is to guard against the chance the unofficial parts are (...) (19 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: MOTM Contest Questions and a Proposal
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(...) How is this different from photographers sharing high-resolution images of their work on Flickr, or developers contributing to open-source programs? I would argue that with the original material available for others to compare, it is even (...) (19 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw File Format Spec 1.0 DRAFT - Call for Public Comments
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(...) Ok, the whitespace debate has gone on long enough. It's been years now! Someone in the LSC needs to step up and really define what's an acceptable filename, whitespace and all. Personally I think since MLCad is established, popular, and pretty (...) (19 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw File Format Spec 1.0 DRAFT - Call for Public Comments
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(...) So we may considered this fully, please give your reasons for this request. The file names always fall at the end of the line, so, "because it's easier to parse" has already been considered by the LSC and discarded many thanks William Howard (19 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) no, not at all! (...) this is a critical point. not everyone wants give away in-depth info of his/her models fearing that people copy and sell them. w. (19 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Travis is correct. I use a command line script to render the images, with LDview gracefully downloading unofficial parts from the PT. w. (19 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw File Format Spec 1.0 DRAFT - Call for Public Comments
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(...) I think we need to draw this particular discussion to a close. From all the comments around matrix manipulation it is clear that this part of the specification is ambiguous and so needs further consideration. Unfortunately, whatever method we (...) (19 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: OpenGL spec (was LDraw File Format spec)
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(...) As this thread is for the discussion of the LDraw specification can any further debate of what the OpenGL specification may or may not say please be continued on .off-topic.debate Thanks William (19 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad)
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