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(...) Yes, but wouldn't that be subverting Willy's diabolical plan to render everything with ldview? ;^) Don (19 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I don't have a test case for all the colors, but the ones I did try look ok now. (...) It all looks odd to me with the black edge lines on all the bricks. Good for printed instructions, but not as pretty on screen. Oh well. I suppose it (...) (19 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I could probably whip up a program that does the conversion fairly quickly (hour or two of work?) if you're interested. I have the advantage that I already have a full parser for ldconfig.ldr. Spitting out the ldliterc.dat file should be (...) (19 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yeah we experimented with xvfb many years ago. (URL) was some weirdness with the aspect ratio that was probably caused by a bug in ldglite at the time. And there were some questions about large image sizes, but it should be a viable solution (...) (19 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) "Program"? I wish. It was a manual conversion, not all of the entries are amenable to programmatic conversion. (...) Doh! It should be fixed now, take a look. No wonder the orange switch on the PF box looked so odd... Steve (19 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I just did a quick check on my own Linux box (a virtual machine, actually) with xvfb (X Virtual Frame Buffer), and that worked fine with LDView. Since xvfb is a standard part of the X distribution, it should be easy to install on most major (...) (19 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I would need access to the server, yes. I think that if Xvnc were installed on the server, LDView could connect to that, and everything would then be happy. (Xvnc is an X Server that's designed to be connected to remotely via vnc. From (...) (19 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Why LDraw.org doesn't use ldconfig.ldr ???
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(...) convert ldconfig.ldr to ldliterc.dat. In the first set of colors on each line the blue value always seems to be the same as the green value. Don (19 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) OK, that wasn't so hard. The script should be fixed now. I've pushed through re-renders for 58119 and x919. All other parts are queued for re-rendering, all images should be updated in a short time. If anyone wants to look at the ldliterc.dat (...) (19 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Oooo! Thanks for mentioning this. I had forgotten about it, as if I never knew it. After messing around, I (manually) got the image for 58119.dat straightened out (URL) But I haven't convinced the script that it should run this way. Yet. If (...) (19 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Why LDraw.org doesn't use ldconfig.ldr ???
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(...) While I agree with Willy's assessment that it may be time to move on to ldview for the part tracker, I did run a quick test and it looks like ldglite does support modified colors like 71 or 72 with the ldliterc.dat file. Perhaps the location (...) (19 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Why LDraw.org doesn't use ldconfig.ldr ???
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(...) than we should start thinking about the switch to LDView as render engine ... if this is technically doable. to be frank I didn't understand a single word from all the tech speech above: x server or not, OSMesa a mess ... Travis, I guess you (...) (19 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Nope, sorry. No update. As far as I can tell, ldglite[1] won't recognize colors like 71 and 72. (19 years ago, 1-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDMerge 1.0
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LDMerge is a console tool for managing multiple LDraw part libraries. It permits the contents of one or more library to be merged into another library and subsequently unmerged with minimum hassle. (URL) works with Mac OS X, Windows, and other (...) (19 years ago, 1-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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Hello Steve, (...) Any news about this? I have submitted a new part with the same color scheme ((URL) problem remains :-( Philo (19 years ago, 1-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Call for Nominations: 2007/2008 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC)
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It has been more than a year since the last election of the LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC). Nominations are now open. All nominations must be received and recorded by October 14. Elections will be held from October 17 ‘til October 31. The (...) (19 years ago, 1-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce) !
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Hi folks, we've a new round of models and parts in our MOTM contest. Have a look at: (URL) cast your vote! Willy Tschager LDraw Administration Team (19 years ago, 1-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: LPUB question
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(...) Thanks David! I used the second option, and works fine! Ludo (19 years ago, 29-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Problem with Primitive Generator
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(...) Yes, that's the way cylinder primitives are done, and it seems to work very well. I think other primitives could be improved that way. (...) That case is not that bad - the angle where the middle line appears is divided by two, so it is an (...) (19 years ago, 26-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I think a solution that mostly works was invented around this time frame: (URL) of using cylinder primitives with an optional line at one end that expects to be mated with a similar cylinder primitive, you use optional lines at both ends that (...) (19 years ago, 26-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad)
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