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(...) LDMerge 1.1 is now available. It fixes a bug with "unmerge -source all" and tries to do a better job reporting paths in native format. Bug reports welcome. Jim (19 years ago, 7-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Reminder: 2007/2008 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) closing in a week
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Hi folks, we are half way down with the nominations. As outlined here: (URL) will close in a week, at 11:59 PM GMT on 14 October 2007 and elections will start October 17. Only those candidates that have been nominated, seconded, and have accepted as (...) (19 years ago, 7-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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| | 2007/2008 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) Candidates
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Hi folks, I have put together a summary of the 2007/2008 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) Candidates for your reference. I’ll do my best to keep it up to date as new nominations or acceptances are coming in. You can find it at: (URL) are listed (...) (19 years ago, 7-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Sticker Generator for LDRAW / MLCAD
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(...) Wow, I can't believe I only just found this thread! txt2dat uses Jonathan Richard Shewchuk's Triangle library to triangulate polygons generated by Truetype fonts. All you need to do is supply a list of verteces, and it will generate the (...) (19 years ago, 6-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Why LDraw.org doesn't use ldconfig.ldr ???
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(...) Last night, I updated the rendering script to use L3Lab's "Front-Upper-Right" view for most parts (Baseplates use a top-down view, panels use "Back-Upper-Left"). The actual parameter/array is: 0.7071,0,0.7071,0.35...0.5,0.6124 I also changed (...) (19 years ago, 5-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Introducing SR 3D Builder - a LDraw editor by Sergio Reano
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I proxy this on behalf of Sergio Reano, who for some technical reasons is not able to post to LUGNET. Please post here your comments but cc: also to Sergio via mail. Hi everybody, my name is Sergio Reano and I'm a programmer and Lego fun from Italy. (...) (19 years ago, 5-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.lcd) !!
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| | Re: Anyone heard of Okino software?
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(...) You mean things like leaving the "r" off off the end of the word "your"? (19 years ago, 5-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Why LDraw.org doesn't use ldconfig.ldr ???
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(...) I think knew that at one point based on the comment about "dist divisor". And I suspect I didn't reduce it to -1,1,1 so I could easily switch to a point light source at that location. (yeah, that's it... ;^) (...) It seems like the direction (...) (19 years ago, 4-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Why LDraw.org doesn't use ldconfig.ldr ???
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(...) The distance would matter, except that you're using a directional light. Since the w component of your light position is 0.0, it's a directional light. As such, -1,1,1 is the same as the -1000,1000,1000 that you have. (How's that for (...) (19 years ago, 4-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Why LDraw.org doesn't use ldconfig.ldr ???
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(...) I'd leave your setup alone since it seems to work well with the current color list. You're right about ldglite. I didn't like dark shadows, or maybe I run my monitor too dark to avoid migraines, but the lighting settings do add up to more than (...) (19 years ago, 4-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Anyone heard of Okino software?
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(...) Ya know, one of the really fun things about using LUGNET's web interface is that hang time after you click the "Post" button. You get about 30 seconds to just re-read and re-examine while you new message is sent over the pipe to the server. (...) (19 years ago, 4-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Why LDraw.org doesn't use ldconfig.ldr ???
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(...) I think it's using an isometric matrix for the view, which leads to this effect. This matches the default output from ldraw.exe. Here is 3004.dat rendered with ldraw.exe and then scaled down to match the size of the image on the part tracker: (...) (19 years ago, 4-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Anyone heard of Okino software?
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I just stumbled across the website for Okino software. Is anyone familiar with this? There's a explanation of how to get started with LDraw, and then convert model files to Okino rendering software. I haven't had time to do more than scan through (...) (19 years ago, 4-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Why LDraw.org doesn't use ldconfig.ldr ???
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(...) To my eyes, the proportions of that picture are completely off, that part should have the proportions of a normal 1x2[x1], right? Not 1x2x0.72 or whatever that picture shows... (19 years ago, 4-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Why LDraw.org doesn't use ldconfig.ldr ???
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(...) I'm pretty sure the ldconfig.ldr colors are designed to match the brick colors when no lighting is used (as in the second LDView picture above. If the ambient and diffuse terms add up to more than 1.0, the original colors end up getting washed (...) (19 years ago, 4-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Why LDraw.org doesn't use ldconfig.ldr ???
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(...) I'm open to improving the unofficial ldliterc.dat colors, but I don't expect we want to use all the default ldlite colors -- unless they were tuned away from the original LDraw (ie, 4-bit VGA) colors. The other issue is if we the built-in (...) (19 years ago, 4-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Why LDraw.org doesn't use ldconfig.ldr ???
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(...) The actual truth may be lost to the sands of time, but I believe the ldlite colors were possibly copied from the original LDRAW colors, and the ldlite Windows lighting code was matched to that? I know I did a good amount of twiddling in the (...) (19 years ago, 4-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Why LDraw.org doesn't use ldconfig.ldr ???
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(...) looked at the ldliterc.dat above, and color 7 has the same setting as what is in ldconfig.ldr. However, the actual color being rendered seems too light. For example, here is an image from the part tracker: (URL) Here is the same part rendered (...) (19 years ago, 4-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Preparing a L(EGO)Draw part for the Parts Tracker – A review
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When the Lego Universe Team has started to share rough data of 80 parts (URL) and soon after I've got feedback from part authors that because of their excellent quality those parts were heavyweights and would give us a hard time reducing the file (...) (19 years ago, 4-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | Re: Why LDraw.org doesn't use ldconfig.ldr ???
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(...) I'd be happy to try, but it would require some things: An admin to install xvfb on the server An admin to give me a user account on the server to get it working Possible admin support if other dependencies are missing on the server As a note, (...) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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