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Re: PreL3P 1.0
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Tue, 9 Oct 2007 20:54:07 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Jim DeVona wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Philippe Hurbain wrote:
> 
> > For example, stone colors are not well supported by several programs other than
> > L3P. If I want to build with these colors I generally use old greys, but it
> > would be nice that the final rendering be done with real tone hues. That would
> > need to remap colors 7 and 8 to non-standard colors.
> 
> With a customized ldconfig file, you can use PreL3P to convert color codes
> directly to the hexadecimal equivalents of other other colors. For example, here
> are the default gray definitions:
> 
> 0 !COLOUR Gray              CODE   7  VALUE #C1C2C1  EDGE 0
> 0 !COLOUR Dark_Gray         CODE   8  VALUE #635F52  EDGE 0
> 0 !COLOUR Stone_Gray        CODE  71  VALUE #A3A2A4  EDGE 0
> 0 !COLOUR Dark_Stone_Gray   CODE  72  VALUE #635F61  EDGE 0
> 
> If you want to render the original grays as the new grays, you can combine them
> like this:
> 
> 0 !COLOUR Gray              CODE   7  VALUE #A3A2A4  EDGE 0
> 0 !COLOUR Dark_Gray         CODE   8  VALUE #635F61  EDGE 0
> 
> With PreL3P 1.1, you can use multiple ldconfigs. So if you save the two lines
> above as graymap.ldr, you can override the default 7 and 8 codes but use all the
> others normally like this:
> 
> prel3p -ldconfig $LDRAWDIR/ldconfig.ldr -ldconfig graymap.ldr
> 
> I agree that a tool to map LDraw color codes to other regular color codes would
> be useful, but I haven't decided whether that would be outside the scope of
> PreL3P. (Can you do it with LDDP or MLCAD?) It could be controlled with
> unofficial ldconfig meta commands and/or command line options:
> 
> 0 !PREL3P MAP 7 71
> -map 7,71
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Jim

You're fast! :)

If my memory serves my well, I think my ldfilter utility did that - even though
it wasn't its main purpose. Check out the "Color Filter" frame.

http://home.swipnet.se/simlego/ldraw/ldfilter/ldfilter.jpg


/Tore



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  Re: PreL3P 1.0
 
(...) too, like LDS and LDA. Anyway, does the new "prel3p model.ldr" syntax work with the drag and drop mechanism you mentioned? Jim (19 years ago, 11-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: PreL3P 1.0
 
(...) With a customized ldconfig file, you can use PreL3P to convert color codes directly to the hexadecimal equivalents of other other colors. For example, here are the default gray definitions: 0 !COLOUR Gray CODE 7 VALUE #C1C2C1 EDGE 0 0 !COLOUR (...) (19 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)

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