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Hi all, I just finished a crude first version of a Blender to Ldraw export script! It's mostly a tweaked version of a tutorial script, but for someone whose brain starts melting whenever I look at code, I'm quite proud. This first version just spits (...) (18 years ago, 6-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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(...) Yeah, I cheated a bit. I made the cover page in a separate program and added it to the instructions PDF with (URL) PDFLab>. It sounds like great things are still in store for LPub, which is neat because it's already come so far. Jim (18 years ago, 2-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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(...) Ah right, thanks Kevin. As I said, it's a great tool already and you sound like you have great plans for it too. Martin (18 years ago, 2-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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(...) Hi Martin, Thanks so much for the feedback about LPub 4. Jim used a separate tool to add the cover page to his instructions. INSERT meta is not yet supported in LPub4. Arbitrary pages, bill of materials, inserting pictures, and reserving space (...) (18 years ago, 2-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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(...) Firstly, I am seriously impressed with this Alpha version of LPub. Usability is fabulous - I was never a big user of previous versions but I'm already hooked by this release. One thing I'm curious about: how did Jim include the cover page for (...) (18 years ago, 2-Jul-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Translation of LDraw specifications to german / Deutsche Übersetzung
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(...) I have added the last corrections to the document for official file restrictions. Now it is up to date with the original documentation. Ich habe die letzten Änderungen des Dokumentes für die Restriktionen der offizielle Teile hinzugefügt. Es (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.loc.ch, lugnet.loc.at)
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| | Re: LDraw Add-On in LDraw All-in-Installer (was: In the pipe. (was- It’s the year 2008, ...)
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(...) Please pick the form: (URL) suits you most, print, sign and return a scanned copy of the permission in pdf or jpg or png. cu mikeheide (18 years ago, 29-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Add-On in LDraw All-in-Installer (was: In the pipe. (was- It’s the year 2008, ...)
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(...) Do you have a link for the paperwork? Steve (18 years ago, 29-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Add-On in LDraw All-in-Installer (was: In the pipe. (was- It’s the year 2008, ...)
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(...) There is still one paperwork not signed back, so we can not start with the AIOI yet. If we got no paper we have to leave that prog out of the AIOI to go forward. The prog in question is LDAO. We have set a deadline for the paperwork to be (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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(...) You remember correctly. A 90 or 270 degree rotation will have a negative and positive coefficient off the diagonal while a 180 will have two negatives on the diagonal. Tim (18 years ago, 28-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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(...) Actually, the matrix can have negative coefficients without being a mirror. If I remember correctly, mirror detection is a matter of checking if the determinant of the matrix is positive or negative. If the determinant is negative, then the (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Problem with LDView
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(...) Thanks. It's actually crashing when VBO is used in LDView, and not crashing when VBO isn't used. However, I'll take a look at my pointer calls to see if there are any bound buffers at the time of the calls. When I initially implemented the VBO (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LETGUI new version 0.1.0.13 out now
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The new tools Intersector and Inliner are now supported. The user will now be informed if he has to manipulate the output of Dat2Qp by hand if necessary. This Setup includes all tools (except edger). During the setup you can specify what you want to (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote: SNIP (...) Had a look and yes. I'n not sure quite why though, the sub model in question consists of 2 headlight bricks side by side with a 1x2 grill tile across the two side studs. It is used with the grill (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Problem with LDView
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(...) Memory usage is set to high, which I presume is the default. For the record I am using an IBM Thinkpad T42 with an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500. Interestingly I was speaking to Matt Hamann yesterday and he was having issues with LDView too, and he (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Problem with LDView
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(...) While writing the LD4DStudio rendering code, I also had some problems with AV crashes. It turned out being caused by mixed glDrawElement usage (with / without glBindbuffer usage). I fixed it by calling: glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 0); (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Problem with LDView
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(...) (I did list that one first for a reason: to me it seemed the most likely culprit.) OK. Peter Bartfai (the person who maintains LDView's Linux port) has had crashes related to VBO in Linux on an ATI card. I'm not getting them with my ATI card (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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(...) Yes, this is part of the plan. (...) LPub has to consider the rotation matrix for each submodel. If the rotation matrix includes negative numbers, then we're talking about mirror images which should not be put together in one callout. (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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(...) Having played some more it seems that LPub takes the first orientation of the submodel in it callout from its orientation within the model. It then follows any rotstep commands relative to that first orientation. This would be the reason for (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub4 Alpha3 available
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(...) It had 111 steps (thus pages). Now it has 44! It took about 2 to 3 hours to layout the basics and another hour or so to fine tune. All in all about 3 to 4 hours, I guess. Modelling it (creating the MPD) took many more hours though. If you take (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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