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(...) Mmhhh... maybe by setting 2 conditional rings on the junction. Each condring would be set between a cylinder and a cone. Scaling the ring would adapt to various cone slopes. Of course 2 rings would be needed, one for converging cones, one for (...) (17 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) That's a primitive I have been longing for... but I realized it is impossible to build: where would you put the control lines? The top control points would need to be scaled differently from bottom ones to match various cylinders/cones (...) (17 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I just noticed something else while investigating a fix for the above problem. The above model could really use a circular conditional edge primitive. I would vote for x-ycedge.dat as the filename (ie 1-4cedge.dat, 4-4cedge.dat, (...) (17 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I played with the settings, and I had to set the precision all the way down to 0.133 in order to get it to fully smooth. (0.125 failed to smooth properly.) (...) .005. I think I'll set the precision to .01, to hopefully give it some leeway. I (...) (17 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) It makes sense! (...) An example, this button: (URL) I rounded condlines to 2 decimal places since I couldn't get smoothing anyway. I did more experiments, with full precision in condline it works: (URL) but after rounding to 3 dp there is no (...) (17 years ago, 12-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Not that I know of. I'll think about adding a page to the LDView web site. (I don't think it's really appropriate to add it to ldraw.org, since it's LDView-specific.) (...) The precision is 0.0001. I multiply the coordinate by 10000 and then (...) (17 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks, Travis. BTW, are there guidelines for part authors that would improve smooth shading? What about precision in coincidence between conditional lines and matching polygon sides? I have seen _many_ instances where a quad should blend into (...) (17 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) I looked at LDDP sources (very clear BTW!). Threshold is compared against square of cross product of each angle of quad. So it depends of size of quad to 4th power! Not very good imho, but since it works for such a long time I used the same (...) (17 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: SR 3D Builder version 3.2.2.3 just released
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(...) MLCad keyboard controls are not supported since the user interface is totally different and parts are by far much more easy to place and connect MPD saving is not supported, but .L3B format is compatible with .LDR except for some metacommand (...) (17 years ago, 10-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Creator Adventcalender 2004 - Xmas Blog
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(...) Oooo! What fun! Thanks for sharing this. I must admit, I miss the advent calendars like this, with simple pieces because I used to enjoy designing alternate models as the days went on. Remember 1998's set 1298? wow. ten years ago now: (URL) (17 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Rendering for liberty
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(...) Nice! You could also try wrapping a real photograph of the sunset around a sphere. -Mike (17 years ago, 10-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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I've been working on honing my skills at the whole rendering thing using many of the tools written by members of this forum and with knowledge gleaned here. I thought it was time to share! I asked my kids which model they would like me to use for a (...) (17 years ago, 10-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) It depends on what your threshold is but taking the difference (as you do in a cross product) of two big numbers is less accurate (very much so sometimes) than taking the difference of two smaller numbers. Even without this issue it means that (...) (17 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) No, I just take the cross product, and if the length (squared) is 0, I give an error. I don't see how normalizing the length of the two vectors that I feed into the cross product would improve things much here. Sure, it might mean that my (...) (17 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: SR 3D Builder version 3.2.2.3 just released
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(...) Wow! Very impressive! I will definitely have to try it out. A couple of questions: are MLCAD's keyboard controls supported? Can I export back into LDR/MPD format? What does the model tree look like? -Mike (17 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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--snip-- (...) I assume that you divide by the vector lengths first (as in normalise them before taking the cross-product) but if you don't then you should. Tim (17 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) If they're on a curved surface, you'll get higher quality out of LDView half the time if you split them into triangles. (I say half the time, because OpenGL splits them into triangles in order to render them, and half the time they'll be split (...) (17 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) As far as I can see the threshold is the number of digits that are used to determine wheather a value is the same as the other. So if you use 6.0 and 6.0001 with a threshold of 0.0001 the value are interpreted to be the same. That makes sense (...) (17 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Opinions needed for Color and Edge Values
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(...) Good timing on your response. We are going through the transparent colors now. I also agree that the transparent colors look washed out. I believe that the RGB values are how they would appear on a white background, but they do not render well (...) (17 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | SR 3D Builder version 3.2.2.3 just released
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Hi everybody, here is my just released new version of SR 3D Builder As usual you can download for free from (URL) many big or little news to list. Read history for detailed information Enjoy building Sergio (17 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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