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Re: Suggestion: !TYPE line
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lugnet.cad
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Fri, 29 May 2009 09:20:48 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Santeri Piippo wrote:
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LEGO parts may vary in colour and pattern, but they are always of the same
material. For example, there is no such thing as a Technic Axle 7 made of
rubber or the Axle Flexible 7 that’s solid, is there?
Here I got an idea: have parts identify what material are they made of.
There’d be a !TYPE Rubber line which would identify that the part is of
rubber, like tires. Maybe also a !TYPE Soft-Plastic for parts like
50934 (though there’s a problem: only a
half of the part is of soft plastic!) and so on.
The use? Maybe there’s more than this, but colouring at the very least.
Future CAD programs could use the !TYPE line to find out what the part is
made of, and thus would know what kind of colours use for it. Say, imagine
this future program and you place tyre on a wheel and then click the black
colour button to turn it black. The program would then note that it’s of
rubber and make it colour 256 automatically!
A problem, though, is that there aren’t rubber variants for every colour. In
the latest released ldconfig.ldr, there’s 256 (Rubber-Black), 273
(Rubber-Blue), 324 (Rubber-Red), 375 (Rubber-Gray) and 511 (Rubber-White). In
the upcoming ldconfig.ldr
there’s 405 (Rubber-Yellow), 406 (Rubber-Trans-Yellow) and 407
(Rubber-Trans-Clear) defined. In these cases where there’s no rubber version
of the colour the real colour has to be used, then.
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Sounds logical, but if we would have that in this way we just could go and hard
color the part. At this point you should not be so narrow to the real part.
In our part files there should be only the geometric data defined. The color is
defined in ldconfig.ldr. Combine that two just like you want.
Thats my thoughts about this.
cu
mikeheide
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| LEGO parts may vary in colour and pattern, but they are always of the same material. For example, there is no such thing as a Technic Axle 7 made of rubber or the Axle Flexible 7 that's solid, is there? Here I got an idea: have parts identify what (...) (15 years ago, 29-May-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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