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Are there any tools that allow you to manipulate a minifig AFTER you place it into a file? I realize that MLCad has a minifig generator, which is fantastic, but once you place the fig, to produce another pose, you need to generate a new fig from (...) (15 years ago, 9-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I haven't used the minifig feature, but it looks like SR 3D Builder ((URL) has a pretty nice minifig poser (see around 2:00 in for editing of existing pose): (URL) (15 years ago, 9-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I always insert minifigs as submodels for this reason. I also wish I could insert them as MLCad-Part like the spring. cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 9-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I think it would be relatively easy ro create a program that: * Opens an LCad model file * Uses MLCad.ini or something in its likeness to scan for and identify minifig parts * Extracts a minifig into a new file * Writes a reference to the new (...) (15 years ago, 9-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hi, LD4DStudio can export to ldr file(s), which you can refer to in your main ldr. Roland (15 years ago, 9-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) No. Absolutely not. For this to be worthwhile, the original positional and rotational data should be retained when extracting the minifig. Consider what would happen if you are extracting a minifig whose hips are not oriented at right angles, (...) (15 years ago, 9-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hmm. I guess you're right. If so, even my LDA is incapable of animate tilting of the minifigs. Got to check that out. How would you suggest the reference to a minifig should look like from its mother objest? /Tore (15 years ago, 9-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I think my minifig generator for LDDP might be able to be modified to do this. I'll look into it. -Orion (15 years ago, 9-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Wow. I hadn't seen that tool before. I didn't get to try out the minifig poser yet, but the connection and rotation features make it something that I'm really going to look into. Thanks! -Andy (15 years ago, 10-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) All I can say is WOW! (15 years ago, 11-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Of course the problem with this approach is that you have to learn Yet Another ApplicationTM to do what you want. (15 years ago, 11-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) So how about this time we do something universal? We've talked this up before at least once: (URL) wants to step forward and propose some generic META commands to at least identify a group of parts that belong to a single minifig? Can we adapt (...) (15 years ago, 11-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I support extending the language. Maybe not in the above form but in some form. I'd also love to see something like the MLCad.ini minifig entries standardized. It doesn't have to be officially supported, a de facto standard is still a (...) (15 years ago, 12-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Me too. I would prefer if we could set a standard within existing META-command sets, but I doubt that it may meet our requirements. Btw, what are our requirements? What do we want achieve? I could think of: 1. Standard tags that indicate... (...) (15 years ago, 12-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Here is what I have found out about that META commands: 0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 "Custom1" 0 ROTATION CENTER 2 3 4 1 "New Custom" The first three numbers are the xyz values of the rotation point The fourth number indicates the "Allow (...) (15 years ago, 12-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Of course: LDraw.ini could host such information in a new section! No risk to violate any existing standard, no need to create yet another file to look for! /Tore (15 years ago, 18-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I agree but we still need to standardize where the LDraw.ini will be for each OS. This location has to read/write accessible. My suggestions for the OSs I use are: Windows: $APPDATA\LDraw OSX: $HOME/Library/LDraw -Orion (15 years ago, 18-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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