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Re: Minifig Extractor/Manipulator?
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lugnet.cad
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Sat, 9 Jan 2010 19:41:54 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Tore Eriksson wrote:
> The reference to the minifig should be made so that the hips part is @
> 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
> in the minifig model file for easier manipulation.
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, like one that's in a reclined seating position. It would be
tilted at an angle, and the reference point data would be fractional in at least
two dimensions. Basically what that means is that it would be practically
impossible to ever reposition the minifig back where it came from.
To be useful for manipulating placed minifigs, it needs to be able to handle
having the torso/hips in a non-vertical plane, and it needs to be able to rotate
the upper body in relation to the legs in addition to being able to rotate the
legs around the rest of the body (which the current MLCad minifig generator is
incapable of doing). Most importantly, though, is that if this is supposed to
be a better alternative to simply keeping track of the numbers you used and
doing trial-and-error processing with the minifig generator, it needs to be able
to put the minifig back exactly where it came from (aside from any changes you
made to the positioning).
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Message has 2 Replies:
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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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| | Minifig Extractor/Manipulator?
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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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