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Re: Minifig Extractor/Manipulator?
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lugnet.cad
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Sat, 9 Jan 2010 20:43:55 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, David Laswell wrote:
> 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.
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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, 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.
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> 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).
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
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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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