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Re: Minifig Extractor/Manipulator?
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Date: 
Sat, 9 Jan 2010 20:49:57 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 @

in the minifig model file for easier manipulation.

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).

I think my minifig generator for LDDP might be able to be modified to do this.
I'll look into it.

-Orion



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  Re: Minifig Extractor/Manipulator?
 
(...) 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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  Re: Minifig Extractor/Manipulator?
 
(...) 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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