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Re: Minifig Extractor/Manipulator?
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lugnet.cad
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. (17 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, (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)

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