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Re: help! trying to pose mini-fig arms
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Date: 
Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:48:28 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Jeff Boen writes:

In lugnet.cad, Franklin W. Cain writes:

I'm trying to accomplish two separate effects:

are you using Steve Bliss' LDraw Add On???
specifially the MiniFig modeller
allows for easy manipulation of .DAT minifigs.
Makes it very easy to rotate any/all of their joints
and the kinematic chain is kept intact automatically

Thanks, Jeff.
I've got LDAO loaded, and I just now
used the Mini-fig Modeller feature
to create a DAT file.  :-)

Now I've got a _different_ problem. . . .  :-/

The DAT file created by LDAO has a whole bunch
of ROTATE and TRANSLATE comments in it,
and when I try to use _LDraw_ to render the mini-fig,
all the parts get squashed together!  :-P
(It renders OK with _LDLite_, though...)

How do I convert the LDAO "DAT" file
into a format acceptable to LDraw?

Thanks.
Franklin



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: help! trying to pose mini-fig arms
 
(...) ps, MLCAD _also_ squishes the mini-fig, BTW. . . . . Thanks. Franklin (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
  Re: help! trying to pose mini-fig arms
 
(...) right.. LDLite supports the new META command language.. but it was invented after LDraw... to convert the model to standard LDraw format you need to run LDLite on the model with the -R switch.. you have to do this at the DOS command line.. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
  Re: help! trying to pose mini-fig arms  [DAT]
 
(...) Open the minifig file in LDAO's Editor (not LEdit nor LDAO's Modeller). Notice that the ROTATE and TRANSLATE statements can be nested. Find a ROTATE or TRANSLATE which doesn't have any other ROTATE or TRANSLATE nested inside of it. So you're (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: help! trying to pose mini-fig arms
 
(...) are you using Steve Bliss' LDraw Add On??? specifially the MiniFig modeller allows for easy manipulation of .DAT minifigs. Makes it very easy to rotate any/all of their joints and the kinematic chain is kept intact automatically check it out (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)

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