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Re: white outlines on black bricks
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lugnet.cad
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Wed, 28 Mar 2001 15:11:59 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, tim david wrote:
> This is mainly concerned with ML-Cad but I know that L-Draw uses the same
> data and possibly others. Is it possible to change the outline colours of
> black bricks to white so that they show up better. I have a feeling that
> there is a variable because i have seen green bricks with light green (as
> opposed to grey) outlines so so if any one could pointme in the right
> direction I would be grateful
LDLite supports a 0 COLOR meta-statement, where you can select the
edge-color for a specific color code. Quoting from the LDLite 1.6 html
file:
> The syntax of the COLOR statement is:
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> 0 COLOR index name edge_color r g b alpha d_r d_g d_b d_alpha
> note: you can spell it COLOUR and it will still work.
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> index is the decimal value specifying the palette index, 0 to 255
> excluding 16 and 24.
> name is an alphanumeric name you can use to refer to the color. This
> is redundant with the COLORNAME command, but is included for
> convenience.
> edge_color is the decimal value specifying the color to use for edge (#24)
> colors.
> r g b alpha are the red, green, blue and alpha components of the first
> dithered color. They are numbers from 0 (black) to 255 (pure
> color). The alpha value should be 255 for the first color.
> Note: You can use hex numbers, such as 0x00 and 0xff if you
> wish.
> d_r d_g d_b d_alpha
> are the red, green, blue and alpha values of the second
> dithered color. If you want a solid color, set these to be the
> same as the r g b alpha values. If you want a transparent
> color, set d_alpha to 0 and the second dithered color will not
> be drawn, creating the classic LDRAW transparent effect.
The statement for white edges on black would be:
0 COLOR 0 Black 15 0 0 0 255 0 0 0 255
Unfortunately, when I open a model with a COLOR statement in ML-CAD, it
gives me an error! :(
Steve
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| (...) This is because MLCad blocks modifications to colors from 0 to 63 (including). All other colors can be modified by the user. I did that because I believed that this colors are fix (quasi standard) and must not be modified. If everyone here (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| This is mainly concerned with ML-Cad but I know that L-Draw uses the same data and possibly others. Is it possible to change the outline colours of black bricks to white so that they show up better. I have a feeling that there is a variable because (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad)
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