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Does anyone happen to have a DAT file of any of the 9V train track? Especially the straights, but also curves, switches, and cross overs. Thanks in advance! Jake -- Jake McKee AFOL LUGNET Member #211 (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I found an unofficial straight track model. The weird thing was that it had yellow conductor rails. I changed the color to light gray, and they look good. (Other than the yellow rails, I think that they are excellent models.) I forgot who the (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Chris, yes, it would be wonderful if you could email me that file. I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks! Jake -- Jake McKee AFOL LUGNET Member #211 (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I believe they are yellow because in older LEGO instructions and flyers, the electric contacts on things like plates and wires are shown in yellow. So the other electrical parts modeled in LDraw also use yellow. But IIRC it is a special yellow (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Lar, I totally agree with you. Light gray for the conducting rails is not right, and it should not be made the official color. I was thinking about changing the metal rails to the color of the conducting wheels. However, I can think of two (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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(...) In lugnet.trains, Christopher Masi writes: (...) The color appears yellow in MLCad. Used L3P to convert to the POV-Ray format. When rendered in POV-Ray, the yellow "turns into" the shiny metal you see in the images of my APT at The BrickShelf. (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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Let me just first clear up a slight misconception... I wasn't trying to say that either Chris OR James were doing anything wrong with theier use of unofficial track models or anything like that. I agree with Chris that the "wheel shiny" color is (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi, I'm the author of the unofficial 9v Straight track (version from past year 2865.dat). Here are some notes abouth it: The yellow metal piece came from the LDRAW FAQ that electrical contacts are yellow. Then there was a little discussion (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi Lar (and everyone else), I didn't take what you said as an accusation of wrong doing; I understood your statement to mean that you just didn't like the color I chose, and that it shouldn't become the official color. Yep, I agree Whether it (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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[snipped .trains from the newsgroup header, as this is a .cad issue] (...) Another choice is to wrap up the model and unofficial part(s) in an MPD. Nearly all LDraw-based programs can render MPD, so there's not really a compatibility issue. Using an (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I was following you fine all the way up to the last paragraph. Are you saying that an MPD's that are not made with official parts won't come out right or that they won't show up right when viewed on someone elses system? Chris (23 years ago, 14-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) <snip> (...) I'm not Steve but my read is that he's saying that MPDs are a GOOD way of distributing models that have unoffical parts. you put the unoffical parts into the MPD where they are part of the model (and will be for otehr people), (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I was saying that to build the MPD file correctly (that is, so it contains just the model file(s) and the unofficial part file(s)), you have to know which parts are unofficial. So if I made a model using unofficial parts X, Y, and Z (and no (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad)
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