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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 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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