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I'm new to LDRAW/MLCad, and using BMP2LDRAW32 'created' some 'skins' for shields. I'm working on 'recreating' the shield patterns that are not (yet?) in the LDRAW parts list. My question - when I'm ready to post my DAT files here, should I post the (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hoo, boy. Look at the existing official shield files for info about how to structure your files. There's a subfile line you can use to put the shield behind your pattern. Generally, yes, you'd post your dats to lugnet.cad.dat.parts. Just so (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) BMP2LDRAW32 does have its uses though... when I did the necklace torsos, I used it to figure out where the centre of each bead should go, and then started afresh and drew the circles based on those coordinates. (Filling in between the beads (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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I've noticed the streaking myself when I have a 'skinned' piece at an angle in MLCad, but it does not show up so much when I view the dat files in LDVIEW-10 (what I use to generate my 'POVRAY's). I'm a point & clicker, (in reality a logic database (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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OMG - THE Steve Bliss answers my post?? "I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy!" Well, I'm REALLY new to this LDRAW/MLCad stuff, but am willing to learn and not repeat the errors of my ignorance. BTW - I looked around, but could you point me to where I can (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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"Mark Chittenden" <mdublade@aol.com> wrote in message news:GGpGqr.AE@lugnet.com... (...) We're all just regular guys (and gals) here, as I know Steve would attest as well. (...) not (...) I take it you're referring to Castle shields? They're under (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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Actually, I thought he was referring to a "Official Guideline on Making Shields with Patterns" or something like that. Got me some free time coming up this weekend, will dig into those 3846P###.dat files and see if I can come to an understanding of (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Aah I only wish we were that exhaustive on our documentation.. ;-) -Tim (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Think big: Steve's little talk to Jen on Saturday could become the basis of that future O'Reilly book, Virtual Building with LDraw.. (purely make believe at this point.) Off to MacWorld to see if the Pitsco Dacta guy is there this year -Erik (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Wasn't there for that. An O'Reilly book would be cool though :-) But first we need to get some more documentation. In the near future I'm going to look into how to better present stuff on the site from the ground up... (...) Cool :-) MacWorld (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Don't suppose anyone recorded it for posterity, did they? Cheers, Heather -- Heather Patey Pirate Wench / Brick Detective LUGNET Member #490 (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Ooo, good question. *Did* anyone tape it? I don't think so, but my face was mostly pointed at the monitor the whole time, not looking around. I don't know that the 'talk' itself was anything great. I went through the process of writing a (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.events)
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(...) OK, guys, let's keep this one around for awhile. ;) Like Tim said, we're all just regular people around here. (reminds me of a post I made a couple of years ago, about something *the* Todd Lehman posted. :) (...) Yeah, I meant the actual DAT (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yes, exactly. I did the same thing with my last go'round with the Explorien logo. Scanned the image, BMP2DAT, and then drew the vector image right over top of the rasterized image. It's a very useful approach. Steve (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) OK, I only came in later on and she was asking questions... I'm looking forward to trying my hand now too. (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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Ahh, that's gives me a direction to try out this weekend. (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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Well, after figuring out how to use L3P & POVRAY, made a 'review' picture of the Castle style MiniFigs I (re)created so far in my quest of recreating the Castleland sets in MLCad. These have the vests/torsos/shields that have been 'skinned' using (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) JPEG is a lossy compression format. This means that in order to compress the file size, the JPEG compression algorithm averages boxes of pixels, losing some data along the way. The higher the compression, the boxier (the more artifacts) it (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.publish)
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