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Re: Help Needed: Boundary Box Utility
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:56:37 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Tore Eriksson writes:
> Could somebody please make a utility that calculates and creates a boundary box for a .dat file?
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> I want it to be able to take a DOS command line like "bbox.exe C:\Ldraw\Models.Mymodel.dat" and it should create
> 'MyModel.box' in the same directory. An optional outfile argument would be nice, but not necessary.
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> It must also exit without the need of "Press any key to continue".
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> The box files of this utility should include the top studs, as opposed to my part/box replacement files.
> So, the output file from processing 3001.dat would read:
> 1 16 0 10 0 40 0 0 0 14 0 0 0 20 box.dat
[snipped: How-To instructions for making this from L3Input.cpp]
> I will give it a try tonight, but I'll probably fail. I'll let you know.
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> I need it for two purposes:
> 1. Making an overview map of Datsville from the subdivision in town.dat. (Maybe post-editing of the Y and E values by
> hand).
> 2. Making super-simplified models for previews of animations.
Ok, I decided to give this a shot during my lunch break. I hacked
ldglite to bits and the results (source and win32 exe) should be here.
http://ldglite.sourceforge.net/bbox.zip
Seems to work for 3001.dat, but otherwise it's pretty much untested.
Enjoy,
Don
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Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Help Needed: Boundary Box Utility [DAT]
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| Thank you very much! I tested it on "my home" in Datsville, and it worked perfectly well, exactly as I want it to. With these two lines and viewed in L3Lab, any flaws would have been discoved: 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 ttore.dat 1 47 0 0 0 1 0 0 (...) (25 years ago, 15-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Help Needed: Boundary Box Utility
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| Thank you Don. I will give it a try tonight, but I'll probably fail. I'll let you know. I need it for two purposes: 1. Making an overview map of Datsville from the subdivision in town.dat. (Maybe post-editing of the Y and E values by hand). 2. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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