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Re: Getting into Lego CAD (was Re: S/973p40a.dat ???)
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lugnet.cad
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Mon, 5 Nov 2001 16:54:18 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote in message ...
> With LDLite, you can add lines to the main DAT files to control the colors.
> To modify red, you'd add a line like:
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> 0 COLOR 4 red 0 196 0 38 255 196 0 38 255
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> The '4' is because you're modifying color #4, the 'red' is a name for the
> color (which you could use in place of the 4 in later commands, if you
> desired), the '0' is the code for the edge-color you want to use (black),
> the remaining codes specify the RGB-A values of the color, which are very
> important, but beside the point for this discussion.
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> Put this line at the top of the file, modifying it for each color you want
> to change.
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> Unfortunately, I don't think MLCAD will recognize this command. :(
Thanks for the tip Steve - but I think you're right, MLCad doesn't like mods
to color numbers under 60 IIRC. I will try this again to make sure though.
Larry P suggested there was a way to do it in the LDraw.ini file, but in my
LDraw.ini there are just lines for the basic colors which don't seem to
specify edge colors, like:
[Colors]
0=0,Black
1=8388608,Blue
2=32768,Green
3=8421376,Dk Cyan
Kevin
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 | | Re: Getting into Lego CAD (was Re: S/973p40a.dat ???)
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| (...) Yeah, it looks like the default edge colors aren't documented anywhere. Not even in the missing ldlite 1.6 documentation. But if you jump to the source code you'll find the supersecret inverse color entries in the big ldlite color table. See (...) (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Getting into Lego CAD (was Re: S/973p40a.dat ???)
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| (...) I can understand your frustration. The LDraw developer 'community' is pretty fluid, each person doing their own thing. So it's hard to get a cohesive grasp of everything, except by learning and using all packages. (...) With LDLite, you can (...) (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad)
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