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RE: pictures at tracker
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Date: 
Sun, 19 May 2002 00:21:44 GMT
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All,

I have finally figured out what the essential character of the
job of generating images for the parts tracker boils down to...

Here's how I see it.

1. Official parts live in one actual, real file tree
2. Unofficial parts live in another actual, real file tree
3. ldglite doesn't know anything about search paths except
    for the LDRAWDIR root and the standard paths off it
4. To assemble images "on demand" we need to call ldglite
    with the file it needs to render. The LDRAWDIR needs to
    point at a filetree with all of the parts in it.
5. We need to build up at least three complete filetrees with symlinks.
   - The first is for purely official files
   - The second is for unofficial parts that use unofficial then official subfiles
   - The third is for official parts that use unoffical then official subfiles

Here's what I have done so far:

1. A perl script that generates make-compatible dependencies for every
   DAT file in a filetree. Run time is about 5 seconds on a Pentium 266MMX.
2. A make script that calls ldglite with command line parameters that
   ensure that then correct image is built

Tomorrow I'm finishing off make so that it builds the three symlink
filetrees. Thinks should be ready to go Monday or Tuesday at the
latest.

Cool!

Cheers, Ralph



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  Re: pictures at tracker
 
(...) I put a zip file containing the ldglite sources with the -MSfilepath patch on the sourceforge at: (URL) I had to tweak one line of code to get it to build with the old version of Mesa used on ldraw.org. It should work for Mesa 4.0 and above (...) (23 years ago, 19-May-02, to lugnet.cad)

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  RE: pictures at tracker
 
(...) Steve, I'm kinda busy here this morning, but I'd like to get going on the project soon. For now, I'll do the development offline on my machine, and when I think we're reasonably far along, I'll get acces to the box for testing. Can you send me (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-02, to lugnet.cad)

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