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| (...) Looking at the images, it doesn't appear to matter much, but you might get better results if your initial rendering were at 4x (or possibly even 2x). The reason for this is that a 3x3 sample of a checkerboard pattern will result in two (...) (22 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Which leads us back to ldglite. Since I let opengl do the linewidths it supports 2x or 4x or even 2.5x (any floating point will do). On the other hand, while I think you'll be satisfied with the gold and silver colors, I'm not sure I (...) (22 years ago, 9-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Actually, my intent was that the color variation would simulate the variable appearance of highly reflective surfaces. (...) I sometimes often try to carefully choose my precise wordiage. (...) *Sigh*. OK, I'll stop holding my breath. ;) (...) (...) (22 years ago, 9-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) The linewidth isn't important, I just use it in conjunction with the scale up/down to get anti-aliasing and lines with normal widths. (...) None of the standard/extended colors are *supposed* to be dithered. Only the non-standard colors (...) (22 years ago, 9-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Yes and it works the same way on ldglite. There's also a tutorial on how to do this with the tools on ldraw.org if you want cut out the Windows box. (URL)Let's see, right now, we've got defined codes (in the dithering range) (...) I'll have to (...) (22 years ago, 9-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Is there really a reason they should be dithered? The only reason they were dithered originally is because LDraw ran in 16 color mode, and that was the only way to support more colors, right? If so, then I would argue that if you can generate (...) (22 years ago, 10-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) By 'correctly', do you mean does ldlite generate solid-colors for these values? Yes, for some. I haven't tried all of them. PartsrefBuilder uses custom color definitions for all colors, which pretty much totally bypass the regular color (...) (22 years ago, 12-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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