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(...) It's all a compromise (just like life!). If you go creating primitives for every little sub-part that's used a few times, you end up with a primitive directory that's unwieldy & lots of parts which inline because they don't know the (...) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: ring 3 to 5
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(...) As a program author, I believe that yes this would result in twice the polygon count. While I aggree that programs should generally do everything they can to make authoring parts easier, I also think that Part Authors ought to keep in mind (...) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: ring 3 to 5
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(...) Wouldn't that result in twice as many polys that have to be rendered? Forgive if that's a dumb question, I ain't much of an author, you know. :-) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: ring 3 to 5
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This isn't necessary. Just use a ring3 and a ring-4, both with the same placement and orientation... (...) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | ring 3 to 5 [DAT]
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Here is a new ring primitive with inner radius 3 and outer radius 5. I'm not sure what to name it, but I guess they should use something along the lines of what is used for the torus primitves. 0 Ring 3 to 5 0 Name: ring3-5.dat 0 Author: Mark (...) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: new pattern - "Gasganno" face (Star Wars) [DAT]
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Please LMKWYT! ;-) Thanks, Franklin 0 Minifig Head with SW Alien with Large Black Eyes Pattern 0 Name: 3626bpsb.dat 0 Author: Franklin W. Cain 0 Unofficial File 0 CMDLINE -c15 0 KEYWORDS face, big eyes, Star Wars, Episode One, Mos Espa, pod race, (...) (22 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: More accurate hand? (was Re: Work-in-progress improved minifig arm)
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If someone does re-orient the minifig hand, please let me know, so that I can update this new file correspondingly: (URL) DAT file for the minifig hook-hand)... Thanks, Franklin (22 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Question on very old French flag (curved version, from '66)
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According to the following link (URL) French flag seems red-white-blue from the pole and out, and not blue-white-red as it should be. Is this just an error in the booklet? Does anyone have this part so that it can be confirmed? Thanks /Tore (22 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: More accurate hand? (was Re: Work-in-progress improved minifig arm)
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(...) Yes, we definitely need a new hand. In addition to the hand to stem angle, we also need to fix the origin to make sense, like being along the axis of wrist rotation. -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com (22 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: is BOX5.DAT really BFC compliant?
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(...) Hi Kyle, Also seems correct to me. Regards, Damien (22 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: is BOX5.DAT really BFC compliant?
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(...) [snip] (...) No, it's correct. Keep in mind that this polygon forms the *bottom* of the box, so it is facing downward. In the default view, you will actually be looking at the backside of this quad. Imagine being under the primitive, and (...) (22 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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I've been working on the BFC code in my application, and well, either I need to go to bed now (which is probably true either way :) or the BOX5.DAT primitive slipped into the last update with wrong-way wound quad. Am I reading this right? (...) This (...) (22 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: More accurate hand? (was Re: Work-in-progress improved minifig arm)
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(...) Well, at first glance, using a spear as pointer, it looked like 17 degrees to me also. However, I did the following and came up with 14.5 degrees: 1. Lay a minifig up next to a piece of paper, with the hand in the up position and a spear in (...) (22 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: More accurate hand? (was Re: Work-in-progress improved minifig arm)
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(...) I might have talked about it, but I'm not doing anything on it right now. Feel free to run with it. :) (...) I think I measured it at 17 degrees once, but I might have mis-measured (or be misremembering). Or maybe Tore told me that was the (...) (22 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Part x176
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(...) The "x" is a temporary prefix, indicating that it's a new part for which we don't know the real part number. If we don't find the real number before the new file is made official, the "x" is dropped. There's no point in having an "xnnn" number (...) (22 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Part x176
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(...) Is there any reason an "x" number cannot co-exist with a matching "real" number? Surely, if the correct number is subsequently obtained, the "xnnn" can be changed to a "moved-to" stub. Is this just to avoid confusion? (...) OK. Ta. ROSCO (22 years ago, 30-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: More accurate hand? (was Re: Work-in-progress improved minifig arm)
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Sorry, all, :] I forgot Steve Bliss already briefly mentioned redoing the hand, so ignore anything in my post that sounds like I'm the only one who ever thought of it. :) But since the arm has now gotten attention from Chris Dee (thanks, Chris!), I (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | More accurate hand? (was Re: Work-in-progress improved minifig arm)
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I wonder if it would be worth it to re-make the minifig hands too. The hand should tilt away from the hand "stem" at an angle of about 15 degrees. Right now, to get the correct angle of the hand to the arm, the hand has to be tilted so the solids (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Thanks (and thanks to others who commented, too), I'll continue with the more difficult sections. The new arm part is orientated with its axis of rotation at y=0, z=0, so to test in different positions you'll need to rotate the new part about (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Wow- that's beautiful! I'm very glad to see this- I didn't really *want* to do the part myself, but it seemed to need doing. I'll try fiddling with it in various positions. It's great to have a center of rotation that actually works. Are you (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: x727 - Trailer 4 x 16 Ramp
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(...) Yes - that would be good. (...) alphabetic. (...) Yep - that would be good even better. (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: x727 - Trailer 4 x 16 Ramp
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(...) Mail me a list of the old parts you mean, and I'll see what I can do. I can't promise a quick response, but I bet that I can find one of just about anything around here. I have a friend in the area who is a very serious collecter of old stuff. (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: x727 - Trailer 4 x 16 Ramp
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(...) Hmm. I'm not sure. My first thought is "honorary reviewers" or "era specialists". If you know of people who've got the parts in question, and they are willing to spend some time reviewing them, we can certainly take their input. Even if they (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: x727 - Trailer 4 x 16 Ramp
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(...) FWIW, I didn't take your response to Don as childish. You brought up a very valid point. Some responses to your parts that have been "improved" by others: (...) I believe the same thing happened to *all* 3070 parts. The file was not updated (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Work-in-progress improved minifig arm
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(...) Yes it is, because at the monkey you can see it. (...) CU Bernd (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Part x176
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(...) Hey Ross: sorry I didn't really get the point of your email -- I was in a rush, and didn't look at the parts. Otherwise, I would have said then, what I'm going to say now. Do *not* use the Peeron 'x' numbers as the basis for LDraw parts! The (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Firelogo
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(...) Yes, it would be better if the firelogo was a subpart, so it could be reused. The main problem with 4209p01 is it is coded poorly. As you said, the pattern is setup like a sticker. The files should be modified - the printed area should be (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) This looks very promising! :) Any chance you're going to recurve the inner surface around the shoulder? It would really help avoid that "CGI intersecting solids" look that we've had going. :) Also, can I reserve judgement as to whether we (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Congratulations Chris, This is a tremendous improvement. I wonder whether interior is really necessary. Personally I would be satisfied with a better-than-current exterior. May be the cost in display time is negligeable compared to a whole minifig. (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Work-in-progress improved minifig arm [DAT]
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(...) Repost to fix line-wrapping mess. 0 FILE armtest.dat 0 Name: armtest.DAT 0 Author: Chris Dee (chris_w_dee@hotmail.com) 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 973.DAT 0 rotated 9.782 z 1 15 -15.552 9 0 .9855 -.1699 0 .1699 .9855 0 0 0 1 975b.dat 0 rotated (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Work-in-progress improved minifig arm [DAT]
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(...) concerns. (...) Here is my work so far on improving the minifig arm. It is provided as an MPD file of a torso and arms at two different angles; right - upper arm vertical; left - forearm horizontal. There is still much to do on the inner arm (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: x727 - Trailer 4 x 16 Ramp
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(...) IIRC, part of what I did to these was to add the type 2 line inside the thin pattern rectangles and subjugate the pattern to subfile. These are techniques that proboably did not exist when you made the original part, so there is absolutely no (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: x727 - Trailer 4 x 16 Ramp
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I am very, very sorry for my childish overreaction to your relevant comments. It just happened to be you who brought the last straw... (...) My parts do have problems. Let's have a look at the occurance of my name in the updates lcad0103, 0201, and (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Firelogo [DAT]
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Hi, When I took a closer look at existing parts that use the fire logo (the three flames in red, orange and yellow on a black surface) I noticed a gap between the yellow flame and the black surface. I also noticed that two parts 4209p01 and 4346p01 (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Part x176 [DAT]
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(...) Anyway, here's an updated version, that I'll upload to the PT tonight. I just tidied it up a bit, and changed the name & description to match peeron. It looks OK with the 16 seg cylinders, so I'll leave it as is. ROSCO 0 Wheel Centre Thin with (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Part x176
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(...) yea rosco, try this > (URL) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Part x176
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I'm working on this part (URL) and hve the problem that it has 12 spokes, so it's hard to join it up with 16 segment cylinder primitives. I though maybe I could use the 48 segment primitives, but was wondering what people think - whether I should do (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Part #32475
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Is anyone working on this part or plan to in the near future? Here's the link showing the part: (URL) Dickinson (URL) (22 years ago, 27-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | new pattern - "Gasganno" face (Star Wars)
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(URL) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | 973psy (SW senior officer) [DAT]
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Needs this subfile: (URL) Minifig Torso with SW Imp. Senior Officer Pattern 0 Name: 973psy.dat 0 Author: Franklin W. Cain 0 Unofficial File 0 CMDLINE -c7 0 KEYWORDS Star Wars, Classic Trilogy, Imperial, Empire, Death Star, set 7201 0 KEYWORDS (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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