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Hey all, Here's my first semi-successful attempt at (quasi-) parts-authoring. I'm extremely new at this, and would appreciate any feedback I can get on the changes I made to this part. What I did: I modified the part #4349 (Town Loudhailer) to have (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer
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(...) Any responses, criticisms, rotton watermelons, etc. at all? I'm kinda psyched... I *think* I'm along the right track here, but still need some pointers... Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer
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Actually, I downloaded this right after I saw it. But I didn't wanna reply since I don't know much about part-authoring. Anyways... Awesome, the piece renders great in POV-Ray! Finally ridges, mmm... (...) (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer
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(...) Actually, it didn't look so good in L3Lab -- because L3Lab balked at using color 24. A totally different approach would be to construct a subfile, which would contain one segment of ribbing. Then use the subfile to build the ribbed section of (...) (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer
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(...) I only added lines #6 - 36 -- all the color 24's were there before. Whoops, I see what happened now. When I ran it through LDAO's inliner (see below), it changed all the type-5 lines to type 4. I just now changed the pseudo-4's back into real (...) (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer
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(...) Man, I gotta be coming across as the world's biggest jerk. Sorry, Steve, I was wrong; LDAO wasn't changing line numbers on me. LEdit is the one changing the 5's to 4's. Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer
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(...) WHAT?!? Do you have evidence for this? The 4-as-5 thing was reported as a bug in LDAO awhile ago, but I could never pin it down. I'd love to know what's actually happening. Steve (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer
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(...) It has happened to me before also. (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer
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(...) Easy -- I opened the part (in the models dir) in LEdit, moved something that was totally far from the 5-lines, saved it, and loaded the part in a text editor. Sure enough, the 5-lines with color 24 were now 4-lines with color 24. FWIW, all the (...) (24 years ago, 18-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer [DAT]
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(...) Also: - Fixed my goofy 4/5 lines. - Shoved the handle into the body, adjusting the handle's length to compensate, so that there are no gaps between the handle and the ribbing. - Added header stuff. 2 questions remain: - Is this good enough? (I (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer
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(...) Erk. It's going to be hard to fix the interior problem later, with that handle sticking most of the way through. Indications[1] are that the interior is hollow, to within the 4LDU of the stud-end. (...) Instead of: (...) How about: 0 Town (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) ...and... (...) ...and... (...) Sounds like good fodder for a parts-authoring FAQ. Is there one? Other than Q24 in the LDraw FAQ (1), of course... Perhaps Q24 (and Q31 and the primitives reference (2)) should be broken out and re-organized as (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) I'm (...) co-ordinate, but haven't gotten around to it yet - mainly because I am unsure what topics need to be addressed. I'll take another look at it, but if anyone has ideas of topics that ought to be included, please post them here. In fact (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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[FUT lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw] In lugnet.cad.[various], Sproaticus wrote: [snipped details] (...) There's not one yet, but I've been thinking more about putting one together. I think having such a document will more important in the very near (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) A tutorial would be nice, but a FAQ would be easier to put together. Some additional material/ideas: See (URL) for CATEGORY/KEYWORD. Probably needs to be boiled down, it seems long. I posted three basic guidelines about orientation & (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) I (...) Thanks Steve, that's a useful list of topics to start with. Is access to Tom Burger's tools at (URL) somehow restricted, as I cant seem to access it? I get a (Couldn't find the resource) page. Chris (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) Your welcome, I'll see if I can actually write some of them up for you. (...) Hmm. Must be restricted. I don't know if that was on purpose or not. Tim? Jacob? Steve (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:6mosqsgdgu0vgi4...4ax.com... (...) resource) (...) Well, I don't play with server settings, and AFAIK it shouldn't be restricted. But the URL is not intended to be public (so it can't be (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) Well I cannot access it !! If you want me to take the contents of this into account for the FAQ/Tutorial, can you get the pages to me some other way? In what context was Sproat talking to you about this - is he also doing some work on an (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) Nah, just chatting about FAQ publishing theory. Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) Chris: Are you able to access this area yet? Steve (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) No. Chris (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) OK. I've temporarily ZIPped it to (URL). I'll leave it there for a few days, so you can grab it. Steve (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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