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Re: New Part - 30187 Minifig Motorcycle with 3 Wheels Body
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lugnet.cad.dat.parts
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Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:43:02 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Paul Easter wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Steve Bliss writes:
> > In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Paul Easter wrote:
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> > The orientation of the parts looks just right. I agree with the
> > categorization of the motorcycle parts under "Car".
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> It was the only one that made much sense... Will the 2 wheel motorbike go
> here too? I believe someone else is nearly finished with it.
It's the only *current* category that makes sense. We may need to switch
over to a generic "Vehicle" category at sometime.
> > I'm not sure about the the "Minifig Motorcycle with 3 Wheels" name. I
> > don't *dislike* it, but I wonder if there's something better. Specifically:
>
> Lutz had these two lines in his list;
> 30189 Tricycle Pivot
> 30190 Tricycle Front Wheel Center
> I personally like Tricycle, but I had a suggestion to change it, so I did.
I kinda like Tricycle. It *might* be confused with the DUPLO Tricycle, but
I doubt it.
> The more I think about it, I don't think it should be there(Minifig).
I'm thinking so, too. Can you drop it?
> > - Might there be some word or term that would cover all the minifig/prefab
> > vehicles: the motorcycle, the bicycle and the motortrike.
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> Cycles, other vehicles?
How about "Bike"? Like:
Bike 2 Wheel Bicycle
Bike 2 Wheel Motorcycle
Bike 3 Wheel Motorcycle
> > Could you make another shortcut file? One that would include a minifig
> > rider? This file would be:
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> > 30187C02.DAT Motorcycle with 3 Wheels with Rider Shortcut
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> Should the minifig be a shortcut as well, or all the minifig pieces with the
> bike in one file? The head will need to be verticle for helmet placement, if
> possible, right?
I can go either way on whether the minifig parts should be inlined or a
separate shortcut file. Does a minifig strike the same pose on the the
three different vehicles? I don't think they do. But, if they do pose the
same way, then a shortcut minifig file would make sense. Otherwise, for
the sake of minimizing extra files, just put the minifig parts inline.
If you include a helmet on the rider (this *is* a legal requirement in some
places ;), then it will make it easy for people to replace the helmet with
whatever hat they want.
> > Colorwise, I'd make the wheel centres white in the shortcut files. I did a
> > (very) short survey, and it looks like white is the predominant wheel-hub
> > color for motortrikes.
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> This is what I thought... The few we had all had white wheels, however, we
> had some yellow wheels that came on other sets. I didn't check to see if
> other sets had white or other color wheels.
That's fine. The general shortcut file doesn't have to be perfect. It
makes sense (to me) to hard-code the hub color, but make the body color
flexible.
If the hubs are at strange positions in the shortcut file, you might even
put the three wheels in a different shortcut file, so modelers can change
the hub colors, but keep the positioning correct.
Steve
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