 | | My first part [DAT]
|
|
First off, I hope I'm doing this right; in terms both of posting and making a part. I need some feedback here: 0 Tile 2 x 2 Round with Yellow Submarine Radar Pattern 0 Name: 4150p?.dat 0 Author: Patrick Sayre-Little 0 Official LCad update ??-?? 0 2 (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
|
| |
| | Re: My first part [DAT]
|
|
(...) The post seemed to come through fine. And your approach to making a part (at first blush) seems ok. I'll dig into the code in a minute. BTW, this is a good first part. The following comments are more at length than I normally make about new (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
|
| |
| | Re: My first part
|
|
(...) Yes I did. Your comments are very helpful. I'll get started on them right away. (...) I tried that at first, but I kept getting some wierd overlap effects: some of the pattern would show, other parts wouldn't. I figured putting them at (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
|
| |
| | Re: My first part
|
|
(...) The problem is, you can't simply specify the background as a complete disk. You actually need to lay out the quads and triangles and primitives to build the background to fit around the foreground elements. In most 3D graphics systems (LDraw (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
|
| |
| | Re: My first part
|
|
(...) Thanks. You've saved me some potential frustration there. (...) What happens if there are two patterns with unknown official numbers? "4150p??" and "4150p???" ? (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
|
| |
| | Re: My first part
|
|
(...) If there are two different patterns, then the ?? will be replaced with two different two-digit numbers. Just like we've always done. Steve (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
|
