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Re: My first part
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lugnet.cad.dat.parts
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Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:55:25 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote:
> BTW, this is a good first part. The following comments are more at length
> than I normally make about new parts, because I usually don't make the time
> to look at each part in this depth. So don't take them too personally,
> please. You did ask for feedback. :)
Yes I did. Your comments are very helpful. I'll get started on them right away.
> Overall, the only major problem is that you need to clip the background out
> from the foreground, and put all the elements of the surface at Y=0.
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
different levels would ensure everything was visible. I'll try again though;
maybe I was doing something else wrong at that point.
Thanks again for the feedback. You've encouraged me to keep going. By the way,
does anyone know what the official number is for it?
--
Patrick Sayre-Little | "hE's gOnE mAd, mAd I tEll yOU!!"
wsayreli@calpoly.edu | -me ...I think
http://www.calpoly.edu/~wsayreli |
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| (...) 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)
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| (...) 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)
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