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In lugnet.trains, Steve Bliss wrote:
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Eric Kingsley wrote:
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I have been working at creating some custom Minifig Torso DAT files for
LDraw.
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Neat!
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If anyone in the LDraw community has tips on integrating images into a
Quadrilateral I would love to here them.
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For further work on custom torsos, I recommend grabbing the program called
Quad 2 Dat. This is a fairly easy 2D program, made specifically for people
creating LDraw patterned parts. The main problem with Quad2Dat is that it’s
somewhat buggy -- you should save your work often.
Steve
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Thanks Steve,
I took your recommendation and tried Quad2Dat. I can see what you mean about it
being buggy (and incomplete). It is too bad development on it didn’t continue
it seems to have a lot of potential.
For simple images I can see it being useful but some of the more complex ones it
is still difficult. I just can’t seem to be able to keep from overlaping Quads.
What would be nice is if one of the preexisting tools allowed you to insert an
image into a given Quad. LDraw Design Pad comes close but it seems to distort
the image in order to fit it into a Quad. It would be nice if the tool would
resize the image proportionally and inserted it into the Quad without
distortion.
-Eric
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| (...) If it's any help, (URL) this torso DAT file> already contains borders which leave a nice rectangular opening in the front. Just delete everything that follows those lines and you may have an easier time adapting your images to fit the (...) (17 years ago, 7-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| (...) Neat! (...) For further work on custom torsos, I recommend grabbing the program called Quad 2 Dat. This is a fairly easy 2D program, made specifically for people creating LDraw patterned parts. The main problem with Quad2Dat is that it's (...) (17 years ago, 6-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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