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(...) Maybe it's better to call the Groups instead of Clusters. The file names would be less confusing that way. /Tore (22 years ago, 21-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) Hey, thanks for thinking of me! At present, I believe the only "official unofficial" stud primitives for the clone.dat project are studc.dat and stud2cl.dat. I'll have to double-check the studc2z.dat, though. In the interest of diplomacy and (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) I thought of 4x4, too. First I rejected the idea as I thought it would only save 15 lines in a file but then I realized that it can be used more than once in a file. I can't find any other sombinations that I would like to have. Maybe, maybe a (...) (22 years ago, 20-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) In principle this sounds OK to me, but I would want to be somewhat restrictive about how many new files we have - 4x4, 6x6, 8x8 sound good combinations. What others? Regarding a naming convention, though, do we know how all renderers recognise (...) (22 years ago, 20-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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Inspired by parts\s\4186a.dat, I would like to see "clusters" of studs, say 6 x 6 and 8 x 8. That would make a lot of part files *much* smaller. Maybe we could call them Stud36.dat and Stud64.dat? /Tore (22 years ago, 18-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) A new, fully revised and up-to-date Primitives Reference is currently undergoing review. I hope to be able to make this public on ldraw.org soon. This will answer both there questions (and more !). Chris (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) ... and a guide on how to interpret all the numbers in the file names/descriptions? For example: 0 Torus Outside 1 x 0.0625 x 0.25 0 Name: t04o0625.dat I have no idea of what the numbers stand for... /Tore (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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Hi all, I have a question about the sphere primitives: Does there exists a 1-16sphe.dat? (the half of a 1-8sphe) If not, is it possible that I could make one like this (only wireframe): 1 16 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 10 1-4edge.dat 1 16 0 0 0 9.2388 (...) (22 years ago, 1-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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Also here is an optimised 4-4disc which uses seven quads to replace 16 triangles which results in 14 triangles if split up. I know that optimizing discs by replacing triangles with quads has not been very popular as many renderers splut quads up (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | 2-4 disc primitive [DAT]
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Here is an optimised version of the 2-4 disc primitive. Instead of 8 traingles it uses 1 triangle and 3 quads or 7 triangles when the quads are split. 0 Disc .5 0 Name: 2-4disc.dat 0 Author: James Jessiman 0 Original LDraw Primitive 0 LDRAW_ORG (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) Not all colors are invertable. For example, Yellow's edge color is Dark Gray, but Dark Gray's edge color is Black. The list of edge colors is at the bottom of the color page: (URL) L3 reports an error if you use color 24 in a subfile (...) (22 years ago, 14-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) Yes, exactly. (...) Yep. New ways to use the power and flexibility of the LDraw syntax seem to be automatically treated as illegal. Generally it's good; it points out our mistakes. But sometimes when you want to go beyond the limits of what's (...) (22 years ago, 14-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: ?-?circ.dat [DAT]
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(...) you mean something like that: 0 Name: 1-4circ.dat 2 16 1.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.9239 0.0000 0.3827 2 16 0.9239 0.0000 0.3827 0.7071 0.0000 0.7071 2 16 0.7071 0.0000 0.7071 0.3827 0.0000 0.9239 2 16 0.3827 0.0000 0.9239 0.0000 0.0000 1.0000 Only (...) (22 years ago, 14-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: ?-?circ.dat [DAT]
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(...) Messing around with ldraw I set the part color to 24 instead of 16, and got the colors to invert. Try something like: 1 24 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4-4edge.dat Though I'm not sure how well most renderers handle parts that use color 24. (I think (...) (22 years ago, 14-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) No, the lines I'm thinking of are supposed to support the rendering of ring primitives when zoomed out. The edge primitives could do this job if it weren't that they use the color 24 complementary color. /Tore (22 years ago, 13-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) I think the ring primitives will give you a solution. Like the 1-4rin39.dat for a thin "circle". CU Bernd (22 years ago, 13-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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I wish there were color 16 versions of the ?-?edge.dat primitives. These are the ones I would like to see: 1-16circ.dat 1-8circ.dat 3-8circ.dat 1-4circ.dat 2-4circ.dat 3-4circ.dat 4-4circ.dat Because: 1. Filling in curved support lines in patterned (...) (22 years ago, 12-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Performance enhanced 4-4disc.dat
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Hi Orion and Franklin, (...) Be sure I carefully consider opposition. I would not submit these primitives against general consent. I have made empirical measurements. I have found about 2 percent speed increase when model has many studs (yellow (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) And for this very reason, I (repeatedly) voted to "Hold" such primitives on the Tracker when they were uploaded, and will do so again (if necessary)... (Sorry, but I'm currently in the second day of a sinus migraine, and aspirin hasn't been (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) Most programs that use DAT files as the sources file for a rendered image break all the quads into triangles anyway. Technically, this change would slow down the conversion process (though you would need a *lot* of studs) -Orion (22 years ago, 14-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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