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(...) I got "BFC certified" in october (thanks zanette) and now I'm struggling with conditional lines after my minifig helmet got a hold-vote on the PT. therefore I think I'm the ideal newbie. what we need is the following: * Header-standard: Name, (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | ldraw.org MOTM & SOTM Winners for November 2002
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Hello all, And the winners are; MOTM - Allister McLaren for his Technic Trike. A very clean and simple model, well thought out minimalist design. SOTM - James P. Hilton for his untitled boat/trailer scene. Very imaginative insertion of a model into (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) But this isn't Parts Tracker stuff - it is Parts Authoring stuff. I don't think it would be easy for newbies to find under "Specifications" - so I'd rather see a new "Part Authoring" link on (URL) we create a new subdirectory "/authoring", are (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Thanks to Jeroen, the pdf is now in step with the html. Chris (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Extremely unfortunate timing, as I have just updated the html version to incorporate the new primitives in Parts Update 2002-05. Is this easy to regenerate? Chris (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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I know I'm not the person to announce this but there is a PDF version ( (URL) direct link) available at (URL) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Glass... to BFC or not to BFC?
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(...) Yes it does. (...) Right. Steve (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) If you know MSWord, you can still use it despite Jacob's ban... there is a facility within Acrobat to import and convert Word docs, I believe, and save them as .pdf files... Do your composition in a widely accepted and hugely popular (but (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Downloadable Handbook?
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Hey Chris - (...) Ok. (...) It should probably go under specs/ - there's a category on the page called Project Standards. Would it fit there? You can feel free to create another section under specs/ or another directory under reference/ if it really (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDraw.org Parts Update 2002-05 Now Available
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This fifth update for 2002 contains 199 files, including 116 new parts. As always, along with the new parts, there are various fixes, new primitives, and name changes. The Parts Tracker is now up and running again, but the 2002-05 parts preview (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev) !
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Doesn't the BFC "spec" mention transparency? The renderer can easily tell when something is transparent, and do BFC processing (or lack thereof) appropriately. This is necessary for correct handling of standard parts that are sometimes transparent, (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | [Parts Tracker] Working on Update 2002-05
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I'm going to be working on Update 2002-05 this weekend. During this time, the Parts Tracker will be shutdown for file submissions and review posting. Thank you for your patience. Chris (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Basically, the LDraw filenames should be considered case-insensitive. The only time I'd want to have uppercase .DAT extensions is to references to STUD*.DAT that should always be drawn, regardless of stud-drawing mode. This is an old (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Right. For some renderers. Basically, in standard LDraw renderers, the backside surfaces can still be culled, because multiple layers of transparent surfaces look the same as a single layer. In renderers that produce darker/more opaque areas (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) reference-pages on ldraw.org. to me it is not (...) homepage, while the more useful specifications for (...) pdf-file and make it downloadable to get a sort of (...) Tim In my view most of the material Willy is speaking of is not really "PT (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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The PT and the PT reference pages are not my responsibility, but I have suggested a few times that they be cross-linked with the general reference pages. My original plan for the re-organization of the site was that all reference docs would go under (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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hi jacob (...) Okay, I'll do my best ,but I'll take a little bit 'cos I have never worked with acrobat. willy (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Just making sure that we are on the same page here. In 10.1.x I had to click the menubar to activate LDGLite to received comands from the keyboard, but in 10.2.2, clicking the menubar does succesfully activate LDGLite to receive the commands (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Ahh... I see. I forgot that the three different ways of openning a file often behave quite differently. 1. Double clicking the mini.pov file 2. Dropping the icon for mini.pov onto the running POV program's icon in the Dock. This is my (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) (URL) was playing with AppleScipts to do something similar to your lani program. I used l3p in VPC to create a .pov file. Then I used AppleScript and BBEdit to change the camera position in the .pov file. This all worked in OS 9 becuase I had (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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