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(...) There's already a fix for this posted to the PT, but yes colors above 16 should not be used for Quads, Triangles, or Lines only Type 1 lines (Subparts). (...) It's under the Parts Tracker Reference. Here's the link: (URL) (22 years ago, 24-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Multiple parts was Re: Mac LDraw Viewer comments
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(...) Huh, I'll try again. (...) OpenGL it is then, (...) The wierd combination seems fine with me. Switching modes wouldn't be much fun. (...) Chris (22 years ago, 24-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) No, I didn't have back face culling turned on. Turning on BFC causes the window frames to disappear. Is this because LDViewer is making assumptions about the way the part files that may not be true? I just updated to 10.2.3, and that has (...) (22 years ago, 24-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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For those with a high speed internet connection: (URL) (2.4 M). This is the same model, but it is colored (so it is easier to see). It has about twice as many angles, but it still has the same view bounds. James (22 years ago, 24-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) NO WAY! I haven't gotten the following to work quite right, but here it is. It will generate about 180 of the 360 images it is suppose to. Then it quites rendering. I have no idea why. For some crazy reason, I am telling "POV-Ray Mac 3.5" to (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Let me guess - you did this the hard way, setting up each image by hand? That's a lot of work... (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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BrickDraw3D 0.6 will have complete source posted on Sourceforge. I spent 4 hours cleaning up the repository and checking everything in, it was so messed up from my disk crash in February. Sourceforge terms of service do not allow releases without (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Multiple parts was Re: Mac LDraw Viewer comments
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(...) Yes, you just drag from the parts list with the mouse. 0.7 will have translucent drag images. (...) This is due to Apple eliminating QuickDraw3D. What you see in Classic is QuickDraw3D rendering. In Carbon, it is duplicated by Quesa, which is (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Wow!!! It looks great. How can I make one? Show me an example Thx (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) This is really cool. Quicktime VR has always been a nice thing to see and look around in, and now Lego models can be seen within it! Great job, I hope others will take notice and attempt to create more Quicktime VR files of neat MOCs. (By the (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Ldraw Viewer 0.4
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A short note to say that Ldraw Viewer 0.4 is now at my .Mac site, homepage.mac.com/aal...GLite.html Enhancements include, ability to change part visibility, direct editing of parts and a 256 level undo. Also several reported bugs have been quashed (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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Christopher, (...) Amazing! - Did you have "Back Face Culling" turned on on the Carbonversion? (...) I have included 47 for clear and the other number for transparent red, however according to www.ldraw.org, clear colour numbers are obtained by (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Multiple parts was Re: Mac LDraw Viewer comments
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(...) Sorry, I didn't know that. (...) Does BrickDraw3D Carbon support adding bricks? One observation about BrickDraw3D Carbon vs Classic is that the Classic application is able to rotate a brick more smoothly. It is stange that the application (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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While beta testing LDraw Viewer, I created this model. It took only a few hours (spread out over a few days). (I created the model for real years ago.) I am also learning how to use L3P, so I created an QTVR of the model rendered with POV-Ray. (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | mac.ldraw.org updated completely
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I think I have gotten mac.ldraw.org completely updated. Anyone who would like to double check stuff please do. I changed the name to "LDraw Macintosh Community" (with a new graphic too) and got rid of "members" and "join" pages. James (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Multiple parts was Re: Mac LDraw Viewer comments
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(...) This has always been in BrickDraw3D. Shift-click to select. Dragging doesn't use more than just one though yet. The difficulty is in deciding how operations affect multiple parts. In BrickDraw3D 0.6 you can edit the part# or color for the (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Mmmm.... mushrooms. (...) Oh yeah, OS X 10.2.2. (...) I put up screen shots of my caboose rendered by LDraw Viewer (Carbon) and (Classic) and LDGLite. (URL) When Ldraw Viewer encounters a colour it doesn't recognise it (...) I am using 47 as (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: What's up with box3#8.dat? (was: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives)
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(...) : is not ok for MS-DOS! (It is used to after the drive name, like C: (...) Sound good to me Niels (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: What's up with box3#8.dat? (was: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives)
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(...) There already is a 'p' suffix meaning parallel - the primitive is actually named box3#8p.dat. I found the original text from Manfred (dated 16Oct1998) copied here with minor spelling corrections - note that Manfred uses the word 'rib' for (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Christopher, Excellent feedback, keep it comming. This way I can improve the software more easily. Otherwise I develop using mushroom theory (working in the dark). (...) Which OS are you using? (...) Both versions use the same code to display the (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: What's up with box3#8.dat? (was: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives)
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(...) Another suggestion is using the dash '-' and have an additional letter give some more information. a = adjacent p = parallel ... (more?) Niels (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Well, I am useless when it comes to prgraming, but I can pretend that I am performing a valuable service by reporting my findings for beta software. I started up LDraw Viewer 0.3.1 on a PowerBook G3 (FireWire), ATI(AGP) 128 bit Rage Mobility with 8 (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Large LDraw/MPD Files?
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(...) I meant basically what you just said. Ldglite doesn't create a new copy of the part each time it is used; LDView does. I do this for various reasons, but I believe that when I go back and revisit those reasons now with the advantage of (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New primitive: chord.dat (not the final name)
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(...) Indeed. I was planning to do something similar myself. Hope it get's made official. (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: What's up with box3#8.dat? (was: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives)
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(...) It would have been a nice character, but = is not allowed under MS-DOS The range of special characters possible with MS-DOS are: ! @ # $ % ^ & ( ) - _ { } : ' Which of these are HTLM friendly also ? With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Bad links to homepage.mac.com
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FYI: there is a 10.2.3 update. OpenGL is updated to 1.4 in this release. Has anyone else updated and tried LdGLite? I haven't installed it and don't plan to until next week (by then www.macfixit.com should have a good list of problems associated (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: What's up with box3#8.dat? (was: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives)
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(...) Yes - I think the original intent of # was 'in two parallel groups'. How about '='? That will work in a URL. It is almost like two '-'s. Chris (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: What's up with box3#8.dat? (was: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives)
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(...) You R-ed C, Chris. Althought is't more correct to say that the missing edges are not *all* adjacent. But I'm a bit afraid that the dash and underscore charcters are to similar and could easely lead to confusion. Are there any other acceptable (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: What's up with box3#8.dat? (was: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives)
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(...) Manfred Moolhuysen developed this naming convention and posted (probably to the old lcad list) in May 1998, but I cannot locate a copy right now. IIRC the # was intended to indicate that the missing edges were not adjacent (which is what the (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: What's up with box3#8.dat? (was: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives)
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(...) I'll think about box3-8 or something (box with 3 sides, missing 8 lines) I need a similar primitive with all edges along the three sides. That could be named box3-2 (box with 3 sides, missing 2 lines) Niels (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: What's up with box3#8.dat? (was: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives)
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(...) Hm, it's possible that the search I used suffered from a similar problem to that of the URL. I stand corrected- thanks! -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: What's up with box3#8.dat? (was: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives)
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We should consider renaming this to get around this limitation. More programs and applets may start tring to access the files through URLS in the future. Who knows. -Kyle (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Can we (Steve or I) have them for the Parts Tracker and ultimate release into the official library? Chris (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: What's up with box3#8.dat? (was: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives)
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(...) Not sure how you were searching, but this primitive is used by plenty of parts 2400.dat 2554.dat 2865.dat 2871.dat ..... The file is in the ldraw.org official library, but if you're trying to use the URL like (URL) then you will fail due to (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | What's up with box3#8.dat? (was: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives)
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I did a text search on all the dat files in my parts and subparts folder, and found that the "box3#8.dat" primitive isn't actually referenced by anything else. And if I try to download it from ldraw.org's official files link, I get nothing. Has this (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BFC parts with BFC-less primitives
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(...) Hi, I made all the remaining primitives BFC compliant with the help of one program that I created: (URL) I need to find some time to fix some bugs and release it to the community. Zanette. (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) All primitives really should be BFC'ed first... Strictly speaking you cannot certify a part unless all references are certified, but see (URL) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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We seem to be getting off the original topic a bit, but since the thread is going this way, I will add my 2 cents worth. (...) My early versions of Ldraw Viewer used GLUT which I have now since dropped. However as an experiment I did attempt a (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) The primitives are slowly being made BFC compliant (and given meaningful headers) but if you have the time and inclination to do any of those that are not already done (or waiting on the Parts Tracker) please do so. Please email the fixed (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | BFC parts with BFC-less primitives
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Hello, I have just found out all about BFC and how to make parts BFC compliant (yes, I know, I should have found that out earlier ;-). Most of the parts I submitted to the parts tracker are not reviewed, yet (not complainig about that), so I thought (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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