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(...) Sure! Tattle on me so I get in trouble! Actually I've just been prototyping more compact part usages for hoses, using variable length cross sections instead of fixed length cross sections. (...) Kevin (20 years ago, 10-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Bow-tie quads in BFC-certified parts
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(...) It's funny how quickly I can forget the details of a complex task. For instance, I totally forgot about the NOCLIP BFC command (which can disable clipping for specific sub-sections of a file). Mind you, I implemented it, and believe that it (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(Note that I'm sending followups to the lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw newsgroup alone, because that seems to be the appropriate group, but I think the audience of the lugnet.cad.dat.parts group should see this.) In the process of testing my next major (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) I think Kevin's done some work on the code that hasn't been uploaded to the CVS repository so the current CVS source may be out of synch. -Orion (20 years ago, 9-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Just in case, the source code for lsynth is here. (URL) the CVS Repository link for instructions on how to fetch it all, or follow the Browse CVS link if you only want to examine it. Have fun, Don (20 years ago, 9-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Jindroush, True length is a topic that is near the top of the list for LSynth. Orion and I talked about it at BrickFest. There is at least one implementation out there by Frederick Glockner (using emacs) that supports true length. Since LSynth (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yeah, exactly this. I knew I couldn't be the first to think about it ;-) Jindroush (20 years ago, 9-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) You know, this did actually come up before in the context of lsynth. This post from 2 years ago mentions LENGTH and UNITS options for the lsynth meta commands. (URL) think it's been mentioned since then as well. In my opinion that's probably (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) i haven't suggested that. We don't have separate part file for every known color, but instead, there is part and color info in the dat. I think the length should be put in somewhat similar way in the dat, so that it could be easily extracted (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub - background images for pages, PLIs and BOMs.
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(...) Trying to do this may of course completely blow away how I render part list images with background images. (...) Kevin (20 years ago, 7-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub - background images for pages, PLIs and BOMs.
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(...) A quick search of the POV newsgroups yielded this suggestion: (URL) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub - background images for pages, PLIs and BOMs.
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(...) I believe that the general answer is yes, it is possible to take a jpg, gif, or bmp and place it into a rendered scene. One way it can be done is with texturemapping onto a rectangle. What you would presumably need to do then is position and (...) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi, I've got a mask generation facility working pretty well for partial assembly images. The technique I use is to add the concept of chromakey color. I render the image with chromakey color (user selectable) as the background color. I then examine (...) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts with lengths
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(...) I don't think making a separate part file for every known length of a part is the right approach, for at least two different reasons. First, it would significantly increase the number of parts in the LDraw library, making it that much harder (...) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | MEGA-POV 1.1
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Hi All, I added support to LPub for POV-Ray 3.5 and 3.6. I was trying to use MEGA-POV 1.1, but it seems to have stopped supporting the find_edges facility. Anyone know how to do the find_edges in these newer renderers. Kevin (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Blender LDraw support
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I added a feature to automatically generate contour lines for exported objects, and reexported my 6575 model. I'm not sure it's quite the way it should be yet. Also set up a wiki page where I'd appreciate suggestions and questions. The wiki will be (...) (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | August's Winners for LDraw.org's MOTM and SOTM Contests
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Congratulations to the winners of the August Model/Scene of the month contests: (URL) MOTM, Tom Kimsey, A-71 "Razorback" Heavy Attack Fighter> (URL) SOTM, Neils Bugge, Cityscape 2: Hearse / Vertical City> The voting for the September Model of the (...) (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | LDraw Design Pad (LDDP) 1.5.5 Released
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LDraw Design Pad (LDDP) is a tool for editing and handling LDraw files in a very comfortable way. Download it here: (URL) are: -Fully customizable editor with syntax highlighting -Open multiple files at the same time -Unlimited Undo/Redo -Use/define (...) (20 years ago, 29-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Blender LDraw support
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A little bit of extra work, and I'm ready (sort of) to present the first export capable edition. It outputs DAT or MPD files of the current scene, including STEP support. Script pack (since the script now is split in multiple files): (URL) of output (...) (20 years ago, 28-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDraw part origin rule
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TrackDraw's parts are 2D models of 3D parts as viewed from the top. TrackDraw attempts to maintain LDraw compatibility by using the same origin and orientation. This allows TrackDraw to read and save layouts in *.ldr format. For parts that exist, (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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