 | | txt2dat updated
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My LDraw text generator, txt2dat has been updated. The new version can be found (URL) here>. Changes in this version: Upgraded to current library versions: - Triangle 1.6 - Freetype 2.3.2 (Require at least 2.1.9) Initial build support for Mac (...) (18 years ago, 13-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | TextWrangler LDraw Kit
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I like (URL) LDraw DesignPad>. However, I do a lot of work in (URL) TextWrangler> on my Mac, so I thought it would be neat if it had more features for working with LDraw files. Towards that end, I've starting putting together an assemblage of (...) (18 years ago, 13-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | My RACHAL - Close Encounter
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Hi folks, I submitted my (URL) RACHAL - the Raytracing Challenge> entry "Close Encounter (of the third kind)" to the (URL) 'Atmosphobic' Gallery> at LDraw.org: (URL) More about the rendering process can be found (URL). PLMKWYT. w. (18 years ago, 11-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX) !
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| | Reminder: 2007 Steering Committee election closing in a week
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Hi folks, As outlined here: (URL) election will close in a week, at 2359 EDT (GMT -0500), March 15, 2007. Willy Tschager On behalf of the LDraw.org Steering Committee (18 years ago, 8-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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| | Bricksmith 1.6
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(2 URLs) Bricksmith 1.6> adds the following features: Part Browser can be configured as a separate window Export Part List feature Background color preference Always switches to perspective mode when not drawing a head-on view Can insert raw (...) (18 years ago, 8-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Parts Releases and the CA
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(...) I am pleased to report that Luis E. Fernandez has now made contact and affirmed the Contributor Agreement - thanks Luis. Updated list : Name (number of parts authored) Chris Alano (5) Eric D'Aragon (1) Howard Lande (1) Kevin Bane (8) Tim (...) (18 years ago, 7-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Introducing RACHAL - the Raytracing Challenge
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Well I submitted my entry: (URL) It was pretty fun, and I got to teach myself a few more POV tricks (like loops mainly). Nothing was changed in the MPD and I used L3PAO to convert to POVRAY and then I used Mesh-Enhancer on the minifig's hair to (...) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Request for votes in LDraw polls
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(...) jeroen, you've got mail. bye, w. (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Request for votes in LDraw polls
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(...) Hi Timothy, I would love to vote but I lost/forgot my login-name. I tried to recover but I don't get reply-mails with a new password and contacting you via the webmas...etc address only gives my an 'hey don't send spam to peeron'-message: Hi. (...) (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Need (working) program to generate instruction pictures
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(...) cockpit is drawn with a stipple function that's buggy in many ATI drivers. And the ledit text (toolbar?) is still drawn in the front buffer. The latest source code in CVS is patched for the toolbar problem on some radeon cards because it was (...) (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Need (working) program to generate instruction pictures
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(...) Good call. I ran it with -n4, and that makes things visible during rotation. The status bar and final appearance of the model (after you stop rotating, if your rotation style is different) don't get drawn until obscured by a menu, etc., so (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Need (working) program to generate instruction pictures
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(...) [...] (...) Oh, I thought you got no model displayed when launching the Mac bundle. I figured that with the environment.plist file, you'd at least get the the model displayed. On my old PowerBook I used this as a environment.plist <?xml (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Need (working) program to generate instruction pictures
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(...) I haven't followed all of this, but I suspect this is probably a driver issue. Ldglite is getting pretty old. It's so old that when I wrote the opengl bits the hardware (and software opengl) of the time was typically unable to render the model (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: LDView error
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"Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com> schreef in bericht news:JECt3F.ED0@lugnet.com... (...) Which is indeed true. The GF2 was not MX. (...) This is dissappointing... I assumed a GF4 would be better on all fronts than an GF2. (...) Thanks (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Need (working) program to generate instruction pictures
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(...) OK. I've set up a proper .MacOSX/environment.plist now, but I can't see that it's made any difference. The [mis]behavior is the same. This and the video information your provided supports my gut feeling that the problem is limited to the (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Need (working) program to generate instruction pictures
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(...) Jim, I'm not a programmer, but as it was explained to me by Don Heyse, that the only way for a double-clickable Mac application to get information about unix-like environment variables is if that variable is specified in a file called (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Need (working) program to generate instruction pictures
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(...) Hmm. I'm curious how it works on your machine. There's not a problem with my LDraw directory or $LDRAWDIR definition; it's an environment variable, regardless of where it's defined. The problem isn't with the LDraw parts, its with the visible (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Need (working) program to generate instruction pictures
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(...) Odd... one of the first things I did was check to see if LDGLite worked on my MacBook, and it worked without a problem. My first guesses are that your LDRAW dir didn't get copied over from your old computer, and/or your (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: LDView error
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(...) I don't know off-hand the performance characteristics of those two cards, but if your GF2 wasn't an MX, then it's actually possible that the new card is actually slower at geometry processing (despite being two full generations newer). In (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Need (working) program to generate instruction pictures
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(...) If you want, I can send you an alpha-quality Intel Mac binary of LDView 3.2, which can render the files (even from the command line), but I don't think it will be any easier to use than ldglite if you get ldglite to work. LDView doesn't (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LDView error
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Presuming you have the very latest drivers installed (your best bet is to use nVidia installers to repair things wholesale, rather than try to navigate at the individual .DLL level), then I might suggest that you have all the "goodies" (...) (18 years ago, 3-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDView error
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My problem was solved by downloading a dll file nvoglnt.dll. It turned out my version was 0 kb !? The strange thing however is that LDView renders slower than my GF2 card??? "Jaco van der Molen" <jmolen@zonnet.nl> schreef in bericht (...) (18 years ago, 3-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDView error
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Hi all, Since I installed a new videocard (NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X) I seem to be unable to run LDView. Why is that? My previous NVIDIA GeForce2 card did not give any problems. Can this be resolved? Thanks. Jaco (18 years ago, 3-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
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(...) Absolutely. But until such time as a program like that is available, I'm most interested in what can be done pragmatically with the tools available now. I've probably just confused the discussion of plans for future improvements - in which (...) (18 years ago, 3-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
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(...) Well I would argue that is forcing the user to do something the program could do much more easily (and accurately). Both those make the assumption that the contents of the standard LDraw directory are always official, and the contents of the (...) (18 years ago, 3-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
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(...) Absolutely. Before I started using LDView and realized that Bricksmith could also use its Unofficial folder, any and all unofficial files I downloaded just got dumped in parts. To chime in on the filename length issue, my LDraw folder got real (...) (18 years ago, 3-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
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(...) As a user (and a programmer; though I've yet to do any work on LDView), I prefer the way Travis is doing things. Not that that makes it right; I'm just saying that you can't (and shouldn't) lump the users and the programmers into two competing (...) (18 years ago, 3-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Need (working) program to generate instruction pictures
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(...) yes, I just thought the export option of Bricksmith just would generate pictures, but ended up with single step LDRs. They are of use for rendering, indeed. makes still some work... (...) Yes, I have done as a bypass so far. (...) Ah, thanks. (...) (18 years ago, 3-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Need (working) program to generate instruction pictures
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(...) I'd like something like that too. Although I don't think there's currently anything that will make the whole instructions for you, Bricksmith's "Export Steps" option may be a useful start. It creates a separate LDraw file for each step in your (...) (18 years ago, 3-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Need (working) program to generate instruction pictures
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Hi, I need some programm to create bitmaps (or other file formats) stepwise instructions, just like the old Ldraw did in DOS. I tried ldglite, but it just shows a white window, even after loading a model. Do I need some addtional software? I am (...) (18 years ago, 3-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Testing long filenames was Re: Unofficial directory (with non-standard name lenght)?
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(...) showing D:DownloadsShowParameters.exe The second line (Label2) however, stays blank. With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (18 years ago, 3-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | I hereby accect long file names!
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(...) It's an utterly complicated way, but it works! Only problem is that GetLongPathName erases all other kinds of command line parameters. Now that I know that at least it is possible to avoid shortened pathnames, I rest my case. I no longer (...) (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
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(...) Indeed. (...) Well that's the part I disagree with. Everyone is different, and making assumptions about what people will want to use is always bad for program developers. The choice should be the user's, not the programmer's. (...) That may be (...) (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!
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Before I say anything else, I want to point out that as the author of LDView my comments here are necessarily biased. So keep that in mind as you read them. (...) I disagree that it's not useful to have the unofficial parts in another directory. (...) (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Testing long filenames was Re: Unofficial directory (with non-standard name lenght)?
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(...) (URL) on Win2000 SP4 w. (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Testing long filenames was Re: Unofficial directory (with non-standard name lenght)?
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(...) My best guess is at that time MS was trying to make things safe for old programs (although it seems senseless for them to have done this with Win32 apps). If you call the Win32 function GetLongPathName on the short path, it will give you the (...) (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Testing long filenames was Re: Unofficial directory (with non-standard name lenght)?
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(...) That was command line, (URL) the result with drag n drop> is similar. ROSCO (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Request for votes in LDraw polls
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(...) No. Submissions must be made before the contest. So voting on the 1st and 31st will be the same. Tim (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Request for votes in LDraw polls
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Is it possible to submit to the sotm/motm contests when voting starts? I am always afraid to vote because there might be a better submission later on. James (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Request for votes in LDraw polls
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(...) Hi Mike, Unfortunately with the system used by LDraw it is very hard for the webmasters (Willy, Orion and I) to do anything much like that so the answer is probably no I'm afraid. Of course it does have a de facto check... if you click to a (...) (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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