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--snip-- (...) Hi Jim, The second error there is certainly to blame for the opacity. You need to add a line globalsettings maxtracelevel N where N is high enough (probably 8 will do). Partially this is because LDraw parts are constructed of surfaces (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Fun with LDView Fly Through (A Minifig's Eye View)
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(...) You're right - it does work. I retried it with L3P output and the view is positioned correctly. My previous effort used POV-Ray code from Anton's converter. That's not necessarily the reason it didn't work before, though: it was late and I was (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Fun with LDView Fly Through (A Minifig's Eye View)
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(...) The aspect ratio shouldn't make enough of a difference to put the camera out of the ship. It should only change the cropping. If you have the same aspect ratio, you should should get nearly pixel-perfect alignment of all polygons that don't (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Fun with LDView Fly Through (A Minifig's Eye View)
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(...) I was thinking of that. I tried it briefly the other night but I must have had a different aspect ratio, because the rendering appeared far outside the ship. I'm getting up to speed on POV-Ray, though, so I'll definitely try it again. (...) (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Fun with LDView Fly Through (A Minifig's Eye View)
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(...) It's worth noting that if you get the POV-Ray camera info from LDView and render in POV-Ray, you should get exactly the same view there (assuming you use the same aspect ratio). (...) The sensitivity is pretty messed up. It doesn't properly (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Fun with LDView Fly Through (A Minifig's Eye View)
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(...) That's a nice pic Jim. I seem to recall there was a view from inside a Santa Fe car a while back, can't remember who rendered it though :( ROSCO (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Fun with LDView Fly Through (A Minifig's Eye View)
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I'm sure this has been done before, but I realized an amusing application of LDView's "fly through" camera mode is to look at the world through the eyes of a minifig, particularly from perspectives where you couldn't normally fit a camera (or your (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Site changes on LDraw: Opinions sought
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--snip-- (...) I'm with Willy on this. Much as I'd love to move away from PostNuke I just don't think it's worth the effort right now. So long as the site is relatively attractive and, more importantly, serves its purpose properly by allowing ready (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Site changes on LDraw: Opinions sought
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(...) I'm talking about the PostNuke nuts'n'bolts. this kind of stuff: (URL) I'm not -pushing- for redesign per se, I'm just bringing it up for discussion as (...) every help to steamline the PN stuff is welcomed and much appreciated (where (...) (18 years ago, 18-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Site changes on LDraw: Opinions sought
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(...) Could you explain? Are you talking about software idiosyncracies, organizational process idiosyncracies, or...? I'm not -pushing- for redesign per se, I'm just bringing it up for discussion as I think it would be really cool to see an (...) (18 years ago, 17-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | 2006/2007 LDraw.org SteerCo Summary
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hi folks, for all those who haven't noticed it yet (despite the link in the left bar at Ldraw.org) there is a summary of the activities of the outgoing 2006/2007 LDraw.org Steering Committee at: (URL) Tschager On behalf of the LDraw Steering (...) (18 years ago, 17-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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(...) before we talk about design I'd like to see some idiosyncrasies solved which give us webmasters sometimes a hard time. w. (18 years ago, 17-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Dancing Mech Modeling/animatino LDraw/POV-Ray Video Tutorial Series
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(...) Neat. It's interesting that Bricksmith has actually been the incentive for me to pick up Cocoa. I figured that some of these minor quirks that interrupt the flow of things couldn't be too hard to straighten out, so I sat down and just started (...) (18 years ago, 17-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Dancing Mech Modeling/animatino LDraw/POV-Ray Video Tutorial Series
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(...) Wow, cool! I believe I sent that request to Allen too. I know a little Cocoa but am bad with large projects, so I haven't attempted to actually make any of the feature requests I've sent him. (...) Great comment. Actually, I was hoping to put (...) (18 years ago, 17-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Dancing Mech Modeling/animatino LDraw/POV-Ray Video Tutorial Series
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(...) Yeah, I eventually found it. O:) (...) Duh! I can't believe I totally forgot that! (...) Cool, great comments! I hope you don't mind if I put this all in my addendum sections? I'll have to try them out too. James (18 years ago, 17-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Motion to the LDraw Bylaws (Accountability of "Key Positions") passes
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With a total of 23 voters who "agreed" and none who "disagreed", the Motion to the LDraw Bylaws introducing the accountability of "Key Positions" is hereby ratified. The LDraw.org Bylaws (URL) (Section 6.08 - 6.10) have been updated accordingly. (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: source code for minifig generator?
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(...) Thanks, that's what I was looking for. Brian Durney (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Dancing Mech Modeling/animatino LDraw/POV-Ray Video Tutorial Series
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(...) It is strangely suspenseful watching someone search for an unknown part! I'm sure you've found it by now, but the part you were looking for in the third video is a "wedge." So for your benefit or others', don't forget that in many cases you (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Site changes on LDraw: Opinions sought
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(...) Due to the amount of time I've put into developing custom module for PostNuke I'm obviously in favor of option 1. I've become pretty proficient at web design and the use of the PostNuke theme engine so a potential contributer would just need (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Site changes on LDraw: Opinions sought
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(...) This a probably a bug in the polls module. I originally wrote the module for the MOTM contest only (in fact the module still serves as the MOTM archive) and later adapted it to run all types of polls. Since I've never really fully tested a (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Site changes on LDraw: Opinions sought
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(...) Tim, What do you guys think about a total redesign of LDraw.org? The PostNuke interface does make it easy for many people to edit the site--a key reason we did the CMS in the first place. But, it does appear clunky throughout and could really (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Site changes on LDraw: Opinions sought
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(...) That was when I was not logged in. After logging in, I can see the poll and vote. Checking from another computer without any LDRAW cookies... same message "You already voted". Seems the poll doesn't work unless logged in, even though the text (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Site changes on LDraw: Opinions sought
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(...) Well, I wasn't going to say anything because I didn't want to be a pest but you are seeking opinions. I can never figure out what is going on with the contests. I am interested in them, but to this day I haven't spent the time to figure out (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Site changes on LDraw: Opinions sought
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(...) Ah, thank you. I was clicking the prominent "March MOTM" poll link at the top of the main page instead of navigating through the contests page. (Maybe the main page link could direct you to the view or vote pages depending on whether you've (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Site changes on LDraw: Opinions sought
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(...) That's a good idea. I think I'll add that onto the list of thing to be improved. -Orion (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Site changes on LDraw: Opinions sought
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(...) They fixed the "unable to view" problem a long time ago for the contests. Just go to the contest voting page and click on the view link instead of the vote link, and it will show you the entries. It won't remind you which entry you voted on, (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Site changes on LDraw: Opinions sought
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(...) I get the same thing: "You already voted." Incidentally, I wanted to mention that I think it would be nice if you could still view the poll choices after voting, just without the option to vote again. In particular, I'd like to be able to look (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: source code for minifig generator?
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(...) Bricksmith is in Sourceforge. Browsing around its CVS, I found what appears to be the minifig generator source here: (URL) at the MinifigureDialogController files.) Of course, that source is in Objective C, but Objective C tends to be very (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Site changes on LDraw: Opinions sought
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(...) Have you used the same ID for the poll as the last SOTM/MOTM, which is the only LDRAW poll I have voted in earlier? (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: source code for minifig generator?
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(...) Sorry, I didn't realize how many versions there are. I believe Bricksmith also has a minifig generator now. The source code for any and all would be helpful. I looked at the LDDP link you posted and didn't see anything about the source, either (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 2007 LDraw.org Steering Committee Election Results
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(...) Thanks for checking the ballot, Dan and thanks to people for voting. Tim (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: source code for minifig generator?
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(...) To which minifig generator do you refer? - The MLCad minifig generator: MLCad is closed source - The LDDP minifig plugin: source code here, (URL) The LDAO minifig generator: LDAO source here, (URL) Note LDAO is extremely out of date and still (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | 2007 LDraw.org Steering Committee Election Results
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The winners of the 2007 LDraw Steering Committee Election are (in alphabetical order by last name): - Chris Dee - Tim Gould - Michael Heidemann - Orion Pobursky - Willy Tschager Congratulations to the new LDraw Steering Committee members! Dan Boger (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | Site changes on LDraw: Opinions sought
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Hi all, If you've visited (URL) lately you will probably have noticed a new set of big links up the top (I call them quick links). We've been trying to make the site easier to navigate in order to help new and old users alike. In order to make the (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Dancing Mech Modeling/animatino LDraw/POV-Ray Video Tutorial Series
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(...) Hi, me again! Just started watching the first Bricksmith video and I noticed you pointed out something that's always bugged me - how the part browser matches spaces literally. I guess the LDraw part descriptions all reserve two characters for (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | source code for minifig generator?
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Hello, I am contemplating a minifig editor that would work like the generator but would be able to select and modify minifigs in an LDraw file. I'm not sure yet whether I'll use Java or C++, but even if I use Java the source code for the generator (...) (18 years ago, 16-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: txt2dat updated
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(...) Received and uploaded, Mac & Linux users can now download binaries from the main page. I'd just like to thank Jim again for all his help producing this version, and I hope Mac & Linux users can get some good use out of my little program. ROSCO (18 years ago, 13-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Public LDView 3.2 Alpha for Windows
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(...) This is wicked cool. (I just realized that it works in the pre-alpha Mac build I've been poking at.) Is it or will it be possible to export the light orientation to POV-ray format as with the camera angle? Be well, Jim (18 years ago, 13-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: txt2dat updated
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(...) I've updated the (URL) txt2dat online> interface to use the new version. You can use the "Custom description" option to enter a comment for the first line of the sticker file using txt2dat's new -d option. The downloadable binaries are on (...) (18 years ago, 13-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Public LDView 3.2 Alpha for Windows
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Due to some of the problems that exist in LDView 3.1 (command line snapshots and screensaver preferences), I've decided to do a public alpha release of LDView 3.2. Please note that this version will only run on Windows computers with Unicode (...) (18 years ago, 13-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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