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hi folks, we still seek some entries for the MOTM/SOTM/POTM contest: (URL) consider submitting your work. deadline is 27.05.2007. beside all this please don't forget about RACHAL - The RAytraching CHALlange: (URL) Contest Coordinator (17 years ago, 20-May-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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--snip-- (...) I think we're not talking about the same proccess. For me 'making an MPD file' is something you do at edit time. Editing a bunch of files, then calling LPub to join them is not as easy as editing them in MLCAD using the MPD menu to (...) (17 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Well, because MLCad's process is so manual, it is very easy to create MPD files that are incomplete or not in the right order. One of MPD's rules is that the first FILE is the top level model. I've gotten plenty of letters from people who say (...) (17 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Dear Jim, Thank-you so much for this service! LSynth was the program I missed the most from Windows, but your version works flawlessly. Now I can get back to work! Thanks again! (17 years ago, 13-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Becuase sadly when I was creating tutorials/articles for the site I only focused on the WINDOWS side of the house since I have zero MAC experience. =( MLCAD is the dominate GUI that users use when using LDraw. (...) Yes the pages were (...) (17 years ago, 4-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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--snip-- (...) There's discussions. I really think it's the optimal solution overall. Let's anyone with expertise create, improve or fix articles where they can and for an ldraw audience I think that wiki markup should be easy enough. Tim (17 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Maybe it could just explain the theory without including instructions how to do it, then show the "easy way". James (17 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I hate to bring this up, but I've noticed some of the Mac related questions I get may be because the tutorials are all MLCad specific. Is it possible to include information on that page how to do it on Mac with Bricksmith? There is something (...) (17 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I wouldn't call loading LPub to make an MPD the easy way. The easy way is to use the menus in MLCad. The article is most certainly out of date. (...) But we don't learn how an MS Word document is formatted before using a word processor. (...) (17 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) It does show the "easy" way as well: (URL) reason the EASY way is not shown first is becuase users should learn the THEORY behind what they are doing rather than just learning how to do it. Eg. You can use a calculator to do multiplication. (...) (17 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Any reason why we'd want that instead of just wiki.ldraw.org, or ldraw.org/wiki/? Dan (17 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Well, maybe others don't care about visible polys when it should be smooth, but it makes all the difference in the world to me. (...) Well, yeah. But that is better than everyone inventing their own POV- Ray code to make their own parts. How (...) (17 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Strike that. We can add you as an article editor. You simple need to email us with your LDraw User ID. -Orion (17 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) The LDraw POV project ((URL) was created with the intention of someday becoming the de-facto, if not the actual, official LDraw compatible POV repository. I'll admit that it has languished for sometime (it's been almost 4 years sine I (...) (17 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It doesn't really gain you much if you are just converting the LDraw parts directly - l3p does that just fine, and fairly fast. The only advantage of a POV-ray library is when you start adding POV-ray specific stuff, eg: replace the curve (...) (17 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'd see it as a side-wiki probably. Move as much content as people are willing to open source across but keep the best articles fixed on ldraw.org. Would mean anyone could edit tutorials etc. but we'd have fixed versions. Tim (not speaking as (...) (17 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Hmm - an ldraw wiki? That's a good idea, and it's not hard. For example you could sign up for a wiki on pbwiki.com (ldraw.pbwiki.com is available) and we can transfer the existing content there and move the links on the existing site to point (...) (17 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Why not make official POV-Ray Lego bricks and skip the whole LDraw to POV-Ray conversion? Use the same names, scale, and coordinates and all you need is a small script to convert the LDraw lines into POV- Ray lines using the same translations. Or (...) (17 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) More than three years have passed, the only thing that has happened is that the SteerCo and/or the Standard Committee has decided not to allow EmbPOV in the official Parts folder. A vauge discussion on creting yet another folder for Ldraw POV (...) (17 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi William, At the moment I think it's only the webmasters who can edit articles (might be nice to have an ldraw wiki one day but...) so if you email us (webmaster@ldraw.org) with a list of things you've noticed and/or suggested improvements (...) (17 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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I was looking through some of the articles on ldraw.org and found some to be out of date or to have errors. I'd be happy to help clean this up but I don't know what the process is to get access or to submit changes...? For example (URL) has a long (...) (17 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Congratulations to the winners of the April 2007 Model/Part Of The Month (MOTM/POTM) contests: (URL) MOTM, USS-Wolfram by Emory Dunn> (URL) Part, Minifig Torso with Telephone Pattern by Michael Heidemann (mikeheide)> (URL) Desired Part, Minifig (...) (17 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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(...) Thanks and done. Tim (17 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Oooo, no they are not. The one on LDraw.org contains a bottom subsection of newer colors—such as flesh and Maersk blue but not Trans Orange—which are not part of the standard distribution. I had no idea there were official color codes for (...) (17 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Personally, I'd have used the one from the official library download. IIRC, the one you linked to is the same. (17 years ago, 26-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Before I found the direct link to (URL) here on a lugnet discusion, I searched for ldconfig.ldr at ldraw.org for quite a long time without succeess. I tried the Search function, entering ldconfig.ldr. It came up with: "Downloads: no downloads (...) (17 years ago, 26-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Hi, all. I've taken the liberty of fiddling around with the LSynth 2 source code a little bit more to create an LSynth Service, a text-processing extension for Mac OS X that lets you run LSynth just about anywhere you can edit text. The service (...) (17 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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(...) And it was really worth the effort! A funny story/scenery with a different use of the model. Hopefully the two guys succeeded without getting two wet. And thanks for the links. I will dive through it and will see, what I can learn next... (...) (18 years ago, 5-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) At last, it's finished! It can be found here: (URL) (18 years ago, 5-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Which may or may not be an issue. It's irrelevant if you're just editing existing lines, but if you add new ones, vi will add them in the file-native format (CRLF for a DOS file), while emacs will add them in the machine-native format. Dan (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) You have my pity ;) (...) I think it leaves them alone. Certainly I've never had any troubles with it converting one way or the other before. If you edit a Windows text file on a UNIX emacs it will show the extra ^R (or whichever is unused on (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Being a vi user, I'm drawn to the natural conclusion that emacs must be the culprit ;-). (On a more serious note, I actually don't know what emacs does with line endings. I know that vi leaves them alone unless you specifically tell it to (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Well from your two reports it sounds very much like the files are uploading and downloading correctly. I guess we write the RACHAL one off as a strange quirk and I'll use NoteTab to ensure all future ones are DOS formatted before upload and (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Same results here. L3LAB: In addition to this info, I wish to add that with DOS, UNIX, and Willy the bricks showed up fine in L3Lab, but from the Mac file, L3Lab just showed an empty window. NOTETAB: All four look idential and correct in (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) no just MLCad and LDDP on win2000+SP4 (...) it is. the only problem I had with linefeed was when Allen Smith fixed some entries in der MLCad.ini file. w. (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) The upload is via an html form so I'm pretty sure it's not ftp (unless there's a way for this to be automated from a form?). Willy made the original file in MLCad by the looks of it, I then edited in MLCad and emacs for WinXP, Willy then (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Maybe it's a downloading problem. On windows .mpd files are associated with microsoft project by default. Perhaps because of this, some sort of translation occurred on downloading the file? Or more likely it's an uploading problem. If you used (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) hi folks, since no Mac or UNIX was involved in the creation of the mpd file we are trying to understand what has messed up the end line character. we uploaded four files and would like to know how they turn out in notepad. please screenshot: (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Windows expects it (CRLF). unix mostly (always?) use just LF, Apple use CR. Get a free text editor that can handle such lines. I have used EditPad ever since I found it - never looked back for Notpad: (URL) Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Well, I can't remember the name of the first guy who started it I think back in 1999. I promptly took it over and he disappeared from the web. Then Matt Gerber pitched in but I haven't seen him in a long time. Here is a blast from the past: (...) (18 years ago, 2-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Thanks!! I hope it ever gets finished, or at least before my computer crashes.... :-) (18 years ago, 2-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) well ... you know the saying: "The exception proves the rule!" or was it "There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception!" :-D anyway send it over to Ldraw.org and I'll add it the old gallery. w. (18 years ago, 2-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Damn, I really wanted to enter the previous contest, as I worked pretty long on my contribution. The truth is, however, that it is still being rendered. It is already running for 70 hours now, and it is only at about 45% done!!!! :-(.... When (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) ups! my bad. it's indeed a copy'n'past artefact. usually I prepare the contest posts offline because of all the links. I simply forgot to delete the SOTM entry used in february. sorry about that. beside all these we haven't got any SOTM entry (...) (18 years ago, 2-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) That report is what I like to call a "feature", please ignore it. -Orion (18 years ago, 2-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I think that's quite reasonable. (...) Indeed, most if not all of my part library files are DOS formated. They work fine with Bricksmith, L3P, lsynth, ldglite, LDView 3.2 (from source), and even Mac Brick CAD. Any serious text editor such as a (...) (18 years ago, 2-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) No testing necessary. I believe all versions of LDraw software all the way back to Brickdraw 3D have been able to read DOS format lines as that has been the shared format. So they have always been able to read them. In fact, I just opened a (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) And in light of this I'll give some cheerleading for some formalising of the newline character in the Ldraw specs. If LDraw software has problems then that is reason enough for a formalised rule IMO. Could someone test DOS format files on the (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Thanks Tim, here are the initial results of my testing: Platform ldraw/ledit MLCad DOS No problems No Problems Unix Part: Not displayed Model: Cannot open No problems Mac * No problems Part: load error Model: Load error * This is the old (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Following further information about compatibility in some LDraw software I will ensure that subsequent MPDs posted to the website are in DOS format. I assume something will be posted about these compatibility issues soon. Tim (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Hi Dean, I suspect the SOTM bit was an accidental bonus from a copy-paste. AFAIK there was no SOTM for March due to a lack of entries (I know the one linked to on the side of the front page won last month's competition). (...) Weird. They just (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Are these supposed to be the same URLs? The links don't appear to be anywhere obvious on the main site. (...) Both these report "failed to read database" then show the content as normal. (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) If "decent" means powerful and powerful means a 20Mb+ installation file and 30 seconds loading time, I say thanks but no thanks to your strong suggestion. /Tore (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Yes. The software developers of Notepad. Do you really expect a Mac text-editor to work the Microsoft way because MS Notepad can't read a text file properly? I have very grudgingly updated the file and will probably not do so again (my (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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Congratulations to the winners of the March 2007 Model/Scene Of The Month (MOTM/SOTM) contests: (URL) MOTM, Armored Snow Transport by Petar Potocnjak> (URL) SOTM, The Forces of Isengard by Philip Heinrich> Congratulations also to the winners of the (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Timothy Gould wrote: I'd be amazed that Notepad still can't deal with it if (...) Amazing or not, that's the way it is and software developers should have that in mind. /Tore (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Ones that don't limit themselves to Windows newline sequences eg. Mac based editors, Linux based editors, good Windows editors. In that case it looks like it's a Mac newline sequence since Notepad recognises one character (probably carriage (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) What kind of editor program produces for us Notepad users such unreadable files? (URL) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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Hi all, It's a day late but we changeover from RACHAL 1 - Atmosphobic to the all new RACHAL 2 - RACHAL Impossible today. Thank you very much to everyone who submitted an entry. I really enjoy seeing what you've all come up with and it we some (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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(...) Allen presented BrickSmith, the Mac LDraw editor that he authored. He also went into the history and motivations behind BrickSmith's features and functionality. He also previewed some upcoming idea that he's been working on including LSynth (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Cool! What was his presentation about? (...) OK. What shall I send you, just the compiled lsynthcp program? I expect to be busy the rest of this weekend, so I may not be able to follow up until Monday or so, but I look forward to working with (...) (18 years ago, 31-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Hi Jim, Allan Smith also got LSynth running on the Mac. He announced that during his presentation here at BrickFest PDX. I'm game to make Mac executable available on my website, where Don and I make lsynthcp executable available for WinXP. (...) (18 years ago, 31-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Thanks. Happily, I think all these things are already available for Linux or Windows - but of course they are nicer on a Mac. :) Two key Windows-oriented tools, MLCad and LDraw Design Pad, do work in the (URL) CrossOver> demo (more or less): (...) (18 years ago, 31-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Oh, OK. I could as well, but I thought I'd check if they wanted to put it on the same site as the original. Any way is fine by me. (...) I had no idea there was once an actual LDraw for the Mac Campaign! I don't think I even knew about LDraw (...) (18 years ago, 31-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Sweet. I can host stuff. (...) Sweet. I guess I've kinda fallen off. Incidentally, the last few days I've been cleaning up my old files and I ran across the old LDMC website (LDraw for the Mac Campaign). Its been 5 years since I took the site (...) (18 years ago, 30-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Wow. You're a one-man Mac compatiblity machine. I almost wish I had a Mac so I could play with all the toys you've ported. Tim (18 years ago, 30-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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I just realized today that the (URL) LSynth source code> builds fine on Mac OS X. Apologies if this has already been established, but it's news to me. I'd previously only been aware of the PC binary version (URL) available here>. The Tk GUI works, (...) (18 years ago, 30-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) That's a nifty scanf trick. But don't forget, you might still want to (URL) trim leading and trailing whitespace> (tabs and space characters) from the parsed filename (and maybe even surrounding quotes). Don (18 years ago, 29-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) <snip> (...) Hi Jim, Thanks! I'll use it. Kevin (18 years ago, 29-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) misparse file names with blanks or tabs in them. (...) will be backward compatible and not cause problems (at least not for (...) I have no idea whether this could be worked into your sscanf usage, but it is possible to read whitespace into (...) (18 years ago, 29-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) While I am a current member of the LSC, this hasn't been discussed there. It has always been my understanding that this format for meta commands was never intended to require existing meta commands (official or otherwise) to be changed. (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) As the author of the meta command section of the 1.0.0.0 spec, my intention wasn't to twist the arms of developers into adopting the "!" prefix or the program name requirement. For non-official LDraw.org programs, I meant for these rules to be (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I am no longer on the LSC, but I'll give my opinion. Given that the LPUB, SYNTH and MLCad's ROTATION meta's were defined before there was ever an LSC, before the LDraw file format 1.0.0.0 was officially ratified, or before the discussion in (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Getting rif off the 8.3 nomenclature???
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guys, I'm currently working on 004219b.dat - Sticker System with Australia Flag Pattern. unfortunately there is no rule for subparts in the sticker standard: (URL) to the PT references: (URL) are subparts numbered? A: Subparts, which are stored in (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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guys, flicking through the specs I got a bit confused and seek clarification (preferably from the LSC) we have the list of Official META Commands: (URL) list of currently known META Commands: (URL) LDraw File Format 1.0.0 proposal (oddly there is no (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Sneekpreview on animation software
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(...) Screen space is a bit of a problem indeed, it runs out very fast :) That's why I support dual (or even more in theory) screens. But every screen can also have multiple desktops, and for each desktop you can choose from 'windowed' or 'tabbed' (...) (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Sneekpreview on animation software
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(...) What about those of us that only have one screen? Can you show an example of how it would look there? It seems to me the UI with the large sliders is a bit space consuming. Maybe just a numerical display of the current value (the top part of (...) (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Sneekpreview on animation software
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Hi all, After quite some time I think I got the basic control system / and interface working for the succeeder of LD4DModeler. I would appreciate any comments / suggestions from animators / developers concerning first impressions on the interface. (...) (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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| | My Rachal: Atmosphobic - The Movie
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I have submitted my entry "Atmosphobic - The Movie" to the (URL) LDraw-RACHAL>. This little movie was completely rendered with (URL) Blender>. Resources: (URL) making of> - RACHAL Gallery (URL) YouTube> - LowRes movie (URL) Web> - MidRes & HiRes (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Fun with LDView Fly Through (A Minifig's Eye View)
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(...) Thanks for the tip, Tim! The point about LDraw (and POV-Ray) objectives being comprised of surfaces rather than solids is worth keeping in mind, too. After re-rendering the little test scene with maxtracelevel set to 8, I realized that the (...) (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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--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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| | Re: Site changes on LDraw: Opinions sought
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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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