 | | Search path question
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I just noticed some unexpected behavior in LDView, and I wanted to ask here whether or not the behavior was right. Suppose you have the following files: TestModel.ldr Sub/Sub1.ldr Sub/Sub2.ldr TestModel.ldr contains a reference to Sub/Sub1.ldr. When (...) (17 years ago, 12-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDLink: reversibly merge part libraries
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Hi, folks. After reading some of the recent posts discussing support for unofficial parts and part directories, I decided to release this script I wrote to help manage the unofficial parts I use. I keep my unofficial parts in a parallel part library (...) (17 years ago, 11-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | CATEGORY and KEYWORD extension ratified by the LSC
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The LDraw Standards Committee (LSC) has ratified the CATEGORY and KEYWORD language extension. The most major change between the ratified specification and the de-facto standard is to officially move the creation of new part categories away from the (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jul-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Convention for directoried for unofficial parts?
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(...) The following files in LDView's source tree contain the LDrawIni stuff: LDLoader/LDrawIni.c LDLoader/LDrawIni.h LDLoader/LDrawInP.h There's a #include <TCFoundation/TCDefines.h> near the top of LDrawIni.c. You can delete that; the only reason (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Convention for directoried for unofficial parts?
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(...) I'm using Qt, and LPub is under GPL, so this sounds perfect. I'm all for standardization, so this sounds great. (...) I'm not looking to judge or criticize anyone. All of our programming efforts are works in progress, so these self analysis' (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7
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(...) The 0.7 source code is available here: (URL) that (as listed on that page), you'll need POVRay 3.1g to be installed. I have no idea how easy or hard it is to get this source to compile, but it is there. --Travis (17 years ago, 10-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7
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(...) I didn't find it, but have you looked at PP_Find_Edges in the current MegaPOV? They claim that it's equivalent to the find edges functionality available in earlier versions. --Travis (17 years ago, 10-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Convention for directoried for unofficial parts?
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(...) I agree (which is why I voted yes on the other proposal, although it's not an exact match for what you're asking for). Having said that, Lars did offer the INI parsing code, and since it's already in LDView (which is under GPL), anyone who (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7
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I'm trying to do the old find_edges renders with the current version of MacMegaPov and they aren't working. Reading through here, it sounds like the 0.7 version of the program works fine for this. I've googled up and down but can't find 0.7 (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Convention for directoried for unofficial parts?
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(...) That makes sense to me too. Based on the coincidental informal convention already used by LDView and Bricksmith, I suggest $LDRAWDIR/Unofficial as the default unofficial parts directory. It is structured like the regular LDraw directory with (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Dear LSC, was: LDrawIni API (was: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths)
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(...) That's because the LSC voted against it. Took me a while to find the discussion as well - and I knew it was out there! (URL) (17 years ago, 9-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Convention for directoried for unofficial parts?
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(...) Get the best of both worlds and do both. Check for the environment variable and if it is blank (or non-existant) default it to a "known" sub-directory. W (17 years ago, 9-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Convention for directories for unofficial parts?
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To all developers, The LSC does not want to specify how unofficial parts are handled. Personally if find the recommendation that we pull down individual unofficial parts into the same directory as our LDraw file a hassle. Would the group prefer (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Convention for directoried for unofficial parts?
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To all developers, The LSC does not want to specify how unofficial parts are handled. Personally if find the recommendation that we pull down individual unofficial parts into the same directory as our LDraw file a hassle. Would the group prefer (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Dear LSC, was: LDrawIni API (was: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths)
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> To: <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 5:56 PM Subject: Dear LSC, was: LDrawIni API (was: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths) (...) (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Dear LSC, was: LDrawIni API (was: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths)
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(...) Dear LSC, I examined the LDraw website and was unable to find formalization for the support of optional part paths. I'm updating LPub and would like to include support for this concept of alternate paths for LDraw parts. The PRE and POST (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3P Launcher version .8
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(...) I would love a copy. Thanks! (17 years ago, 2-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Change to existing policy on embedding POV-Ray code in Official Files
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(...) Hello All, First I am no part designer but reading through this discussion I got an idea that might be interesting to share. First I think Orion is right with his stand to not allow povcode because of the 'why only pov-ray' argument. So I was (...) (17 years ago, 2-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Change to existing policy on embedding POV-Ray code in Official Files
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(...) Since I've contributed exactly two official parts to the LDraw library (neither of them with inlined POV-Ray code), I'm sure that my opinion carries more weight than anyone's on the subject... :) For some time it has been argued that the use (...) (17 years ago, 2-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Change to existing policy on embedding POV-Ray code in Official Files
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(...) I'd _like_ to see a meta-language for basic shapes defined in their primitives (the current naming system would be fine if it was consistent) as that could be used in converter software of all hues. I also realise this isn't likely to happen (...) (17 years ago, 1-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Change to existing policy on embedding POV-Ray code in Official Files
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(...) At the risk of reigniting this argument, I still hold to the original reasons for disallowing EmPOV: - The POV-RAY SDL is not under the control of the LSC. This means that if the POV-Ray Team decides to depreciate a command (which they have (...) (17 years ago, 1-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Change to existing policy on embedding POV-Ray code in Official Files
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(...) Lars has already been implementing that support since... what year? 2004? Probably even longer. I may would have joined it, but it didn't work then and I still can't get it to work now, 3½ years later. (tried testdoc.pov) And, like I said, (...) (17 years ago, 1-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDraw.org's June 2007 Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the June 2007 Model/Scene Of The Month (MOTM/SOTM) contests: (URL) MOTM, Lotus 49B by Luca Rusconi (RoscoPC)> (URL) POTM - Best Part, Technic Sprocket Wheel 40.4 by Donald Sutter (technog)> (URL) POTM – Most Desired (...) (17 years ago, 1-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | RACHAL Polar - changeover day
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Hi all, Another quarter (well, tomorrow anyway) and another RACHAL. The last entry for RACHAL Impossible is up (URL) 1> and it's time for a new challenge. This month we go back to the snow (yes it seems we have an addiction) with a guest submission (...) (17 years ago, 30-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | Re: L3P Launcher version .8
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(...) I do have a copy of the L3P launcher I could zip and mail to you if it remains unavailable. Hopefully James sees this and fixes the link, though. The Mac OS X version of the L3P command line program is still available at (URL) too, for what (...) (17 years ago, 30-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: L3P Launcher version .8
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(...) The download link at this page is dead. Does anyone know a new location for the L3P launcher or have a copy to share? Thanks in advance! (17 years ago, 29-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Commemoration of the 10th anniversary of James Jessiman's passing
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(...) This is a fantastic idea and a very fitting tribute! James passed away just as I was first getting into LDraw, and even though he and I never corresponded directly, I've had a few email contacts with his family in the subsequent decade. (...) (17 years ago, 26-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: How to get L3P coordinates
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(...) Oops :-/ (...) My mistake, I really thought you wanted the POV thingy. Well, I'm learning, that's the whole point of it anyway. And I was just about to ask how to actually input coordinates in LDView should I need to do that - which you just (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Commemoration of the 10th anniversary of James Jessiman's passing
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On the 25th July 1997, James Jessiman passed away due to complications from the flu. The LDraw Steering Committee would like to commemorate the 10th anniversary of this sad day with a tribute page to James and his great foundation. We invite you to (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Re: How to get L3P coordinates
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(...) I just wanna make clear that the L3P coordinates have to be "L3P style global coordinates". For example <25,45,0>,<-25,225,0>. Please do not send me raw LDView outputs for PoyRay like: camera { #declare ASPECT = 4/3; location < (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: How to get L3P coordinates
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(...) Now that you say it, I seem to remember that playing with preferences sets might have been the last thing I tried to do before the first crash - thought it'd be an interesting feature to test out. And indeed now that it works again I've been (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: How to get L3P coordinates
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(...) I'm not 100% sure, but it appears that preference sets are setting off the crash. I'm not sure why yet, but QT on the Mac just completely wigs out when you launch LDView after creating and switching to a new preference set. So I'd say, don't (...) (17 years ago, 23-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: How to get L3P coordinates
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(...) ... (...) ... (...) My guess is that file came from your QT 4 compile of LDView. That sounds like a serious step backwards from the QT 3 behavior, though. Even if they did change the API to require usage of the com.yada.yada.yada format, not (...) (17 years ago, 23-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: How to get L3P coordinates
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(...) Great! I suspect I found the funnily named file because I was running an earlier version of LDView on this machine. I'm glad you're back in business. (...) No problem. Be well, Jim (17 years ago, 23-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: How to get L3P coordinates
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(...) I don't have that file; but Travis pointed me to another preferences file I had missed in /Library/Preferences which was named com.LDView.plist. I guess I missed it because of the com. prefix which the file in my own preferences directory (...) (17 years ago, 23-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: How to get L3P coordinates
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(...) No, I don't need the report. It doesn't sound like something I can diagnose - I just asked on the chance that there was a specific setting or command you had tried that I could duplicate to help identify the problem, if I had not encountered (...) (17 years ago, 23-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: How to get L3P coordinates
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(...) Guess I'll just have to do that on a PC sometimes then... (...) Sure. I'd already sent a mail to Travis and he's looking into it; but if you get an idea, I suppose he wouldn't frown at your intervention either. Unfortunately there isn't much (...) (17 years ago, 22-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: How to get L3P coordinates
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(...) I'd try and get LDview working because it should be able to do this. But if for some reason you can't get it to work, you could try ldglite as a last resort. (URL) I think you have to launch it from the command line, so only go there if you're (...) (17 years ago, 21-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: How to get L3P coordinates
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(...) Yep, LDView can do this for you. After you open a model and position the view as you would like, select "Show POV-Ray Camera Info" from the "Tools" menu. A dialog containing coordinates you can copy will appear. Can you describe more about how (...) (17 years ago, 21-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | How to get L3P coordinates
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Hi, I'm trying to use LDraw a bit more and I've got to the point where I don't mind sending submissions to the MOTM contest (Willy sounds like he wants some). However, the rules allow for additional camera locations, in L3P coordinates format. Now, (...) (17 years ago, 21-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Submission for MOTM/SOTM/POTM closes in a week
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hi folks, we still seek some entries for the SOTM/POTM contest: (URL) consider submitting your work. deadline is 27.06.2007. beside all this please don't forget about RACHAL - The RAytraching CHALlange: (URL) Contest Coordinator (17 years ago, 21-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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| | RACHAL Impossible reminder
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Hi all, Just a quick reminder that RACHAL Impossible will be closing at the end of the month so if you're planning on submitting you should get your entries in soon. The details: (URL) gallery: (URL) (17 years ago, 19-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Macbook LDView crash, please re-contact
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Right after I hit the "delete all spam" button, I noticed that one of the "Spam" messages was about a Macbook LDView crash. Could whoever sent that message please re-send it to the following address? tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com (Remove the REMOVE, of (...) (17 years ago, 19-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Macintosh LDraw Software Inventory on Wiki
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(...) I'm glad you like it! Incidentally, I recommend Bricksmith and LDView as the main things for new users to check out (although I assume you already know about them). Over time I hope to add some more things to the list. Jim (17 years ago, 15-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Macintosh LDraw Software Inventory on Wiki
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(...) This is really cool, Jim. Thanks for the effort! As a new Mac user, I'm hoping to carve some time to seriously (?) play with the Mac LDraw tools before BrickWorld next weekend. Any Mac LDraw users coming to BrickWorld? If so, shoot me an email (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Macintosh LDraw Software Inventory on Wiki
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Hello, everyone. I've created an article on the new LDraw Wiki titled "Macintosh compatible LDraw software." As the name suggests, it is intended to index all the LDraw and LEGO related software available to Mac users. I hope it will be particularly (...) (17 years ago, 13-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New OpenGL based Lego Editor
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(...) I second this request. I'm working on LPub 4 and it will have internationalization capabilities. We're using Qt under Visual Studio as the basis for this development for three reasons: 1. Linguistics support for translations into languages (...) (17 years ago, 13-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | LD4DStudio site launch
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Hi all, My new animation software is nearing the beta stage (I'm targeting september for this). I finally made up my mind about it's name. It will be called LD4DStudio, it is a direct evolutionary / revolutionary :) descendent of LD4DModeler. But it (...) (17 years ago, 13-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: Linetrim, a LDraw line trimmer utility
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(...) Thanks, Willy. Corrected. Philo (17 years ago, 13-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Linetrim, a LDraw line trimmer utility
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(...) The requested URL /isecalc/Linetrimpackage.zip was not found on this server. w. (17 years ago, 13-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: New OpenGL based Lego Editor
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(...) I agree with Jim and would say that LDraw.org always welcomes talented people. If you are going to write a new editor I suggest to support right from the start the possibility to translate the interface in other languages without the need to (...) (17 years ago, 12-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: LPub DPI control?
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(...) Sorry. No not yet. Kevin (17 years ago, 12-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New OpenGL based Lego Editor
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(...) Bricksmith and LDView both use OpenGL, as far as I can tell. Of course, Bricksmith is only available on the Mac and LDView is a viewer, not an editor, but they are both excellent applications (I use them regularly). They are being actively (...) (17 years ago, 12-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | New OpenGL based Lego Editor
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Hello all, I was wondering if there is any development in the way of building a new Lego editor, based on OpenGL (OpenGL=Video card display driver software)))? If so please let me know. If not, then I would like to know if there are any interests (...) (17 years ago, 12-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | NonCA-parts in need of re-writing
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Hi folks, At www.ldraw.org you will find a list of files in the official library, whose original author has not affirmed the CA and therefore need to be re-written by CA-authors. (URL) Howard and Guy Vivan have already put a lot of effort in this (...) (17 years ago, 12-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Re: Linetrim, a LDraw line trimmer utility
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(...) Actually this already exists as the External Programs feature of LDDP. -Orion (17 years ago, 11-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Linetrim, a LDraw line trimmer utility
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(...) Would it be useful to create a generic LDDP plugin? Say one that simply executes a command line that appears in an ldraw style meta command like this: 0 LDDP_EXECUTE linetrim input1.ldr input2.ldr output.ldr Then you'd just put linetrim.exe (...) (17 years ago, 11-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: What happend to edger? (Was Re: Linetrim, a LDraw line trimmer utility)
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(...) you've got mail. w. (17 years ago, 11-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: What happend to edger? (Was Re: Linetrim, a LDraw line trimmer utility)
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(...) this is good news indeed! my wishlist for LDDP is still up ;-) (URL) w. (17 years ago, 11-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: What happend to edger? (Was Re: Linetrim, a LDraw line trimmer utility)
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(...) No, I was just typing without thinking -Orion (17 years ago, 10-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: What happend to edger? (Was Re: Linetrim, a LDraw line trimmer utility)
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(...) The extra versatility is a good thing, but Unicode shouldn't be at all useful for LDDP since ldraw files aren't (and can't) be Unicode. Am I missing something? --Travis (17 years ago, 10-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: What happend to edger? (Was Re: Linetrim, a LDraw line trimmer utility)
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(...) Where do I find Edger? looks like this page disappeared: (URL) I was thinking of writing such a program, but if it's already written... Philo (17 years ago, 10-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: What happend to edger? (Was Re: Linetrim, a LDraw line trimmer utility)
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(...) LDDP is going through a major change right now. I'm trying out a new editor control which seems to be more versatile and supports unicode. The sticking point right now is writing the code for the syntax highlighter. Once that's done, I'll (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | What happend to edger? (Was Re: Linetrim, a LDraw line trimmer utility)
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(...) since we are talking about LDDP plug-ins. are there any news on this: (URL) lee? also "Edger" would be a fantastic plug-in! w. (17 years ago, 10-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Linetrim, a LDraw line trimmer utility
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Hi Orion, (...) They will... Would you do the adaptation? That would be great! Philo (17 years ago, 10-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Linetrim, a LDraw line trimmer utility
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(...) These are relatively simple programs code wise so as long as your sources stay available, both these programs can be ported to LDDP plugins with relative ease. -Orion (17 years ago, 10-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Linetrim, a LDraw line trimmer utility
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(...) Oops, sorry, I was not aware of that! I'll remove my page as soon as possible ;o) (...) Problem is that I'm no programmer either. For very low level, crude programs it's enough but I don't feel up to the task to do that integration. But I (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Linetrim, a LDraw line trimmer utility
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(...) philo, you're making part authoring a piece of cake! that's not what's all about: authors have to suffer while making parts, have to loose themselves in maths and calculations, so please stop forging this kind of tools ;-D cheee...eeers, w. (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's May 2007 Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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(...) Confirmed in 1152x864. Thanks! (17 years ago, 9-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDView 3.2 Beta 1 now available for Mac
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For those of you who don't read lugnet.cad or lugnet.announce, I'm posting this message to let you know that the Mac version of LDView 3.2 Beta 1 is now available. Please see (URL) here>. Note that when I first posted the above announcement, I had (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's May 2007 Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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(...) I modified the style sheet and every thing should look correct for a 1024x768 resolution. -Orion (17 years ago, 9-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Linetrim, a LDraw line trimmer utility
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(2 URLs) Linetrim> utility, intended for LDraw parts authors, crops lines sticking out of polygons. Lines to be trimmed and triangles/quads against which they are cropped are provided to the utility as separate LDraw files. A third file containing (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jun-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's May 2007 Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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(...) As Travis says. On my 1152x864 screen, the pictures still fall out into the right margin when viewing with FireFox. For some reason IE render the text *above* the picture, while FF renders the text at the left side of the picture, thereby (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's May 2007 Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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(...) Note that I don't mind the way it is now, but it's currently only fixed if your browser window is fairly wide. If your browser window is too narrow, it still does the same thing it did before, instead of having scroll bars appear. --Travis (17 years ago, 9-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's May 2007 Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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(...) Thanks for the info. This is now fixed. -Orion (17 years ago, 9-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Isecalc online
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(...) Link to online tool added to Isecalc webpage... Philo (17 years ago, 7-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Isecalc online
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(...) Sure it's OK! very nicely done!!! (...) Linux users who don't want to bother compiling the tool? Philo (17 years ago, 7-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Isecalc online
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(...) I have taken the liberty of creating a very simple online interface for this utility. You upload the two input files and click a button to download the output. It's very similar to what I did for txt2dat. (URL) please let me know if this is OK (...) (17 years ago, 7-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's May 2007 Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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(...) Congratulations indeed! But something has gone wrong with the web pages, the pictures are too big and flow out in (under) the right margin (Firefox 1.5.0.11 on a 1152x864 screen) links. (17 years ago, 4-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Congratulations to the winners of the May 2007 Model/Scene Of The Month (MOTM/SOTM) contests: (URL) MOTM, Autobus Iveco 480.12 by Luca Giannitti> (URL) SOTM, Evening in the city by Peter Smet> The voting for the June 2007 contests are now open. (...) (17 years ago, 4-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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Hello, In LPub, is it possible to specify the physical resolution for generated images? Not the pixel width & height, but the physical document width & height in inches, and the resolution in pixels/inches. Of course, this affects only printed (...) (17 years ago, 3-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Isecalc, a LDraw intersection line calculator
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Hello Jim, (...) Great! I made nothing for that (I'm not so good at programming!), but a console application is nothing fancy... (...) Sure, you're welcome! Thanks in advance... Philo (17 years ago, 2-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: LSynth Service
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(...) You're welcome! I'm glad someone has found it useful. Jim (17 years ago, 2-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Isecalc, a LDraw intersection line calculator
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(...) Although I haven't tested it with anything besides the included samples, I can confirm that this builds and works with Mac OS X. Three cheers for portable code! In the source directory, I compiled it with: g++ Isecalc.cpp -arch i386 -arch ppc (...) (17 years ago, 2-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: MLCAD & LPub Usage questions here?
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(...) Please post them here for a few reasons: - Others may learn from your questions - You'll get the widest readership possible - The question will be publicly archived for future users (17 years ago, 2-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | MLCAD & LPub Usage questions here?
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Hi everyone, I'm new to these forums, so please forgive me if this question is misplaced. I've been working with the wonderful MLCAD & LPub quite a lot over the past few years. Is this the best place to post usage questions or development (...) (17 years ago, 1-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Isecalc, a LDraw intersection line calculator
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(...) You're right... the archive is there: (URL) (17 years ago, 1-Jun-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | My RACHAL Impossible - Hacked
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Hi folks, I submitted my (URL) RACHAL - the Raytracing Challenge> entry "Hacked" to the "(URL)" Gallery at LDraw.org: (URL) More about the rendering process can be found (URL) here>. PLMKWYT. w. (17 years ago, 30-May-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) well, I've already downloaded them all along with the html. I thought a all-in-one it would ease things so your site would be fine. w. (17 years ago, 30-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I see it as being complimentary. My feeling is that good articles should be brought across to the main site. This, though, would be a decision for the webmasters and SteerCo and can probably wait until the wiki is up and running in full. Tim (17 years ago, 29-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw Wiki - Beta release
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(...) content for the site, or do you intend it to take over for major functions such as FAQ, Glossary, Tutorials, etc? Just curious how you see this playing with the site as a whole going forward. Overall, I think this is excellent--as you start to (...) (17 years ago, 29-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Isecalc, a LDraw intersection line calculator
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(...) Sure! where do you want it? (I can mail it to you if you want...) Philo (17 years ago, 27-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) hi philo, cute! would it be possible to pack the prog along with the samples and a .pdf of the howto in one file? w. (17 years ago, 27-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Philo, Very cool software tool. I'm sure I'll be using this at some point. Tim (17 years ago, 26-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Isecalc, a LDraw intersection line calculator
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(2 URLs) Isecalc> utility, intended for LDraw parts authors, computes the intersection line of two sets of triangles or quads. Each set is provided to the utility as separate LDraw files. A third file containing the intersection lines is created. (...) (17 years ago, 26-May-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw Wiki - Beta release
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(...) Please note that you will need to set up a new account for the wiki. Unfortunately it is difficult to share accounts from the main site. Sorry about this. Tim (17 years ago, 25-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDraw Wiki - Beta release
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Hi all, Following recent discussions, Dan Boger has very kindly set us up a wiki for LDraw. This is intended to be a way for anyone to add 'content' of relavence to LDraw easily and without relying on the time of the webmasters to integrate it into (...) (17 years ago, 25-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Articles on ldraw.org out of date - I can help
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(...) I think Curiously should be replaced with "Distressingly" or something similar. The official MPD tutorial on ldraw.org is telling people to do something that completely violates the MPD spec. If you follow those instructions, you'll end up (...) (17 years ago, 21-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Articles on ldraw.org out of date - I can help
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(...) Curiously enough, the tutorial cited ((URL)) recommends making the first submodel an empty model in order to "help in speeding up the upload time" for large models. I think it's interesting that MPD is still often presented as an extension to (...) (17 years ago, 19-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Articles on ldraw.org out of date - I can help
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(...) Tim, I agree. At the time the article was written, MPD was a way of packing files for easy shipping. These days it is the preffered way of working with any model that has at least one sub-model. Starting and ending as MPD is much better than (...) (17 years ago, 20-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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