To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.cad.devOpen lugnet.cad.dev in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 CAD / Development / *3565 (-20)
  Re: Several replies to CLIPPING / WINDING
 
(...) Sure, that can be done but there's the "0 UNKNOWN" or "0 DOUBLE-SIDED" case, and you'd have to send the triangles twice if you don't want to change the state. Leonardo (25 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Several replies to CLIPPING / WINDING
 
Rui Martins wrote in message ... (...) Wait a minute, you were not going to actually send winding state changes to the graphics engine? Simply keep track of the state yourself and send either vertices 1,2,3 or 3,2,1. The part author can use as many (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Several replies to CLIPPING / WINDING
 
Rui Martins wrote in message ... (...) I am trying to find out when to actually start clipping. You say "every .DAT file which has tris or quads is a candidate for CLIPPING", but when can a program use that info? Would you require an unbroken chain (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Anyone have an LDLite Mirror? (was Re: Clarification)
 
My ISP suffered a disk crash, and was unable to restore my pages from backup. Has anyone been mirroring my site? (I know you're out there...the log files show about 16 complete snarfs of the whole site every month). Otherwise I'll have to upload a (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Minifigure Torso Generator
 
(...) -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Clarification
 
Steve Bliss wrote in message <380b2e00.7878702@lu...et.com>... (...) I saw that too. I was hoping at the least there would be an alternate host for the program. (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Minifigure Torso Generator
 
(...) If I'm not wrong, the password is modeling. Leonardo (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Minifigure Torso Generator
 
Hi , at 17.10.99 Chris Dee wrote in a mail: CD> tracker ((URL) or CD> at least let me know as I have quite a few already drawn out ready CD> to code up. I did a few torsos, too. The old doctor, doctor with stetoscope and castle pattern with crossed (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Object Orientation & DAT files & CLIPPING/WINDING
 
FIRST OF ALL my sugestion is that the CLIPPING, WINDING, INVERT are strictly local where they are used. CLIPPING is strictly local WINDING is strictly local INVERT is strictly local INVERT only means see referenced file as inverted. if INVERT is (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Object Orientation & DAT files & CLIPPING/WINDING
 
(...) These are all assumptions/specifications which *should* be agreed upon by the L-CAD community, especially parts-authors and rendering program-writers. Agreement is only needed if we want to re-wire the parts library, to encourage (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Several replies to CLIPPING / WINDING
 
(...) In fact you can, use as many as you like, but that it's not the goal. if you read my previous mail, following this one I'am replying, you got the ideia that no WINDING meta command is the ideia, if the .DAT is well optimized. If someone want's (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Clarification
 
(...) It should be at (URL), but all I see there is an empty directory. Maybe Paul is doing some housecleaning? Ah. The explanation is here: (URL). Steve (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Minifigure Torso Generator
 
Sometimes, it pays to be first. ;) Steve (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Several replies to CLIPPING / WINDING
 
(...) I understand that you would be allowed to have as many "0 CCW"/"0 CW" lines as you want. This will hurt performance and of course, it would be better if you could use only 1 call per part. (...) You don't need to do that with LDraw files, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Object Orientation & DAT files & CLIPPING/WINDING
 
There has been a great discussion, about the optimizing with clipping topic, but it seems IMHO that people are forgetting simplicity is the best. Now if you read the subject of this message, maybe you know what I am talking/writting about. we must (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Several replies to CLIPPING / WINDING
 
R> If you keep changing states (turning backface culling on/off or R> changing front faces from CW to CCW) very often, you'll get a *slower* R> rendering in OpenGL (don't know about D3D). And remember that in a R> couple of months nVidia's GeForce (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Clarification
 
I need to know where the download site is for LDLite, not where it is on my computer! (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Minifigure Torso Generator
 
Chris: Thanks for the info. During this week if i have time i should be working with the Xwing mechanic torso and a few others from older sets. I would soon post all the models on a web page so ppl can d/l them. What do i have to do to submit parts (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  LDLite
 
Where is it? My computer crashed and now that is all I am missing for my "virtual" models. Any help would be appreciated! (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Minifigure Torso Generator
 
(...) This looks a pretty good way of doing the more complex torsos quickly (I assume it is quicker than the manual method), although I have got pretty quick at doing primitive-based versions, once I have drawn them up on graph paper. I have (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)


Next Page:  5 more | 10 more | 20 more

Redisplay Messages:  All | Compact

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR