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(...) pieces (...) the (...) on (...) Yes 6029 - Chris (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.pirates)
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:gi1arsoj23ml4du...4ax.com... (...) new (...) using (...) renderings (...) better (...) This is true. I just finished getting LDView's primitive substitution working for the quarter sloped (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Whoops, forgot the original point of my message: Thanks, Steve! --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Boy, talk about timing. I'm currently in the process of adding primitive substitution to LDView, and the ?-4cyls* primitives were next on my list. However, while I could definitely tell they were different (one slope appears concave; the other (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:oekarsonpfetb7s...4ax.com... (...) I tend to agree about putting it all in 2 separate commands. However, I don't think a position vector and orientation matrix are appropriate. A texture is (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Axel Poqué has already submited an update for this particular part. I've been giving it a "second opinion" adding a fix for the ghost lines mentioned above. In my opinion this part isn't an example of overlapping faces. What happened in the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Yes. Just had a look through my sprue bag. Neither the 'plume' sprue nor the 'dragon' sprue have a number, though, as previously observed. On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Steve Bliss (<n4karsgppt6mu2o2dn...j87esd@4ax .com>) wrote at 20:01:33 (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) [snip] Urg. Why so wordy? Just do: 0 TEXTURE <position vector> <orientation matrix> <filename.type> [START <standard ldraw commands go here> 0 TEXTURE END] The <position vector> and <orientation matrix> parameters are identical to the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Cool! We needed the number for the cattlehorns piece, in the current vote. :) Can anyone else confirm this 6029 number on the horns'n'headdress sprue? Steve (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Yes, please. Fixes and improvements are always accepted! (...) Great! One more comment (to everyone, not Dave) about overlapping rectangles, and why not to use them. When this approach is used simply as a shortcut so the author doesn't have to (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:G0ALp7.7D9@lugnet.com... (...) tag. (...) polygons. That sounds good to me, at least in this case. Since the overlapping polygons are the same color, they shouldn't cause any rendering (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: It's all clear now... (how to use 1-4cyls2.dat)
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(...) Thanks for explaining this again Steve - I am sure I tried to explain this when I created this primitive in Oct 1998. But it is really hard to get ones head around - it took me some time playing with the *cyls.dat files before I realised I (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) tag. Happily, the "bad vertex sequences" were easier to fix than I anticipated, and the part now seems to pass the L3P check-test. I'll resend it to you, if you'd like. Other than the correction, the part is more-or-less identical to the one (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | It's all clear now... [DAT]
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This is one is for parts authors, I suppose... I never understood the relation between the original sloped cylinder primitives--1-4cyls.dat, 2-4cyls.dat--and the newer 1-4cyls2.dat. Both sets of files are the result of intersecting a cylinder with (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) Chris: Are you able to access this area yet? Steve (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Currently, fixed parts are "automatically included", once the parts admin (ie: me) checks over the changes. And the fixed 2447 (the minifig visor) should look better with any color/treatment. Steve (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Maybe it's the noise electronic components make when they emit smoke. Especially vacuum tubes, or anything located in a Mad Scientist's Laboratory. Steve (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Travis Cobbs wrote... (...) I have also had second thoughts about the autocorrecting in L3Lab, when it is used for part inspection[1]. L3P and L3Lab share the input routines, which does several corrections. Some corrections are imperative to have (...) (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi Franklin, I looked on both a blue feather sprue and a red one and could not find any numbers on either. HTH! Maggie C. (...) (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Ack phooey The number on the white headdress sprue is 6029, *NOT* 8029. Trying to read these tiny numbers first thing in the morning is painful. -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Lynch" <andy@andyandjackie.com> To: (...) (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) Thanks for this comment. My computer is currently on the fritz¹², so I'll have to make these corrections at a later time and send them to Steve afterwards. Sorry about that. Fredrik __ ¹ Whereever does that idiom come from? ² See (...) (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) With there no visible number on the sprue, I'd say just go with numbering them P1, P2, P3, or some such thing, if you can put letters into the number. At least until you can find an official number. --Anthony (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Um I can't seem to find a # on the sprue anywhere. anyone else have any luck? maybe it is real small. Now where did I put the microscope. John (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hmmm....after thoroughly examining a feather wheel for about 5 minutes or so, I can find no such number...strange, there's one on almost every other lego item.... -Chris (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I have a number of plume-sprues of different sizes (I assume from different years), but none of them seem to be stamped with part numbers. - Mike. (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) While the setup of this part is not the best style, there are many parts already in the library with similar designs. It's kind of a middling quality thing. I'd like to see this fixed, but I don't think this deserves a "needs work" tag. Also, (...) (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: *** LDView v0.7 Released ***
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"Rui Martins" <Rui.Martins@link.pt> wrote in message news:Pine.GSU.4.10.1...0@is-sv... (...) Because (...) its a (...) check (...) detected. Good point. I think I'll add an option in LDView to enable/disable warnings/errors during model loading. I (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Lars Hassing pointed that out to me this morning, and I plan to fix it. In the meantime, I would say a "needs work" tag would not be out of order. Dave! (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, for usability sake, we should correct what we can, but this is a dangerous feature, if we don't issue at least some warnings about it. Because this will lead the authors to get sloppy (please don't take me wrong here, its a Human factor) (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes, and yes. But as long as the other classic windows are glassed this way, I follow the "standard" James set, or else it would look strange to mix them with the other ones. -- Tore Eriksson Sweden ICQ: 76066510 LEGO: MOC++++ FS,SP,TO++ TC+ (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I'm new to the whole parts update process. Are the fixed parts automatically included in the update? The reason I ask is because the new version of 2447 looks hugely better than the old version when viewed using blended alpha instead of stipple (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | 30223 contains co-planar polygons
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Part 30223 contains co-planar polygons. View it in L3Lab with random colors turned on to graphically see what I'm talking about. Is this considered ok, or should this qualify as "Needs work"? --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I'll give it a twirl!! No more DXF's!!! I use 3DS MAX, but have Polytrans, so conversions from LWO to MAX is a snap. Maybe I will test this weekend, and FINALLY, maybe, get Bram Lambrecht's awesome mining truck rendered! Thanks! Eric Regner soon to (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: *** LDView v0.7 Released ***
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"Paul Easter" <pneaster@knoxy.net> wrote in message news:G070Ks.Er5@lugnet.com... (...) part (...) lighting (...) else (...) parts. (...) into (...) don't (...) Y (...) Well, as I said, I'm not sure it's a no-no; either way the next version of (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Not sure about the drivers, I try to stay current, however since I have started modeling parts in my spare time, I have not played many games to worry about keeping them up. ;-) I also have another computer here with Win98se and a Voodoo1 (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) conditional). (...) Hello, Here is the list of things I found. Some of the line issues may just be my viewer not displaying quite right on my monitor. If there are any questions, please ask, and I will re-check and create a picture showing (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | September MOTM Winner :-)
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Hi All, The winner of the ldraw.org model of the month for September is Jonathan Wilson. By a wide margin I might add. *Very wide* Not even any close contenders. Veritable blowout I must say. :-) Good job, Jonathan. See it at: (URL) Terry K -- P.S. (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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Hello, a new converter exists since a few days. It can convert LDraw Objects (*.DAT) into Lightwave Objects (*.lwo) and Lightwave Scene Files (*.lws) (compatible with Version 5.5, 5.6, 6.x); running under Win 95 / 98 / NT / 2000. It is completly (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) Nah, just chatting about FAQ publishing theory. Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) Well I cannot access it !! If you want me to take the contents of this into account for the FAQ/Tutorial, can you get the pages to me some other way? In what context was Sproat talking to you about this - is he also doing some work on an (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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OK, I confess. I'm responsible for ldglite, although I can't really claim to have done much of anything "original". I just pasted a bunch of other folk's code together because I wanted something portable. Don (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:6mosqsgdgu0vgi4...4ax.com... (...) resource) (...) Well, I don't play with server settings, and AFAIK it shouldn't be restricted. But the URL is not intended to be public (so it can't be (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Has any of you already seen this (URL) just awesome See ya Rui Martins P.S. There goes my salary down the drain again. (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) Your welcome, I'll see if I can actually write some of them up for you. (...) Hmm. Must be restricted. I don't know if that was on purpose or not. Tim? Jacob? Steve (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Based on an ealier thread in which he responed to my post of L3DView (since renamed to LDView), that would be Don Heyse, who at the time listed his e-mail as dheyse@hotmail.spam.....away.com. --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com) (Remove .REMOVE (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) put (...) you (...) That sounds reasonable. I was already kind of thinking of doing that, but it is nice to hear what others do. Regards, --Ryan ---...--- -- E-mail: Ryanjf2@juno.com -- Amateur Radio call sign: KB1FOB ---...--- (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) I (...) Thanks Steve, that's a useful list of topics to start with. Is access to Tom Burger's tools at (URL) somehow restricted, as I cant seem to access it? I get a (Couldn't find the resource) page. Chris (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) A tutorial would be nice, but a FAQ would be easier to put together. Some additional material/ideas: See (URL) for CATEGORY/KEYWORD. Probably needs to be boiled down, it seems long. I posted three basic guidelines about orientation & (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) Dunno. I can't tell, looking at the part. I thought about coding those as color 16, but I didn't. It would probably be more useful to make it the same color as the plain brick. Steve (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) About 5 of those are original authors of parts that are being fixed by someone else. If that makes any difference. Steve (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) Nope. I'll leave the voting open until votes stop coming in (got 5 in the last 24 hours). Once I get a day or two without votes, I'll post a "voting closing soon" post. After voting actually closes, you can count on at least week before the (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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[FUT lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw] In lugnet.cad.[various], Sproaticus wrote: [snipped details] (...) There's not one yet, but I've been thinking more about putting one together. I think having such a document will more important in the very near (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Who wrote LDGLite ((URL) I know who wrote LDLite, and I see a bunch of thanks at the bottom of the page, but I can't find the original author! James (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) I agree. I did not completely understand all the discussions about the orientation of that part. But I wouldn't change the Y position. I think that basically this part is to be attached with the pegholes on the side, and then rotated around (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 22:46:35 GMT, "Chris Dee" <chris_w_dee@hotmail.com> wrote: <SNIP> (...) I have corrected these errors, and send the updated part to Steve <SNIP> Marc Klein A Mindstorms fan. (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: *** LDView v0.7 Released *** [DAT]
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Thanks for the feedback. "Paul Easter" <pneaster@knoxy.net> wrote in message news:G039K2.7p0@lugnet.com... (...) windowed (...) screen (...) Windows(98se). It (...) mode (...) Hmmm... Unfortunately, the Voodoo1/2 are probably going to be the hardest (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) comments (...) Ok, I will review my list and double check the parts. To make sure I wasn't just seeing things. Then I will make a report of my findings. I was less concerned with part origins, or names, however I was watching more for missing (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: *** LDView v0.7 Released ***
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Hello, here's my experience with LDView v0.7. (...) I have a Diamond Monster Voodoo2. The program works great in a normal windowed mode. It may be running through my normal AGP(S3 Virge Gx2). The full screen feature crashed the program, with no (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: File management
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I have separate directories in which I store models. example: /models /mine /fire /space /others /Tim Courtney /Terry Keller /TLG /s1234 /s2345 This is basically how I do it. This is where I store all dats and mpds. hope that helps. Ryan (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Windows with Glass (Was: Voting Open...)
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(...) Oops! Following the standard James Jessiman set (part 453 and many more), the colour should be 39. Someday we ought to make a complete remake of all those windows. Then the most natural colour would be 47. Someday... Thansk, Chris. Steve, (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) 27 different authors! My oh my! I would have guessed the half or so. -- Tore Eriksson Sweden ICQ: 76066510 LEGO: MOC++++ FS,SP,TO++ TC+ LS YB@m (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) <snip> (...) I think the overall quality of the parts in this update is one of the best I have seen. An update worth waiting for - well done Steve for putting it together and thanks to all the authors for some really excellent detailed work. (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) I'm (...) co-ordinate, but haven't gotten around to it yet - mainly because I am unsure what topics need to be addressed. I'll take another look at it, but if anyone has ideas of topics that ought to be included, please post them here. In fact (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) ...and... (...) ...and... (...) Sounds like good fodder for a parts-authoring FAQ. Is there one? Other than Q24 in the LDraw FAQ (1), of course... Perhaps Q24 (and Q31 and the primitives reference (2)) should be broken out and re-organized as (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: *** LDView v0.7 Released ***
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Here are my repies... --Calvin Walton (...) <snip> (...) I have a Voodoo3 2000 on Windows 98, and fullscreen mode works well. (No crashing, good display, alt-tab works, and I can exit.) (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: File management
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(...) If you've got the files stuffed into an MPD, there's no real need to keep separate copies of them. I do it anyway, but I'm weird. If a file is truly junk, I'll delete it. I move all my completed/inactive projects out of the Models directory, (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) What Fredrik said. If the comment is just about the part-name, you can probably just post it in the vote. But if you're commenting about the part itself, it's better to post it here, and/or e-mail the author. (...) Send 'em in! Any fixes I get (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | *** LDView v0.7 Released ***
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You can now download LDView v0.7 from: (URL) version contains my inital attempt at fullscreen support. It works on my video card (nVidia TNT-based), but I do not own any other OpenGL-capable video cards on which to test it. If you are worried about (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) If you only comment on the parts in the vote, Steve Bliss will have to mail the comments out to the respective parts authors. I think it is much simpler to post the comments here, so that everyone can read and followup on them. Fredrik (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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Well, I *finally* got to the Vote page! A friend of mine showed me the page for "(URL) think that someone here suggested I use an anonymizer, but it wasn't until my friend actually showed me that page that I understood what this was.) I voted (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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Hello, I may have a dumb question here, but.... I voted on the parts on the voting page. I made several comments in the box below the "needs work" check box, without checking the box. Do those comments get submitted as well? Should I post those (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | File management
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When making official models (and unofficial models for that matter), there are minifigs, submodels, and sub assemblies to deal with. You put them all together in one .mpd file, but then you also have these other files left in the \Models directory. (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: September MOTM voting is ready
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(...) Agreed. There are a lot of good ones. Your Welcome Tim - not a big deal once Jacob told me about that cgi script to "register" each entrant. That solved a lot of problems. :-) So thanks to Jacob Sparre Andersen for once again putting on his (...) (24 years ago, 26-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: September MOTM voting is ready
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(...) Yup. VERY tough voting, I'll have to think about where to cast my vote for a long time. Great models this month! And a big thanks goes out to Terry who is filling in for me while I can't update the site for a few days. -Tim (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: September MOTM voting is ready
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(...) All great stuff! That Petrol Station that Jonathan Wilson made is a gem!!! --Todd (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | September MOTM voting is ready
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Hi all, The September LDraw.org Model Of The Month voting is up and ready at: (URL) entries to choose from this time. And just a reminder, entries should be submitted WITH a short text about the model and/or scene. And can the entrants for this (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: L3P and L3Lab
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(...) The websites helped. I think I'll get L3P, but maybe I'll get both. Thanks, --Ryan ---...--- -- E-mail: Ryanjf2@juno.com -- Amateur Radio call sign: KB1FOB ---...--- (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Don't bother to reply (was Re: LDView full-screen TEST: feedback required)
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At this point, don't bother to reply to the request. Since I didn't get any replies, I have gone forward with my full screen code using information off the net. This produced a number of fundamental changes in my full-screen handling. Conseqently, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: R2D2's body (Was: Voting Open...)
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(...) Rotating 90-degrees (...) D'oh! I haven't had a chance to verify, but I do believe that I *did* rotate it while I was looking at it in LEdit! Sorry, y'all. Yep, I agree 100% with Tore and Steve on this. Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 24-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3P and L3Lab
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Ryan J Farrington wrote... (...) L3P generates POV files for ray-tracing ((URL) is a DAT file viewer. Read the short descriptions on (URL) follow the links to my pages (URL) detailed info. /Lars PS. I know L3Lab can generate POV code too, but only (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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Steve Bliss wrote... (...) Well, I didn't know it was that smart (or ignorant...) I'm simply using sscanf with the format string "%d %s %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f" Let me carefully re-read the sscanf documentation... "One white-space (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: R2D2's body (Was: Voting Open...)
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(...) So that, when R2D2 pattern is finished, front view will be front view and not left view. -- Tore Eriksson Sweden ICQ: 76066510 LEGO: MOC++++ FS,SP,TO++ TC+ LS YB@m (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: R2D2's body (Was: Voting Open...)
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(...) Umm, Jeremy. The holes are currently parallel (and centered on) the Z-axis. Rotating 90-degrees around Y would put the holes parallel to the X-axis. Steve (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: R2D2's body (Was: Voting Open...)
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(...) Rotated? As in on the y-axis? That's pretty much what I was arguing against. Why should it be rotated? Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) This is not the boombox. I know this piece was used in set #6393 Big-Rig Truck Stop (from 1987) as the gas pump displays. --Ryan ---...--- -- E-mail: Ryanjf2@juno.com -- Amateur Radio call sign: KB1FOB ---...--- (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | L3P and L3Lab
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Lars, I currently have LEdit and MLCad on my computer, but I was thinking of downloading another program, maybe L3P or L3Lab. However, I am not sure what the difference is between these two. Could you give me the features/pros/cons on them? Thanks, (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Gears (Was: Voting Open...)
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(...) Hmm. I may be confused. The DACTA gears (see (URL)) may all be DUPLO scale. (...) About the same time as the rest of us. Once we get one standard figured out, some other issue arises. Steve (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) Alrighty. And truly decorative parts can still be labeled as decorative. But I'm not retro-labeling *anything*. So, should 32166.dat, Technic Connector Block 3 x 6 x 1 & 2/3 Gearbox, be renamed to Technic Gearbox 3 x 6 x 1 & 2/3 Gearbox (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | R2D2's body (Was: Voting Open...)
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(...) Ditto. I suggest it should be rotated 90 degrees before officializatoin. (btw, I made a little mockup of R2's body with orna... sorry, pattern) -- Tore Eriksson Sweden ICQ: 76066510 LEGO: MOC++++ FS,SP,TO++ TC+ LS YB@m (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Gears (Was: Voting Open...)
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(...) I think I've done all except for the largest. (...) DSCTS gears? Are they the same as Classic European Pre-Technic gears? (URL) is there yet another kind? The euro gears are not at all compatible with Samsonite gears. Where can a picture of (...) (24 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes: [snip] (...) O.K. Ornamented it will be then. By the way, Steve, Did you already notice that I've started to send "suggested update revisions" to your adress "partsref@worldnet.att.net" ? (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: cannot connect to site / lack of support from MediaOne.net - DAY THREE (KMM78820C0KM) [lego]
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I have no idea if this is of any help but, I also use mediaone for web access and I can go to www.ldraw.org fine... I have no idea about all the proxy stuff so I cant help you there. HTH (...) [4.24.144.73] (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: cannot connect to site / lack of support from MediaOne.net - DAY THREE (KMM78820C0KM) [lego]
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(...) [snip] (...) Didn't someone suggest using an anonymous proxy that might be located a few hops closer to ldraw.org? There's a list of proxy sites here: (URL) don't work. The proxy at webcache worked for me. YMMV... Or you could sample the free (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) Right. As I understand, this brick appeared with several different colors of printing, but always on the same color brick. This approach (hard-coding the brick color, but allowing the pattern color to 'float') has been done in a few other (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Stages, woo-hoo! (Was: The Artemis Project)
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(...) The single greatest contribution (IMO) that the Artemis Project has to offer is the concept of Stages, its OO approach to model and submodel storage. Essentially, a model can be associated with a Stage or a set of attributes -- origin offset, (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | cannot connect to site / lack of support from MediaOne.net - DAY THREE (KMM78820C0KM) [lego]
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This is the *third* day I have been trying to access "www.ldraw.org" without success. I have *yet* to receive a response from a human being at Media One. No phone calls, no email (other than the original email from some anonymous techie at Media One (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) This is by design then? (...) No preference here; I just think that (for consistency) the origin should be between two studs (if possible), and visible when the model is viewed from the front or back or the sides (if possible). This one is (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) I considered posting the L3P -check output as a link on the voting page. (...) How about a parrot w/o decorative printing? ;) (...) It would be very nice if L3Lab had a menu command for L3P-check'ing the current file. A little dialog to set (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) Note to everyone (repeating myself from just a few minutes ago): the one thing that practically *can't* be changed after a part is released is the orientation and positioning! So it may seem picayune to argue about these things, but it is very (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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