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(...) I hate to respond to my own post, but I had another thought. Is there a format that would make your life easier to post and that fits within the ldraw.org layout? Maybe putting the entire tutorial into a html table. If we can find some way to (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I think that the directory way is the correct way to manage the files. I also like the numbering idea. That might help break down beginning or advanced nature of the tutorial. It would also help make a nice clean index page. I have some (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) This has probably been suggested before, but why not give each tutorial its own directory? Unless there's a very close limit to the directory depth, I'd recommend using the web server's existing namespace rather than inventing a new (and more (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LCD - LEGO Connection Database - Proposal
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(...) I think your comment is correct, the connectability needs to encompass a minifig hat on a standard stud... where there may be weakness in their terminology is that they handle fields of studs as one... and while a minifig hat will NOT fit onto (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I think that the list of connectors/connections needs to be expanded from what is shown here. My specific concern after reading the draft is that it does not seem to cover the possibility of placing a mini-fig headgear piece on a 1x1 round brick. A (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Is it restricted in applicability to just LDraw parts? (that is, if there were a competing parts format, could the idea be applicable? Could the database (perhaps with coordinate transformation) itself? If it's not restricted (and I think it's (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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First of all, I think think this thread should be in the top stories section! Secondly,I want it asap! I would pay money for an editor with this implementation in fact I think it would be advantages if the lego group itself implements this or (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I've gotten quite a few tutoraial submissions recently, and a bunch more promised. This is so cool!! Keep it up, folks! For this reason, we need to discuss how we should store the tutorials on LDraw.org. We should develop a system now with room for (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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A note worthy of some serious consideration, I got a priavte email from Jude Beaudin, who suggested the name might infringe on LEGO's interests. He suggested the project be renamed to 'LDraw Connection Database' instead, preserving the acronym and (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 1.9.1 Released ***
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(...) Hmm. I only copied that actual .lib files into lib and lib_debug, not any of the supporting files such as vc60.idb. I didn't have any problem simply copying them all in after building libpng (which also builds zlib in the process). (...) Well, (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Request for Comment on my L3P camera tutorial
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(...) Great! I've been experimenting with these values in POV-ray, this really helps! Critiques: orthographic, para 1, "as it is the camera type used by LDraw most if not all the other LDraw tools" is missing an "and" between LDraw & most. Maybe a (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | [New part] 30088 was Re: speargun??? (already encoded?; part number?) [DAT]
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Its after work and here's the speargun. As always, critique away (...) 30088 tatooed on the {back of their) trigger Thanks, -Chris 0 Minifig Speargun 0 Name: 30088.dat 0 Author: Chris Alano (calano@yahoo.com) 0 Unofficial Part 0 0 CATEGORY Minifig (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Wow, lots of good stuff in there! I especially liked the way you broke up the sky vector in the "How to roll the camera" section, and the way the camera_range declaration really clears up what the PCT values are doing. Perhaps we should add (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Okay, I've whipped up *something*. If you're intimately familiar with the L3P camera block, or if you're just plain curious, here's my L3P camera block tutorial ready for review: (URL) kinda beta-quality right now, so I'm soliciting criticism. (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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(...) it!! This is looking great! It seems like a good start on a difficult problem! It's something I (as a technic modeller) have wanted for a long time! I can see one limitation - the fact that technic axles are actually significantly smaller than (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yup! :-) (...) Never thought of it that way. In that case, it would go beyond the primary goal of making parts connectable in the editing of a model file. (...) For now, discuss here. (...) You are right. I fixed the error. (...) A couple of (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) WOW! This is VERY significant work. Building this knowledge into modeling tools would be awesome. People in the past have hinted at ways of doing this and at the vast and powerful new ways of analysing things that would result. I personally am (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 1.9.1 Released ***
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Hello! Ohhh.. this is great! you know i love the panning feature ;) Thank you! Carsten (24 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hello (...) advantages, (...) Yes.. i would agree to this method too... Sounds better to me! Play well Carsten (24 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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I was approached yesterday via email by a couple of LDraw fans, and attached was the document below, perfectly formatted in the LDraw.org page layout. After a couple developer responses, I decided to post it here for discussion. (URL) know its not (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev) !!
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| | Re: speargun??? (already encoded?; part number?)
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Hi Franklin, (...) I may have this one in some (un)finished state at home. I'll post it to cad.dat.parts tonight after work. If it's in good enough shape, I'll send it to the parts tracker too. (...) I can't recall if I found the number for it. (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 1.9.1 Released ***
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(...) A few notes on compiling it from the source: I had to copy the libpng debug files *after* the zlib debug files to get it to link because the zlib files overwrote vc60.something that it seemed to need. Where did you get your wglext.h and (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I prefer a regular update, on a month base or so. This has some advantages, as some parts will be faster released than on a volume base, and the files to download will be also less large than on a volume base. Anyhow, every method has his pro (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Thanks for the update, Steve I think I'd prefer the "volume method", though it's not something I'd die for 8?) ROSCO (24 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | *** LDView Version 1.9.1 Released ***
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LDView version 1.9.1 is now available, in both source and binary forms. You can download either from: (URL) note that the 1.9.x set of LDView releases are all development releases. Consequently, they are likely to be less stable than version 1.0. (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi, Has anyone tackled the minifig Speargun yet? If so, would you please direct me to the correct place? (URL) Also, what's the "official" part number for the speargun? Thanks, Franklin ===== Franklin W. Cain Programmer for Hire "fwcain@yahoo.com" (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) This week has been a little busy. And I didn't want to do a lot of work in the Parts Tracker until I was sure it was stable and ready for use again. Steve (24 years ago, 27-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Steve, I haven't heard back from you on this, yet... Thanks, Franklin (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Steve, I haven't heard back from you on this, yet... Thanks, Franklin (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: JAVA - Viewer for dat-Files
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Travis Cobbs wrote: > (Follups sent to lugnet.cad.dev.) > > In lugnet.cad, Kyle McDonald writes: > >>I'm curious if any of you OpenGL/LDraw guys do much in your code >>to generate strips from the DAT files to improve performance? I think >>I have (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(Follups sent to lugnet.cad.dev.) (...) Well you have to careful when you do this. The problem with strips and fans is that they can only be used for smooth surfaces. You only get one surface normal for each point, so any faces connected to that (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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After the site reorganization, I thought I should post an update on the Parts Tracker. Since yesterday, the Parts Tracker has been online and active. Everything seems to be running fine. There are a few layout details that still need to be resolved, (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New Parts in 2001
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Got a mockup already done - just wondered if anyone had done the whole thing yet. Might give it a try as far as the 'teeth' goes, but not sure am up to doing the 'open top' part of it yet. I'm still mostly a "modified what's already been done" kinda (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In a program called Leveller ((URL) it allows you to scatter a number of POV objects along a heightfield. I would like to do this with trees and stufff like that. I was wondering, can I do this with trees now? I was thinking that L3p outputs (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I don't think so. Are you going to do it, or do you just want the part? I've got a mockup I can pass along -- just the boxes and bars, not the triangular parts or the crossaxle teeth. Steve (24 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Good point. But as long as the LDGLite source code is distributed in a ZIP file it does not make much of a difference. I will keep it in mind and do something about it at some point. Jacob (24 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Has anyone modeled the Support 2 x 2 x 10 Girder Triangular (LEGO part #30517) yet? (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com> wrote in message news:GqGtr6.7Bv@lugnet.com... (...) distributions. (...) Looked on my hard drive, I don't have a tar.gz copy of the file. Otherwise I'd throw it up now. Jacob will have to fix that problem. (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDGLite orientation matrix (l3p enhancement requests?)
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On January 18th Don Heyse wrote... (...) Right, point taken. I don't know when I will get the time for an L3Lab overhaul. You seem to have done pretty well in ldglite so far, so let me know what you want. (...) I think the sky vector is the (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: RGB Coding in LDraw?
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Dave Schuler wrote... (...) We have previously discussed a "0 TEXTURE xxx" meta command, where xxx could be RUBBER, CHROME, SLOPE, etc. I have been wondering about another approach where color properties are encoded in the color value. E.g. (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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