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Hello Láng Attila D. and Hello Kiss Attila Csongor, This thread is not very frequented now. May be because the debate has to become much more technical. (...) I mean if LMPL is not sufficient, we are in danger to either add more and more syntax (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.lcd)
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(...) Suggestions besides fighting with gdb: are you sure the keyboard() routine is getting to glutPostRedisplay() ? this is at the bottom of keyboard(). You could add a printf() there to find out. Maybe your 'E' key case is returning early? If it's (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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"Shiri Dori" <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Gs3q8y.MtH@lugnet.com... (...) There's a lot to talk about there, and you can be sure I'll post a lot, you know how I talk, Shiri ;-) Yep, there was some heated debate in the roundtable (caught (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.events.brickswest)
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"Steve Bliss" <partsref@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1mrk7u0nh78joej...4ax.com... (...) I will be preparing those for posting when I get the time. Marisela Herrera (Ahui's wife) volunteered to take notes of the community roundtable discussion (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.events.brickswest)
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(...) Great write-up of ldraw's part in the event. Can you expand on the roundtable discussion? From Matt's description it seems you had some heated debates but finally reached a consensus... what was it? What, did you all feel, are the long-term (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.events.brickswest)
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(...) sessions? Recordings? I'd be very keen to review the community roundtable. Steve (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.events.brickswest)
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(...) You could try running ldglite in the background to give gdb control of the console. Try this on the command line: ldglite blah blah blah & Then attach the debugger. Or maybe in gdb try: r blah blah blah & It might help, but I'm not positive. (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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Now that I've got some bugs, I'd like to get into the code with a debugger. In particular, I am trying to set a breakpoint in the keyboard() method so that I may trace the execution of key commands. Id like to figure out why pg-up/pg-down refreshes (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I have tried all 4. The differences are subtle, I'm not sure I see them all. I like -le the best because I can see the entire model on each refresh. (...) I commented this out but it did not make the trailing go away. I can always get the (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: More on Stickers (was: Questions on Stickers and Certification)
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(...) I have only one printed part that looks like this one: (URL) by James Jessiman. The first occurance I know of for this part was 1998 (set 4222, according to Peeron). However, I also have several stickered 1x4s with a sticker matching this (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) There should not be. Which official parts are you thinking of? Chris Dee (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Right. The reason I used xxxxxxa.dat, xxxxxxb.dat etc. names. (...) Hm. Not worse than for the small unnumbered parts. We could also use 3-digit numbers. (...) The origin is now placed at the center of the backface. This make easy to align the (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hello! Damn.. i just realized it's explained very well in the LDraw FAQ ;)))) Shame on me ;) I read it so many times and still I didn't remember that part of the FAQ. Off to work ;) Carsten "Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam....away.com> schrieb im (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hey everyone - I spent this evening reconfiguring the Tutorials section on LDraw.org. Now the directory structure is in place for the Tutorials section to begin expanding :-) Each category - Tips & Tricks, Modeling, File Format Conversion, (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) What are you meaning by multiple syntax levels, Damien? (...) Let me report that LMPL is almost ready. It is going to be published soon. (...) LMPL contains these in theory. (...) Of course we should. (...) Well, this seems to be usable. In (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.lcd)
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I have read the article about LCD. The primary usage of an LCad library is to provide many quality virtual parts. So the future of LDraw library is more and better parts. The primary usage of an LCad tool is to select and position virtual parts. So (...) (23 years ago, 24-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.lcd)
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(...) If you don't mind code, you can take a look at the Inline1part function in the ldglite source code. I think the comment density may possibly be high enough to make it understandible. Enjoy, Don (23 years ago, 24-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hello! Maybe someone can help me. What is the procedure to inline a part. I am just writing a little program and i would like to include that feature. Do i just multiply the points of the to be inlined part with the referencing line? Someone can (...) (23 years ago, 24-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) running, (...) Yes, maybe. My original thought was to have both: ((URL) 0 Frame 000 ... 0 STEP 0 Frame 001 0 CLEAR 0 [Hip] 1 1 0 -40 -8 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 970.dat This way, some viewers will produce a series of BMP's. With just 0 CLEAR alone, (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Perhaps 0 CLEAR might be a better choice than 0 STEP for animation. (23 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Before you debug, I'd try all 4 of (-le, -ledit, -LE, and -LEDIT) to see which methods have problems. Then comment out this line in main.c and recompile: #define USE_OPENGL_STENCIL This might fix the wireframe droppings at the cost of some (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Here is the printout at startup. GL_VERSION = 1.1 APPLE-1.1 GL_EXTENSIONS = GL_APPLE_specular_vector GL_APPLE_transform_hint GL_APPLE_packed_pixel GL_APPLE_client_storage GL_ARB_transpose_matrix GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint GL_EXT_rescale_normal (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I forgot to mention this, but if you only want to look at the model, or *mostly* just want to look, you can skip the -le, -ledit, -LE, or -LEDIT on the command line. Then when you want to edit, just press the INSERT key to enter and exit from (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Some of that might be normal behaviour, but I'm not positive from the description. Using -ledit on the command line turns on the draw to current piece mode that LEDIT uses. If you just use -le I think it should draw the whole model. You can (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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Opps. I just noticed you do have -l3 there. I missed that. So, no, I have no idea what is wrong. I can test ldglite on some beige G3/300's next Monday. James (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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Try: ldglite -v3 -l3 -ledit myfile.dat -l3 tells it to do stuff different or something like that.. ? Anyway, it is alot faster for me with -l3 James (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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Hey everyone - Just threw this up online... (URL) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.events.brickswest)
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I have been doing an analysis of the ldglite 0.9.5 code base. Most of the ledit commands cause the image to be either invisible or render incorrectly. Also, I get a wireframe trail when I use the arrow keys. Everything re-renders fine if I cycle (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Reviewers should feel able to make comments like "subpart unnecessary - I would prefer these to be inlined". From an authors perspective, I have a preference to keep things modularised - that way a correction to a symetrical region of the part (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Tore Eriksson wrote: > In some cases, like attached to rounded surfaces, I think the only way is to > solve the problem is to create a part-with-sticker file. > I hadn't thought about applying stickers to rounded parts. I know there is a lot of (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I think this is an important point. Subfiles are *very* useful tools for modeling parts, but we should use them with restraint. I will frequently model a part using multiple subfiles, but then I will inline all the code into a single file (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) My take on this is that self-certification is a small perk for people who take the time to review *other* people's parts, and help newer authors along. (...) Generally, you should only certify parts that you actually possess. But if you find a (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes, there's a chance of that. Right now, the full codes (like on the cert page) aren't stored anywhere, they're rebuilt when the cert page is updated. And they're something of a pain to calc individually. Eventually, those codes will be (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | More on Stickers (was: Questions on Stickers and Certification)
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(...) From reading that thread, it sounds like the only reasonably solution to both the bleed and seam gap problems is to author the parts and stickers together. Problems with stickers as separate parts: Nomenclature: - 6 digits for the sheet ID (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi all, Though many of the programers will likely see this, I thought I'd forward it here just in case. Since getting LDraw tools on the Mac is an unpaid (and underappreciated!) prospect, the idea of winning one of the prizes below might be a bit of (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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Hello! (...) still (...) says (...) I agree to the point too.... we need more reviewers. There are like 5 parts in the line I did... and they are there for a long time. That isn't very satisfying. I know a lot of authors who are waiting for their (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I agree that authors should not be allowed to self-certify, but ONLY if we get sufficient active reviewers to keep things moving. The last three updates would have been much smaller without self-certification. Some new reviewers have become (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In some cases, like attached to rounded surfaces, I think the only way is to solve the problem is to create a part-with-sticker file. A sticker could be attached in many more or less creative ways, and I think the modeller should have the freedom to (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm currently working on modelling of the stickers of the Technic black Supercar. Before that I put some question in thread (URL) we agreed on the approach that stickers are separate parts just as they were ordinary bricks since, they can be (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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On stickers: Should stickers be treated, for part authoring purposes, as if they were printed on the parts? If so, should we indicate somehow that the part is stickered as opposed to printed? And on certification (on LDraw.org's parts tracker): I've (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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