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Re: Thoughts on File Format for LDraw Animation
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Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:31:14 GMT
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Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> MPD does not help this in any way, because again, there is only part
> type (file name) and no instance name.
But as I said, if you put all instances, that need to be named, in a subfile
of its own you *have* named instances. It wouldn't be too difficult to write
a helper program (or add-on) that does this folding for you (creating a
subfile of selected parts inside an MPD).
> LDraw has no support for the naming of instances part usages.
Objection. The MPD format gives one way of doing it.
> I can think of a number of places where instance names would be a
> great help.
Sure. It's necessary for animation, but I don't think the LDRAW format
should be used for instrumenting the animation itself. LDRAW is a format for
describing static models. Period.
To give life to those static models we need more.
MPD gives us a tool for creating a hierarchical model inside the existing
LDRAW specifications, now 'all' we need is another program which can read
such models, let us specify time line(s) for movable parts, models, scenes
or a whole movie and send the result into POVRay (or Blender or whatever).
I don't see any big logical obstacles in that route, only hard work creating
the program, and of course, first creating the specification for that
program...
--
Anders Isaksson, Sweden
BlockCAD: http://web.telia.com/~u16122508/proglego.htm
Gallery: http://web.telia.com/~u16122508/gallery/index.htm
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| (...) Ha, ha, ha.... I had this long winded response argument all typed out, and then Mozilla died. Probably divine intervention. Let me try and see if I can get this one out with less energy. According to this specification: (URL) provides two (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) LDraw mixes part type and part name........ For library parts, we specify its part type (filename). For sub-models we specify its filename (same thing in both cases). In C++ we have classes, and instance of classes. In LDraw the names of the (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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