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Re: Thoughts on File Format for LDraw Animation
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:17:46 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Anders Isaksson wrote:
> > 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.
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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.
Um, I'm not sure this has been worked out...
I think James was saying that the subfiles in an MPD can be treated as the
'name'. This is true, as long as you also require that each subfile only be
used once.
So a file like:
0 FILE test1.mpd
1 15 0 -24 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 block1
1 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 block2
0 FILE block1
1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3010.dat
0 FILE block2
1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3010.dat
0
Would have 2 named objects, block1 and block2.
Nested objects (ie, subfiles using other subfiles) are OK, as long as each
subfile is only used anywhere in the whole model.
This approach is attractive, because it doesn't require any extra syntax or
meta-statements. But it might not be practical -- it would be a pain to have to
create a new set of minifig subfiles for each character in a crowd scene.
Steve
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| (...) That's a very good idea I didn't think of! The approach I was thinking of is unnecessarily complicated. Looks like there will be no need for the tags I mentioned earlier. No pain at all. I think all current minifig generators can be easily (...) (19 years ago, 27-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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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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