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Re: What does a subpart with color=24 mean?
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Tue, 5 Sep 2006 20:22:45 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Mark Tarrabain wrote:
> Okay... that makes sense.
> 
> But what if the contrast color for the current file's main color is just
> an RGB value rather than a color index?   What should the subfile's
> contrast color be set to in that case?

In the case of some kind of direct color, I guess the rendering program is free
to do whatever it wants.  The simplest action would be to default to black
(either LDraw 0, or RGB #000000).

I'd be interested to hear what actual rendering programs do...

> Thank you for your help, by the way.

No problem.

BTW, it looks like most instances of "1 24 ..." in the parts library are
mistakes -- all primitives are coded to be used with color 16.  Sometimes,
people assume that edge-primitives need to be given the edge-color.

Steve



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  Re: What does a subpart with color=24 mean?
 
(...) Well, one that I have gives a warning message that says it can't handle color 24 and substitutes 16 for such lines. But I wasn't sure if that was correct behaviour. Another one that I've played with quietly accepts such lines, but appears to (...) (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: What does a subpart with color=24 mean?
 
Okay... that makes sense. But what if the contrast color for the current file's main color is just an RGB value rather than a color index? What should the subfile's contrast color be set to in that case? Thank you for your help, by the way. >> Mark (...) (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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