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In lugnet.cad.dev, Todd Lehman writes: <big snip> (...) Ldrawn models should be titled with a leading "m" as in m6889.dat. This might clear up some confusion. -John Van (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I don't feel this is cheating, so much as personal artistic expression. Karim Nassar was just nominated for CLSOTW in spite of using this tactic. I'd vote for him. It doesn't need to be an issue of confusing people into trying to find (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: fixed part: JW's parts
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one last thing. are you people trying to tell me that my parts can't be made up to scratch, no matter how much fixing i do? (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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1.what is wrong with my road curves? i am now making the curves with a sufficient number of segments to make them look good. (24 and 32). 2.i did some checking and the roadplate parts i posted posted to cad.dat are most definatly not the versions i (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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how accurate should the raised baseplate be? it is accurate to about 2-3 LDU in most cases. also i notice that the big part authors (steve bliss,chris dee, john vanzwietsen etc) are staying out of this discussion. is there a reason for this? what do (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: fixed part: JW's parts
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i have a large quantity of parts that as they stand there are no known problems with. all of them i will be sending to terry. the raised baseplate part is only the tip of the iceberg. i have lots of parts on my site that appear to have no known (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) What a revelation! (...) Then why do you push work you have done using 3d coordinate geometry when you know you are lousy at it and know you spit out crap? (...) most of (...) small (...) from (...) MY (...) I do not make parts myself. But the (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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i can understand that some of the parts i am constructing are crap. several things: 1. i am lousy at coordinate geometry especially in a 3d plane like ldraw. 2. i have no lego and the only person i know who has lego does not have most of the parts (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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i have examined the part form all algnes in both ledit and ldlite and have tried everything to do to fix the problem. what i am saying is that the reason the walls are not showing up is not a problem with my part file... i think that it ay be a (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Excuse me? Not your problem? If I understand this correctly, Ryan is saying that the walls of the plate do not appear in LEdit when viewed at some angles/scales. If memory serves me correctly, LEdit is the primary modeling tool used in LDraw. (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Drat! Sorry about breaking that feature. It's going to be a little messy to fix that back up. Sigh. Supporting startup files is breaking more things than I expected. Thanks for the bug report. -gyug (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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All, Events in the past few months has led up to the point where several typically cool-headed individuals have blown their tops. All this anger and frustration is aimed at one individual in particular, and is counter-productive. Recent lambasting (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) AUGH! I'm guilty of both types of cheating! Maybe you should allow the person searching for the parts to replace hard to find colors with easier to find parts? For example, I built all my Star Wars models in white (except for the snow (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Why don't you look for yourself. I:( Ryan ***...*** REPLY SEPARATOR ***...*** (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: baseplate 32 x 32 road curve with road pattern-9 studs
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(...) Of all the unmitigated gall. "Cracking"? Speaking for myself, you are a sanctimonious prig. Those of us that don't make parts (this includes you) appreciate all the effort and talent that goes into the improvement of Ldraw and it's library. (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Not knowing comics or cartoons (whichever..) I was not familiar with that...but sounds cool :) (...) Yes, so do I. Keep Building!! -Tim <>< (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 You've seen their sites and read their posts, now see their faces: (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Why don't you look for yourself instead of being lazy I:( Ryan ***...*** REPLY SEPARATOR ***...*** (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, it probably depends on whether it's an HTML tag or something else. I personally read it as Johnny Storm activating his Human Torch powers. Just a moment of levity. I totally agree with Todd about the more serious issues. (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In 3d view, they would be the back half. Is anyone else missing studs? Ryan (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: fixed part: baseplate 32 x 32 raised with ramp
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I don't know how rounded they are suppused to be, but if you look at it in 1x or 2x it looks sortof rounded. Ryan ***...*** REPLY SEPARATOR ***...*** (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldraw.org: Organization and look & feel
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(...) As far as MOC's go, I feel the same as you do. I am wary about releasing my models to another site that's author is not directly associated with Zacktron (there are a couple, but no models of mine displayed off-site yet). I have no problem (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ok. I will design it with both Verdana and Arial in mind. The last thing we need is another Times New Roman page on the web :| AACK! Thanx for the pointers about CSS.. Keep Building!! -Tim <>< (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 You've seen their (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I couldn't agree more. Even sitting on the sidelines of this thread I can see clearly that this is nothing but bull. (...) Correct. The baseplate looks like it wouldn't even make it into a Megablocks product line. To make that much of a stink (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: fixed part: baseplate 32 x 32 road curve-8 studs
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(...) No, not until you change your general bad attitude. --Todd (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) One option is that you could simply point people to: (URL) has the benefit that it will automatically recognize them and fill in their name & e-mail address into the form, so they don't have to type it in each time they post a file. Otherwise (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: new program to aid part making: ldraw circle creator
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Um, I don't think that's possible because I haven't figured out how to change line length yet :) I will look into it though. Ryan ***...*** REPLY SEPARATOR ***...*** (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) For official models, I really don't care where they're stored. As for MOCs, especially mine, there's my home page and then there's those I have given permission to. I sincerely feel that there should be an extensive review process for any MOC (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: fixed part: baseplate 32 x 32 raised with ramp
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(...) you mean that it already has the rounded edges? where can i see that? the one i have does not appear to have them. i cant see them. (26 years ago, 9-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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straight roadplate also like many of your other road plates, it's missing a fair amount of studs. missing studs? where? (...) i do not know why this is. this is not my problem. (26 years ago, 9-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) No -- those stay in some pre-chosen language, for example English. (...) Right -- (unless you do silent URL redirection, but then you would lose the advantage that the automatic language negotiation provides). (...) It certainly is nice in (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Looking at the other thread in lugnet.cad, it seems that there may end up being two model repositories (if not more...there already are several). --Todd (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ooh. That's an interesting one. One kind of "cheating" that won't confuse the system is using a color of a part that doesn't really exist -- a request for that part just simply wouldn't ever be fulfilled, similar to the way a request for a (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Indeed, this is the real problem, isn't it. <FLAME ON> Jonathan, you are a hack. You publish garbage parts, then you rely on the goodwill and talent of others to find your mistakes. Then you whine about it, rather than thanking people and (...) (26 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) But the URL's aren't translated then are they? Just the pages are, right? I think that's one of the things Tim thought would be nice- meaningful URLs in every language. BTW: has anyone taken a look at Altavista's "Translate" utility? IMO, it (...) (26 years ago, 9-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) any (...) mouse (...) list (and (...) sit (...) lists (or (...) WOW! I guess that means I have to stop "cheating" in my DAT files (ie, mirroring a wing or other left/right piece instead of using the correct piece) (...) core (...) amount of (...) (26 years ago, 9-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Please remember that you can define more than one type-face in HTML. For example: <FONT FACE="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica"> or in CSS: BODY { font: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif } That way the font should show up correctly for just about (...) (26 years ago, 9-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Good. I have absolutely no problem with using an existing database residing on lugnet.com instead of creating one from scratch. Its a good way to avoid redundancy, avoid redundancy. :) (...) exactly (...) Great! Could we make the upload (...) (26 years ago, 9-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Multilanguage support for ldraw.org (Was: Re: Ldraw.org...)
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(...) Heh :) Thanks for the offer, Secluk. It sounds nice, but as you said it won't be very helpful. I would like to keep the languages offered to a minimum, but am open to a good 5 or 6. This is so the navigation doesn't get cluttered. I think I'll (...) (26 years ago, 9-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: new program to aid part making: ldraw circle creator
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Ryan, Did you set your margins wide to post to cad.dat and then forget to set them back to 78 characters or so? I noticed you made a bunch of cad.dat posts lately, and I know I've forgotten in the past. -John Van SCOTT R DENNETT wrote in message (...) (26 years ago, 9-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) They do. When an HTTP client (e.g., Netscape Navigator) requests index.html, the HTTP server (e.g., Apache) sends back the data contained in index.xx.html, where xx is a language which matches a language in the list specified by the client. (...) (26 years ago, 9-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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