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Is there a Part creating Tutorial?
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Mon, 12 Apr 1999 21:11:16 GMT
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Hi Everybody! This my first Intentional post to this group, and I hope it is
in the right place.
I was wondering if there was an LDraw Part Creation Tutorial. I made some
bitmaps of Starwars decorations, and I'd like to make them into actual parts,
but I need to know how to make the rectangles that form the blank surfaces.
Thanks!!
Jeff
P.S. If anyone is really good at making decorated elements, e-mail me and I'll
send you the images.
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Message has 4 Replies: ![](/news/x.gif) | | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial?
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| (...) is (...) parts, (...) AFAIK there isn't any right now, but you do bring up a good point. I think that a parts tutorial would be very appropriate for ldraw.org, if someone wants to write one. I will be able to start site design in Photoshop and (...) (25 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| There are part creation tips in the Ldraw FAQ, but a specific tutorial does not exist. To directly answer your question, a quad takes the form: 4 16 x1 y1 z1 x2 y2 z2 x3 y3 z3 x4 y4 z4 4 is the line type, 16 is the color, and then the 4 points (...) (25 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) heya, Jeff. :-) Not any formal document. (1) But I do have one _very_ important suggestion: Do NOT use BMP2DAT for transforming bitmaps to ldraw code. It was a nifty little tool when first introduced, but it does not produce acceptable (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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