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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, (...) (25 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial? —Tim Courtney
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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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| | | | | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial? —John VanZwieten
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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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| | | | | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial? —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | send them to me and i will see if i can make any use of them. (25 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial? —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Jeff -- Please don't send anything to Jonathan Wilson. He has proven time and time again here that he is unwilling to create quality LDraw parts. You can peruse the history of this newsgroup, particularly in the past week, to draw your own (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial? —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | | | (...) I've been reading the Boards, so I understand the problem, and I wasn't planning on sending Jonathan the bitmaps (Nooffense Jonathan). Besides, he didn't e-mail me. ;) (...) Jonathan, For the most part I agree with what the others have been (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial? —Terry Keller
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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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| | | | | | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial? —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | (...) I used the BMP to Dat converter that is in Steve's LDraw Add-on. Is that acceptable? If not, do you have any suggestions on what I should use? Should I *not* be making the patterns as bitmaps (i.e. use internal shapes instead)? (...) That's (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial? —Terry Keller
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| | | | | (...) Nope. That is the bad boy, AFAIK. Actually, the people to ask about patterns are the ones that do good ones. One name that immediately springs to mind is Chris Dee. And there are many others. It is important to note the a good pattern has many (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial? —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | (...) Two things: 1. I would *recommend* using BMP2DAT (or any similar tool) only to generate a starting point. Get an initial DAT with the pattern, and then replace the pixel-commands with fewer, cleaner triangles and quads. 2. Some patterns are (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial? —Terry Keller
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| | | | | | | | (...) OK. I concede that is a valid use. As long as the part author has the intention and the skill to "do the right thing" and not just use the output to slap on a part. (...) Again, OK. You are right. I was pretty much expressing my knee-jerk (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial? —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | (...) I am wondering if there might be cases where a worthwhile approach would be to start with a raster DAT (that's the bitmap after 2DAT'ing it), and replace some or most (but not all) with vector commands. I think this approach may work on things (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial? —Chris Dee
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| | | | | | In lugnet.cad.dev, Terry Keller writes: <snip> (...) One (...) others. (...) <snip> Gee thanks - didn't expect that. I agree that bitmaps are only a starting point. For planer patterns, my technique is to draw up onto graph paper then transfer (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial? —John VanZwieten
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| | | | | | | (...) Very cool! Heads and helmets are two things I dread trying to do. I did entertain momentary thoughts about trying R2-D2, though. Some easy heads to start with: Luke, Biggs, maybe Ben K. The Dak head is the same one used by SPII (others too?). (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial? —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Dak is a plain smiley. :) Gold Leader is the SPII head (in my mind, it's the "generic space head"). Steve (25 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial? —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | (...) This head appeared in Unitron, Exploriens, and some other stuff which is currently eluding me. Steve (25 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial? —Ryan Dennett
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| | | | | | | | The Dak head from the snowspeeder set? It's just a classic smiley :) Ryan ***...*** REPLY SEPARATOR ***...*** (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial? —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | | as far as heads go, chris the head i want most is the robot head. some SW and ice planet heads would also be good. (i am replying to the mention that the preference of the community will influence the order that you do heads in). (25 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial? —John VanZwieten
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| | | | I can tell you how I've done patterns, such as the 2582p68. I always create the pattern in 2-D, even if I eventually will rotate it onto a sloped surface (though obviously this wouldn't work for rounded patterns). I lay out the pattern on a large (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | LDraw Script v 0.15 (Was: Part creating Tutorial) —Tore Eriksson
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| | | | You can have some aid from my little utility program, the LDraw Script compiler. (URL) is sparely documentated, what you have is at: (URL) yet undocumented features: LINE [POINT] P1 P2 ... Pn LINE END gives: 2 24 x1 y1 z1 x2 y2 z2 2 24 x2 y2 z2 x3 (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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