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(...) Sure. BTW, do you use the Bounding Box and model center info at the end of the POV file ? /Lars (26 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Minifig torso subpart (was suggestion for roadplate like parts)
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(...) I absolutely agree to this. 9326-4t.dat does not belong in \parts. Hmm... how many are there? Little over a dozen? Yeah, I could do that. But I might be lazy and just leave it with the same file name. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] L3P Question
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(...) Understood. :-) I usually hack the heck out of the resulting .pov file anyway. Which reminds me, would it be possible to add an option to L3P so that it produces just a basic model file, no camera or lights, to use as an include file in a (...) (26 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New LDAO - Temp Location
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I could give it a shot. Why not. Don't shoot me if I don't remember to do it. :-) But I will add it to the checklist. -- Terry K -- Guess I better actually _look_ at the date touching utility now. (...) (26 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Non-TLG Parts
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <3715f8f5.7183451@lu...et.com>... (...) In this case, the difference can make a world of difference. (...) and (...) Again, Steve, I'm sorry when I wrote the above my mind was thinking about the problems I'm having (...) (26 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: suggestion for roadplate like parts
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there are other plates with more than one pattern: e.g. the 7-stud straight roadplate (comes in shuttle landing pad,airport runway plate,road plate). (26 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial?
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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). (26 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Domain Registration
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i converted it from mac ttf to windows ttf using a program i found. (26 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes: <snip> (...) Well actually ..... I have done the specific case of minifig heads in Excel, but the code is currently a bit too experimental to share. It requires that the flat image-DAT has already been split at (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hmmm.. Well, it does sound like an attractive option for file size, but IMO its too early since a lot of people still run 3.0 browsers. And IE5 hasn't been out that long. I just got it a couple weeks ago. If most IE users won't be able to see (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Minifig torso subpart (was suggestion for roadplate like parts)
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(...) Actually the minifig torsos are an atypical example, I think, since the "subpart" (9326-4t.dat) is still in the Parts directory. For more recent decorated parts we have utilised the \S subdirectory. Does anyone have any objections if we move (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: suggestion for roadplate like parts
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(...) 9-stud Straight Road Plate: --Green w/Airport Runway --Gray w/Road & Crosswalk --Gray w/Road, no Crosswalk 7-stud Straight Road Plate: --Green w/Airport Runway, 16 Stud width --Green w/Airport Runway, 18 Stud width --Gray w/Road & Sidewalk (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial?
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The Dak head from the snowspeeder set? It's just a classic smiley :) Ryan ***...*** REPLY SEPARATOR ***...*** (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Foundations (Was: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings)
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"Incorporated" is abbreviated "Inc." "Corporated" (I think) is abbreviated "Co." So why not abbreviate "LDraw Organization" as "LDraw Org." "organization" seems too long to say anyway. (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I didn't intend it that way. I was just pointing out that "Foundation" doesn't have to mean a charitable organization. (...) I _definately_ didn't want to imply that. :) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial?
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(...) This head appeared in Unitron, Exploriens, and some other stuff which is currently eluding me. Steve (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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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 (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) No problem. I'm glad it was useful. I had to make a formatted spreadsheet for my own use. Until I had this thing, I would spend half an hour re-deriving the formulae, then typing it in, then making corrections to what I typed. I'd do this (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [Newpart] - #2871, Electric Train 9V Motor Decorative Side
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(...) i agree completely... once again, i have had *enough* with this person.. can we *please* unify to purge him from the group(s)... i know Todd is aware of our dilemma and very much on our side... JW is in no way conforming to what i feel is the (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Domain Registration
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(...) Oh, I agree with most of what you said, and ultimately it is your money. I guess I just have a problem with spending more money than necessary. We put in an order for office supplies from this place we have a contract with, a place that will (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [Newpart] - #2871, Electric Train 9V Motor Decorative Side
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(...) Not polluting at all, imo, but I'm removing it from the list. (...) Why did he cross-post it? Same reason he posted it in the first place - to whine and try to deflect criticism of his poor quality work and bad attitude. Does anyone really (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: suggestion for roadplate like parts
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(...) That's a good general suggestion for patterned parts. Some parts are already set up this way -- the minifig torsos are one example. I don't think there are any baseplates where there is more than one patterned element for any one basic (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Utility Spreadsheet
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Thanks a bunch for this. If I had a nickle for every time I've typed in formulas to interpolate a line . . . I especially like the plane/line intersection sheet. I used it to compute the edge lines for right-angle intersection of two different sized (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New LDAO - Temp Location
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Ooh, I like it! Would you do a separate date for the voting files? -John Van Terry K wrote in message <371537a8.6603130@lu...et.com>... (...) thought (...) version (...) easy (...) flag, (...) all (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial?
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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?). (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Non-TLG Parts
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(...) I don't need the part, I just remember it was a part that came up during a discussion on whether part-variations were important or not. (...) To be perfectly serious, for this part, I'd copy the existing 4081.dat and modify it. The only change (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Non-TLG Parts
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <37159959.67882274@l...et.com>... (...) of (...) in (...) Sorry, Steve, I should have read the message more carefully, but I'm not functioning at 100% this morning. I haven't considered putting the 4081 "old version" up (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Is there a Part creating Tutorial?
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Non-TLG Parts
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----Original Message----- From: Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: lugnet.cad.dev (...) It's not complete in respect to Type 2 and 5 lines. The conversion program works, but the modeler I use refuses to output lines into a DXF or VSA (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: suggestion for roadplate like parts
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jonathan wilson wrote in message ... (...) Jonathan, could you do me a favor. Could you please proofread your messages just a small amount before you post? I normally can filter the message, but this morning I'm suffering from something that has my (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Shockwave Flash
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Tim Courtney (tcourtney@avenew.com) wrote: [...] (...) Netscape 4.* and MSIE5 supports PNG, but I am afraid it's only non-transparent images it handles correctly. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Domain Registration
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(...) good. (...) macs at (...) I grabbed that macintosh theme and took a look at Charcoal. It is a nice font, thanks for suggesting it. I am working with a font called Fudd right now for the text, it is sans-serif and works beautifully for what I (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: lugnet.cad hierarhcy
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here is what i think we should have under lugnet.cad: lucnet.cad. leave as is. lugnet.cad.dev. create new groups: lugnet.cad.dev.parts for discussions related to parts and parts making. lugnet.cad.dev.page for discussions related to ldraw.org (both (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I do have the capability of using PNG, but I am wary about browser support for them. I do remember when you brought up the topic two years ago on the Minifig World Tour that there was little browser support for it. Does IE5 and Netscape 4.7 (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | RE: [ldraw.org] L3P Question
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(...) Sorry, I didn't mean to jump at you. I just opposed to changing an existing pov file's camera data, since these are carefully computed taking the model into account. /Lars (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Terry K (legoverse@geocities.com) wrote a long but clear description of how part numbering and naming is going to be in the future. Good plan! Clear description! [...] (...) Yup! Thanks to Joshua, Steve, and Terry for working this out. Play well, (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | suggestion for roadplate like parts
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i have a suggestion for patterned baseplates e.g. the roadplates. how about taking each plate and making a subpart with the studs and baseplate itself, just missing toe top surface and then have the main part reference that subpart. then any (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [ldraw.org] Domain Registration
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i have a font that might be of use. it is called charcoal. it might look good. it is the mac system font from mac os 8.0 but i ripped it off from the macs at my school (where i no longer go because i am now at uni) and converted it to windows TTF (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: parts DESPERATLY wanted (steve: please read)
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also what the F**K is part 32059? where is it used? also if the part you have made is the one i said i think it is then are you planing to make the t-junction? (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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