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Re: [Part] 3841.dat Minifig Tool Pickaxe
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Fri, 30 Apr 1999 10:21:31 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, John VanZwieten writes:
> Alright! A new talent!
>
> Your part is well done and complete, congratulations. This part would easily
> be voted in, so my furthur suggestions are just that, suggestions for • improving
> your "craft" as a part author.
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> First, when posting you parts to cad.dat, be sure to set your line width to • the
> max allowed by your software (132 for Outlook Express). A number of your • lines
> wrapped, so these lines don't show up in LDLite (they show fine in LDraw).
> This creates the embarrasing situation where someone looks at your part and
> says "What, are you blind? Half the handle is missing!" The hard thing for • me
> is to remember to set the width back to 79 before posting a regular post.
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> Second, as you do more parts, the more adept at using primitives you become,
> the better (and shorter) your parts will be. It looks like you inlined many • of
> the primitives you used (to make modifications, I'm guessing). This is fine
> for LDraw, LDLite, etc., but presents a problem for L3P/POV-Ray rendering. • One
> of the genuises of L3P is that it converts circle-based primitives directly to
> truly round equivalents in POV-Ray. If the primitives are inlined in the .dat
> file, no substitution is done, and the POV-Ray'ed parts end up looking
> "angular" rather than nicely rounded.
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> In your part this will show up mostly in two places, the handle and the top of
> the blades. I would suggest using a 4-4cyli.dat for the length of handle that
> is completely round. You'll still have quads where the handle slants toward
> the axe-head, but that won't be a obvious in POV. For the top of the blade,
> you might try a solution something like:
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> 1 16 0 -29 -10 0 -3 0 -15 0 0 0 0 -60 1-4cyli.dat
> 1 16 0 -29 -10 0 -3 -3 -15 0 0 0 0 -60 1-4cyli.dat
> 1 16 0 -29 -10 0 3 0 -15 0 0 0 0 -60 1-4cyli.dat
> 1 16 0 -29 -10 0 3 3 -15 0 0 0 0 -60 1-4cyli.dat
> 1 16 3 -29 -10 0 3 3 -15 0 0 0 0 -60 1-4edge.dat
> 1 16 3 -29 -10 0 3 3 -15 0 0 0 0 -60 1-4disc.dat
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> (This in not to perfect scale--I didn't check the actual length, height, width
> of the blade, but it should give you an idea of what I'm talking about.)
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> Let me reiterate that you did a great job on this part, especially considering
> it's your first! Comments are fine to leave in a model.
>
> Enjoy your visit to the USA.
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> -John Van
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>
Thank you, John Van and Terry for the valuable comments. It seems to me that
it worths to incorporate your suggestions into the part. I going to resubmit
it with the suggested fixes.
Ampi
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| Alright! A new talent! Your part is well done and complete, congratulations. This part would easily be voted in, so my furthur suggestions are just that, suggestions for improving your "craft" as a part author. First, when posting you parts to (...) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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