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| (...) Yes, at least it makes a difference if the lines are drawn before or after the surrounding/contrasting color quads. LDraw (and LDLite) favor the earlier-drawn object, when two objects occupy the same space. Always draw edge-lines first. Steve (26 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) Is that so? I can't remember having read that in the FAQ. I'll make sure to sort the edges first, now that I know of this. Fredrik (26 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| As Fredrik pointed out, this is probably a FAQ item. Well, it's not specifically FA, but it is useful information, and anyone writing part-files should know about it. (...) (26 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| (...) I've thought about writing a function in LDAO to sort a DAT file by line-type: first the 2 (edges) and 5 (conditionals), then the 1 (may be edges, surfaces, or both) then the 3 (triangles) and 4 (quads). Steve (26 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| Is there already a button for this? It had odd results when I tried it long ago IIRC. -John Van Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:3741a8a1.208175...net.com... (...) (26 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) Agreed, and placed into my to-do pile. Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| (...) There's a Sort function, but it sorts by position, bottom-to-top, back-to-front. I put it there to help me transition models from the "adding pieces to the file when it's convenient" mode to the "present new pieces in order for other people to (...) (26 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| Steve Bliss skrev i meddelandet <3741a8a1.20817582@l...et.com>... (...) Is that safe for transparent pieces? I toyed a little with re-sorting some parts to 'outside-in' instead of 'inside-out' to make the drawing faster (minimize overdraw), but then (...) (26 years ago, 19-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) Order of drawing doesn't matter, except for coincident objects. For transparent surfaces vs. edges, it matters even less: the edge must 'show through' the surface, or the renderer isn't working right. LDraw and LDLite both display transparent (...) (26 years ago, 20-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| Steve Bliss skrev i meddelandet <37441788.505228@lugnet.com>... (...) Then the rendering *could* be speeded up by resorting everything 'outside-in'? (Smaller number of pixels to change) -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (26 years ago, 20-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) Yes, that reordering will render just fine. I don't know how much it will speed up rendering. It would be interesting to find out. Steve (26 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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