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Steve Bliss skrev i meddelandet <375d108d.54167225@l...et.com>... (...) As far as I understand it, it's just the top-level windows that receives broadcasts. Of course, I could try to direct a message to a specific LDAO window, if you'd prefer that (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I program mostly in VB (or worse), and have only passing knowledge of Windows messaging. You'd broadcast a custom message, right? So all windows would receive it? Or just top-level windows? This is an interesting idea, but I'm not sure I'm (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Oh, right. Sorry. THAT IS AN INTERESTING IDEA. (1) :-) -- Terry K -- 1. Do I tend to over-emphasise things? (25 years ago, 8-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Hmmm. I wonder where the emphasis goes in that sentence.... Steve (25 years ago, 8-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) That is an interesting idea. -- Terry K -- (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Steve Bliss skrev i meddelandet <375bdf5e.3285247@lu...et.com>... (...) Well, there's always my LDList program, which can help you search in multiple categories (See blurb below). A CTRL-C copies the found line, and you can then paste into any text (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Basically what I've got are 3 different variants in one color, which I'm sure really isn't that uncommon... though there are 3 versions of the Fig. Blue, Maroon and Black. I've already talk to Terry about this, and I believe he's letting it go at (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I've occasionally tried to discuss this in relation to the 0 CATEGORY meta-statement, but I haven't gotten much response. Steve (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That would break the standard LDraw file-search approach, and would only work in LDAO. Since LDAO does very little work by itself, this wouldn't be very useful. (...) My idea was to have LDAO search model files (at least the ones not in (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) You mean the torsos in the vote are from the older forestman sets? I thought someone said that the maroon ones were from 6079. Oh well, nevermind then. :) I always thought they looked more red though... Jeff (...) torsoes. (...) looked (...) (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Three colors, you say? A red version (not in my possession, but claimed to exist) and a black version (illustrated on Fibblesnork) are with Terry for a future vote. Do you have red too? With blue and maroon this makes four. Any others? Chris (...) (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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6079 is the newer style forestmen.. these are the older original style, with more of a "gear" on their chest.. not the pointy "sprouts" on the Dark Forest figures. They are maroon.. among other colors as Terry and I have found out... I've got 3 (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) movement (...) I noticed something over the weekend about the maroon-collar Forestman torsoes. I was looking at the instructions for 6079 and the color of the collar is brown! This intrigued me, so I checked my minifigs, and the collar sure (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Since I'm using that bane to civilization known as VB, a lot of the Explorer-style interface is available, I just don't want to recreate the guts (new file, dragging-and-dropping files, etc). Unfortunately, it would make sense to do just that. (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Adding a closing tag (and unique ID) is a good idea, and something that should have been done from the start. It would solve the problem of identifying the chunk of code to reverse out, and restoring the original referencing file would be (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Well, it looks like there is a valid difference of opinion here about which format, and 2 are rather prevalent. I think we should continue discussing advantages and disadvantages and eventually vote on it. I would put my vote in for MPD if (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I thought about that, but I was concerned about the burden of differentiating between comments and random extensions to LDraw (ie, new meta-commands). Maybe LDAO should provide/maintain a list of known meta-commands? Then the Inliner could (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Did you get the changes to the way LDLite saves bitmaps that I submited about 2 months ago ? You haven't told me anything. Leonardo (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I've ported the Netshade ray-tracing program to Windows and sucessfully used it to render models based on the L3G0 library of parts. Most people use POV nowadays, but if you have some old files based on the Rayshade/Netshade version of the L3G0 (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I'll put in my two-cents: gzip'ed tar files would be an excellent replacement for MPD. And Winzip handles them OK. -gyug (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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The matrix math will not always invert, although if the matrix is a pure rotation (with no scaling or shears) the transpose of the matrix is the inverse. A better solution would be for the inliner to apply a start and a stop tag for each inlined (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Luckily, you have access to the LDLite source code. And it is the following lines near the top of stub.c: // replace pixels within tolerance to avoid rounding problems #define Z_LINE_TOLERANCE 2 // move lines closer to viewer before drawing to avoid (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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The best and easiest way to create minifigs is using LeoCAD's minifig wizard. Since it supports dat file format, transfer to the ldraw would be very easy, too. Selçuk Jamie Obrien wrote in message <37542a04.68492046@l...et.com>... (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) 44 is usually used for trans-orange. ASFAIK, none of the three-digit numbers are transparent, they're youst dithered. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (25 years ago, 6-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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yeh, I realized that after I sent the message. I started thinking "well if 4 clicks = 90º then that must mean that 2 would = 45º and half of that would be 22.5º Thanks anyway though. Are you working on the click plate?? I was surprised it wasn't in (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Thanks, but I thought that was supposed to be a trans-orangeish color. Am I wrong?? I haven't used that color in a while. I that's supposed to be orange, what's trans-orange? Ryan "Build or build not. There is no try." - Lego Master Yoda ***...*** (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) 22.5 degrees per click. -John Van (25 years ago, 6-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Cool. Thanks Lutz. -- Terry K -- (25 years ago, 5-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I agree. It would be nice to have the capability to do a 'clean' inline. -- Terry K -- (25 years ago, 5-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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The LDraw colour number for orange is 462, also supported by L3P. /Tore (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Gee, I'm just full of questions today, and I'm real glad you guys are willing to answer them. :) OK, we have a color list for Ldraw and Ldlite, but how about one for L3P. For orange in Ldlite you use 25, for Ldraw you use 4 because there is no (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Lately I have been having a problem with Ldlite. When I have a model highlighted in LDAO and then click my Ldlite button, it will open Ldlite, but not render the model. So I have to set all the options I want, and then go to file, open, .dat. Does (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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A couple of questions. First, How many degrees per click for the click bricks, etc. Second,could those of you who are working on these pieces please send what you have of them(as long as it's halfway decent looking) to me. I need these pieces for an (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi all, I have made a major update to my parts reference. Added the last updates to LDraw and also added all 8xxxx numbers as they are TLG numbers. I also added the newer colors like cyan, orange and the clear brown to L2P. Enjoy, Lutz (25 years ago, 5-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) This will be great! Would there be any way to add an option to leave out the file information comments lines of subfiles (or maybe just all comments) when inlining? If you use several levels of subparts when creating a part, then inline it, it (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Yup, they are the ones, on each half-cylinder - Chris (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thanks Lars and Jonathan. Like I thought, there was something out there that would help. James (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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