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Re: LDAO Suggestion Mark 2
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sat, 26 Jun 1999 02:24:25 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <377286a1.20085558@lugnet.com>...
> On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:30:18 GMT, "John Bauman" <jtb86@ptdprolog.net>
> wrote:
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> > Steve Bliss wrote in message <37714eef.19012626@lugnet.com>...
> > > On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 19:51:39 GMT, "John VanZwieten"
> > > <john_vanzwieten@email.msn.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > And say I'm working in my "Space" virtual directory and I create a model
> > > > called Ship1.dat. Does the actual Ship1.dat go into the /models • directory
> > and
> > > > have a LNK file put in Space? What if I'm then working in a "Sea" • virtual
> > > > directory and also create a model named Ship1.dat? Does the space • Ship1.dat
> > > > get overwritten?
> > >
> > > As I understand Jamie's idea, all model DAT's are physically stored in • the
> > > /models directory. So you could only have one Ship1.dat. When you tried
> > > to create a second file with the same name, the software should warn you.
> > Unless you use name mangling...
> > Why don't we just use real dirs, anyway. I'm sure ldlite, ldraw, and ledit
> > support it.
> > What programs do not.
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> LDraw and LEdit do not support other directories. Well, they do, sort of.
> They will look for sub-files in the following locations:
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> - ldraw\p
> - ldraw\parts
> - ldraw\models
> - current directory
oops, oh yeah
> The last search option is what allows most programs to run multi-file
> models from any location. For example, when a file is opened in LDLite,
> the program switches to that file's directory before rendering. So any
> local submodel files will be correctly located.
>
> But LDraw and LEdit must be run from the LDraw directory. So the 'current
> directory' search location doesn't buy them much.
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> I am planning on (and working on) using real directories, and making sure
> the LDAO & LDLite modeling combination work well in that mode.
>
> The only potential gotcha is with duplicate files. For example, if I make
> a variation of 3001.dat, and store it in ldraw\models, LDraw (and LDLite)
> will render the official version, not my variation. This is because files
> are always located by using the search paths first, and the first 3001.dat
> is found in ldraw\parts. A similar problem would exist if I used
> ldraw\models for some, then went off to a different directory, but some of
> the files in the new directory had the same name as files in ldraw\models.
> LDLite would render the files in ldraw\models. The only way around this is
> to always specify the path when referencing subfiles.
>
> Steve
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