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(...) Good. Sarcasm will get you a Jedi mind-trick hand wave. :-) -- Terry K -- (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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(...) It just kept telling me something was wrong. I figured it was a server problem. Try it again later... (...) I always was able to FTP to Geocities. If that is changed, forget it. I won't go back to a clunky web interface doohicky. Speaking of (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Parts Update 9905
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(...) ARGGHH!!!!! Yes, it is in the update. How I missed it, I'll never know. Heck, I just copy and paste each image used in the voting into one large image. Duh! :-/ I will fix it asap. Thanks, -- Terry K -- (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thank you Terry for taking the time out of your busy schedule to give us this monthly bundle of joy :) Tamy (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: can parts authors try to finish what they have started?
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Thinks someone should really stop bitching about this. You've been told this many times, just to be sure this time... THE PART AUTHORS ARE NOT GETTING PAID TO DO THIS JOB. THEY DO IT OUT OF LOVE FOR A VERY COOL HOBBY. I personally am glad when they (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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If someone would like their well-done Povray rendered model displayed on the ldraw.org main page, please let me know. There will be a little paragraph describing LDraw and I feel it is appropriate to include a small image of a rather impressive (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) But realize the difficulty of some of the parts you mentioned. The canoe came up in discussion a while back as being difficult - look at it. The quarter saucer hull has to be another one. I am not a parts author and do not aspire to be. You (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: can parts authors try to finish what they have started?
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it is not the fact that there are parts unfinished it is that there are parts unfinished and the same author is making new parts (thinks insectoid legs and wings... thinks canoe... thinks quarter saucer hull... thinks oilcan...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) wow terry your alive! hmm its .... na i wont say it (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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(...) site (...) I sympathize with your plight. :-, It took me over two hours to figure out how to access Geocities' file mangler page due to the Yahoo! takeover. It didn't help any that I had a My Yahoo! account which seemed to be comflicting with (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: can parts authors try to finish what they have started?
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(...) Good thought. Perhaps that should be included in the concept of the parts tracker. I think that it would work well to be able to either team-create parts or make it so when one person gets stuck or loses interest someone else can pick it up. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) No, new projects are always more fun. :) (...) Forgive me, for I have sinned. I will do some classic train parts tonight, and then go through the Parts Tracker page. Tim Courtney wrote: (...) I don't consider the parts I have marked as "in (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I would agree with this myself. I'm looking for a part to use desperately in a model that someone has been planning on starting since the end of 1997. (...) But I don't agree with this part of the message. Please don't presume others have (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw Parts Update 9905
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(...) Connector with Axlehole" in (URL) Perhaps it should be added? I couldn't verify if it's in the update or not, since I don't have a MSDOS system here right now. Fredrik (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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Salutations, LCAD9905 has been uploaded to the server: (URL) that it is only there for now, as I couldn't get the Geocities/Yahoo site switched over yet. Profuse apologies for the delays, yadda, yadda, yadda.... :-) -- Terry K -- (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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can parts authors try to finish what they have started before they start new parts? i notice that the parts tracker lists lots of "in progress" parts and i have others such as the tie fighter bracket that are not even listed! one person in (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Stickers
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the way i name my "stickers" are simply 0 ~Sticker:Maersk Logo thats an example.of coarse there are litterally millions of stickers, official and unofficial custom. now the "~" is ment for subparts. and if you think bout it, stickers can be (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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one more problem with Version 2.1.0! when setting parimeters, ldraw doesnt comply to settings (25 years ago, 3-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That should be fixed now. Steve (25 years ago, 3-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm having major VEC problems, with pieces and categories not showing up. I'll be working on that... (...) Hmm. I'll fix that, too. Steve (25 years ago, 3-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Sorry, I biffed the HTML. The link should be OK now. This is odd, I don't *remember* having to redo that page after the first posting. And some people did manage to download the file. Odd. Steve (25 years ago, 3-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Stickers (Was: x740 Minifig Vest)
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(...) If we can figure out a standard for constructing, formatting, and naming them, no problem. As you said, the real value would be in high-quality renderings. I would just like to re-iterate that stickers *pre-applied* to pieces is a no-no. But (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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getting to the page is ok, but i click on the installation file and it comes up not found alternative options? T Burger that crazy marine (25 years ago, 3-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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It gives me a broken link when I click on the installer Steve Bliss wrote in message <37793e92.94991@lugnet.com>... (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Stickers (Was: x740 Minifig Vest)
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Oops. Gotta remember to check all groups before posting. . . (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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After I downloaded the new version of LDAO, I noticed one problem. In the VEC, the only piece that did show up was one that I had moved to a different catergory. It didn't tell me to update the Vec or anything, and all the images were there. I tried (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Terry K <legoverse@geocities.com> wrote in message news:377c79d9.335312...net.com... (...) update (...) how (...) be (...) the (...) as (...) I think we should allow stickers. Granted they won't look spectacular in LDraw or LDLite right now, but (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Mindstorm Part Numbers
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thinks... another re-numbering of the minifig torso :) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 3840p01 Minifig Vest with Danger Stripes Stickers (Was: x740 Minifig Vest)
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(...) I recall a long thread about this back on LCAD. I thought we agreed then that stickers should be treated as separate "parts", since they can in theory be stuck anywhere. It kind of got held up because sticker "parts" have only a very small (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Something to consider here is future expansion into a UNIX-ish (or Java, or Perl/TK, etc.) version of LDraw. The availability of setting startup parameters on the command-line in these cases is essential. (...) Oh. :-, I wonder if I'm a (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) One problem I have with the command-line option is that the command line is already long enough. But that doesn't mean that having the option is bad. (...) I was worried about the user more than the developer. (...) In VB, there's a function (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Definitely. (...) Both IMHO are necessary. I do all my non-LDAO (which is quite a bit) LDraw/LDLite stuff from the command-line. VC++ doesn't make it *that* hard to implement exotic command-line parameters, especially if one uses getopt(). I (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, I went and checked again, and you were right about Mover eating the first on each line of header comments. That's been fixed. I've *got* to make Mover do recursive corrections (ie, fix submodels). And directory-wide operations. Steve (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Yes, They were with 2.1.0, but let me just check... hmm doesn't seem to be doing it, maybe it was on the other one I was using, which was two before this beta. Maybe I was just confused. I was going between the two last night. I'd have both open and (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Mindstorm Part Numbers
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Has anyone tried this? This would be a boon to good numbers for LDraw. -John Van Robert Munafo <munafo@gcctech.com> wrote in message news:FE5sz6.Lu0@lugnet.com... (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Were the problems with Mover and Inliner in the new beta version (2.1.0), or an older version of LDAO? I checked the current code this morning, and both operations seem to work fine, in both \models and subdirectories of \models. The only problem (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Erk. I will check these. (...) OK, I will check these, too. The whole directory thing is probably going to keep popping up for awhile--previously, I was lazy, and used a lot of hard-coded "\models" as the location of files. Steve (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDAO Suggestion Mark 2
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(...) A definable search path would be good. Some ideas: 1. An ini-file setting. 2. Several ini-file settings, similar to the [Views] section. Let the user setup as many different ones as he wants, and pick one at render-time. 3. An environment (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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