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Re: Parts and Pattern
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 31 Aug 1999 13:59:44 GMT
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Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:37cbd256.57550883@lugnet.com...
> On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 02:30:51 GMT, jprobst@shadow-corner.ows.es (Joachim
> Probst) wrote:
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> > Nice. And had there been some result of the discussion?
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> Yes.
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> Sticker-files should be just the stickers, not stickers-stuck-on-parts.
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> The numbers for the sticker files should use the ID number printed on the
> sticker sheet, but I don't remember if the long (7 digit?) or short (5
> digit) number is appropriate. The Numbers Committee would know. Since
> there are generally multiple stickers per sheet, each filename would
> require a suffix to make it unique.
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> The 'thickness' issue was never decided, I think. But LDraw doesn't model
> solid objects, so having thick stickers wouldn't offer many advantages. So
> just model the sticker in 2D.
I thought the consensus was to do the stickers in 3D, maybe 2LDU thick. This
would at least give a sticker a shot of being recognizable in LDraw, and would
make for better POV results than a plane floating somewhere above the model.
-John Van
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| (...) Was it? I couldn't remember. I've got an archive of most of the 'sticker discussion', but it's not on this machine. I'm sure I was a proponent of thick stickers. I reversed my position because LDraw objects are just shells, not solid 3D. But (...) (25 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) Yes. Sticker-files should be just the stickers, not stickers-stuck-on-parts. The numbers for the sticker files should use the ID number printed on the sticker sheet, but I don't remember if the long (7 digit?) or short (5 digit) number is (...) (25 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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