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RE: Parts and Pattern
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Date: 
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:16:47 GMT
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John VanZwieten wrote:
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
Prost) wrote:

Nice. And had there been some result of the discussion?

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 appropriate.
The Numbers Committee would know.  Since there are
generally multiple stickers per sheet, each filename would
require a suffix to make it unique.

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.

I think 2D is enough: when you apply the sticker, just offset
it by e.g. 0.1 LDU (or even less) and it won't float noticeable.

And stickers should be modeled using linetype 3 and 4 only.
/Lars



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  Re: Parts and Pattern
 
Lars C. Hassing <lch@ccieurope.com> wrote in message news:57F1FE754246D21...@aarhus... (...) But LDraw novices won't be able to offset something by 0.1 LDU. I was using LEdit at least 6 months before I learned you could hit "x" and any number to (...) (25 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
  Re: Parts and Pattern
 
(...) And you won't be able to see it reliably. LDraw requires a positional difference of at least 2LDU to prevent co-incident surface bleedthrough. (...) That's an entirely different issue. Using line commands to draw lines on a sticker is (...) (25 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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