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(...) You know, these wouldn't be so hard to do... I've already made files with line-drawings of all the numerals. Just need a hyphen, and (I think) an L and R, and we're good to go. Steve (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Lars C. Hassing wrote in message (...) Geez, Lars, ( smacking my head with a very large blunt object ) I hadn't thought of that one! Oh, well, back to the drawing board. Thanks for the idea it may save me some debugging time. Roy (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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jonathan wilson wrote in message ... (...) on (...) Some POV Ray libs can render the logo on the studs and round the edges of the bricks, but I usually render without these, mainly because my renderings will never likely be that close up, but also (...) (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Terry K wrote in message <36d4f44c.3127860@lu...et.com>... (...) about is (...) have (...) by (...) you (...) This is certainly true, but with some research dimensions can be determined by comparison with known parts via this very discussion and (...) (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi x996 / x998 Do the 1 x 8 light bricks really look like this - what set are these from. On the Blacktron II Base the two 1 x 8 light bricks are identical with the lights midway between studs - and the studs have hollow tops. Chris Dee (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thank you for your effort Terry. Here are some comments from "l3p -check". /Lars WARNING "2552.DAT" Line 479: Identical vertices: 2 24 -150 0 10 -150 0 10 WARNING "2621.DAT" Line 204: Identical vertices: 4 16 36 8 -66 40 8 -63 36 8 -66 33.78 8 (...) (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) 71427.dat Electric 9V Mini-Motor uses box3#8p.DAT (Note the p!) /Lars (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes, there is a huge amount of studs hiding inside other bricks. Anybody got an intelligent algorithm? This would be applicable for LDLite too and save a lot of unnecessary rendering. However, watch out for transparent bricks... /Lars (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) POV-Ray certainly requires a LOT of memory when using the L3P -q3 option. Parsing time increases very much. However, the rendering time isn't that much longer as one could have feared. Probably because POV-Ray has some efficient internal (...) (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes, but from the LDraw triangles and quads alone it requires some heavy analysis to decide whether to add or subtract the small offset. I think we have some patterned inverted slopes... /Lars (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) No. I should have been more specific: If two surfaces coincide, the viewing ray will due to small numerical inaccuracies sometimes hit the one surface first and sometimes the other surface first. If the surfaces are colored differently (...) (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) Why thank you =) (...) Indeed - I've got a guitar tabulature editor written entirely in Java and it runs as happily on a Win32 box as my friend's Linux box and apparently another friend's Mac. Rumour has it (...) (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I am not worried about part numbers on the parts. What I am concerned about is the overall accuracy of a part that is modelled from a picture. If you have followed l-cad for any time at all, you recall much discussion about part dimensions. (...) (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Perhaps because it would be too small to resolve clearly when rendering - and would add greatly to rendering times. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, "Pattern" just sort of became a standard way of identifying a patterned part. "Logo" I think should refer more to a specific type of pattern. Necessary? I don't know. But I seem to be blindly following the convention. (...) In a perfect (...) (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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what ever happended to the flexable hose generating spread-sheet? did it get finished? is it avaliable? where can i get a copy? (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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does anyone have the baseplate 32 x 32 raised with ramp as a real bit of plastic? if so could they please tell me the arangement of studs in the "pit" in the middle so I can fix my part (when i fix this i will remove the needs work tag) (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) i had lego when i was young but i do not have any internions to buy lego any time soon because if i got back into it it would cost a fortune. also regarding the details noone has modeled the small imprinted lego logo on parts (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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onyx wrote in message ... (...) Well it sounds like a great addition to Ldraw utilities. Good work. Just wish I could use it myself. Roy (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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jonathan wilson wrote in message ... (...) battery (...) My thought on that would be yes if the part can be opened or exposed somehow in the model it is used in. I've actually been trying to come up with a program that with strip the unexposed or (...) (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Terry K wrote in message <36d4980d.635296@lugnet.com>... (...) don't (...) you (...) having (...) Geez, Terry, its all relative. I've yet to see anyone try to model the few imprinted part numbers there are. Besides, if we start getting too picky (...) (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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i deliberatly chose simple parts such as the magnifying glass and the crystal ball. also i will consider borrowing parts. (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) don't (...) i have been using the instructions from kl.net, catalog pictures and pause magazime set guide as ny main source of information. they seem to work. for examlpe take my raised baseplate. it is now completely fixed. i have build kings (...) (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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[followups set to lugnet.cad.dev] (...) Steve! Whoa, heavy....like...WAY COOL IDEA!!!!! How come nobody's ever suggested this yet? (Or have they?) I mean, forget all about making a Mac clone of LDraw or any other specific platform -- even Linux -- (...) (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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well, i completed all of my goals to release MAX2DAT as version 1.0. the converter now handles both 3DSMAX 1.x and 2.x ASCII file formats... i cleaned up some of the face/edge creation with culling routines to avoid redundancy... it seems to work (...) (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I apologize in advance if I missed the discussion on this, but is the word "pattern" at the end of lots of the parts really necessary? It seems rather redundant. Especially in parts that already have "logo" in their names. Also, maybe the "needs (...) (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Steve Bliss wrote: <snip> (...) If we were using the correct brick code, this would be white. Since we're instead using the xxxxPyy code, it can be anything the modeller wants. IRL, the element has appeared (at least) thusly: 1x2 Brick: White, Green (...) (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) !! Really? How do you expect to be able to accurately model pieces into LDraw if you don't have them? I can understand maybe real simple pieces, but some of the pieces you have attempted have been of complex forms. I find it difficult to (...) (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) it is white. the text uses quads. (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) i do not know that either. but making the false bottom would take me alomast as long as making the baseplate itself would. (...) some town sets, some divwers sets. it cmoes in town jr police station i think (...) no the part has only ever come (...) (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) What about the Wheels category? That is the major function of the part, after all. (...) I think it's white in real life. I didn't check out this part yet, but does it use quads or lines for the 'text'? Quads will scale better and also convert (...) (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Since this was posted to .cad instead of .cad.dev, here it is again: (...) There is the word "LEGO" on the studs... we could orient pieces so that "LEGO" is right-side up when seen from the front 3/4 view (for pieces with studs up, of course) (...) (...) (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) But in POV-Ray you can always add .000...0001 to the y value of the lower surface to make it render correctly (Which makes creating simple scenes much easier). --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (...) (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) In real life the joins between the curved surfaces are smoothed. I approximated this by drawing the cylinders, but missing out the junction lines you refer to. It is a tricky part to model accurately and has no possible use (IMHO) except (...) (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I didn't vote yet, pending the authors responses to my comments. Chris (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Correcting positioning and rotational errors can be done when/if a part renumbered. Which doesn't really happen all that often (it just seems like it). Steve (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I can understand that -- those thin-wall parts with decoration drive me crazy, because the decoration isn't visible in the default view. (...) I thought about Electric, and I'd be OK with that. (...) I followed the naming precedent from #2625, (...) (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I wondered about that? Is it a problem if the surfaces are the same color? I'm asking because (a) I've used mono-colored coincident surfaces before, and (b) I'm working on one now. The O in the Octan logo is round on the outside, but oval'ed (...) (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <36d42e85.12776501@l...et.com>... (...) You are correct. I designed it this way so people could see the pack when viewed from the front, but for actually placing it on a minifig it should be turned around, like the (...) (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Here are some notes on pieces I've looked at. I'll post more after I've looked at the others. I'm not claiming I've done a complete review of everything, just looked at some parts in different views, scanned the code for obvious anomolies. Steve (...) (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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