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Steve Bliss wrote... (...) "Hey, (...) But it *is* compatible with LDraw! You left out my example (which BTW had the INVERT placed incorrectly :-), so I'll repeat it. stud2.dat is the hollow stud used on technic bricks. It uses two cylinders: 1 16 0 (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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OK, we've been discussing how to best extend the LDraw language to allow rendering engines to do backface-culling. We've got a pretty good agreement on most of what is needed. I think it would be productive, at this point, to work from a complete (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi , at 19.10.99 Jonathan Wilson wrote in a mail: JW> The password is modelling (mabie that should be in the faq? Maybe. There I had realy not been looking for a password, my fault. JW> -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com JW> (URL) Joachim. (URL) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Several replies to CLIPPING / WINDING
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(...) No. With current files, you don't know, so you can't assume anything. (...) No, inversions are common. (...) Right. So non-wound-up files can't be backface culled. I don't see what you're getting at here. (...) But we don't get to specify what (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Several replies to CLIPPING / WINDING
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(...) This is a problem of the current design (the one beeing used now). You didn't knew in the past, because you didn't have the 0 INVERT meta-command. So you can only assume it' NOT inverted. If for some reason, it is inverted, then the old .DAT (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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