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Subject: 
Colors for pneumatic cylinder (was Re: Looking for broken pneumatics)
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Wed, 2 Feb 2000 07:26:06 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
"John Jensen" <skurt@vip.cybercity.dk> writes:

I'm working on modelling them for LDraw, and it could be nice to
know what they where like on the inside.

For parts like that, you don't need to model the inside of the part.
That is not required for it to be submitable to the LDraw parts
library.

Of course, if you _want_to_, it adds to the quality of the parts if
the internals is modeled!

I thought that much, but as you say, it could be nice:)
Now the to the colors of this part, there's three of them, how to handle that?
I've thought of making the yellow parts color 16 (I believe I've seen blue
versions of this part), and hardcode the black parts, but how to hardcode the
metal rod? Should I just use a color 7?

Regards
john Jensen



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Colors for pneumatic cylinder (was Re: Looking for broken pneumatics)
 
John Jensen: (...) From the LDraw FAQ: Chrome LDraw: 383 That should answer your question. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL: (URL) > -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
  Re: Colors for pneumatic cylinder (was Re: Looking for broken pneumatics)
 
(...) Hardcoding all colours except the yellow is probably the way to go. Just leave the yellow parts as colour 16 in case LEGO ever make the cylinders in other colours. Fredrik (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
  Re: Colors for pneumatic cylinder (was Re: Looking for broken pneumatics)
 
(...) Like Jacob said, the metal rod should be done as chrome, 383. To achieve maximum color flexibility, and to allow the plunger to be moved in and out, you'll need to use multiple files for this part. To let the plunger move, you'd need to use (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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