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(...) I have done something like that for LeoCAD, it removes the studs above and below the bricks and plates for the rendering. I haven't added this option for the POV-Ray export but that's something that I can do if you want. Leonardo (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) JPG is NOT lossy, i.e. it's NOT required to be lossy, it can be defined to be 100% accurate ! (...) Actually I think that the best format is the GIF format, due to the type of compressing it uses and our specific renderer used for the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Argh! Didn't think of that... :o/ /Tore (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Tore Eriksson <tore.eriksson@mbox3...wipnet.se> wrote in message news:38DE84F4.380C9D...pnet.se... (...) only those standard bricks, plates, and tiles (...) could be a way to free up some resources for (...) somehow, and I don't know exactly how (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) colour < 47) ), interior can be skipped. Of course you mean above the lower edge relative to the parts current orientation. That would require taking the transformation matrix into account. -Chuck (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) For basic bricks, slopes, plates and tiles, one could simply remove the studs and then make the simplified part as the bounding box of what remains. This could probably be automated. If one want more details, the studs could be added again (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) You mean something like: 0 Brick 2 x 4 0 Name: 3001.dat 0 INTERIOR BEGIN 1 16 20 4 0 1 0 0 0 -5 0 0 0 1 stud4.dat 1 16 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 -5 0 0 0 1 stud4.dat 1 16 -20 4 0 1 0 0 0 -5 0 0 0 1 stud4.dat 1 16 0 24 0 36 0 0 0 -20 0 0 0 16 box5.dat 4 (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Tore Eriksson suggested... (...) IMHO this should not be limited to POV. If the simple parts were made in LDraw syntax, you could speed up Datsville in L3Lab (and others viewer) too! See also (URL) about finding those parts suitable for replacment, (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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How about making a library of very simplified standard pieces and replace only those standard bricks, plates, and tiles that are not clear and have no studs or bottom visible? I know there are some difficulties yet to be overcome, but I think this (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ups, I thought I had the entire cad.dat.parts on my computer:) (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Which pics? The ones in the ldraw\vec directory? Or part-images in general? Png is a good format, but still not very widespread. LDAO reads bmp 10x faster than anything else, and doesn't recognize png. I usually do gif for web stuff, and (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I searched .cad.dat.parts for 30248. Jaco posted a partial file about 4 weeks ago. See (URL) Steve (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi there I have here on my desk a part from the "rapid rider" of the rock raider series (can't remember the set number) it is also used as landing gear in various small helicopters, and have the shape of an "H" only with double connecting "bars". It (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I have been working on the large pneumatics cylinder, but it has been boring me for a while, and I don't need it right now, so I'll put it on the shelf for a while. If anyone wants to continue, I'll gladly hand over the little I have on it. (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes: <SNIP> (...) I've been meaning to ask about image file formats for a while now. What are the preferred file formats for these pics? Right now I have ldglite dumping png files since they're true color, fairly (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I got around this problem by converting all the images from ldraw\vec to gifs in ldraw\lcat\images. Steve (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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[moved to lugnet.cad.dev] (...) use, I think. When I tried to run lcat, the continual re-launching of LDLite hosed my system. I'm running Win98.2, with a 1600x1200 display. I got through 977 parts beore total lockup, but my free system/user (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes: <SNIP> (...) <SNIP> (...) MLCad documentation about meta-commands is available in the MLCad help files, included in the program package itself. Michael (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I think this goes back to the discussion (from last week, I think) about the MPD format, and if it does everything needed, and if there should be changes to it, or a new file format. To handle nested files, and sub-mpd files, I'd go for a new (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) CMDLINE is intended to document 'suggested' viewing defaults for a file. So if you make a model that should be viewed from the bottom, at 50% scale, with blue as the main color, you could add those settings to a CMDLINE statement. Right now, (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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