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Re: Part Numbering Crisis in LDraw
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Date: 
Sat, 27 Feb 1999 18:34:34 GMT
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Terry K wrote:

The problem with that solution is that we would then have the 4106548 hard
coded as yellow.  And when the tan version is released are we then going to
have another 410xxxx for it - hard coded to tan?
That may not seem like a big deal, until you think about using this method   > for other parts - parts that may well come in many colors.  Then, using that
method, we would end up with a lot of duplicate parts in different colors.
This would lead us down the road to having multiple versions of parts.  I    > would prefer to have one basic version of the part, color being              > user-selectable.

-- Terry K --

I concur.  Part of the beauty and flexibility of LDraw is that you can model
with parts in colors that those parts don't come in.  Once we start down the
road of having parts hard coded only in the color(s) they really exist in, we
limit our imagination, and end up with WAY too many part numbers to memorize.
--
Patrick Sayre-Little             | "Someday we'll look back on all this
wsayreli@polymail.calpoly.edu    |  and we'll run into a parked car."
http://www.calpoly.edu/~wsayreli | -anonymous



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  Re: Part Numbering Crisis in LDraw
 
(...) method > for other parts - parts that may well come in many colors. Then, using that (...) I > would prefer to have one basic version of the part, color being > user-selectable. (...) But it would be nice to at least have a .dat file for each (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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(...) The problem with that solution is that we would then have the 4106548 hard coded as yellow. And when the tan version is released are we then going to have another 410xxxx for it - hard coded to tan? That may not seem like a big deal, until you (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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