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(...) I got the same message a while ago, if you reply and say that you'll behave they will reopen your account. Leonardo (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: (Some) Parts which are in the update-pipeline
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(...) AFAIK steve this should go in update 2000-01, because the normal color #16 version is. (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Subparts for Black Falcon and Wolfpack Patterns ?
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(...) So this means that even if I had redone the torsos then they would have been wrong? (...) AFAIK yes. (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ldglite is now homeless
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(...) Why don't you set up an account at (URL) ? KL (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | ldglite is now homeless
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(...) Apparently the quick links to the latest zip files that I published in lugnet violated the geocities Terms Of Service by bypassing the homepage with the advertisements (or something like that). Oops! Don (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Help for povray needed!
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(...) There are a couple of ways around this. One is to write all the POV-Ray commands to a .BAT file, using the START command with its /WAIT option. After compiling all the needed files, run the .BAT file. Another way is to launch POV-Ray, then put (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | (Some) Parts which are in the update-pipeline
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As requested, here is a list of part-files which are in the queue for the 2000-02 update. These are files which were intended for 2000-01, but I either didn't have a chance to review them, or there was some hold-up in the process. Files which were (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: open source & inventory ?
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unfortunately, both sites seem to be no longer available. :-( (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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(...) Hmm. There's a couple of problems with your examples. In overdraw2.png, you are having the quad intersect the circle exactly at two vertices. If the quad was a bit narrower, you would need to split the two original triangles, retaining the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Comments on parts up for vote- Pt 1
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(...) No, it's a good thing to have a program to identify these things. Even though edges-only primitives can't be BFC'ed, I'm guessing there could be other advantages to avoiding singular matrices, and few disadvantages. Steve (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) OK, that sounds reasonable -- it's something that a clean-up program could look for, even though it's not practical for a rendering program to do the same. Steve (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Whew! Only one of those files is mine! :\ (...) True. (...) I don't think that's necessary. If a subfile is not certified, then the renderer will not apply BFC processing to the subfile. Besides, if having all subfiles certified was a (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Smoke-Clear color code (was: Problem with 1-4con1.dat)
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(...) I don't think there is a sanctioned color-code yet ... checking ... checking ... nope, nothing in the color table in the FAQ. Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Unless someone complains otherwise, the proper LDraw color-code for 'smoked-transparent', AKA (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: what is legos official view of ldraw?
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(...) I'd say it would be ok even then, imo. (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Syntax error in official part 754.dat?
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(...) There was a discussion about this awhile ago. Since LDraw will interpret these lines as subfile commands, the lines are syntactically correct. Badly formed, but not invalid. And 754.dat is getting fixed in the 2000-01 update! Steve (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi, I just noticed that L3Lab interpreted the following lines as real lines, not as comments: 01 16 0 -2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ring3.dat 01 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ring3.dat I sent a mail to Lars to notify him of this small "bug", but then it (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Subparts for Black Falcon and Wolfpack Patterns ?
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(...) errors. (...) common (...) these (...) let (...) Having now looked in more detail at the torsos, I will probably modify this proposal. On the torsos the _shield_ is a very different shape and scale to the shield part. The actual wolf and black (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I get ya. It is ok to make any lego part untill or unless TLG says otherwise. (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: the parts 754.dat and 756.dat in the 8.5L hose
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(...) Thanks for clearing that up! In that case, I'll submit the 756.dat I just posted to lugnet.cad.dat.parts to Steve Bliss. Since it is an improvement of an existing part, it shouldn't require a vote, right? Fredrik (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: the parts 754.dat and 756.dat in the 8.5L hose
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Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote in message news:qrd7lduwl4w.fsf....uio.no... (...) I updated the 754.dat to make it more realistic, but obviously failed to do so for 756. Feel free to improve the 756.dat! -John Van (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) AFAIK, TLG hasn't said anything officially regarding LDraw or its parts libraries. I believe LDraw as a freeware program is well within its rights to contain SW elements as well. They aren't making official statements about it (IMO) because (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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(...) I meant to say "no point _for_me_ to discuss anymore". Sorry for sounding harsh. (...) I still don't agree. But as I said (or rather meant to say, English isn't my primary language, so I sometimes goof) we probably don't need to discuss this (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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(...) I only used eight, to simplify the drawing, which was made by hand. (...) All I say is that the benefits from it overweight the extra effort. (...) Correct, Can't argue with that ! But this problem surfaces, due to the intrinsic polygonized (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Problem with 1-4con1.dat
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(...) I am using the color definitions from Anton's Lego library and these are the closest to real Lego colors i have seen. The only exception is black and transparent black that should be <0.2,0.2,0.2> Georg (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | what is legos official view of ldraw?
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What is the official view of lego on the ldraw rendering program and parts library? Does TLG have anything to say about the library? Is there anything that TLG would like us not to make and put into the library (e.g. some of the "star wars (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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(...) LDraw code? With a circular shape having 16 segments, not eight as in your diagrams. If you think that is simpler for the parts authors (or that it requires a "tiny extra effort") as compared to superimposing a quad and a disc (two lines of (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | the parts 754.dat and 756.dat in the 8.5L hose
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Hi, I've been working a bit with flexible hoses lately, and I've noticed an odd thing about the parts which make up the bent version of the 8.5L flexible hose. The part 754.dat (URL) used as a hose segment, about 50 of them go into a single hose. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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(...) Auch, another error? Thank you, Lars, I'll fix it and send it to Steve Bliss, hopefully making it to the next update. Fredrik (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Help for povray needed!
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(...) <SNIP> Thanks, this helps a lot, but now there is one problem left: MLCad first creates the dat file to be converted, than calls L3P to convert it into pov and than it executes pov-ray with the above statement. If you do that for multiple (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | L3Lab and BFC
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I have been very busy for the past weeks (tearing down a brick fireplace (real bricks :-) and a 20 feet chimney, painting ceilings and walls, the Sping has really put ideas into my wife's head :-), but last night I finally got some time for myself. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Some Words To BFC
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Steve Bliss wrote on April 6th... (...) The program should refuse to certify a part if not all subfiles are certified. (...) Agreed! We should not put any constraints on the authors. They may scale/rotate/mirror primitives as they wish (not (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Performance Improvement
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Damien Duquennoy wrote... (...) L3Lab draws a quad as two triangles. You can see this yourself, when you turn off dither-transparency and use true transparency. Because the two triangles share a side, the quad-division line gets drawn twice and is (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Damien Duquennoy wrote... (...) Your parts renders OK in L3Lab with BFC enabled. /Lars (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Comments on parts up for vote- Pt 1
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Chris Dee wrote... (...) "L3P -check" has always been able to spot singular matrices, simply because POV cannot handle them. L3Lab uses the same file parser as L3P (which BTW is public available in ldglite). However, L3Lab could easily render edge (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BFC: LITS 2
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Steve Bliss wrote... (...) Running "l3p -check" (checks all DAT's in P and PARTS) revals: SKIPPING "4285.DAT" Line 981: Singular matrix: 1 16 10 4 10 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1-4cyli.dat SKIPPING "6043.DAT" Line 17: Singular matrix: 1 16 0 20 -16 8 0 0 0 0 (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: open source & inventory ?
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Jonathan Wilson wrote... (...) Don Heyse has published source for ldglite, an OpenGL extension of ldlite for Windows/Linux/Mac using L3 parser/viewer at (URL) Zide has published the source for LeoCAD, see (URL) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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John VanZwieten wrote... (...) Yes, already made. I just need to update the colors. BTW, what is the LDraw color for the smoke-colored transparent SW cockpit (32?), and does anyone have a good POV color for it? /Lars (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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Thanks Steve for your great work. Beside the 476 bow-ties, the next L3P version would like to comment: WARNING "X44.DAT" Line 127: Identical to line 40: 5 24 0 -7 -6 0 -9 -7 2.68 -6.47 -6 -2.68 -6.47 -6 WARNING "X44.DAT" Line 142: Identical to line (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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