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Re: LDraw DAT format standard questions
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Date: 
Tue, 25 Apr 2000 05:04:30 GMT
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> Also, I was talking to Paul Gyugyi a couple weeks ago at his house and
> he mentioned that .dat would be a WHOLE lot better if the format could
> support smooth round surfaces, instead of having to rely on planes to
> simulate rounded surfaces.  Could something be appended to the format
> for 2nd gen editors to pick up on and utilize this type of feature?
> It would improve the quality of LDraw-based renderings tremendously.
> Thoughts?
> -Tim

Here is how this could work:
you make special curved primitives and parts that use the new syntax or
whatever, and place them in special folder (e.g. p\curved,parts\curved
etc) & compatible renderers use these rarther than the normal parts.



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  LDraw DAT format standard questions
 
Hey all... Just a couple questions on the .dat file format: Is there an official document somewhere which outlines the specifics of the .dat format for people as a reference? If there isn't, it probably would be a good idea to have one. Also, I was (...) (26 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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