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(...) I kind of figured you had, but I totally didn't remember that you had. (...) Hmm. I wonder if the current 2447.dat was inlined at some point, because 1-4cyls2.dat hadn't been made official yet... (...) Yep. Or, you can copy the primitives to a (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) OK. I've temporarily ZIPped it to (URL). I'll leave it there for a few days, so you can grab it. Steve (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Oops. My bad. The bottom of the visor is a slanted half-ring, with a 15inner/17outer radius. I constructed this by overlapping the 1-4rin10 p-files, and skewing the Y value to slant the rings downward toward the front. But I used the same (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) True, this case isn't an example of coplanar, overlapping polygons. Good catch. But it is an example of what can happen when you take shortcuts that have no visible effect at the time. No offense meant to James--the number of parts he wrote (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Texture mapping spec? (was Re: Doing Patterns and Bitmaps in MLCad)
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(...) Sorry, Computing course at college showing through. (We were told try and specify EVERYTHING. Unfotunatly there is no concrete defintion of what EVREYTHING is.) (...) Agreed, but with the following questions? (Assuming simple rectangular (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Welcome - new part authors are always welcome. This is a frequently asked question, the following items on lugnet.cad.dev may help (and there are certainly other threads in this group with useful info) (URL) this helps. Is you have questions, (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) No. Chris (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: an unusual request...
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(...) pieces (...) the (...) on (...) Yes 6029 - Chris (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.pirates)
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:gi1arsoj23ml4du...4ax.com... (...) new (...) using (...) renderings (...) better (...) This is true. I just finished getting LDView's primitive substitution working for the quarter sloped (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Whoops, forgot the original point of my message: Thanks, Steve! --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Boy, talk about timing. I'm currently in the process of adding primitive substitution to LDView, and the ?-4cyls* primitives were next on my list. However, while I could definitely tell they were different (one slope appears concave; the other (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:oekarsonpfetb7s...4ax.com... (...) I tend to agree about putting it all in 2 separate commands. However, I don't think a position vector and orientation matrix are appropriate. A texture is (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Axel Poqué has already submited an update for this particular part. I've been giving it a "second opinion" adding a fix for the ghost lines mentioned above. In my opinion this part isn't an example of overlapping faces. What happened in the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Yes. Just had a look through my sprue bag. Neither the 'plume' sprue nor the 'dragon' sprue have a number, though, as previously observed. On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Steve Bliss (<n4karsgppt6mu2o2dn...j87esd@4ax .com>) wrote at 20:01:33 (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) [snip] Urg. Why so wordy? Just do: 0 TEXTURE <position vector> <orientation matrix> <filename.type> [START <standard ldraw commands go here> 0 TEXTURE END] The <position vector> and <orientation matrix> parameters are identical to the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Cool! We needed the number for the cattlehorns piece, in the current vote. :) Can anyone else confirm this 6029 number on the horns'n'headdress sprue? Steve (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Yes, please. Fixes and improvements are always accepted! (...) Great! One more comment (to everyone, not Dave) about overlapping rectangles, and why not to use them. When this approach is used simply as a shortcut so the author doesn't have to (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:G0ALp7.7D9@lugnet.com... (...) tag. (...) polygons. That sounds good to me, at least in this case. Since the overlapping polygons are the same color, they shouldn't cause any rendering (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: It's all clear now... (how to use 1-4cyls2.dat)
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(...) Thanks for explaining this again Steve - I am sure I tried to explain this when I created this primitive in Oct 1998. But it is really hard to get ones head around - it took me some time playing with the *cyls.dat files before I realised I (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) tag. Happily, the "bad vertex sequences" were easier to fix than I anticipated, and the part now seems to pass the L3P check-test. I'll resend it to you, if you'd like. Other than the correction, the part is more-or-less identical to the one (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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