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I forgot to mention. If you are examining a piece, it is usually much easier to determine surface characteristics (or flaws) if it is opaque. --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Gappy Spheroids?
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"Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:G0HFCH.Dz9@lugnet.com... (...) L3Lab, (...) an (...) occuring (...) it's (...) the (...) of a (...) You're right; it's hard to see. In fact, I can't see it at all, but I'll take your word for (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 6216.dat (mock-up) - "brick 2x4x2 rounded triple"???
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(...) D'OH!!! But I *checked* -- uhh, waitaminit... I checked for "30237", the *other* mock-up I did, I *forgot* to check for "6216". :-P Tore, I'm sorry. :-( "Mea culpa." Thanks, Franklin (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 6216.dat (mock-up) - "brick 2x4x2 rounded triple"???
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(...) When Tore submitted this part for release, he called it "Brick 2 x 4 x 2 Curved". Steve (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I suppose I could have been more specific in my explanation. The gaps aren't occuring between my approximate curve and a primitive; they're occuring at the joints between facets of the approximate curve. An example of the faceting can be seen (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Texture mapping spec? (was Re: Doing Patterns and Bitmaps in MLCad)
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(...) This is what I meant by nested textres.- sub-textures. (...) You are right, I was wrong. However a more complex texture could be built up from simpler ones.(I.E No top level texture The sub texture being made up from simpler 'bitmaps') - This (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Color problem with 4522 (Minifig Tool Mallet) [DAT]
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Part 4522 (Minifig Tool Mallet) has two 1-4cyls2 primitives which are set to be color 1(blue) instead of color 16, like so: 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 -4 0 -2 0 4 0 0 1-4cyls2.DAT 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 -2 0 4 0 0 1-4cyls2.DAT This isn't part of the current parts (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Gappy Spheroids?
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"Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:G0H8D0.n04@lugnet.com... (...) methods (...) "facets" of (...) even (...) curve; (...) I'm not sure I understand what you are saying completely, but I'll give an explanation based on what I (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Texture mapping spec? (was Re: Doing Patterns and Bitmaps in MLCad)
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:4gvcrs8kb1v5s0n...4ax.com... (...) cope (...) I can't think of any reason to "nest" textures. The only reasons I know of to draw multiple textures over one another are to produce different (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Playing around with part-authoring, I've been trying a few different methods of generating pseudo-curved surfaces. I've noticed that different "facets" of such an approximate curve render with gaps between them in L3P and L3Lab, even when two (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Texture mapping spec? (was Re: Doing Patterns and Bitmaps in MLCad) [DAT]
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(...) I orgot the Texture filename, so: 0 TEXTURE <texture_filename> <vector1> <vector2> <vector3> [<vector4>] So, Resuming again: 0 SET TEXTURE_WRAP on 0 MATRIX TEXTURE 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 Load 0 TEXTURE my_texture1.png 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 16 (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Texture mapping spec? (was Re: Doing Patterns and Bitmaps in MLCad)
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(...) :) I know what you mean. (...) Hmm. There shouldn't be any need for 'nested' textures. Or is 'nested texturing' an area of texture-mapping that I don't know about? Steve (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) You are right. My approach assumed to much and restricted too much. (...) Good point. (...) OK. (...) Right. But if START is required, then it might as well be omitted. My purpose in having an optional START was to allow TEXTUREs without the (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Texture mapping spec? (was Re: Doing Patterns and Bitmaps in MLCad) [DAT]
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(...) I second this ideia, and I would also like to add that extra directories never hurt backwards compatibility. I also have to say that you I would like to remember that we should try to follow the path of the more experienced, like the creators (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: It's all clear now...
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(...) I'm glad it was helpful and timely. :) Steve (24 years ago, 6-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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(...) 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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| | Re: Are fixes automatically included?
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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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