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(...) I guess I'd kinda figure that the people who'd care the most are the ones who aren't online enough to know about it and speak up. I'd love an LDraw CD-ROM, for example, if I didn't have net access...but since I do, there's on value in it to (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw CD-ROM Issues
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yet...surprisingly (or not) no one really seems to care. -- Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com (URL) - Centralized LDraw Resources (URL) - Zacktron Alliance ICQ: 23951114 - AIM: TimCourtne "Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Seams like a problem
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Dave Schuler wrote... (...) In P or MODELS. Or inlined in your model DAT file. Or included in your model MPD file. If seams are not desired at all use -sw0.0001 see (URL) a bit uncertain what you mean by SUBparts. I would call the DAT files in PARTS (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | See HERE for Win95 Fix
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It has been brought to my attention that v0.9.1 is incompatible with Win95. This is due to a screwup on my part in using a function call that didn't exist in Windows 95. I have zipped up a replacement .exe file which fixes the problem (by using (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | RE: Seams like a problem
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(...) Yes: any part which has multiple variations with the same part number. 3062B.DAT comes to mind...and there are others, for example, the Technic half bushing. --Bram Bram Lambrecht BXL34@po.cwru.edu (URL) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Seams like a problem
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I'm not sure what L3P/L3Lab do, but in LDView I require the part's base filename to not end with a letter (as well as being in the parts directory) in order to treat it as a part for the purpose of seams. I did this because I noticed a number of (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: *** LDView v0.9.1 Released ***
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Fantastic piece of software. I love to sit and watch a model spinning round and round. I'm stunned! /Tore (...) -- Tore Eriksson Sweden ICQ: 76066510 LEGO: MOC++++ FS,SP,TO++ TC+ LS YB@m (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Seams like a problem
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Lars Hassing in another thread recently pointed out that subparts contained within the PARTS directory will appear with seams during rendering. Is there any way to prevent this? More specifically, in which directory should one place subparts if (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Studline substitution?
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Is there any way to set LEdit to substitute certain parts for simpler, faster- rendering stand-in parts, a la STUDLINE? Or is there a way to set a specific part to make such a substitution? I'm working on a biggish model, and I weary of watching (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BMP-to-LDraw32 Converter 0.96 release! [DAT]
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(...) It would surely had been even smaller if the program didn't make superimposed .dat files. Or...? 0 fire16.dat 0 Image converted by BMP-to-LDraw32 0.96 4 15 0 1 0 479 1 0 479 20 0 0 20 0 4 15 0 0 0 479 0 0 479 21 0 0 21 0 <snip> (...) I have (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | LDraw CD-ROM Issues
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Well... I guess its about time for an update. First off, I must apologize to everyone, because I've been way too busy to work on this project. I feel like I'm letting you down. At this point, I have too many things going on to think about an LDraw (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | *** LDView v0.9.1 Released ***
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You can now download LDView v0.9.1 (both source and binaries) from: (URL) second site has been pretty slow lately, so you probably want to try the other one first.) I wasn't originally going to have another release before v1.0, but there were enough (...) (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New program for Macs: BrickDraw3D
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(...) Thanks for the kind words! is that "alive and clicking"? -Erik (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | BMP-to-LDraw32 Converter 0.96 release!
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Hello Legomaniacs ! I've just updated (again ;-))) ) my BMP-to-LDraw converter windows tool. New features: 6.10.2000 v0.96 + Greatly improved convert algorithm. Resulting .DAT files are up to 50% smaller! + Greatly improved palette conversion. (...) (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Does this part exist?
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[snipped .dat.parts] (...) I think that one's in the top three for 'pieces people can never find'. (...) It was just released in the 2000-02 update. Look for it under Wedge. Steve (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Does this part exist?
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"Anders Isaksson" <isaksson.etuna@REMO...tninet.se> wrote in message news:G1z6K5.5q0@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) be (...) the part, another user e-mailed me that the part I was seeking was #2397, Horse Hitching. Next part that I can't (...) (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Mac BrickDraw3D Update
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Get it from (URL) (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Mac BrickDraw3D Update
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Konnichiwa, The picture quality improved in the Oct 5 build of BrickDraw3D. It's really thrilling to be able to casually pop open the latest DATs in newsgroups! In the code, I am matching up vertices within a part (or primitive) and constructing (...) (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Unusual View matrices in LDRAW.INI
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(...) It's from Graphics Gems II, the code for which is available online (linked from (URL) ). (...) That's called (re-)orthogonalization. Graphics Gems I has code to do it. You might also reconsider whatever it is that's causing the matrix to (...) (24 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Does this part exist?
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Mike Walsh skrev i meddelandet ... (...) It could be you are missing the environment variable LDRAWDIR. It should be set to the directory where LDRAW is installed. In your AUTOEXEC.BAT (on W95/98), make sure there is a line like SET (...) (24 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Unusual View matrices in LDRAW.INI
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"Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam....away.com> wrote in message news:G1xC6x.7nK@lugnet.com... (...) mathematical (...) you (...) the (...) To be perfectly honest, I can't really remember how I came up with them. I think I actually started with the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: tubing
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Larry Pieniazek wrote... (...) The clue is to prevent L3xx from finding 76.dat in PARTS. This can also be achieved by adding 76.dat to your MPD. /Lars (24 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: More tips for L3P
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Manfred, Well, I'm sorry, but though I did follow all your instructions completely (I think) none of them really fixed my problem, but they did give me insight into how to write a Batch file. Here's what I did to get L3P to run correctly: I put (...) (24 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Does this part exist?
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"Anders Isaksson" <isaksson.etuna@REMO...tninet.se> wrote in message news:G1v4rL.CE3@lugnet.com... (...) (URL), (...) I just downloaded this as I too am having a tough time finding parts (in particular the red piece from 6033 Traitor Transport that (...) (24 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: tubing
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(...) file. (...) Hmm... maybe then I need to generate my own custom version of 76.dat by not resizing/scaling but instead reshaping it to be the right length. I need to look at that. (callit 76_26plates.dat when it is 26 plates long, etc.) Like I (...) (24 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: tubing
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Larry Pieniazek wrote... (...) No, I'm afraid this won't work. The 76.dat is NOT somewhere else, it is still in PARTS. You only move the referencing line type 1 to another file. (I take it you are referring to Steve's 112.dat) The clue is to prevent (...) (24 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Unusual View matrices in LDRAW.INI
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(...) In L3Lab, you can find the current view matrix in the statistics menu item. It is useful for usage with, e.g., LDLITE and LDraw. Fredrik (24 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: tubing
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(...) MPD. (...) MLCad (...) either (...) Great sleuthing. I'd say that is it. The suggestion given earlier to create an ersatz part that embeds the scaled 76 in it, ensuring that the 76 is somewhere else, sounds like it might fool your scaler into (...) (24 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | BMP-to-LDraw32 Converter new release 0.95 !!!
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Hello ! I've just updated my BMP-to-LDraw converter windows tool. I added 3 more palettes (2 with dithered colors) and the possibility to choose your palette. BMP-to-LDraw runs under Win95/98/ME/2000 and convertes logo-bitmaps of LEGO-bricks to (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.ideas, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Unusual View matrices in LDRAW.INI
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I knew there was a way to decompose the matrices! But I couldn't find it. Where is that written down? I also thought there was a way to remove the cumulative round off errors in a transformation matrix after many matrix multiplications. Do you (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Unusual View matrices in LDRAW.INI
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(...) LDAO writes those entries to ldraw.ini. I'm not sure if any other programs update that section or not. The "Oblique" view is the default view for LDraw, and was also used for LDLite (I think) and L3Lab. "UpsideDown" is derived from "Oblique". (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Unusual View matrices in LDRAW.INI
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OK now we're getting somewhere. Thanks for providing the exact mathematical representations of those numbers. Now I'm gonna have to figure out how you calculated them. :-) (I just had the computer do the work and print out the decimal (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Unusual View matrices in LDRAW.INI
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I believe the matrix happens to produce a standard isometric view, but doesn't do so in the traditional 3D graphics way of rotation. This means that in addition to not looking right after rotation, it also doens't produce correct results when you (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: part skins (was Re: some thoughts on ldraw parts)
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(...) It's not always this easy. Some parts just cannot be constructed out of the primitives - or the scaling/transformation is just too difficult to figure out. Examples are those with complex curves (like the wizard's hat), or complex (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Unusual View matrices in LDRAW.INI
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(...) I don't know their origin, but you're right, there's a shear component in them. Here's what a matrix decomposition shows: (...) Scale : (1.5, 0.942809, 1.41421, 0) Rotate : (0.321751, 0.729728, 0.463648, 0) Translate : (0, 0, 0, 0) Shear : (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: part skins (was Re: some thoughts on ldraw parts)
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(...) You are correct on both points. The primary value of the tool at this point is that it removes the tedium of defining polygons to connect vertices. It's a start! (...) Your edge-detection suggestion is certainly the ideal, but would get a bit (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: More tips for L3P
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(...) Move L3P.exe to a different directory, for instance C:\Pov, and change the path reference in the last line of L3P.bat accordingly. This way you can still use way the DOS-window openened with the shortcut for L3P for running Ldraw.exe also. (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: part skins (was Re: some thoughts on ldraw parts)
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(...) Cool beans! (...) Define "feed" in this context... an ordered vertex list? That's still hard to do, what is needed is an app that lets me create these regions superimposed on a bitmap. (...) Er, ah, kind of like that. (...) I think this is an (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Another license draft
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Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to this -- I've been too busy to really dig into it. Overall, I think this is a decent *redistribution* license. It does not address: 1. The agreement(s) between the contributors and ldraw.org. 2. The fact (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: More descriptions
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(...) Thanks for pointing this out. I can't check into this right now -- I'm wondering if there's some obscure reason behind this (besides me not being careful) -- but I will delve into the matter ASAP. Steve (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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