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Anders Isaksson wrote... (...) Yes, it can help L3Lab, but not L3P which also compiles under Borland Turbo C from 1988 and under Linux. /Lars (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Lars C. Hassing skrev i meddelandet ... (...) Take a look at 'GetFullPathName' in the Windows API. -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The first time I noticed it was while rendering in POV-ray a part for which the .pov file was generated via L3P. The part consisted of four identical subparts meeting at (0,0,0). I mirrored the subpart in the manner of 8-8sphe.dat, so that the (...) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Lars C. Hassing" <lch@ccieurope.com> wrote in message news:G2AJCw.K6u@lugnet.com... (...) [SNIP] (...) Well, I don't think it's trivial, but it is definitely possible. First grab the path portion of the command line (if there is one; if not just (...) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Lars C. Hassing" <lch@ccieurope.com> wrote in message news:G2AJD0.KAC@lugnet.com... (...) v1.0 (...) and (...) are (...) If you have a part which references a subpart which references another subpart (not likely, true), you don't want to shrink (...) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Another license draft
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes: <snip> I got swamped and it took me a week to get another look. Wow, that was bad. I guess we have to try to wrap this up before we all forget to keep pushing. Where are we at now? No one addressed my points (...) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Travis Cobbs wrote... (...) Yes, I think it is unncessary. Why would you do that? Besides it would hurt performance. With the current scheme I set a Seamable flag on LT1 references once during input. Then if seams are turned on I can simply test the (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Dave Schuler wrote.. (...) Well, I think you have struck a problem in L3P/L3Lab that I have been aware of for quite a while! The problem is when you select a part from PARTS to render/view. The model file (here the part) specified on the command (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Dan Simonson" <jedi101673@aol.com> wrote in message news:G2AGpC.D1v@lugnet.com... (...) Adds (...) Heh...well...that's a bit of a long shot :-) Not saying that it won't work in the long run though. I don't know anyone right now who works with (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) ROM, (...) in (...) Hmm, I saw adds in Mania Magazine for Sunkist oranges and Ortega tacos. Adds probabally cost a lot, but it's an idea. Word of mouth works. (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | RE: Seams like a problem
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(...) Well, if you set the seams to 0, then you can tell whether the problem is the positioning or L3P's seam calculation... Of course, you can also look through the pov code to see if the scaling which creates the seams is present for each subpart. (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I noticed it during a little part authoring, in which I created a file in \parts\s for a bit of the part that was repeated several times within the part. When I render the part in POV-ray via L3P, I notice seams between instances of the (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Lars C. Hassing" <lch@ccieurope.com> wrote in message news:971175476.80878....cci.dk... (...) contained (...) there (...) one (...) to take these things into account. I'm probably going to take rule 2 and recursively apply it up the line to verify (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | L3PAdd-On Version 1.2.3 is up
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Seems there has been a resurgence of L3P and L3PAO use lately (I know I've been doing a lot!) and people have found a few bugs. I decided to correct these problems and also added in new features to bring L3PAO up to speed with L3P version 1.2. (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G28nw5.LMC@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) lay (...) yours, (...) I see your point clearly. I would like to do the graphical stuff from the ground up, what I would like someone else to (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw CD-ROM Issues
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(...) Shorthand for "throwing cold water on X" where X could be any number of things... such as "ideas", "dogs in lust", etc. You often hear it as "I don't want to throw cold water on your idea, but..." followed by some reason why the speaker thinks (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G28KMH.Dqo@lugnet.com... (...) of (...) water. Again, pardon my ignorance on the phrase 'cold water.' What does it mean? (...) level of (...) done, (...) recoalesce at (...) As far as (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) ROM, (...) in (...) It would be a nice to have, in my view. I do try to usually be supportive of ideas, because nothing kills forward progress as much as premature cold water. I'd say that it was a very ambitious and expensive project given (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) and minifig toolset. Chris (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well yeah... I was more referring to the apathy (by non response) after I announced that I was too busy to work on a project - because, from everything everyone has told me, online and in person, they were very much looking forward to the CD. (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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