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(...) :-) Good idea (must be, you're not the first ;-) with .DATs for camera object types, please see "Re: Follow up to Camera Tricks" in lugnet.cad /Lars (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I was waiting for someone to push me to do that ;) Leave it to you to try and get me to be the best programmer I can be.. hehe (did you see my post about adding "camera" object types as .DATs and then having L3P use them for camera (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, seems like an easy task for a program too! Backwards compatibility is very nice (knock knock :-) /Lars (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Start by reorganizing the lugnet.cad.* newsgroups. I realize that's not going to happen, but that would be the best place to start. (...) It is icky that stuff is duplicated, but it's not really clear where *parts* *development* stuff should (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ah yes. The URL got updated once, but not the name after it. (...) Hmm, I dunno, I just copied what was in the /cad/ldraw/parts/ section. Anyone out there in CAD-land have any suggestions on how to improve the lists here?-- (URL) here-- (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: how to NAME patterned m/f faces for specific personas?...
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Manfred Moolhuysen wrote: [snip] I agree with Manfred. Generic description in the descriptive name, character name*s* in the KEYWORDS, and add more comment lines if necessary. Steve (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) How about option d: Number them. "Star Wars Face Pattern 1", "Star Wars Face Pattern 2", etc. Then we wouldn't have to worry about it. Steve Bliss GDR implied (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) [snip] (...) Here is my suggestion: In part description: Generic descriptive In a "0 KEYWORDS " line: "Star Wars" followed by the Specific character name(s) In plain "0 " comment lines: the long part japping about which was who in what year. (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Howdy! I've got a minor problem, and I'd like to hear your thoughts on it. As you may know, I recently encoded a few DAT files for some minifig head patterns, including some from the Star Wars theme. In the past, the NAME we'd give a DAT file for a (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Has anyone LDrawn the circular minifig shield? If not, I'll give it a shot. (I need it for my Classic Space contest entry) --Bram Bram Lambrecht BXL34@po.cwru.edu (URL) (24 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Oh yeah, definitely. (...) That's actually why I opted to do, I based the window size on the control that is in the lower right corner of the form. Good to see we were thinking the same thing. J (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Are you sizing the controls in the Form_Resize event? If not, you should be. Another approach is to fix the form size in the Form_Load event, based on the right-most and bottom-most control(s). Assuming ctlRight is the control that ends (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Urgh. OK, I'll fix it. Steve (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Does anyone have a problem running POV-RAY and MLCAD at the same time?
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"Brad Hamilton" <bhamilto1@home.com> wrote in message news:G32AI4.6Ks@lugnet.com... (...) POV-RAY (...) pull-down (...) Have you tried updating your graphics card drivers? I've had no problems running POV-Ray while building more stuff in MLCad on my (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I have a funny problem that occurs sometimes if I am rendering with POV-RAY in the background and working on MLCAD in the foreground. When I do specific things in MLCAD (the most frequent thing is to pull-down the combo box on the parts selection (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It's the large fonts. I changed the window so that it is a static size, but it appears font sizes are causing a problem. Someone else mentioned this in a direct email. I guess I'll have to go back to using a sizable window. Any ideas, Stever (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) default size, half of the third column is cut off, as is the command line window and the title bar with Exit and Run L3P buttons. I can't resize it, so the only way I can get everything to show up is to maximize the window. For reference, my (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Actually yes, and it's simple enough. Go into the .l3A (using notepad, ultra-edit, etc) and append: ",0,7" to the last line of the file. Save the file and it should work just fine. The first number is the on/off setting for the -c switch and (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Is there any way to hack^H^H^H^Hfix existing scene files? Steve (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Version 1.2.5 is up. I added a (much-requested) command line textbox that shows the output before it is sent to L3P. This allows the user to see exactly what every switch and checkbox does as s/he changes settings. As always, here's the place: (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Just remember, they're not "bugs," they're (pick one): "features," "negative enhancements," "experimental features designed to maximize your computing experience," or, my favorite, "debugging aids never intended for release." James Wilson (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It works on my system... Steve (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) oh, haven't you picked up your copy of : "Windows: The Next Edition Version .999k beta (we really mean it this time it's the last one and there are no more bugs so it's safe for you to buy it and install it with confidence, signed Uncle Bill)" (...) (24 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ack! You're right. How'd I/we miss that one? (...) Fixes & finds should be sent to partsref@home.com. Steve (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Good thing Microsoft doesn't hold its products to such a high standard. :-> In lugnet.cad.dev, Jeff Boen writes: <snip> (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) True, but since these are merely parts files and as such will reside in the LDRAW\PARTS directory, I think the *type* of file will be obvious. I agree this certainly feels like a "bad thing" at first, but it does give you a lot more characters (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'd rather not encode file-nameish data into the file-extension. That feels like a bad thing to do -- extensions indicate the *type* of file, not the specific file. I realize that "DAT" is not the greatest extension in the world, as it's far (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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First sorry if this is the wrong place to post this. Anyway I think the description for this part is wrong. (URL) currently says: "Wedge 2 x 12 Triple" I believe it should be: "Wedge 2 x 16 Triple" Please let me know if I should have posted this (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes. As long as you specify the extension, LDraw doesn't care what it is. LEdit might be a different story, I don't know. (...) Don't use MAKELIST, it can't handle more than 1000 parts. Use MKLIST instead. And MKLIST indexes every file in the (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Aha! I found them under Plate 1 x 2 with hinge. --Ryan Lugnet member #517 E-mail: Ryanjf2@juno.com Amateur radio call sign: kb1fob (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Actually you didn't steal anything, I had a different idea: (...) Which you refuted: (...) before explaining your completely different (and perhaps better) idea. However, I just tested my scheme in LEDIT and it worked. So there! ;^) If you (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ah, it was never my intention to "steal" anyone's idea. I just haven't had the time to read all the interesting LUGNET articles recently. Fredrik (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hey gang, For a while now I've wanted a way to sort the entries in a .DAT file according to X-Y-Z coordinates, that way after I build a file in MLCad I can sort the elements so they're in an order much like original LEGO instructions (bottom to top, (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce) !
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Hello Fredrik, (...) IMHO this is the best and most compatible idea so far. I believe Don Heyse had the same idea too. Greetings, Carsten Schmitz -- Greetings, Carsten Schmitz "Fredrik Glöckner" <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Sidestepping various landmines, two ideas that come to mind for addressing this issue: 1. Allow letters in pattern id's, to increase the number of 2-digit from 100 to 1296. This could work, but would make recognition of patterned element files (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) While not directly related, I've found that, while using subparts from the parts\s directory, the names will be truncated if they're more than 8 characters long and therefore won't render in LEdit or LDraw. For instance, a line like: 1 16 0 0 (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Oh yeah! It's my fav modeling tool. I seem to remember that Jeremy Sproat also said he used LEdit. (...) But will that work in LEdit? I normally specify part names in LEdit by the base file name, i.e. everything before the ".DAT" and LEdit (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hello Tore! (...) recall that Norton Commander 5.0 for DOS (...) No. FAT16 has only limitations in the root directory for maximum number of files. That NC was limited to 2000 files was a memory allocation problem. What I meant was: 1) The first (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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