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  Re: Patterned parts authoring
 
I am now able to author some patterned parts, though not in the manner that Franklin does (it sounded rather complicated!) I remembered something said awhile back about a Bmp2dat converter, for which I did a search and downloaded. It took about ten (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: POV difference in LDraw?
 
Well.. actually... I've almost finished an AutoCAD VBA-macro for importing DAT-files (into Acad 2000(i)). Just having touble with the transformation matrix thingy... I get the objects placed correctly, but not rotated/scaled properly. so... if (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
 
Don Heyse wrote... (...) Ah, I think I understand now... You require all DAT files in Linux to be in uppercase? If you let FixDatName convert to lower case (like I do), you could modify OpenDatFile to use upper case, (if that's what you require) and (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
 
(...) OK I confess, I took the cheap and easy fix rather than digging deeper to find the root of the problem. After further consideration I suppose the correct solution would be to run FixDatName() on all the hardcoded lowercase filenames when the (...) (24 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
 
(...) Yeah, it's been that way for a while. Perhaps forever. I've fiddled with various ways to fix it, but haven't yet come up with anything that made me happy. You can see the remnants of one such attempt inside the #ifdef IGNORE_DIRTY sections of (...) (24 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Special tools used to build/design parts?
 
(...) That address changed awhile ago. It's now partsref@home.com. Steve (24 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
 
I've tested LdGLite 0.7.3 on Linux, and the line width option worked fine! Thanks! While rendering a model with steps, I noticed that the whole image is rerendered at each step. Is this normal? I don't remember right now if the same thing happened (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
 
(...) "Premature optimization is the root of all evil". Especially don't optimize away functionality! Seriously all stricmp needs to do is pass each character through the toupper() macro which uses a look-up table. I've just re-written all the (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
 
(...) stricmp is slower, though the difference is most likely immeasurable in the big picture. No, it is more a matter of principle, to know what you are dealing with, to be in control of of your data - in stead of not really knowing whether it is (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
 
In lugnet.cad.dev, Lars C. Hassing writes: [snip] (a bunch of stuff about (...) It was on a linux system where I had copied all the DAT files from a smbmounted Windows filesystem and somehow ended up with them all in UPPERCASE. This is probably not (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
 
Don Heyse wrote... (...) I really would like to find the cause of the problem, because L3P relies on the same routines, and it does work for L3P. All filenames are internally made lowercase (FixDatName), so I don't have to worry about any following (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Ldraw.organization (was: License revision 1)
 
(...) Dissagree... (...) Or you use a Revison Control type system.... (...) Alternativly If anyone here can talk CORBA it might be worthwile considering using an app written with that to allow for distribution from various sites according to an (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
 
(...) Well I'm not positive anything I wrote works correctly, but I'm not sure it got to the functions mentioned above in this case. There seemed to be a bunch of special case checks for files like light.dat and primitives where the determinant is (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
 
Don Heyse wrote... (...) I don't understand why that should be necessary. FixDatName() should handle case-sensitivity. Are you sure platform_fixcase(Sub...tDatName); // Should NOT do this for model files. localize_path(SubPartDatName); work (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
 
LdGLite version 0.7.3 in now available. With all the talk about line widths and antialiasing around here lately I decided to add it to ldglite. Heck, it only took about an hour to make the changes. As Lars recently proclaimed, "Hooray for OpenGL"! (...) (24 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)  
 
  Re: Patterned parts authoring
 
Here's how I got started: Using the *text* editor of your choice (I use Notepad), open up the DAT file of the corresponding blank/un-patterned part (973.dat forthe minifig torso; 3626b.dat for the minifig head; (etc.)). Look at the code inside this (...) (24 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Patterned parts authoring
 
Recently I bought #7134 A-Wing Fighter and succumbed to the urge to build it in MLCad. When I got to doing the pilot, however, I found once again that I had to substitute the patterned head, torso, and helmet for other patterned parts because not (...) (24 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: DAT file for 'Adventurer' wheel
 
(...) Thanks, I'm glad you found the model interesting! It has to be my most unplayable model ever, though. The front wheel doesn't even turn! I have to agree with you that tuk-tuk rides are pretty unforgettable. I mostly ended up using the river (...) (24 years ago, 25-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: DAT file for 'Adventurer' wheel
 
(...) I was planning to hold the submission until the parts library terms of use license was finished. (...) Yeah, I can do that! Fredrik (24 years ago, 25-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Special tools used to build/design parts?
 
(...) Yes, for shure. The hand work is generally adding keywords, sometime I do only portion of the part and I add other primitives (like the spheric primitive in Technic Liftarm 1 x 7 with 2 ball joints - 32173.dat) Sometimes, I only modelise a (...) (24 years ago, 24-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)


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