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(...) 2. The document's directory (the directory of the main model) 3. %LDRAWDIR%\P 4. %LDRAWDIR%\PARTS 5. %LDRAWDIR%\MODELS This search strategy seems reasonable for a DAT file, but I thought this was more along the lines of a resource file where (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDLite 2.2 Released
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Don Heyse wrote to Paul Gyugyi... (...) Please see (URL) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Substitute Colors for Dithered Colors?
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Erik Olson wrote... (...) Yeah, it was mainly to ensure that you remember to support the full range of LDraw colors, i.e. also 0x2000000-0x7FFFFFF, but I guess you already did :-) Models built in MLCad may use these colors, and L3P+L3Lab support (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDraw syntax check in Perl
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Hey all: I've written a Perl script/program to check a file for LDraw'ish syntax. I'd like to get feedback on it, as I'm an absolute beginner with Perl. The main purpose of the script is to check files being submitted to the Parts Tracker. So it's (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDLite 2.2 Released
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(...) Better yet, grab the whole source tree at once. If you have CVS, you can use a batch file (or script) like this. @echo PRESS Enter when asked for a password. cvs -d:pserver:anonymous...oot/ldlite login cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous...oot/ldlite (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I've released LDLite 2.2, available at: (URL) release fixes a problem with weird file names (with spaces or foreign characters). In doing so, it also now allows you add double-quotes around the filename in Type-1 lines, in case you want to use weird (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Substitute Colors for Dithered Colors?
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I think much of the use of dithered colors in LDRAW really paid off when the dithering was used to imply a different texture, such as shiny gold, diffuse rubber, or flourescent colors. I'm currently concerned about what happens to the dithered (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDLite 2.1 released
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LDLite 2.1 has been released. LDLite is now hosted on sourceforge.net, and can be downloaded from (URL) full source tree is browsable, and you can leave feature requests and bug reports. The 2.1 release has several improvements over the last public (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Rotate, pitch, yaw, or roll?
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Sorry about the delay, I was 'on vacation' for the past couple of days. (...) Yes. Yes it does. (...) Only because I have a tendancy to jump on things - and being a bit on large side don't help either. :) Really though, thanks. (...) Concatenate? (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Erik, you can test LeoCAD and see how it perform that. I like its way of rotating quite much and find it convenient. Selçuk (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) You've also got stud3 and stud4 placements to go by (sometimes). stud3 is the skinny stud used under 1x bricks and plates. stud4 is the tube. (...) I don't remember anything about that. ;) Did he mention the minifig legs to bicycle connection? (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Tough question. No, not fully able to detect that. What the program does know is the brick rests on top of another bounding box. For bricks, that's usually a connection. Bounding boxes ignore studs, actually any DAT file named stud*.dat is (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The clicking isn't a bad idea. It wouldn't be hard to provide an option to turn it off. The real problem is knowing *when* to make the sound. Erik's done some cool stuff (last time I saw a demo of BrickDraw3D[1]), but I don't know if he's able (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: (Updated) Minifig Arm Calibrations
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(...) Looking at part 979.DAT, Minifig (Complete Figure Shortcut), it appears the hands are turned at a 45-degree angle. Steve Christopher! have you backed up your data? (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Substitute Colors for Dithered Colors?
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Wow, Lars, that was a lot of code to support r = (r1+r2)/2. The obvious hypothesis would say that the eye performs spatial integration on the pixels, so therefore values are averaged. I guess I can try it on my eyes with L3Lab then. I looked in (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Wow. LUGNET rocks. Actually, people like you, Garrett, make it rock. Can you also tell me the Perl package that implements pathname concatenate in a platform-independent way? (I'm a Perl Pounder too, by day.) I'm going to write the code to detect (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) On the 'typical' aircraft: Pitch is the angle (from horizontal) along the of the centerline of the aircraft. Roll is the rotation around the centerline axis Yaw is the rotation of the centerline around the 'altitude' axis So your 'Rotate' (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Couldn't you just specify "rotate X axis" "rotate Y axis" rotate Z axis"? Something a'la most 3D apps, with an XYZ key visible in the model window would help with this (could be toggled on/off). Matt (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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What verbs are better for describing rotation about the standard axes? Rotate is usually understood as spinning about the vertical axis. There are aeronautical terms for the other two, pitch and yaw, and I can't remember which is which, so I'm using (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D 0.2 released
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(...) Having never been able to use the DOS/Windows editors, do any of them do this? Whould it be a 'horrible' idea, to get confirmation of sorts via audible feedback? It might be a unique option at that. Just thinking out loud though... (...) Got (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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