 | | A beginning - Lugsville!
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Hey, I'm in the process of building a new Datsville-like object. It's called Lugsville (please, if you've already cornered that name, let me know. I'll change it). And, I'd really like to incorporate 3d terrain into the model. So, if anyone knows of (...) (23 years ago, 3-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Animation - LDraw Object Classes - help needed!
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(...) creating the framework for LDraw Object Classes (...) other, easier, more flexible, better suited or (...) Interesting. Eventually I want to include an animation scripting feature in the CAD program I'm developing (which happens to be written (...) (23 years ago, 3-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Animation - LDraw Object Classes - help needed!
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So, finally I have made all the preparations to begin the work with creating the framework for LDraw Object Classes aimed towards animation scripting. My inspiration comes from the Borland Delphi world, but I'm open for other, easier, more flexible, (...) (23 years ago, 3-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw Filter: New Version
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Three minor bug fixes... New version, same location but 209 Kb zip. (...) (23 years ago, 2-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDraw Filter: New Version
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New version, the only function still disabled is highlight. I think this version is quite useful. Just remember: the program filters *out* only those lines you select to filter out. If no filters are active, the Add button will add all lines to (...) (23 years ago, 2-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: brick 1x2 with one two sideways locking fingers on end.
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(...) Sorry about that. I didn't know that the part had already been done :/ it looked fairly easy though so i'd though i'd take a crack at it. it would be nice if they'd come out with a new update for the Ldraw parts library soon. (23 years ago, 1-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw FilTEr
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Thank you, Micheal. I am not following you completely, but never mind. I'm glad you like it. Hopefully, this weekend I'll have the time to improve to filTEr, with separate output files and more. Thanks, /Tore (...) (23 years ago, 31-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw FilTEr
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Man, this thing is great! You'll be able to create completely hollow objects, filter out parts that you want to use or ones you don't want to use, export them to already-existing realtime rendering programs like Quake or Unreal or your favorite (...) (23 years ago, 31-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGLite bug report (yes, one more)
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Wow, that looks great. Don't really know what else to say... just wanted you to know that people were paying attention, and were interested in your results. :-) -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Gyugyi" <paul@gyugyi.com> To: (...) (23 years ago, 29-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGLite bug report (yes, one more)
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Yes, I'm trying various shadings. This one looks promising: (URL) trees in the upper left stand out well. I really like the shading on the water tower, and the green roof on the yellow house looks nice. Shading is done by taking the dot product of (...) (23 years ago, 29-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: idea for next version, include ttore boxes
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(...) Oooops, I got mixed up. (...) What would you use this for? (...) Cool! That's like the "commecial zoning" effect in Sim City. (...) You can always leave the top-most brick with studs on top. Thanks, later, Mike (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | RE: LDGLite bug report (yes, one more)
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(...) variations? (Fade to white, or fade to gray, or desaturate as you go back) --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGLite bug report (yes, one more)
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I added some depth-queuing to LDLite, with a simple fade-to-black as you get away from the camera, in the hopes that it would let the green trees stand out from the green baseplates: (URL) anyone find this useful? -gyug (...) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGLite bug report (yes, one more)
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I did some work on LDLite this weekend. An image of an LDLite rendered town.mpd is at: (URL) image used the -fr option to turn off lines, and has ldlite shading turned on, so it looks a little different than the others. Rendering time was 828 (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Error in Technic axle extender?
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(...) Yes. This has been discussed before. The original version of the part looks like the one in the library, while the new one is the way you describe. I have a few of the original axle extenders from 8857 Street Chopper. BTW, lugnet.cad.dat.parts (...) (23 years ago, 26-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Sorting parts by location
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Does anyone know if there exists a utility to sort parts in a model file by their "cut plane" location? I know I can sort by X Y or Z values but what I am actually interested in is sorting using a cut plane that is perpendicular to the eye vector in (...) (23 years ago, 25-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw FilTEr
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Currently I am _trying_ to make a microfig or nanofig model the "Defiant" from Star Trek Deep Space 9. I do it in MLCad, not for real. I started with the bridge and started building somewhere in the middle. Then I put parts on top and under the (...) (23 years ago, 23-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: LDraw FilTEr
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(...) Yes, that's right. I forgot to remove the code that referred to box replacements. (...) It's about as far as I've reached. You can change color of the objects in all selected lines and save by overwriting the input file. (...) Yes, just (...) (23 years ago, 23-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw FilTEr
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Hi Tore, I get "Cannot open file C:\LDRAW\boxes.lst" when I start it. Then it runs but the only thing I can seem to do is selecting and unselecting lines. Is it possible to filter all parts out that share the same y coordinate? Greetingz... Sjaacko (23 years ago, 23-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw FilTEr
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First version: A lot of features still grayed-out. But you can: * filter x, y, z, color, line type (URL) (200 Kb) Some feedback, please! Is it worth working on? /Tore (...) (23 years ago, 22-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw FilTEr
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interesting. Gary Tore Eriksson <tore.eriksson@mbox3...wipnet.se> wrote in message news:3B813E9A.6D7C1F...pnet.se... (...) of if you watch this: (...) CheckBoxList. The boxes are not yet drawn. (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Delphi and decimal signs.
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(...) screen (...) to (...) your (...) I would attack the problem thusly: Upon application startup, record the locale-specific decimal separator variable into a global variable named UIDecimalSeparator. Create wrappers for FloatToStr and StrToFloat (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Technic Link vs Technic Rod
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(...) I agree. Also the newly created part 32293 should be renamed "Technic Rod 9 L" Marc Klein A Mindstorms fan. (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Delphi and decimal signs.
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"Tore Eriksson" <tore.eriksson@mbox3...wipnet.se> skrev i meddelandet news:3B8154F2.D99058...pnet.se... (...) national settings? The problem is that numerical constants in the code must always adhere to the English notation (decimal point). (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Delphi and decimal signs.
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Careful manipulation? All I need to do is add the line DecimalSeparator := '.'; to FormCreate and all my problems are gone! Gary, you are a hero! I'll check out ThousandSeparator later. Thanks again! /Tore (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Delphi and decimal signs.
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(...) With careful manipulation of the DecimalSeparator and ThousandSeparator global variables, one could write a Delphi app that reads/writes periods (full stop symbols) from/to DAT files, but displays the locale-specific symbols to the user and (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Delphi and decimal signs.
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Aah, that explains a lot. Thank you for your quick reply! /Tore (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Delphi and decimal signs.
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(...) national settings? f := 3.14; // correct f := 3,14; // error f := StrToFloat('3.14'); // correct f := StrToFloat('3,14'); // error s := FloatToStr(3.14); // s is assigned '3.14' -Gary (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Delphi and decimal signs.
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Look at following Delphi code: s: string; f: double; i: Integer; begin f := 3.14; // correct f := 3,14; // error (of course...) f := StrToFloat('3.14'); // error f := StrToFloat('3,14'); // correct s := FloatToStr(3.14); // s is assigned '3,14' Is (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDraw FilTEr
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I played around a little with an idea I had from working with ldboxer. No code is written yet, but you'll get a good idea of what I am thinking of if you watch this: (URL) (43 Kb) Just like in the ldboxer, the presentation of the Input File will be (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BFC revisited
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(...) I double-checked the primitives I had, to make sure they were OK. I zipped them up, and posted them on my Geocities site. You can grab a copy from (URL). Steve (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Technic Link vs Technic Rod
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The name of part 2637 "Technic Link 16L" is a bit problematic, because it interferes with the 3711 "Technic Link Chain" and 3873 "Technic Link Tread". Would it make sense to rename 2637 to "Technic Rod 16L"? That way, it would appear in it's own sub (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BFC revisited
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Gary Williams wrote... (...) Steve, please note that Gary pointed out that some parts are badly formatted... "l3p -check" doesn't complain, as "0 CERTIFY BFC CW" is a perfectly legal comment :-) I don't think l3p easily can be made to check this, "0 (...) (23 years ago, 19-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BFC revisited
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(...) Cool! (...) will do. (...) I'm not understanding the problem. I've made versions of the sloping cylinders that are bfc-compliant. (...) Do you mean the problem (not just with sloped cylinders) that sometimes primitives are used for the outside (...) (23 years ago, 17-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGLite bug report (yes, one more)
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(...) I think it's gonna be a while before I can get organized enough to roll a new release, but this edge line option, as well as the camera and near/far clip plane controls, have been added to the sources if you want to try it out. You can get (...) (23 years ago, 17-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BFC revisited
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(...) I would appreciate that. -Gary (23 years ago, 17-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Datsville Overview Map (Was: Boundary Box Utility)
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(...) I think realtime rendering qualifies as above statement (23 years ago, 17-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BFC revisited
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I have printed the bfcspec file for review. Hopefully I will get a response back to you. I have been using BFC in most all my new parts for the last six months or so. Please send me the BFC compliant primitives, so that I can be sure I am using them (...) (23 years ago, 17-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BFC revisited
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I forgot to mention: if anyone is interested in looking at the most-recent version of the BFC proposal, it's still at: (URL). The first screen of text is meta-comments about the status of the proposal. The actual proposal starts at the line "LDraw (...) (23 years ago, 17-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BFC revisited
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There was never agreement on what the BFC standard should be. So there aren't very many parts that follow it in any way. I do have a set of primitives that are BFC-compliant. I didn't straighten out all the primitives, but I did a number of them. I (...) (23 years ago, 17-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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