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(...) Very impressed with the detail you have gone into on the slope bricks. We could do with more of this kind of information for other parts - see the thread at (URL) regarding the 2x2 round brick, which has at least 5 versions. The 2x2 45deg (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: RGB Coding in LDraw?
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Dave Schuler wrote... (...) 0x02RRGGBB for solid colors and 0x03RRGGBB for transparent. (URL) by at least MLCad, LDView, L3P and L3Lab. (...) No, only transparency. /Lars (23 years ago, 19-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 1.9 Source now available
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Hello! (...) I can only agree! (23 years ago, 19-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New and kinda-new stickfig mecha wallpaper and stuff
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(...) Heh heh thanks. :-, I was wincing a bit about that -- it almost looks like the cheesy sfx they used on the old Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica shows. But we all love cheese... (...) Awesome, thanks for the feedback. This is exactly what I (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jan-02, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | RGB Coding in LDraw?
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Is there a way to hard-code a color value in a .dat file using RGB values, so that the part will render in POV-Ray using those values? If so, what's the format? In addition, is it possible to code color qualities, like reflectiveness, into a .dat (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 1.9 Source now available
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(...) Thanks for continuing LDView. LDView is the best LDraw viewer. Damien (23 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGLite orientation matrix (l3p enhancement requests?)
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(...) Well yes, I once compared the orthographic projection to a perspective projection seen from an infinite distance. I suppose this would give you an infinitely small camera angle. But you're missing the point. I'm trying to position ldglite as a (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | 1.9 Source now available
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The LDView 1.9 source code is now available from the following location: (URL) is also a link on the main LDView web page to the above page.) Note that it's a little more difficult to build now, because you have to first download and build the (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGLite orientation matrix (l3p enhancement requests?)
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Don Heyse wrote... (...) See examples in (URL) POV's orthographic keyword in the camera definition would require another way of calculating the optimum camera position. I think one of the great features about L3P is that you always get a good view (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: The LDraw Community is what each person makes it
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Robin Sayce-Jones wrote... (...) That's what I call an understatement! (...) Aint that true... /Lars (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Can LDGLite print the current orientation matrix? (feature request)
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Don Heyse wrote... (...) If STEREO is zero (the default), then there's no rotation, and it's the same as location <cx,cy,cz> +PCT/100.0*<dx,dy,dz> (...) No, *I* seem to have missed something... It takes four numbers to determine a vector in space, (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 3D Viewing on PC
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There are a number of ways to do it. Probably the best way (for a reasonable cost) would be to pick up a pair of consumer 3D shutter glasses, which can be had for under $100. If you happen to own an nVidia-based video card, you can download their (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | 3D Viewing on PC
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What do you guys know about viewing information in 3D on your screen? In LDView it shows the option for cross-eyed and parallel. What kind of different ways are there available to view this stuff on home pc? Are there special software platforms (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: How do we handle stickers in Ldraw?
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"Imre Papp" <ipapp@geometria.hu> wrote in message news:Gq0y7v.G6q@lugnet.com... (...) eat (...) that (...) Well, the default seam width (in both L3P and LDView) is 0.5 LDU. So, this would chop the sticker thickness in half. No idea whether this is (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGLite colour bug
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Travis Cobbs writes: ... (...) Yes, I think that would work. Perhaps Jacob could install Mesa 4.1 on one of his (apparently) many machines and try this? I would, but I don't have the hardware available, and after all, he did start (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: How do we handle stickers in Ldraw?
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(...) Good point. As far as I know seams are modelled in L3P generated Pov files by shrinking the the size of bricks by a small value. Theoretically, even regular bricks float related to each other, but since usually we look at models from a certain (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: How do we handle stickers in Ldraw?
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I don't know if this has been brought up before or not, but if the stickers are separate parts, they will "float" above the piece if you use L3P, L3Lab, or LDView and have seams turned on. Since I would expect most L3P renderings to be done with (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGLite colour bug
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(...) I did a quick check and found a few things you should find useful. At opengl.org I found a good definition of what GLX is (which includes the remote display portion): (URL) above also contains a link to the GLX specification (which may or may (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: How do we handle stickers in Ldraw?
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(...) Some sticker sheets appear in multiple sets. One example of this is the fish sticker sheet from the Divers sets, (URL). In these cases, we could use the playtheme name in the sticker-part name. Or we could name the sticker-parts after the (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: How do we handle stickers in Ldraw?
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(...) 168315 Copyright is 1993 -- joshua (23 years ago, 15-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGLite colour bug
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(...) Really? Where can I get more information on this? I was under the impression that GLX could only accelerate locally when used with DRI. I had no idea it had its own remote rendering protocol. Is this something new in XFree 4.0? Is there any (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: How do we handle stickers in Ldraw?
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(...) I agree that stickers should be grouped somehow and if the sheet number is available and is not longer than 5 character than our convention for runners will work. If this is not case we could assign a 3 digit number or borrow the number of the (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: How do we handle stickers in Ldraw?
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(...) And sticker sheets seem to get different types of numbers. It seems like the current 'system' of numbers include both a 5-digit and a 7-digit number. I think LDraw sticker files can be handled in the same way we handle small parts on runners (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: How do we handle stickers in Ldraw?
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(...) Unfortunately, there is no 'enough' to prevent bleed-through. It totally depends on the scale any model is rendered at. At typical scale, 2LDU is really needed to prevent bleed-through from most angles. Which is a bit thick for most stickers. (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: How do we handle stickers in Ldraw?
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(...) I don't remember much about this thread. But I do have an idea. How would it work if stickers (notice the spelling) were modelled as polygons outlined by lines placed 0.5 ldu (or less) from the flat surface it is to be placed on. What if the (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: How do we handle stickers in Ldraw?
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(...) You are right, this was a suggestion that time too. The thickness of the flat box was then 1 LDU. What do you think is this enough? (...) Ampi ---...--- Imre Papp Geometria GIS Systems House email: ipapp@geometria.hu web: www.geometria.hu (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: How do we handle stickers in Ldraw?
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(...) I don't agree with this statement, at least not right now. Stickers _do_ have some height, and I think it would be most correct to model this in LDraw. This would also fix the bleed-through problems. A sticker could be modeled as a very thin, (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | How do we handle stickers in Ldraw?
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Dear List, I remember that some times ago we have discussed the topic of Lego stickers in Ldraw. There was no clear agreement on the nomenclature, the positioning, assigment to parts etc. I'm writing this mail to unfreeze slightly this topic, (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGLite colour bug
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"Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam....away.com> wrote in message news:GpF5sJ.66C@lugnet.com... (...) Actually, with a remote OpenGL display setup, OpenGL drivers can be active on both machines. If Mesa supports the GLX protocol, and the machine he is (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | *** LDView Version 1.9 Released ***
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LDView Version 1.9 has been completed, and can be downloaded from the following location: (URL) is an OpenGL-based real-time viewer for LDraw models written for the Microsoft Windows platform (95/98/ME and NT4/Win2000). More info can be found at the (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGLite orientation matrix (l3p enhancement requests?)
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(...) [...] This sounds exactly like what I asked for. I look forward to the next LDGLite release. Jacob (23 years ago, 11-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: LDGLite orientation matrix (l3p enhancement requests?)
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Jacob recently asked for an ldglite enhancement to dump ldglite command line args and POV camera settings which reproduce the current view. I assume he means l3p compatible camera settings. I think I have it working (except for my question about the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: The LDraw Community is what each person makes it
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Hi Robin - "Robin Sayce-Jones" <robin@sayce-jones.co.uk> wrote in message news:Gpn1C5.Moy@lugnet.com... (...) #1 - Don't feel like you're not worthy! :-) (...) Taking a very quick (I gotta run soon) look at your pages, looks awesome! I'd love to (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: The LDraw Community is what each person makes it
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I'd love to help but always feel I'm not worthy. If you take a look at (URL) then you can see as much as I'd like to get involved. I only have experience of some of the available utilities but it seems to be enough. I think what we all suffer from (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Bionicle Parts in LDraw (was: Re: Bionicle Avatar pictures flooding BrickShelf)
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(...) Please keep one thing in mind: the Slizer/Bionicle parts are some of the most ornate, detailed elements LEGO has ever produced. So it's little wonder that they aren't all modeled. But, a number of Throwbot/Slizer/Robo...r/Bionicle parts have (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Can LDGLite print the current orientation matrix? (feature request)
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(...) Ok the current copy of main.c in CVS has a function that does part A. I have most of part B working, but I don't completely understand the STEREO stuff in the location part of an l3p camera setting. Can you or somebody explain it? I can create (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDRAW crash
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(...) That is a known problem with LEdit. Jacob, thanks for adding this to the FAQ. (...) I'm not sure of your exact meaning here, so I'm answering both possible meanings: Yes, if you want to *edit* your part in LEdit, you will need to break it up. (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGLite colour bug
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(...) I suspected that, but I wasn't sure. (...) :-) Yes. (...) Correct. (...) The very same thing. Jacob (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDRAW crash [DAT]
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(...) Hi Jacob, I Think you are 100 percent right. First of all, it wasn't LDRAW that crashed, but it was LEDIT. Sorry abouth that :-( I guess i found the problem causing LEDIT to crach. Perhaps this is alreddy known by other people, but it seems to (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3P user primitive substitution
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(...) A: I like it. -Chuck (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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