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(...) Perhaps 0 CLEAR might be a better choice than 0 STEP for animation. (23 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Questions on Stickers and Certification
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(...) Reviewers should feel able to make comments like "subpart unnecessary - I would prefer these to be inlined". From an authors perspective, I have a preference to keep things modularised - that way a correction to a symetrical region of the part (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Tore Eriksson wrote: > In some cases, like attached to rounded surfaces, I think the only way is to > solve the problem is to create a part-with-sticker file. > I hadn't thought about applying stickers to rounded parts. I know there is a lot of (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I think this is an important point. Subfiles are *very* useful tools for modeling parts, but we should use them with restraint. I will frequently model a part using multiple subfiles, but then I will inline all the code into a single file (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) My take on this is that self-certification is a small perk for people who take the time to review *other* people's parts, and help newer authors along. (...) Generally, you should only certify parts that you actually possess. But if you find a (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes, there's a chance of that. Right now, the full codes (like on the cert page) aren't stored anywhere, they're rebuilt when the cert page is updated. And they're something of a pain to calc individually. Eventually, those codes will be (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | More on Stickers (was: Questions on Stickers and Certification)
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(...) From reading that thread, it sounds like the only reasonably solution to both the bleed and seam gap problems is to author the parts and stickers together. Problems with stickers as separate parts: Nomenclature: - 6 digits for the sheet ID (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hello! (...) still (...) says (...) I agree to the point too.... we need more reviewers. There are like 5 parts in the line I did... and they are there for a long time. That isn't very satisfying. I know a lot of authors who are waiting for their (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I agree that authors should not be allowed to self-certify, but ONLY if we get sufficient active reviewers to keep things moving. The last three updates would have been much smaller without self-certification. Some new reviewers have become (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In some cases, like attached to rounded surfaces, I think the only way is to solve the problem is to create a part-with-sticker file. A sticker could be attached in many more or less creative ways, and I think the modeller should have the freedom to (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm currently working on modelling of the stickers of the Technic black Supercar. Before that I put some question in thread (URL) we agreed on the approach that stickers are separate parts just as they were ordinary bricks since, they can be (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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On stickers: Should stickers be treated, for part authoring purposes, as if they were printed on the parts? If so, should we indicate somehow that the part is stickered as opposed to printed? And on certification (on LDraw.org's parts tracker): I've (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [Parts Tracker] Recent Noise and New Search Tool
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(...) Any chance of including a brief submission status code, like on the Parts list? Until/unless we implement a means of automatically mailing the author when a Hold is posted, this would give authors an easy way of finding their submitted parts (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Steve Bliss wrote... (...) It's OK with me to use e.g. "0 IFDEF L3PPOV" The POV code is (or can be) L3P related. As an example of that see e.g. Chuck Sommerville's minifig head (URL) >Or is the current situation considered adequate (...) Right! We (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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Hey y'all - I just wanted to post a quick apology for some excessive moves and resubmits that I ran through today. Damien has created grooved versions for a bunch of the 2x2 tiles. Unfortunately, he posted his new versions before letting me know. So (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I made some heads using inline POV code: (URL) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Actually a cheap fix that *almost* works is to go into the printed head file (such as 3626bp05.dat) and rip out anything that's not color 0. ie. gut everything but the printing. Then paste in 3626.dat instead of s\3626bs01.dat. This will slap (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) It's not something that can, or needs to be, fixed. Only surfaces drawn with primitive files[1] can be curved in POV-Ray[2]. The patterned area of the minifig faces are not drawn with the cylinder primitives, so they come out faceted. Steve 1) (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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"Steve Bliss" <partsref@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:n6h77ug2idkrqil...4ax.com... (...) Yeah. Hey if we could solve the centering and rotation problem with a table, couldn't we run converters to Anton Raves' library? Would this project be too (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Inline POV-Ray code?
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(...) Just a guess, but I don't think all the printed heads exist in the LGEO parts, so l3p can't substitute that way. And they probably don't use the cylinder primitives because of the printed faces, so once again l3p can't substitute. I suppose (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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