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Re: Another stupid part-authoring question (Primo?!?)
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Date: 
Thu, 28 Feb 2002 22:10:32 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Tony Hafner wrote:
> > My question is whether I should bother designing the stud like other studs
> > or whether I should just make it a subpart that doesn't get stud rendering
> > optimizations.
> 
> Hmm.  I don't have any Primo parts handy, so I've got to throw out a
> basic question.  Isn't the inside of the Primo stud actually hollow?  If
> we made a Primo stud that was subject to studline'ing, that would leave
> a huge hole in the Primo parts, right?
> 
> That would be bad.
> 
> So I'd say you should just model the Primo stud as a regular primitive,
> using your "simplified approach".  Call it babystud.dat or something. :)

Yes, the stud is hollow.  The studline substitution would leave a hole 56
(or at least 48) LDU across... big enough to fit a microfig-scale capital ship.

--
Tony Hafner
www.hafhead.com



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  Re: Another stupid part-authoring question (Primo?!?)
 
(...) Hmm. I don't have any Primo parts handy, so I've got to throw out a basic question. Isn't the inside of the Primo stud actually hollow? If we made a Primo stud that was subject to studline'ing, that would leave a huge hole in the Primo parts, (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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