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(...) Good idea. I don't think this would work as 'just another sort' of the parts list page (URL). I'd rather have a "most in need of attention" page, with the following parameters: 1. Exclude all certified files. 2. Sort the files by date of last (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: bushman hat...
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(...) I just saw this part on Paul Easter's todo page. (URL) There's no data file available though (Paul, feel free to post it. Thx). Andy (22 years ago, 13-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: dithered colors w/ Jango Fett Helmet/Jetpack
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Actually there is a reference here: (URL) Under the "What are Subparts" heading -Orion (make it billthefish and remove the obvious lettering to reply personally) (22 years ago, 13-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Issue with some of the holds on the Parts Tracker
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(...) Comments are always welcome over holding for insignificant errors. I try to check all the parts I've submitted at least ever couple days until certified, I really wish more part authors would check up on their parts regularly. OTOH, if you (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Issue with some of the holds on the Parts Tracker
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(...) Hi reviewers, May be the post was also directed to me. I plainly assume some of my votes to be honest but ridiculous or arbitrary. In absence of a formal specification of what is a good part, voting is arbitrary in essence. In presence of such (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Self-Certification in parts tracker
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(...) Actually, since the previous time that this was raised, I have refrained from self-certifying, and at that time cancelled all my existing self-certifications. But on several of these files, that is still the last action! I'd like to see an (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi reviewers, I am also not disturbed by self-certification practice. First the practice is mainly from people like Chris Dee and Franklin W. Cain that I have high respect for, because of their past and present monumentuous contribution. Their (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 30375cs0.dat, "MiniBot SW Battle Droid (complete)"
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(...) [snip] (...) Aaaaaahhhhh! I yield the point. (Seeing the list really helped.) Please make the necessary filename changes. Thanks, Franklin (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 30375cs0.dat, "MiniBot SW Battle Droid (complete)"
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(...) No big deal. It's a trivial thing, but if I can get everyone to use it the same way, I won't have to spend as much time twiddling part titles. :) Taking things a little out of the order you wrote them... (...) Sorry, I guess I wasn't totally (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | "the new way" (was: Re: Self-Certification in parts tracker)
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(...) Actually, we're on track this year to release approximately 800 files. That's as many files as we've ever released, back in 1998 and 1999. Here are the released file counts, starting from the first 'LCAD Update'. Year Files 1997 128 1998 806 (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Self-Certification in parts tracker
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I thought about this issue while I was at work and I've decided to reverse my opinion on the matter. I feel that self-cert is OK as long as the user doing it is responsible and feels comfortable doing it. I probably won't start self-certifying my (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Self-Certification in parts tracker
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(...) I don't recall the discussion either, but that doesn't change my opinion (...) I think is new system is WAY better. Take a look at part 2598 and you'll see why I think this way. I'd rather have the process be slow and put out quality vice (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: dithered colors w/ Jango Fett Helmet/Jetpack
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(...) its really a dull silvery chrome part. like as the new spiderman green goblin set, there are dull chrome parts in it. try 503 pov might not do it as chrome (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: dithered colors w/ Jango Fett Helmet/Jetpack
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(...) More or less. Except that --eek!-- the page has disappeared! :o It's back now: (URL). I restored the page from an old file, it needs some ... work. But it's better than nothing, for now. Steve (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: dithered colors w/ Jango Fett Helmet/Jetpack
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(...) Yes. Color-383 is the "official" choice for "Silver". Furthermore, the chrome on my Boba Fett jetpacks look like silver to me. However, please do _not_ make the default color of any file anything other than "Main Color" (color-16); do not (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: dithered colors w/ Jango Fett Helmet/Jetpack
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(...) AAAaaaaaah! so that's the reason! (...) Yes, that's VERY helpful. I will fix that immediately, and repost. A question though: Should I really use color 383 (chrome) for the body of Jango's helmpack and the details on Boba's? Neither of them (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New Part: Jango Fett Helmet/Jetpack
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And the "exponential" numbers need to be converted to just plain zero. Franklin (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New Part: Jango Fett Helmet/Jetpack
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Also, you'll need to remove the "WRITE" statements from the file before uploading it to the Tracker. HTH. ;-) Franklin (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: dithered colors w/ Jango Fett Helmet/Jetpack
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Tim, You need to make extra subfiles, for the dithered colors. (LDraw requires this; otherwise, LDraw messes up rendering the dithered colors.) "Dithered colors" are those color codes from 256 to 511. (for ex.): Simply copy all the quads for (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: bushman hat...
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[fut --> ".dev" ] (...) I don't recall who did it, but I do recall that someone did encode a version of the bushman hat. I don't recall if he ever posted the file to LUGNet, though... (I just recall seeing the file at someone's website.) HTH, (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 30375cs0.dat, "MiniBot SW Battle Droid (complete)"
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(...) [cue fx="light bulb" ] Ahhh! I see. Sorry, my bad. (...) Well, since the torso has three different "Star Wars" patterns (so far), for a total of four different battle droid "short cut" assemblies for the "Star Wars" theme, I still think we (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 30375cs0.dat, "MiniBot SW Battle Droid (complete)"
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(...) Because it's an assembled item, based on unpatterned/decorated parts. Actually, since this file does *not* represent a part as delivered by TLC[1], the title should be flagged (Shortcut), not (Complete) (or (complete), as you put it). (...) In (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Self-Certification in parts tracker
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(...) I do *NOT* recall this discussion. Was this on LUGNet? How long ago? Or, was it on "RTL"? (Does anyone still use "RTL"?) Also, FWIW, I asked Steve, before I ever did any self-certification, if he had any qualms about this. He said that if (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 30375cs0.dat, "MiniBot SW Battle Droid (complete)"
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[FUT ".dev"] (...) Uh, why? Part # 30375 isn't unique the the "Star Wars" theme, it's used in the "Life on Mars" theme as well, so I thougt that the theme should be part of the filename (as with pattern numbers). Since there are three patterns for (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Issue with some of the holds on the Parts Tracker
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This post wasn't directed at you specifically, it's been brewing for some time now. Actually, the holds you put on today were more or less justified but the hold I've seen in the past have sometime bordered on the ridiculous. -Orion (make it (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Self-Certification in parts tracker
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I agree with Carsten. I think self certification is contrary to reason the parts tracker was formed, to put out quality error free parts. Those of you out there who work in fields where Quality Assurance is a big deal understand why self-cert can be (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Self-Certification in parts tracker
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Hello! I thought we talked/discussed about self-certification in the parts tracker and came to the conclusion that self-certifications shouldn't be done. I noticed lateley that people submit parts to the parts tracker and self certify these right (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Issue with some of the holds on the Parts Tracker
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Hello Orion, I think you may refer to some hold votes i did today. (...) I would never hold a part because of some bad vertex sequences only. But identical lines are a reason for doing this. Refer to the parts tracker documentation for L3P-error (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Issue with some of the holds on the Parts Tracker
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I am at issue with some the hold votes that have given to parts on the PT. As the certify statement says, a part is certified if it is good for general release. In other words, we're not looking for absolute perfection, we are looking for a part (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Minifig Cloth Cape
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(...) Not at this time - the Compactor preserves all decimals (except trailing zeroes, which it removes). The intent of the Compactor is to remove all extraneous material, without altering the actual data. If you want to trim all your lines to 3 (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Minifig Cloth Cape
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(...) I am using version 2.1.5 In an editor window Options menu it shows 'Decimals (3)...'. Doesn't this work with the "compact" tool? Paul (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3P error fixing idea (this looks better in raw text, I think)
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(...) Hmm, the LEDIT emulation mode of ldglite uses the l3 parser which calls the function Resequence() right after printing that "bad vertex sequence" message. I bet if you opened the file in ldglite LEDIT mode and then just saved it they'd all be (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3P error fixing idea...
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Interesting.... ;-) Thanks! Franklin (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | L3P error fixing idea (this looks better in raw text, I think) [DAT]
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Some months back Lars was kind enough to email me about some errors he'd noticed in a part that I posted to .cad.parts. Most were "bad vertex sequence," but there were a few "identical line" errors and the like. At first my heart dropped when I (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | L3P -check error messages
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I was reading the L3P -check error mesage guidelines in the PT reaference section and came up with a few questions: 1. When using the -dist command what should the acceptible value. I use 0.1 and I noticed that the L3P check function as part of the (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Could someone run a perspective mode test on ldglite?
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(...) Hi Jim, the internet is a bit smaller than you thought, eh? Imagine my surprise to find a website full of pictures from someone (besides myself) who actually uses ldglite? (...) I must've missed that elsewhere part of the thread. Oh well, I'll (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released **
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(...) One quick suggestion. I realy would like the ability to define my own templates. (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released **
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Work in progress version 0.9.4 of Quad2Dat is available here: (URL) Added the minifig head and legs template. Squashed a few bugs. I've also (finally) posted the screenshots of the Diver torso being created. Pics for a minifig head pattern coming (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Using volume textures to draw studs.
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Hello, on the nvidia website I saw an interesting demo called Volume Texture Impostors: (URL) shows how you can make snapshots of a model while rotating and store the slices in a 3d texture. By drawing one of the slices you can display the object (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LCD - LEGO Connection Database - Proposal
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(...) Hehe. I, the author of the compiler, had the same problem when my bookmarks had disappeared! So I made a search in lugnet.cad and found your post. Here's the URL: (URL) (22 years ago, 8-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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