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(...) I found some model which was (mostly) all 3001.dat, except only the first line gave the part number! All following lines were meant to be the same part (with different location.) I guess the author's viewer tolerates this? So, the rule would (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) What about program extensions that modify the DAT code in some way? Are you suggesting that the author of a plugin shouldn't credit himself in the form of a DAT Comment? -Orion (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldglite bug report (Was: Portable Ldraw system)
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(...) Oops! A quick visit to the L3P site reveals that's the camera position in polar coords relative to the look-at point. I'm not sure how I missed that before. But I like it because it avoids the weird LDRAW coordinate system. So I'm gonna have (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes, we seem to see a lot of this sort of thing these days. 0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 "Custom" I'd say leave it out unless it's actually being used. My guess is most of the time it's not. Don (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) does this include "don't add any new lines unless they're intentional"? As in, a program shouldn't add (and forgive me if this is incorrect dat format): 0 edited by dan with DatZap on Tuesday :) Dan (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldglite bug report (Was: Portable Ldraw system)
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(...) I did some work on the other solution, rendering in the background. There's a beta of this here: (URL) -n2 to render each part in the backbuffer, -n4 does the whole model. Also the backbuffer is retained for faster refreshes on window expose (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I don't have any comments, except to say that I agree with pretty much everything you wrote. And that I'd be very hard-pressed to actually implement some of it. And I didn't completely understand all of your points... (...) Yes! (...) Good idea, (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I would go for this. If a line is indeed edited, then I would preserve it's indentation, but remove trailing decimal zeros, and possibly clean up other things, like changing "-0" to "0". If the file has any exponential notation, e.g, "2e1", (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) This sounds counter-productive to me. Judging from the official LDraw files, it appears that many of the original files follow these guidelines with respect to indentation: o Comments are not indented o All other lines are indented by one (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) These 2 are the 2 biggest problems I have with MLCAD. For some reason MLCad changes the filename in the NAME comment block to an .ldr extension even if the source file is .dat. As more of a part author than a model builder, this is very (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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