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(...) Take a look at this thread at OpenGL.org: (URL) short summary is that you apparently can't guarantee it will work on all cards, but if you set things up right, you can get it to work on most cards. In addition, it may be that cards that don't (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Yet another idea - Portable LDraw system
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(...) Go for it. :) I was taking the approach of grepping the part files for author names, and boiling the list down from there. Steve (22 years ago, 23-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: DAT files: Do No Harm
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(...) Basically I do this: 0 Begin Curve <the applicable DAT code appears here> 0 <The next 3 lines list> 0 <control points and curve lengths> 0 <if recreation elsewhere is desired> 0 Hose generated by <plugin> authored by <person> 0 End Hose -Orion (22 years ago, 23-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) [...] Looks good, short and sensible. (...) Shall I do it? Or do you expect to find time to do it soon? Play well, Jacob (22 years ago, 23-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Part 3650a
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Steve, There are several variations of this gear: the height of the teeth and extra support. Technica lists the variations: (URL) and early Lugnet post that mentions the variation: (URL) 24t crown gear Name: 24t crown gear II Note: I consider both (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Does anyone remember with certainty why part file 3650a.dat was released with the 'a' suffix? The part came out in update 98-10, and hasn't been touched since. There's no 3650.dat or 3650b.dat, as far as I can tell. Steve (22 years ago, 23-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I haven't tried your plugin, so I can't really comment on the informational lines -- do they have to do with the data/code, or are they an "about the flexible object plugin" type of thing? Information about the data/code (how to use, source (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Yet another idea - Portable LDraw system
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[XFUT: lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw] (...) The current text of the license is: ===...=== LDraw.org Parts Library User License version 0.9, May 3 2001 This library is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Ldglite bug report (Was: Portable Ldraw system)
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(...) I try to think of the -a as a rotation matrix for the model, whereas the -cc stuff is a manipulation of the view matrix. Unfortunately the LDRAW default -a matrix "squishes" the model as if it were a view matrix. I guess this is because the (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: DAT files: Do No Harm
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(...) I was thinking more along the lines of the output of my fexible object Plugin for LDDesignPad. I add some informational comments and credit myself and Fredrik for the code generation. Is this undesired? If so, it can easily be modified to the (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: DAT files: Do No Harm
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(...) Not in my DAT files, they shouldn't. Especially not editing stuff. Truly generated code, maybe it's alright. It should always go at the top, where it can be easily deleted. Steve (22 years ago, 23-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldglite bug report (Was: Portable Ldraw system)
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(...) (URL)And always remember to use -J to get the most out of the camera settings. (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldglite bug report (Was: Portable Ldraw system)
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(...) OK I added it. Ldglite now takes -cg<la>,<lo>,<r> like l3p, and I like it. I admit it's not exactly like l3p since I still leave the origin at ldraw world coords (0,0,0) whereas l3p moves them to the center of the bounding box of the model. (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldglite bug report (Was: Portable Ldraw system)
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(...) Yes! Awesome. Drawing time seems to be a little slower, I don't have any numbers for that though. But the refresh is ligntning fast. Hmm, the menu seems to be more responsive too. (...) You sure? Lemme go double-check the docs... Oh my. I seem (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Whoa. That's kinda bizarro. (...) I'd say the rule would be, don't fix invalid lines without the authors permission. ;) (...) I see your point, but I would expect most programs to choke (gracefully ;) on the line without part numbers. (...) (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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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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| | Re: DAT files: Do No Harm
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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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| | Re: DAT files: Do No Harm
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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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