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Re: Question about the Future of LDraw CAD family.
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 7 Jan 2003 03:51:09 GMT
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> > I mean more like K-nex, and other such building systems?
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> Ryan Farrington has done exactly that:
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> http://news.lugnet.com/cad/dev/?n=6292
Well, be danged, did not know that such files exisited, made the mistake of
telling my wife in earshot of my oldest son... he would not goto bed until I
downloaded them and promised to set them up so he can play with the tommorrow.
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> > A further question, has someone come up with a program to help aid in design of
> > blocks? I am working on a set of blocks with stone textures on them. Any help,
> > would be great.
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> It depends on how you want to evoke the stone. If the blocks are smooth
> with printed stone, then you might be able to come up with a passable
> rendition by inlining some POV-Ray code in the LDraw file, with which you
> could simulate granite, brick, or marble finishes, to name a few. I know
> you're not asking specifically about clone brands, but some of the
> forthcoming clone DATs make use of inlined POV-Ray textures in this way.
> If you're talking about actually shaping the blocks to represent true,
> rough surfaces, then you've got a bigger task ahead of you.
Not sure what you mean by printed stone, chiseled stone is the most common
block face we deal with, I know the flagstone, fieldstone, cobblestone surfaces
are going to be a long drawn out process of hand coding lines, arcs, and 1-8th
spheres.. just dread doing it.
One last thing, metacommands, at least that I have found, are not that well
documented for such things, mind sharing what you know?
Thanks for the info,
Dwayne Miller
PS: if it helps anyone, webmaster just setup a primitive site search page at:
http://www.ldraw.org/temp/simple_search/
searches just the ldraw site, and works well. Promise to incorpeate it into the
main site was made.
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