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Re: Latest BFC Spec?
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Thu, 20 Mar 2003 03:27:50 GMT
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I saved this thread for later reading, and I've got a few questions
now. Sorry if I'm resurrecting something everyone thought was dead :D

Travis Cobbs wrote:
In lugnet.cad.dev, Ross Crawford writes:

What if file has NOCLIP, and subfile has CLIP (with or without accompanying
NOCLIP)? Couldn't that become confusing? Should it automagically revert back
to NOCLIP when the subfile is finished?


Once the parts library is fully BFC certified, will there ever
be a need to use CLIP or NOCLIP?

I'm not saying it's not worth implementing, I'm just curious
if anyone can think of a technical reason why a part might
want to enable/disable clipping even if all parts are certified?


That way parts wouldn't have to be treated as special cases by the renderer.
The BFC spec already says in the implementation section that the renderer
should pretend that all superfiles are certified when it processes a part.
A flag like FORCE-CERTIFY (or somesuch) would remove this special case.


I also think it's not the best idea to trigger different behavior
based on what directory a DAT file is located in. I think some sort
of flag in all part files would be useful. However I'm not sure (and
I haven't looked yet) that there isn't already some Flag we can key
on without adding another BFC level meta-command.

Is there a line in the header already that declares that file is
a 'Part' or a 'Primitive' ??

-Kyle



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Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Latest BFC Spec?
 
(...) There are currently a number of flags that indicate that a file is a part. The official one is only present in files that have been updated since it was made official. However, this isn't a problem, since any BFC-certified part is guaranteed (...) (22 years ago, 20-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
  Re: Latest BFC Spec?
 
(...) I thought it was dead 2 (or 3?) years ago. ;) (...) That's a pretty big 'once' you've got there. One problem I've had, revisiting old part files and applying BFC -- once you look at a file, you're also tempted to fix any/all errors you find in (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: Latest BFC Spec?
 
(...) This is really no different from the fact that the incoming certify state has to also be on. So a subfile won't be BFC'd unless all its parents are certified and it is certified as well. Also, presumably if you refer to a subfile in a section (...) (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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