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(...) Mike, You are quite welcome. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:HCs1DE.1qy9@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) it (...) [ ... snipped ... ] Me too! He seems pretty responsive, maybe it won't take him too long! ;-) On serious note - Kevin - (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message [ ... snipped ... ] (...) LEGO's (...) the (...) [ ... snipped ... ] This makes a lot of sense to me. I spent a lot of time looking at some more complex LEGO instructions when I was (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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[ ... snipped ... ] (...) (along (...) all (...) sleep?) (...) [ ... snipped ... ] This request is in the same veign as the request I made to have LPub support some level of scripting. (URL) a scripting interface, you could batch up a whole series (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Although, having the ability to render each occurrence separately if desired may possibly be useful (but I don't think I'd use it...) ROSCO (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, really only the first usage *in each level* (...) 8?) ROSCO (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) You bring up an interesting and nasty case. What is missing from the explanation is that currently LPub renders the first occurrence of the sub-model, and skips the rest. To handle this case, LPub has to render all occurrences of the sub-model (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I assume poor level 2 was missed by accident? 8?) Does your recursion tie the background colour to the sub-file, or the tree? In other words, if I have a small sub-model which is used directly in the main model, and again in another sub-model, (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The following already reported programs should be listed as well: Edger: (URL) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The BOM information is recursive to include all levels of sub-models, so I think we're talking the same thing. (...) So we are rapidly running into one of the *major* enhancement areas of LPub: page layout I see two different issues here: The (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) main (...) Yup. (...) right? (...) I'll assume this one is a non-issue as it already has a solution. (...) Yes. This is what I'm proposing. (...) It opens the top level file which is considered level 0. Top level file is examined sub models. (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I've never even heard of these before...I'll look into Dan adding them to the download pages. -Tim (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:HCrxBz.1Bso@lugnet.com... (...) needed to (...) Yes, and the same for the included sub-sub-models as well. It would be good to have a control for doing this or not for each step (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Wow... I was originally trying to get across a single basic concept using multiple examples, but I guess it did turn into several directions! (...) Sure, that could be a simple way to do this. I had mentioned it as part of this idea in case it (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hard to keep up with new requests at this rate :^) Besides, I get to decide if it is major or minor...... (...) I put this in the minor part of the list. (...) I put this in the major part of the list. (...) Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) A couple more minor requests: - Would be great if the textual status window at the top of the LPub app had scrollbars in order to page back through previous textual info - Would be great to be able to queue up multiple files to be rendered (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I think this is a great idea, and can provide another recent example of why this would be wonderful to have. Using LPub, I recently ran a large model with about 6 submodels. I kicked it off before I went to bed, and it had completed by mid-day (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Sounds terrific! Thanks! Jake --- Jake McKee LEGO Enthusiast Webmaster - B.I. Portal (URL) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) you fill me in? Jake --- Jake McKee LEGO Enthusiast Webmaster - B.I. Portal (URL) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Jennifer, Let me try to restate this by example: Step N adds three LDraw parts, plus a sub-model. You want the part list image for Step N to include the three added parts, plus all the parts needed to create the sub-model. Right? Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:HCruK9.11n6@lugnet.com... (...) sub-models (...) ... Something I would like to see (and forgive me if it has been mentioned before) is a way to merge the BOM for a submodel into the (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I was looking for more parts and founds the following: LDraw to DirectX: (URL) (I don't know if this was already known but it's not listed at LDraw.org) (URL) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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Hi, I'm wanting to add support for different background colors for sub-models (also fonts/styles/colors used in PLI and BOMs). LEGO's building instructions use a different background color for each level of sub-model used, and it uses the same color (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi All, I'm architecting the ability to have the files generated by LPub to be placed in directories other than the directory that contains the DAT/LDR/MPD file being processed. This feature is meshes with the bug that LPub's automatic use of (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I figured someone would ask this soon :^) Probably early next week. You can see the bugs I've fixed and the new features I've added on (URL) think I've gotten the killer bugs out of the way, and implemented many of the "simple to add" (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:HCrpGz.Irp@lugnet.com... (...) I'm not (...) that (...) same. (...) not (...) resume. (...) This is great news - this is a feature I expect I will use extensively. What is the ETA of (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Jake, I came up with an even simpler solution. I added a Pause/Resume button to the "cancel" dialog. Click the Pause button, and after POV-Ray finishes the image it is rendering, the process pauses until you click resume. Kevin (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) First I have to recreate it on Windows98, which means I have to set up a win98 box. I'm sure I can fix it if I can recreate it. Can you try running lsynthcp directly? It is in the Lsynth/bin directory. Its usage is: lsynthcp <inputfile> (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Mine too. Anyway, replace LPUB by LSYNTH and you'll have my install paths. (...) the (...) Right. Can you fix it? Jaco (22 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:HCqIBJ.12tn@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) current (...) build (...) construction (...) not (...) BOMs, (...) For this type of LPub run I am not concerned about image (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Mike, I've added it to the list. Minimally I could see it affecting construction image size, and possibly some quality and anti-aliasing controls, but I'm not sure it makes sense to affect rendering of parts for part list images and BOMs, (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:HCKpqw.1x7x@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) for (...) hand. (...) [ ... snipped ... ] I am chasing an issue that failed halfway through a render right now. Fortunately I am (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) My mistake. I meant Lsynth. It is probably a win98 bug on my part as I develop on win2K, but sometimes the path thing messes me up. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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At home I installed it in C:\LDRAW\PROGRAMS\LPUB on a Win98-SE PC. But I do not see what that has to do with anything for it does work on my W2K PC at work, where I installed it in D:\MJ\LDRAW\PROGRAM\LPUB. Jaco "Kevin L. Clague" (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I don't know. Sounds to me more like a gimmick than something useful. I wouldn't implement it unless it strikes you as something really fun to try. I think rigging CldliteApp::InitInstance() to be able to render offscreen without a window (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Jaco, Can you give me specifics of where LPub is installed? Thanks, Kevin (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I'd like to add one more bug in LSynth. The display message does not work in Win98. Jaco (22 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) have already been fixed, and features I'm adding, for those who want to know what I'm up to. Kevin (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I was rethinking this one and thought I might just add support for LDraw's PAUSE meta-command. You can place it wherever you want. (...) For performance reasons, LPub caches the part images once they are rendered, so we would have to break (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Na, don't be quiet... rather, thanks for being obstinate about it! Yes, indeed, you are correct, and it looks like I am all wet. Paint Shop Pro fooled me. My bad. Sorry for any confusion. ++Lar (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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