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How about dropping the AA ? So far, IIRC, no-one has ever used it. If another value than the default (0x80?) is wanted, it can be put into the MATERIAL section: transparent=25% The we will use the familiar LDraw color codes for both EdgeColor and (...) (21 years ago, 25-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Ok, I was agreeing with your proposal to make it optional and relegate it to the end of the line with the MATERIAL properties. And hopefully it'll never be used, except possibly to reproduce a texture that's stippled in real life like the (...) (21 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) The Castle Walls (including the newly LDraw one) need to be renamed to be Panels. Also, the names for minifig parts (of which there are many) are a great mystery to me. E.g., Minifig Castle Helmet with Chin-Guard was recently officialized, but (...) (21 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Variants of Wheel Holder Brick (Wa: Rubber Colors Needed)
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(...) You mean part 7049 ? I know the following variants: (Brick, Bottom, Shafts) White, Red, Red White, Clear, Clear White, Clear, Black White, Clear, Red Black, Milkywhite, Red Black, Clear, Red Several wheels (spoked and studded, regular and (...) (21 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) This part is not only used in trains: 371 Tipper Truck (URL) 662 Dumper Lorry (URL) 856 Bulldozer (URL) 8848 Power Truck (URL) Niels Owning 2 in red and one in yellow (sets 171 and 662) (21 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Actually, I want to keep dithering. (...) Shrug. I dunno. (...) I'm OK with AARRGGBB, if everyone agrees with that. I'd recommend that programs recognize a variety of semi-standard formats, specifically: #AARRGGBB 0xAARRGGBB AARRGGBB (...) (21 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Witch one of them? I know by three variants only by heart and with some research, I will probably find more... :) (...) I think it would be great for Bricklink and such purposes. /Tore (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) So far it is worth less... ;-) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) No it's not. If the render is old and not updated then it will never the ldconfig.ldr file anyhow, so the dithered colors in ledit and ldraw will never change. This is for the future. (...) That's still true, but you should be able to replace (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I think Bracket 3 x 2 x 2 would be the best alternative. Keep the space seat line, just use it a keyword. And although I sure it has been mentioned before, I think that all theme names should be relagated to keywords and not as parts (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Rubber Colors Needed (Was: Color Definition for Dull Silver)
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(...) I seem to have a few of these white (sort of a chalky gray-white, in my collection) tires from the early 70's, but I have no idea which of my early sets included them. I always figured that the white color was simply a sign of degraded rubber. (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Rubber Colors Needed (Was: Color Definition for Dull Silver)
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OR... We could pick up the old 0 TEXTURE meta-command? No need for new volour numbers? (URL) for replying to myself) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) It's needed for backwards compability. Using an old/not updated renderer shouldn't make the rendering look awkward. But using a newer renderer should make it better. So is the case with grey rubber, black rubber, and electric conductor. When (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Rubber Colors Needed (Was: Color Definition for Dull Silver)
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(...) I saw that link at Brickshelf, too, and was very surprised. Never heard of that those tyres came in white. Samsonite maybe? I'm tempted to buy a couple just to satisfy my curiousity. Rubber belts have come in many colours, (URL) we need many (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Ahhh, I see. How about Train Tipper End -Orion (who's getting really annoyed at the high server load errors) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) **Warning: Obvious Political Joke** Well, duh. Tipper is the former would-be First Lady. **End of Obvious Political Joke** Also, I'm a tipper if the service is good. Dave! Wouldn't you like to be a tipper, too? (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) On that note, let me toss in my $2. I agree with Cary and Steve that dithering should go. Who needs it? The renderer should be able to convert from true color to dithered colors if the display is underpowered. If you must have it for some (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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Quoting Orion Pobursky <orion@pobursky.com>: (...) Something that tips? Like... the yellow car in set 2126 - those ends, are the ends of the tipper. (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I believe this is a tipper: (URL) It's a container that is designed to tip over to unload. (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) What's a tipper? Someone clue me in please. I feel that if I'm confused as to what a tipper is supposed to be, then others may also be just as confused (or maybe I'm delusional ;-) ) -Orion (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) A quick clarification on this. My post above was poorly worded in that it implies that this number definition was already chisled in to stone (thanks for pointing this out Steve). My intention with this pat was to open the idea up to (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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Whatever the renames are, if we could make sure the former name is in the keywords, so that it's still searchable? Ie: if i search for "space" and am looking for the old "space handlebars" I'd like to be able to, without having to remember that 1) (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) [snip] (...) Yes, as soon as the format is settled. /Lars (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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A flood of BFC'd part has been submitted to the PT (Thanks John) and I like to take an opportunity to discuss the renames of some of the parts to more intuitive names: 30031 Space Handlebars to Bar Handlebars or just Handlebars with a 0 CATEGORY Bar (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Color Definition for Dull Silver
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(...) Like in sets (just listed a few, not all) 331 (URL) 332 (URL) 333 (URL) 334 (URL) 335 (URL) 371 (URL) (I've got 333 and 335 myself, and since I like to make LDraw copies of sets I have, I need the grey rubber color :-) The link to bricklink (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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[Not really a .cad.ray question, but it's a gray area, so I'm leaving the cross-post] (...) You might want to visit Peeron (or Clark's color pages), there is more than one color that fits your description. Apologies if you grabbed the color name (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Yes the old style tyres (URL) and (URL) definitely came in light grey. ROSCO (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) thoughts. - Are there any grey rubber parts? I can't think of any off the top of my head. - Maybe color 376? I definately want a number defined for this color since it is common enough to make using chrome unacceptible. (...) would make coming (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) thoughts. - Are there any grey rubber parts? I can't think of any off the top of my head. - Maybe color 376? I definately want a number defined for this color since it is common enough to make using chrome unacceptible. (...) would make coming (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) L3P has since January 20, 2001 used color 375 for gray rubber. (URL) special colors: 256: 256 + 16* 0 + 0 Black rubber 375: 256 + 16* 7 + 7 Gray rubber 494: 256 + 16*14 + 14 Electrical contacts (yellow) 383: 256 + 16* 7 + 15 Chrome 503: 256 + (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I'm basing this color off of the color listed here: (URL) Don (...) Sorry, this is/was not intentional. -Orion (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Is this the same as the Peeron FlatSilver or DkFlatSilver colors? (URL) is it something not listed there? If it's not, which parts use it so those of us using opengl can get an idea of the specular qualities? Don PS. Why does all the (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Pity we couldn't use it for grey rubber. Do we have a number for any other rubber color than black? Yellow and yellow is electric. (Yes I know, I suggested it...) Do we have any other special colors using the method of dither a color with (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Color Definition for Dull Silver
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Based on some discussion off Lugnet, it has been decided that the color number for Dull (Brushed) Silver will be 375 (dithered color 7 and color 7). Michael said he'll update MLCad and I'm adding this to the lugnetcolors.inc file used by Jeroen's (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: TrackDraw number formats
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Guido Heunen wrote: ... (...) TrackDraw is a little different from most programs in that its file formats can be authored in different languages. Every file has a language attribute, and a schema that acts as a dictionary to (...) (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: TrackDraw number formats
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Hi Cary, The decimal comma is used in a lot of european countries. I would say that the option (...) in the GUI would be the best, since this would allow the user to select their preferred settings. However, since the trackdraw files will possibly (...) (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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With help from Thomas Woelk, I uncovered a design problem in the TrackDraw file format. It currently assumes that numbers are localized; that is, it expects an angle to be expressed as angle="22.5" if the part description is in American English, but (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Another thought WRT the completeness of this list... I suspect that the colors listed here are the ABS colors and do not take into account the various non-ABS colors being used in some of the Bionicle Krana masks. Those masks are using a (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | TechSoft offers HOOPS 3D to LDraw community for development opportunities
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I just posted this over at LDraw.org: (URL) -Tim (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX) !
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(...) Unfortunately no. The other members of the team want to port LDDP to Linux so we have to use certain components among which are ones that cause the problems you describe. -Orion (21 years ago, 13-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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