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Re: Linetype/color question
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Date: 
Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:54:05 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Orion Pobursky wrote:
In lugnet.cad.dev, Dave Schuler wrote:
I was reading through bits of Ldraw.org and came upon this section:

http://www.ldraw.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=218#colors

Specifically, this note under "Colors."

"Colors 256-512 are dithered colors. Only line type 1 is allowed to use colors
256-512."

Is that correct?  In other words, I can't make an irregular quadrilateral in
color 285?  And does "allowed" mean "permitted by the software" or "accepted by
convention" in this context?  I know with certainty that I've used dithered
256-512 colors in all manner of linetype 3 and linetype 4 statements in my
files.

LDraw/Ledit doesn't accept non type 1 line with colors 256-512.  While there is
nothing perventing you from making a model that has quads, triangles and lines
with color 256-512, we enforce this rule for the Official Library in order to
ensure complete backwards compatability.

Hi Orion:
  Thanks for the response!  I don't mean to dispute your answer, but I have made
dozens of clone parts in LEdit that use the color range 256-512 for linetypes 3
and 4.  Granted, some of the colors appear a little different in LEdit than in
POV-Ray renderings, but the colors seem generally to function.

In particular, I have used colors 272, 278, 383, and 478, among others.

I'm all for backwards compatibility (especially since I use LEdit), and this
color-range doesn't seem to have caused me any problems.

Thanks again for your help, though.

Dave!



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(...) LDraw/Ledit doesn't accept non type 1 line with colors 256-512. While there is nothing perventing you from making a model that has quads, triangles and lines with color 256-512, we enforce this rule for the Official Library in order to ensure (...) (21 years ago, 24-Dec-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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