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Re: Change to existing policy regarding the subfiling of dithered colors
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 4 Jan 2005 12:08:24 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Thomas Garrison wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Orion Pobursky wrote:
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> > LSC has decided to do away with the requirement to transfer dithered
> > color elements to dedicated subfiles. This was required due to a
> > limitation in the original LDRAW.EXE. Due to the belief that James
> > would have eventually fixed this problem and the fact all the current
> > LDraw tools are not affected by this limitation, the LSC feels that this
> > practice is no longer required. What this means is that it is now legal
> > for official parts to have linetypes 2,3,4 and 5 with colors 256-511.
> >
> > If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.
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> I'm confused. Is this a change to the current LDraw.org file
> specifications (which I thought was 0.23) or part of the next LDraw.org
> file spec (which I thought was going to be 1.0)? The spec published on
> LDraw.org
> http://www.ldraw.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=45
> (which is not numbered at all) does not mention this requirement
> (despite having last been updated last May), so presumably
> standards-compliant software has had no reason to enforce it.
It's a change to the acceptance criteria for the official library, which is
somewhat stricter than the file spec. For example, 0 WRITE meta commands are
legal in regular LDraw files but not in official library parts.
-Orion
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